Sharing with Small Groups
It's always been easy to share with all your friends on Facebook, but until we introduced Groups last October, there wasn't a simple way to share with just a few people. Much of what we share in our ...
Steve Jobs on iOS Location Issue: 'We Don't Track Anyone'
There has obviously been a lot of discussion about last week's disclosure that iOS devices are maintaining an easily-accessible database tracking the movements of users dating back to the introduction...
How SmugMug survived the Amazonpocalypse
tl;dr: Amazon had a major outage last week, which took down some popular websites. Despite using a lot of Amazon services, SmugMug didn't go down because we spread across availability zones and desig...
Facebook Is Latest Rival to Groupon and LivingSocial
Facebook said late Monday that it would introduce Deals, an effort by the social networking giant to tap into the consumer frenzy over online discounts. With Deals, which had long been expected, Face...
Joichi Ito to Be Named Head of M.I.T. Media Lab
For centuries diplomas have been synonymous with the nation's universities. — That makes the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's decision to name a 44-year old Japanese venture capitalist who at...
FBI Raids Apartment of Alleged King's Speech Uploader
The FBI has raided the Los Angeles apartment of a Screen Actors Guild member the bureau believes was first to upload the Oscar-winning movie The King's Speech as well as Black Swan, and other in-theat...
Netflix Now Officially Bigger Than Comcast
Netflix continued to post impressive quarterly financial numbers, ending the first quarter 2011 as the largest subscription video service in North America. — In the first quarter, Netflix added 3.6 ...
Next MacBook Pro to Get New Case Design
MacRumors has heard reliable confirmation that the next revision of Apple's MacBook Pro line will utilize a new case design for the first time in several years. — The possibility of a new case desig...
The Really Smart Phone
Researchers are harvesting a wealth of intimate detail from our cellphone data, uncovering the hidden patterns of our social lives, travels, risk of disease—even our political views. — ‘Phones can k...
EXCLUSIVE: YouTube Finally Goes Hollywood With New Movies on Demand Service
YouTube will imminently launch a movie-on-demand service charging users to stream movies off the world's largest video sharing site, TheWrap has learned. — The new service means a full-bore challeng...
Windows 8: History Vault user interface revealed
The feature will allow Windows 8 users to backup files and data automatically using the Shadow Copies function of Windows.
Storify Collects Strands of News on the Social Web
SAN FRANCISCO — News events as varied as the commercial jet landing in the Hudson River and the uprisings in Egypt have demonstrated that people armed with cellphones — not professional reporters — ar...
Google Acquires TalkBin, A Feedback Platform For Businesses That's Only Five Months Old
It's been a good day for Y Combinator. Hot on the heels of news that YC portfolio company Wufoo landed a $35 million exit, YC alum TalkBin has just announced that it's been acquired by Google …
Yahoo Moves Fast — Real Fast — To Scoop Up IntoNow For $20 - $30 Million
Real Fast — To Scoop Up IntoNow For $20 - $30 Million — This past January, upon seeing a demo of IntoNow, we noted that the media check-in game just changed. Apparently, Yahoo agreed — they've just ...
Exclusive: Lenovo 7-inch Honeycomb tablet coming later this year
Sure, we know all about Lenovo's ThinkPad Tablet (or Think Slate) now, but it appears there's yet another Honeycomb tablet in store from the Chinese computer manufacturer. Included in the rather heft...
Dropbox Attempts To Kill Open Source Project
Yesterday morning I woke up much earlier than I wanted. Instead of lying in bed, wishing I was asleep, I decided to get up and check out Hacker News. Better to waste my time reading industry news th...
Google Traffic to Demand Media Sites Down 40 Percent
Are the halcyon days of content farming over? Image by The Library of Congress via Flickr — Here's some plain, easy-to-understand proof that Google's recent algorithm overhaul is doing exactly what...
Apple delays iMac orders ahead of next week's refresh with Thunderbolt I/O and Sandy Bridge processors
All current signs point to an iMac refresh sometime next week. The rumors started a few weeks ago when an unsourced report claimed that refreshed iMacs are en route to the United States for a late Ap...
Analyst: 15,000 to 120,000 Xooms sold. Motorola's survival at risk
Rather than try to out-innovate Apple, he says, it should sue its Android competitors — There's some pretty blunt language in the latest note to clients from Global Equities' Trip Chowdry, who may h...
Microsoft Reveals its Specialty Servers, Racks
The design concept for the Microsoft servers that power its global cloud computing platform. Click for a larger version of the image. — REDMOND, Wash. - As it seeks to slash power usage across its ...
Oracle Co-President Safra Catz Adds CFO Duties as Jeff Epstein Leaves
Software giant Oracle said that co-President Safra Catz will take over as chief financial officer following the resignation of Jeff Epstein, who had reported directly to Catz. This will be her second...
This Is Why Your Tumblr's Down
Welcome to Davidville! Turbulence at Tumblr Tests Tempers As Start-Up Scales Success — It was the last Thursday of October, and David Karp, the brown-haired, pale blue-eyed 24-year old founder of T...
SurveyMonkey Buys Online Forms Start-Up Wufoo for $35 Million
SurveyMonkey, the quiet but profitable and fast-growing Web survey company, is buying online forms start-up Wufoo. — While the terms of the transaction for the Tampa, Fla.-based Infinity Box-makers ...
Google Launches Instant Previews for Ads
Last November, Instant Previews made their debut on Google's search results pages. Today, Google is taking this concept one step further by introducing Instant Previews for Ads as well. Thanks to th...
News Aggregator Zite Wants to Play Nice With Publishers
Zite, a news aggregator for the iPad whose app has irked major news publishers, said Monday that Mark Johnson, a longtime adviser to the company, would become its new chief executive. — But the anno...
White iPhone “Mystique” Will Drive Sales
Nearly a year after it was promised, the white iPhone 4, that rarest of handsets, is finally headed to market, perhaps as soon as this week. Will its arrival have any material impact on sales? — An...
Barnes & Noble treats Nook Color to Froyo; unveils Nook Apps
Just as promised, Barnes & Noble rolled out a major update for the Nook Color on Monday, which has the 7-inch slate looking even more like a tablet than an e-book reader now. — There's no need to ha...
AT&T starts selling ‘cell tower in a suitcase’
NEW YORK - For the first time, AT&T is selling small, portable cellular antennas that will allow corporate and government customers to provide their own wireless coverage in remote or disaster-struck ...
Nintendo confirms Wii replacement in 2012; Preview at E3 2011
Nintendo has announced [pdf link] it will release its next games console, the successor to the Wii, in 2012, with the first preview of the new hardware at E3 2011 in early June. Confirmed in a new in...
Joichi Ito to Be Named Head of M.I.T. Media Lab
For centuries diplomas have been synonymous with the nation's universities. — That makes the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's decision to name a 44-year old Japanese venture capitalist who at...
Michael Dell: Tablets' Rapid Rise A Big Surprise
Asked to name the most surprising thing …
RealNetworks plans new ‘Rinse’ clean-up tool for iTunes
RealNetworks has developed a new program called Rinse for cleaning up and organizing Apple iTunes libraries on Windows PCs and Macs — automatically adding album artwork, fixing song names, organizing ...
Yes Facebook Developers, There Will Be An f8 This Year
The Facebook Like button celebrated its 1st anniversary this week, on April 21st. It's ubiquity makes it hard to believe that it was a little over a year ago when Mark Zuckerberg took the stage at th...
Max Mathews, Pioneer in Making Computer Music, Dies at 84
Max Mathews, often called the father of computer music, died on Thursday in San Francisco. He was 84. — The cause was pneumonia, his son Vernon said. — Mr. Mathews wrote the first program to make...