Video Chat on Your Android Phone
Sometimes, the expressions on a person's face can mean much more than what they say. To help you stay in touch with your friends and family, we're launching Google Talk with video and voice chat for ...
Microsoft Reports Record Third-Quarter Results
Redmond, Wash. - Apr. 28, 2011 - Microsoft Corp. today announced third-quarter revenue of $16.43 billion for the quarter ended Mar. 31, 2011, a 13% increase from the same period of the prior year. Op...
White iPhone 4 Slightly Thicker Than Black iPhone 4 [Updated]
Earlier today, a MacRumors reader notified us that the white iPhone 4 is ever so slightly thicker than the black iPhone 4. It's a small difference, but enough that the white iPhone 4 wouldn't fit in ...
Billboards suck. Promote your company's jobs on Techmeme!
As you might have noticed, a hiring boom is underway in tech, leading to ballooning salaries, aggressive recruiting tactics, and finally, billboards. [1, 2] Yes, billboards along Bay Area highways no...
eBay's PayPal Buys Mobile Payments Startup Fig Card
In its second acquisition in two weeks, eBay's PayPal unit has bought mobile payments startup FigCard. Terms of the acquisition, which was announced on the PayPal blog, were not disclosed. — Boston...
Spotify Lands Major Studio Deals, Prepares To Launch Movie Service
Spotify continues to negotiate with Facebook over its long promised U.S. launch. But that isn't the only thing the music streaming service has been up to. They've negotiated a number of deals with m...
Logitech Makes a Measly $5M From Google TV
Logitech had a rough fourth fiscal quarter, with sales in Europe far below expectations, and the company's Google TV business not exactly helping to turn things around. Logitech's Revue Google TV set...
Apple May Have Snapped Up iCloud.com
What will be the name of Apple's cloud-based music service? No one knows. However, a tipster of mine says that it might be iCloud. Why? Because the Cupertino-based computing giant is rumored to be...
Q&A #1 for PlayStation Network and Qriocity Services
First off, we want to again thank you for your patience. We know that the PlayStation Network and Qriocity outage has been frustrating for you. We know you are upset, and so we are taking steps to m...
Verizon freezes Droid Charge launch indefinitely, blaming ‘unexpected delays’ (update: LTE back)
Can't say we're surprised by this, but turns out Verizon's decided to delay the launch of its Samsung Droid Charge — originally scheduled for today — at the very last minute.
Netflix Is Killing BitTorrent in The US
Something's not right in the United States. Increasingly people start to pay for Netflix subscriptions so they can stream movies on demand. In the States Netflix nearly doubled the number of new sub...
Three Foxconn employees charged for leaking iPad 2 design, says report
Three employees from Taiwan-based Foxconn Electronics' (Hon Hai Precision Industry's) plants in Shenzhen, China, have been charged with leaking iPad 2's design to outside accessory companies in China,...
Apple rumored to have cut CDMA iPhone 4 orders by half as sales slow
Sales of Apple's CDMA-based iPhone, which made its debut on Verizon earlier this year, have reportedly eased considerably following initial pent-up demand, prompting the company to halve its productio...
White iPhone 4 hands-on [Video]
It's been a long time since our first hands-on play with the white iPhone 4: all the way back at WWDC 2010, in fact, when the fourth-gen smartphone was brand spanking new and sparkling under Apple's h...
There Are Now More Free Apps For Android Than For The iPhone: Distimo
App store analytics provider Distimo today published its latest report, once again zooming in on the pricing of mobile applications across a variety of platforms. We got an exclusive early look at th...
Russian Search Giant Yandex Seeks To Raise Up To $1 Billion In IPO
Yandex, one of the leading Internet companies in Russia, this morning announced that it has filed a registration statement with the SEC for a proposed initial public offering, as expected.
Why Instapaper Free is taking an extended vacation
Last fall, I conducted an experiment: I quietly removed Instapaper Free from the App Store1 for three days, leaving only the full, $4.99 Instapaper app. Not only did sales increase incrementally, but...
Finding And Buying A Domain Name
I believe that a good domain name is an important success factor in building and launching consumer web services. It's not in my top ten but it could be. It's certainly something we think about a lo...
Sprint's weathers iPhone onslaught well in first quarter
Sprint delivered better-than-expected first quarter results as the company added 1.1 million total wireless subscribers, improved its postpaid churn and topped revenue expectations. — The No. 3 wire...
Facebook shoots first, ignores questions later; account lock-out attack works
Got enemies on Facebook? Facebook is so eager to protect copyright that the mere accusation of copyright infringement is enough to get an account locked. Ars found this out the hard way Thursday mor...
An Apple VP's $13.7 million payday
The head of hardware engineering sold 99% of his beneficially owned shares on Monday — Steve Jobs may be content to let his 5,546,451 shares of Apple (AAPL) rise and fall with the vagaries of the st...
Why We Need An Open Wireless Movement
If you sometimes find yourself needing an open wireless network in order to check your email from a car, a street corner, or a park, you may have noticed that they're getting harder to find. — Stori...
Greplin: 1.5 Billion Documents Indexed, Six Engineers
Late last year we first mentioned Y Combinator startup Greplin - it's a startup that indexes your social stuff in the cloud, making all your Facebook, Gmail. LinkedIn, Google Calendar, Evernote, Twit...
TomTom sorry for giving customer driving data to cops
‘Anonymous’ info used to set speed traps — Navigation device maker TomTom has apologized for supplying driving data collected from customers to police to use in catching speeding motorists. — The ...
Holding Companies Accountable for Privacy Breaches
It's become almost a weekly occurrence: Another online company letting customers personal and private information leak because of an Internet breach. — Sometimes this sensitive data is stolen by ha...
App-Specific Processors to Fight Dark Silicon
A processor designed around Android's most-used apps could significantly extend the lives of smart-phone batteries. … A processor etched with circuits tailored to the most widely used apps on Android ...