iMac Intel 21.5" EMC 2428 Teardown
We got up this morning to news that the new iMacs were out, so we knew what we had to do: start sharpening our suction cups! Thankfully, this iMac model opens in the same way as previous generations....
Obama ‘Situation Room’ Photo Is Already Half Way To Becoming Flickr's Most Viewed Pic
If you ever wanted a glimpse of what the Spiderman “With great power comes great responsibility” quote looks like actualized, take a second to digest the above photo of President Obama …
Sony's Response to the U.S. House of Representatives
Today, the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce held a hearing in Washington, DC on “The Threat of Data Theft to Amer...
Spotify says hello to the iPod
At Spotify it's always been our mission to provide you with the best all-round music experience on the planet. For Spotify Premium subscribers, a huge part of that experience is taking your playlists...
Intel will build next-generation chips with 3D structures
Intel said today that it will build its next generation of chips with 3D structures, a move that will allow it to pack much more computing power in a given space and stay on the path of technological ...
AT&T Rep: Apple Has Told Us No New iPhone in June or July
While increasing numbers of reports are pointing to a later-than-usual introduction for the fifth-generation iPhone, potentially with an unveiling at Apple's traditional September iPod-focused event, ...
Warner Bros. Acquires Social Movie Site Flixster (And Rotten Tomatoes)
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group has acquired social movie discovery site Flixster. The acquisition also includes Rotten Tomatoes, a movie review site Flixster acquired from News Corp. last year...
Store up to 25,000 contacts
Gmail used to have a limit of 10,000 contacts. For most of us, this was way more than enough, but we heard from some of you who use Gmail to communicate with more than 10,000 people. We want you to ...
US DVD sales plummet 20%
Hollywood studios feel impact of rapid shift to online film and TV viewing — DVD sales plunged 20% in the US in the first quarter of 2011, with Hollywood studios blaming the timing of Easter and a g...
Apple has released an iOS 4.3.3 update, fixing location database issues
Apple has just released the iOS 4.3.3 update for iDevices. It's available now on iTunes, just plug in your device and hit update to get the update. The biggest change in this new update is of course...
Suddenly, Top Facebook Employees Are Quitting Again
Facebook director of business development Jim Midgal has quit the company. — On LinkedIn, he lists his current job as “baggage handler” and his company as “traveling.” — Gone too is Marcel Laverde...
Exclusive: Efficient Frontier Buys Context Optional for $50 Million
Online performance marketing firm Efficient Frontier is acquiring San Francisco-based social marketing software and services start-up Context Optional, the company said. — While terms of the deal we...
Disqus Raises $10 Million, Doubles in Size Despite Facebook Comments
Real-time commenting system Disqus came out this morning with a bunch of numbers, including one referring to the $10 million dollars it just secured, in a show that the battle for commenting solutions...
Google TV Aims to Turn the Channel With New Release Later This Year
Google TV may not have won over many critics or fans with its first season, but Google still thinks it could be a long-term hit. — Before renewing the product for another season, though, Google is m...
Renren IPO raises $743 million
The first social networking site to go public in the United States sees its shares surge to $24 — Chinese social networking website Renren went public on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday, ra...
Social Media Gets Professional
SOCIAL MEDIA: Online networking is transforming the way businesses operate but few understand its true implications — If you want an example of the power of social media, consider this. Starbucks g...
Wireless carriers scale down scope of mobile payment system
(Reuters) - The biggest U.S. wireless carriers, AT&T Inc, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile USA, are not setting up a separate network for payments on transactions done by phones, the Wall Street Journal ...
Zynga blocks co-founder's stock sale
Social gaming leader Zynga hasn't even gone public and already it's facing legal problems over its hot stock. — The company is blocking attempts by former executive Andy Trader, who left the company...
Gigwalk Launches: Wanna Get Paid for Taking Pictures with Your iPhone?
In the 1990s, peer-to-peer networks were a revelation. They allowed people to pool together tiny parts of their computers, and those pooled together parts could do far more together than the average ...
Microsoft promises OAuth 2.0 support in future version of Messenger Connect
Microsoft revealed on Wednesday that it plans to support OAuth 2.0 in the next-version of Messenger Connect. — Messenger Connect is a collection of APIs and controls that developers can use to acces...
Windows generates less than a third the profit of iOS + OS X
While a lot of the credit for Apple's success is rightfully assigned to the iOS franchises, the OS X business has more than quadrupled in five years. This has happened without drastic price fluctuati...
Google Takes to TV to Promote Browser
SAN FRANCISCO — Google is once again taking up arms in the browser wars, in the belief that people who use its Chrome Web browser will be more likely to keep using Google search. — The company is ta...
ASUS planning quad-core Tegra 3 tablet, yet another Intel slate
The Eee Pad Transformer may be wowing tablet lovers with its unbeatable price-to-features ratio today, but ASUS looks to have its sights set on even mightier devices for the future. DigTimes reports ...
LinkedIn IPO to List on NYSE: Big Win for Big Board
The LinkedIn IPO — one of the most high profile tech-stock debuts of 2011 …
Exclusive: Facebook, Google considering Skype deals
(Reuters) - Facebook and Google Inc (GOOG.O) are separately considering a tie-up with Skype after the web video conferencing service delayed its initial public offering, two sources with direct knowle...
Apple to release Mac OS X Lion through Mac App Store - sources
With the release of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion this summer, Apple will make the switch to a new kind of digital distribution for its operating system upgrades by releasing the software first through its new M...
On Bin Laden Killing Tech Blogging
The information in the image above is not surprising at all. But still pathetic. — Imagine that, you write 35 200-word posts featuring the words “Bin Laden” in the headline and they pull in traffic...
All Updated Windows Phones Are Not Alike
Yesterday, Eric announced that there would be a new update for Windows Phone. You can read his post to see what all is included, but I wanted to focus on a specific issue: phones “updated” using any ...
iPhone Location Update: All Users In 1 Week; Android 2.3 Update: 4% Of Users In 5 Months
Earlier today, Apple released the iOS update that resolves the location tracking issues that had the press in a tizzy over for the past couple of weeks. For those keeping score at home …
Google Just Leaked Their +1 Chrome Extension On National Television
If you haven't seen Google's new “Dear Sophie” video, I highly recommend you check it out. It's brilliant. — And watch closely. — At various points in the video, the Chrome browser in use reveals...
Barnes & Noble to release new e-reader, according to securities filing
It's not often that we get word of a new gadget by way of an SEC filing, but Barnes & Noble has broken with tradition with an 8-K report that reveals its intentions to introduce a new e-reader.
Sprint delays PlayBook launch indefinitely
Sprint has reportedly delayed its PlayBook launch, according to an internal document that was allegedly circulated to dealers. The carrier and RIM initially promised an April 19 launch date for the C...
Microsoft attacks Google Apps with “Google Tax” claim
Microsoft is on the Google attack once again this week. — The software giant has created an iceberg info-graphic (see below) that reveals Google's hidden costs. Tom Rizzo, senior director of Micros...
White iPhone Versus White iPhone
For almost a year, the white iPhone has been as elusive as a double rainbow. Sure, we knew they existed, but few people had seen one. Now this sought-after device is available in stores. But their ...
AOL: The revenue slide continues, but display ads show signs of life
AOL revenue continues to decline at a double-digit clip. — The company reported first quarter earnings of $4.7 million, or 4 cents a share, on revenue of $551.4 million, down 17 percent from a year ...
.NET Android and iOS clones stripped by Attachmate
Open source Mono suffers layoffs — The fate of an open-source version of Microsoft's .NET running on iOS and Android is unclear after Novell's new owner Attachmate laid off members of the project, a...
Latest GPU market numbers spell bad news for NVIDIA
It's Intel's fifth consecutive quarter of producing CPUs with GPUs integrated into the same package (if not on the same die), and, predictably, the shift has not been kind to NVIDIA. The latest numbe...
Nintendo confirms it will cut Wii price to $149 and reduces some games to $19.99
Trying to revive sales, Nintendo said it will cut the price of its Wii video game console to $149.99 on May 15 and also chopped the prices of some games to $19.99. — The price cut, which was rumored...
Say What? High-Tech Messages Can Get Lost in Translation
Devices Make Communicating Easier—Or Incomprehensible; Phone Doesn't Swear — This is the voicemail that Dan Sheeran's tailor recently tried to leave him: “Just wanted to let you know that your pants...
The Ayn Rand-loving, feet-baring, efficiency-obsessed savant behind SCVNGR
Who is Seth Priebatsch? How did his tiny company, based on turning life into a video gaming experience, wind up with a $100 million valuation? — Seth Priebatsch, left — FORTUNE — As I walked thro...