Apple Reports Second Quarter Results
Record March Quarter Drives 83 Percent Revenue Growth, 95 Percent Profit Growth — Record iPhone Sales Grow 113 Percent — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2011 second quarter...
Amazon to Launch Library Lending for Kindle Books
Customers will be able to borrow Kindle books from over 11,000 local libraries to read on Kindle and free Kindle reading apps — Whispersyncing of notes, highlights and last page read to work for Kin...
Got an iPhone or 3G iPad? Apple is recording your moves
Today at Where 2.0 Pete Warden and I will announce the discovery that your iPhone, and your 3G iPad, is regularly recording the position of your device into a hidden file. Ever since iOS 4 arrived, y...
The Yahoo Search Revenue Disaster
Yesterday, Yahoo reported a second quarter of massive declines in its search revenue. Yahoo blamed the “headwind” of paying its partner Microsoft 12% of Yahoo's net search revenues. Yahoo also said ...
Obama: I Want People To Feel The Same About The Next Internet Breakthrough As They Did About The Moonwalk
Obama spent a considerable amount of time preaching to the choir at today's Facebook Town Hall event, first bringing up Intel founder and Hungarian immigrant Andy Grove as an example …
Hulu Wasted Little Time to Block the PlayBook
The PlayBook released just yesterday and it looks like Hulu did not like the idea of allowing PlayBook users to stream media from it. Today Nikolaus excited to get his PlayBook checked to see if Hulu...
BlackBerry Curve Touch to be revealed at BlackBerry World; June-July launch
Here's some interesting information for you BlackBerry lovers out there. We finally have some firm details surrounding the GSM counterpart to the Malibu, which will be a CDMA Curve Touch launching la...
Bringing 100% web to the world of Google Earth and Google Maps
At Google we're committed to opening up our cloud infrastructure so that others can benefit from our enormous computational power. Today I'm going to share some exciting details on our plans to make ...
Gawker's Traffic Numbers Are Worse Than Anyone Anticipated
When Gawker launched an aggressive redesign back in early February, the tech blogs were waiting to see what would happen. How would readers respond? (The assumption was that the reaction would be ne...
Why Are Tech Founders Such A**holes?
In the past couple of weeks, the co-founders of Microsoft and Twitter have been attached to the same kinds of unsavory stories that have long dogged the people behind Facebook, Apple, Zynga and other ...
eBay Acquires Location-Based Media And Advertising Company WHERE
eBay has acquired location-based media company Where.com, the ecommerce giant tells us. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed and the acquisition is expected to close during the second quart...
Verizon evaluating whether to distribute PlayBook
(Reuters) - Verizon Wireless is still evaluating whether or not it will distribute the PlayBook tablet computer from Research In Motion, the biggest U.S. mobile operator said on Wednesday. — While B...
iMac supplies tighten ahead of forthcoming refresh
A good indication that an Apple product refresh is coming soon is when the respective product's supplies begin tightening up. Most recently, this process happened with the iPad prior to the iPad 2 la...
Twitter deals with noisy users by hiding tweets
Ever been annoyed by someone tweeting far too much and spamming up your timeline? If the screenshot below is anything to go by, users of Twitter's website may not have to worry too much about that an...
Time for Google to Cut Up Its Credit Card?
Google missed its numbers in the most recent earnings report. The company is still making truckloads of cash. But it's also spending money faster than ever. — The earnings report itself is no big ...
Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn, AmEx And Others Offer Over $400M In Value To Startup America
Unveiled at the end of January, the Startup America Partnership has just announced a slew of new company commitments, in conjunction with President Obama's Town Hall meeting at Facebook today.
News.Me, Social News Service, Debuts for iPad
News.me, the long-awaited social news service developed in collaboration with Betaworks, a technology incubator, and The New York Times Company, is ready for its debut. — News.me is a newsfeed that ...
Exclusive: Chrome notebooks confirmed to be released June/July
To be sold as a subscription. — You may or may not have seen the news about the Google Chrome production notebooks floating around the web today. Ariotech reports that “Google product manager Sunda...
Foursquare Shifts Focus From Present Tense to Future
Dennis Crowley with Robert Scoble at the Where 2.0 conference — Foursquare has grown to almost 10 million users by connecting them to where they are now, in the present. But the company sees a much...
Amazon to Launch Library Lending for Kindle Books
Customers will be able to borrow Kindle books from over 11,000 local libraries to read on Kindle and free Kindle reading apps — Whispersyncing of notes, highlights and last page read to work for Kin...
Apple to begin shipping new iPhone in September
(Reuters) - Apple Inc suppliers will begin production of its next-generation iPhone in July this year, with the finished product likely to begin shipping in September, three people familiar with the m...
AT&T takes Verizon's best punch well; adds postpaid subs, activates 3.6 million iPhones
Worries about Verizon's iPhone hitting AT&T's financial results appear to be overblown. AT&T topped Wall Street estimates for the first quarter and even added postpaid subscribers contrary to analyst...
Intel says it will run Google's Android on tablets
Google debuted Android 3.0, dubbed Honeycomb, in February — Intel, the world's largest chipmaker, has confirmed it will run tablets with Google's mobile operating system. — Chief executive Paul Ot...
Facebook may ‘block content’ claim as speculation grows over entry into China
'We're allowing too much, maybe, free speech,' says Washington lobbyist for company — Facebook could block content in some countries, a Washington lobbyist for the company has said, adding …
RockMelt Goes Mobile With iPhone Offering
RockMelt, the Mountain View, Calif.-based startup, is set to launch a mobile version of its browser with built-in social features. RockMelt's move into mobile this week comes just one month after the...
Apple pulled Facebook integration from iOS 4, Media Stream is its replacement
Out of everything revealed in yesterday's white iPhone 4 prototype leak, a small settings pane titled ‘Facebook’ stuck to us the most. The first thing that came to mind was that iOS 4 was supposed to...
Apple Wins iPhone 4 and Key RFID Transponder Display Patents
The US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 18 newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today. In our first of two reports today we cover design wins for Apple's 2007 iPod touch a...
Manhattan's Tech Start-Ups Settle in the Flatiron District and Chelsea
New York City's technology sector has sometimes been called “Silicon Alley,” in deference to its Western big brother, which sprawls across the San Francisco Bay Area. Now, a decade after the dot-com ...
Who's Suing Who? A Cheat Sheet to the Mobile Patent Mess
So Apple is suing Samsung, accusing it of imitating Apple products with its Galaxy phones and tablets. The most startling thing about the news may be that the two companies weren't already in court w...
Google launches Earth Builder, aims at geospatial software market
Google is going after the enterprise geospatial market with a planned launch of Earth Builder, a tool that allows companies to overlay data on Google Earth and Google Maps. — With the move, Earth Bu...
Sites Retool for Google Effect
Burned by Google Inc.'s recent changes to its search formula, small businesses are experimenting with strategies to recover lost Web traffic while seeking out new ways to generate sales—some even scal...
Oak Ridge National Lab shuts down Internet, email after cyberattack
DOE laboratory says it was victim of an Advanced Persistent Threat designed to steal technical data — Computerworld - The Oak Ridge National Laboratory, home to one of the world's most powerful supe...
Smartphone “spam blocker” Mr. Number hits 2 millionth user and debuts new apps
Mr. Number, an all-in-one mobile phone productivity service, announced today that it has reached its 2 millionth user and released a completely revamped version of it application for iPhone and Andro...
Twitter launches new landing page
It doesn't matter if you love or loathe Twitter, but the service is popular and is growing by leaps and bounds. It wasn't long ago that Twitter unveiled a new landing page but quickly pulled it after...
Byliner Launches With A Splash, Aims To Disrupt Long-Form Journalism
The media is buzzing with allegations that Nobel Peace Prize nominee Greg Mortenson fabricated his bestselling books and misused millions of dollars in donations. — Amazingly, within days of 60 Minu...
More Windows 8 leaks reveal cloud syncing
More details about Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 have apparently leaked onto the Web, revealing new surprises and some makeovers to existing features. — A greater peek into the next version of Wind...
Official White House Android app attempts to quash OS inequality
They may not be able to please all of the people all of the time, but President Obama and gang are doing their best to reach across the OS aisle with a new Android app. Like the iPhone edition that c...
Toshiba's 10.1-inch Regza AT300 Honeycomb tablet hits Japan in June
Toshiba's first Honeycomb tablet, which we first laid hands upon back in January, has finally been priced with an honest to goodness ship date. Unfortunately, this 10.1-incher with 1,280 x 800 pixel ...
T-Mobile G-Slate and Sidekick 4G now on sale, Android overload imminent
That delectable G-Slate we just reviewed is today shaking off the cobwebs from its long journey westward and is making itself available for purchase directly through T-Mobile. The price is still a da...