Why and How Apple Is Collecting Your iPhone Location Data
iPhone and iPad customers were spooked Wednesday to find out that their devices have recorded a detailed history of their geographical locations for the past year in an unprotected file. But it turns...
The Tweets of San Francisco
The city where we have started and grown will remain our future home. Twitter is staying in San Francisco and has signed a lease to move our headquarters to Market Square, a historic building in San ...
Windows 7 at 18 Months
18 months ago to this day was when we launched Windows 7 and with that we've hit another important milestone: we are pleased to announce that Windows 7 has sold more than 350 million licenses. The mo...
Exclusive: White iPhone 4 lands at Vodafone UK
Well, would you have a gander at that? That, friends, is Apple's long-awaited, hardly-forgotten white iPhone 4, and so far as we can tell, this is actually the real deal. We've seen retailers making...
Universal iPhone Unlocking Service CutYourSim Goes Dark... And Apple Might Be Behind It [Exclusive]
A unique service offering to unlock any GSM iPhone, no jailbreaks required, has suddenly shut down, leaving many customers awaiting refunds. Increased scrutiny from Apple may very well be responsible...
Foursquare Seeks New Fund Raising
In the latest sign of the Internet gold rush, location-based service Foursquare Labs Inc. is looking to raise fresh funds at a price that would value the three-year-old start-up at as much as $500 mil...
Netflix's days without competition may be numbered
Some big firms are said to be lining up to challenge Netflix, the only company that streams a large selection of movies and TV shows online by subscription. But is it already too big to be unseated a...
Is this what the iPhone 5 will look like?
There's no shortage of rumors swirling about the iPhone 5 right now, but we've got some enlightening information (and an image) that might help paint a better picture of what Apple's next play in the ...
An update on Google Video - Finding an easier way to migrate Google Video content to YouTube
Last week we sent an email to Google Video users letting them know we would be ending playbacks of Google Videos on April 29 and providing instructions on how to download videos currently hosted on th...
Conde Nast Taps Brakes on Efforts to Build iPad Editions for All its Magazines
Company Still Committed, but Why Rush for More iPad Editions Before Pubs Can Find Big Audiences? — Conde Nast is tapping the brakes on its drive to deliver iPad editions of all its magazines …
Google talks to Spotify to power music service
Rather than launch it's own digital music service, Google is considering whether to partner with an existing service, including Spotify, to power Google Music. — According to a source with knowledge...
Apple signs cloud deal with Warner Music
Apple has reached an agreement with Warner Music Group to offer the record label's tracks on iTunes' upcoming cloud-music service, music industry sources said. — In the race to the cloud, Apple is a...
Apple, Google Collect User Data
Apple Inc.'s iPhones and Google Inc.'s Android smartphones regularly transmit their locations back to Apple and Google, respectively, according to data and documents analyzed by The Wall Street Journa...
Facebook Employee Accused Of Goldman-Related Insider Trading Got A Raw Deal
Earlier this month, TechCrunch reported that Facebook fired a corporate development manager named Michael Brown because he bought Facebook shares on a secondary market, violating the company's insider...
Amazon Web Services Starting to Come Back Online but Problems Persist and Questions Unfold
Amazon Web Services disruption issues are now in a second day as engineers work to get the last of the availability zones restored. — Meanwhile, the customers affected spent the day talking …
A Clash Over the Airwaves
LAS VEGAS — Dropped calls. Maps that take eons to load. Echoing voices on a mobile phone. And, as iPhone users know, the dreaded “Cannot Open Page.” — Those annoyances are likely to get worse, as...
Facts Should Be Free: SimpleGeo Puts 20 Million Places in the Public Domain
If this week's Where 2.0 conference is proof of anything, it's that developers are excited about creating location aware mobile apps. One of the biggest barriers to creating a place-aware app, howeve...
Apple shipment shortfall prompts cut in 2011 iPad shipment forecast, says IHS iSuppli
Manufacturing issues at Apple led to a shortfall in iPad 2 shipments in the first quarter, prompting IHS iSuppli to reduce its forecast for 2011. IHS iSuppli now forecasts Apple will ship 39.7 millio...
Re-Tweeting (Not-So) Humble Promoters
Whether we like it or not, and especially on social media, we're all self-promoters, broadcasting even our quasi-achievements to every friend and follower. In response, Harris Wittels, a standup come...
Facebook's iPhone and Android Apps Let You Find Friends From Your Phone Book, Grow the Site
Facebook for iPhone 3.4.1 released yesterday and Facebook for Android 1.5.3 released Monday both now allows users to “Find Friends” from their device's contacts list and send them friend requests or i...
Army Picks Android to Power Its First Smartphone
For the Army, Droid does, all right. — The Army wants every soldier to carry a smartphone to stay networked. It doesn't yet have a program for that, having spent the last year working through the i...
comScore Total Universe Report
For the past three or four years, I'd look at Twitter's numbers on comScore, or Alexa, or Quantcast, or some other third party measurement service and I'd wonder “what would they be if they included m...