Adding our Voice to Concerns about Search in Europe
Senior Vice President & General Counsel, Microsoft Corporation — Microsoft is filing a formal complaint with the European Commission as part of the Commission's ongoing investigation into whether Go...
CHART OF THE DAY: How Many Users Does Twitter REALLY Have?
How many people use Twitter? Many fewer than Twitter would lead you to believe. — According to its “about” page, Twitter has 175 million registered users. But “registered users” is a funny term. ...
A Year Later-The Windows Phone 7 Numbers That Matter
At the MIX10 conference last year the Windows Phone team showed, for the first time, the application platform and tools that developers would use to build applications and games for Windows Phone 7. ...
One Mobile Site to Serve Thousands of Phones
Building for the mobile Web is a big challenge. You have to plan for thousands of different devices with varying capabilities, screen sizes, keyboards, CSS and JavaScript support, underlying technolo...
Do Not Anger the Alpha Android
Google cracks down on the chaos of Android Land; some mobile partners aren't happy — Playtime is over in Android Land. Over the last couple of months Google (GOOG) has reached out to the major carr...
Massive SQL injection attack making the rounds—694K URLs so far
694K URLs so far — Hundreds of thousands of URLs have been compromised—at the time of writing, 694,000—in an enormous and indiscriminate SQL injection attack. The attack has modified text stored in ...
Photoshop for iPad Live Demo
Here's the promised live demo of the killer new iPad Photoshop app that debuted today at Photoshop World. Again, this is still in development with no set release date yet. — Check it out, complete ...
Apple exploring multi-camera iPhone systems for 3D picture taking
Apple has toyed with the idea of adding two or more rear-facing cameras and sensors to a device like an iPhone, allowing pictures to be taken and displayed in 3D. — The U.S. Patent and Trademark Off...
eBay reveals its iPad 2 sales data
While the wait continues for the official number of iPad 2s sold by Apple since its launch earlier this month, eBay this morning is sharing a peek at two weeks of iPad 2 buying activity from its U.S. ...
Amazon.com Said to Be Considering Mobile-Payment Service for Smartphones
Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) is considering the introduction of a service that would let consumers pay for goods in brick-and-mortar stores using their mobile phones, according to two people with knowledge ...
Exclusive: Apple Global Marcom VP Allison Johnson Leaving Company
Allison Johnson, who has served as Apple's vice president of worldwide marketing communications since 2005, is leaving the company, according to several sources. — The reason? — To co-found a new ...
HTC ThunderBolt outselling iPhone 4 at Verizon Wireless stores, analyst claims
BTIG Research analyst Walter Piecyk says HTC's latest beastly smartphone for Verizon Wireless is going toe to toe with the iPhone 4, and is even outselling Apple's iPhone at many Verizon Wireless stor...
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Data.gov & 7 Other Sites to Shut Down After Budgets Cut
Two years ago the incoming Obama administration launched a number of ambitious websites, most notably Data.gov, that were dedicated to offering public and government data to the outside world. The st...
Samsung laptops are in fact secure
The statements that Samsung installs keylogger on R525 and R540 laptop computers are false. — Our findings indicate that the person mentioned in the article used a security program called VIPRE that...
He Said/She Said Between Google & CNN On Face Recognition Story
This morning I read the CNN story that said Google was finally going to incorporate facial recognition technology into its Goggles app or another mobile application. I then wrote an opinion piece tha...
Apple to absorb increasing costs created by Japan earthquake
Although Japan's power brownout policy is seriously affecting the operations of Japan-based upstream component makers, causing related upstream components to see price rises, since Apple has agreed to...
Hollywood Rolls Out $30 Rentals. Smart.
Would you pay $30 to rent a movie? — Hollywood thinks you may. Four of the big studios are rolling out a “premium VOD” offering, where renters at home can pay extra to see films that were just in t...
Google making app that would identify people's faces
Santa Monica, California (CNN) — Google plans to introduce a mobile application that would allow users to snap pictures of people's faces in order to access their personal information, a director for ...
Apple's boring hardware updates
Apple now seemingly considers most Mac hardware updates boring enough to skip any potential press event and just feature the new models on the Apple website for a while. Event-worthy Mac updates are ...
Acer CEO and President Gianfranco Lanci resigns amid disagreement about company's future direction
Acer's board and CEO don't seem to have been getting along too brilliantly lately and now the situation's come to a point with the resignation of one Mr. Gianfranco Lanci from the company's helm.
Sure, I Could Join a Google-Based Social Network — But Why?
But Why? — After much rumor and speculation about a new Google social feature of some kind, the Internet giant finally unveiled what it calls its “+1″ service today. The service — as Om explained in...
Google Joins NFC Forum To Advance Near Field Communication Technology
Google is one of 32 companies to recently join the NFC Forum, a non-profit industry association that has been advancing the use of Near Field Communication (NFC) technology since its founding in 2004.
Facebook, Your Future Bank
Forget sharing photos. Mark Zuckerberg may soon manage your finances — Fall behind in the game FarmVille and the poor crops inside your Facebook window wither. Remedies include biplanes or rejuven...
China report claims Google-linked companies broke tax rules
(Reuters) - Chinese authorities have found three companies linked to Google broke tax rules and are continuing to probe for possible tax avoidance, a state-run Chinese newspaper said on Thursday, rais...
Ben Horowitz On Shifting Technologies: “Go Out And Build ‘Question Mark’ ...”
Andreessen Horowitz Founder/Partner Ben Horowitz took the stage today at Web 2.0 Expo SF to talk about what to invest in and what to build during a technological shift. — Comparing our current techn...
Google rumored standardizing Android 3.0, ARM chips
Google may be pushing for much more consistency not just in Android 3.0 but also in the ARM processors that power it, notebook makers claimed late Wednesday. Details of the process were vague, but it...