Motorola Xoom A Flop, Just 100,000 Sold So Far
Google's first real answer to the iPad is not exactly blowing the doors off. — According to an estimate from Deutsche Bank, Motorola has only sold 100,000 Xooms thus far. Deutsche Bank got its esti...
Google to Revamp YouTube With ‘Channels’
Google Inc.'s YouTube video website is working on a major site overhaul to organize its content around “channels” as it positions itself for the rise of Internet-connected televisions that allow peopl...
The New LinkedIn Platform: Help Build the Professional Web
Today, we are very happy to announce that we are opening up full access to LinkedIn's new platform for building the professional web. — In October, LinkedIn announced early access to a new Javascrip...
Coming Soon: Office for Mac 2011 SP1
Next week, we will release Office for Mac 2011 Service Pack 1 (SP1) which will provide increased stability, security, and some new features to the suite - including improved Outlook syncing support - ...
The Midas List — 2011's Top Tech Investors
2011's Top Tech Investors — 1 Jim Breyer Accel Partners Technology — 2 Michael Moritz Sequoia Capital Technology — 3 Reid Hoffman Greylock Partners Technology
Google boots Grooveshark from Android Market
WASHINGTON—Google has removed Grooveshark's music app from the Android Market, a move that comes after some of the top music labels have accused the service of violating copyright law, sources said. ...
Samsung Tablet Prices Cut Again in Rising Challenge to IPad
Sprint Nextel Corp. and Verizon Wireless cut the price of the Galaxy Tab tablet computer for the second time this year, signaling more competition for Apple Inc.'s iPad. — The Tab, made by Samsung E...
Google: don't give private “trolls” Web censorship power
The House and Senate are both drafting “rogue sites” legislation that will likely support website blocking at the domain name level and will require online ad networks and credit card companies to sto...
DISH Wins Bankruptcy Auction, Buys Blockbuster Assets For $228M In Cash
DISH Network this morning announced that it was selected as the winning bidder in the bankruptcy court auction for substantially all of the assets of Blockbuster, which went belly up in September 2010...
HTC Climbs Past Nokia in Market Cap
HTC just passed a stunning financial milestone, surpassing yet another formidable rival. Having recently roared past Research in Motion in market cap, the company has soared on past Nokia as well. —...
Google Said To Have High Level Mole At Twitter, Makes Massive Counteroffers To Retain Employees
Google may have paid as much as $150 million in stock grants to retain key product employees Sundar Pichai and Neal Mohan, say multiple sources. Both were offered the chief product role …
Microsoft Executives In A Heated Battle Over Opening More Retail Stores
An internal battle is raging at Microsoft over whether and how fast the company should open more retail stores. — According to sources close to the company, CEO Steve Ballmer and COO Kevin Turner ar...
Cover lens supply key for Apple to reach 2Q11 iPad 2 shipment goal, say sources
A sufficient supply of cover lenses for touch panel modules will be the key for Apple and other vendors to reach their shipment goals for tablet PCs in second-quarter 2011, according to sources at ups...
Testing The Future - Introducing TweetDeck Web Beta
As Whitney Houston sang, “We believe that web apps are our future”... (well, near enough...). And today we're launching a beta of a web app that you're going to really love*. — Since its launch in...
Exclusive: AOL Fires Moviefone Editor Who Offered Fired Freelancers the Chance to Work for, Um, Free
Yesterday, AOL's Huffington Post Media Group got into hot water after the top editor at its Moviefone unit sent a memo to freelancers it was in the midst of firing, offering them an opportunity to …
webOS 3.0 screenshots: Bing Maps, Music, and more [Exclusive]
While we're sitting around waiting for webOS 3.0 and the HP TouchPad to land in our laps, we couldn't help but wonder about some of the details of that tablet operating system. Well fret not, dear re...
Twitter Search is Now 3x Faster
In the spring of 2010, the search team at Twitter started to rewrite our search engine in order to serve our ever-growing traffic, improve the end-user latency and availability of our service, and ena...
Inside Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: iChat 6 adds Yahoo IM, account integration, web page sharing
The next version of Mac OS X will deliver an updated version of iChat capable of logging into Yahoo IM accounts, providing an improved experience when using multiple accounts, and adding web page shar...
LinkedIn's Answer to Facebook's Open Graph
Professional social network LinkedIn has opened up access to a new developer platform today that should bring LinkedIn content, buttons, Twitter-esque “profile summaries” and more to websites througho...
Android Chief Andy Rubin: Nothing's Changed (Except The Deals They Don't Talk About...)
Last week, Bloomberg Businessweek published an article titled Do Not Anger the Alpha Android, in which it detailed the decreasing level of openness and increasing restrictions Google is placing …
Suppliers delivered 2.4M-2.6M iPad 2 units to Apple in March - report
Perhaps offering an indication of how many iPad 2 units were sold at launch, a new report claims Apple received between 2.4 million and 2.6 million of the hot-selling device from suppliers in the mont...
A keyboard-less webOS phone - the Stingray? [Exclusive]
The enterprising tipster who sent us the image of a Verizon Pre 3 has one more device to show you: the above device that by all appearances is a webOS device without a keyboard. Our best guess is tha...
Lions Gate Finalizing Netflix Deal to Stream All Seasons of “Mad Men”
Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., which produces the hit television series “Mad Men,” has finalized a deal with Netflix Inc. to stream all seven seasons of the critically-acclaimed show about a 1960s ad...
YouTube's New Search Options Format
YouTube has a new interface for related searches and advanced search options. Now you can select multiple filters from a category and combine related searches. For example, you can find long-form HD...
Mono for Android Ships, Now .NET Developers Can Build Android Apps
Novell has announced the general availability of Mono for Android today, the solution that lets developers use Windows technologies like C# and .NET to build Android applications. We previously repor...
Microsoft creates new consumer channels group to be headed by Chris Capossela
A week after Microsoft Senior Vice President of Central Marketing Mich Matthews announced plans to leave, Microsoft announced her replacement will be former Office marketing chief Chris Capossela.
Sulzberger: $40 Million Estimate For Paywall Cost Is ‘Vastly Wrong’
Earlier this year, Bloomberg reported that the New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) spent $40 million or more to build the digital paywall that went live late last month. Not so, insists Arthur Sulzberger ...
USB 3.0, Thunderbolt Possible in Future iOS 30-Pin Connectors
For those of you wondering how Apple is planning on supporting next-generation high-speed data port technology for future (and current) iPads, Pods and Phones, you might have your answer. Patently Ap...
Estimate: In Two Years, Streaming TV Will Be An $800 Million Business for Netflix and Hulu
By the end of this year, an estimated 2 million households in the U.S. will have abandoned TV for the Web, cutting the cord with their cable companies. This estimate comes from Convergence Consulting...
Spanning Cloud Apps Raises $2 Million For Cloud Backup Services
The Austin-based startup Spanning Cloud Apps, a cloud-based app developer, today announced that it has closed a $2 million series A round, led by the Foundry Group, a VC firm based in Boulder.
Unqualified Names in the SSL Observatory
Internet certification authorities (CAs) are charged with the task of vouching for the identities of secure web servers. When you browse to https://www.wellsfargo.com/, your browser knows it's the re...
Apple throws Microsoft's Mac Office a MobileMe curveball
Microsoft next week will release the first service pack for its Office for Mac 2011 suite, with new features including calendar syncing between Apple's Sync Services and Microsoft's Outlook for Mac.
I Just Rode In An Uber Car In New York City, And You Can Too
So do you remember about a month ago when I wrote that Uber (the order-a-car-from-your-iPhone sensation in taxi-challenged San Francisco) is coming to New York City? (Sure you do. It was a great sto...
Twitter Tweets Some Big Q1 Stats; 155 Million Tweets A Day Now
Since the first quarter just ended, Twitter's PR team decided to tweet updates stats regarding the state of Twitter today. Of them, the biggest is that Twitter saw a 41 percent increase in tweets per...