Twitter Is Launching Its Own Photosharing Service
Twitter has been completely emphatic about where developers should stake a claim, with Twitter Platform Lead Ryan Sarver warning the ecosystem to stay away from building “client apps that mimic or rep...
It's About The Hashbangs
Before I get started here's the disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this rant are my own personal opinions on web development and do not represent the views of my employer, its engineering organisat...
Airbnb Has Arrived: Raising Mega-Round at a $1 Billion+ Valuation
According to several sources Airbnb is in the process of closing a whopper of a funding round: $100 million or more at a $1 billion-plus valuation. The round is being lead by Andreessen Horowitz, and...
Is Microsoft's Future in Data-as-a-Service?
The “realist” view on Microsoft's future is that Windows and Microsoft Office licenses will continue to be the company's bread and butter, and that enterprise-focused cloud initiatives like Azure and ...
TouchPad to launch June 12?
Thanks to an enterprising tipster, we've managed to get our hands on HP's “QuickSpecs” technical specifications sheet for the TouchPad webOS tablet. The four-page document is something that HP puts t...
Samsung Expands Ties to Android on Tablets
Samsung plans more tablets despite ongoing legal battles with Apple, and Computex, Asia's answer to Las Vegas's Consumer Electronics Show, starts this week, with Acer and Intel expected to make a spla...
Twitter Close To Acquiring AdGrok
We're hearing from multiple sources that Twitter is in talks to acquire Y Combinator-backed key word bidding platform AdGrok, in a deal that is less than $10 million. It's still unclear where exactly...
Why Instagram Can Become The Mobile Social Hub
Trey Ratcliff, creator of 100 Cameras and I — Of all the apps on my iPhone, the ones that get most attention for me involve photos — from the built-in Camera app to Camera+ to photo filter apps such...
ASUS announces the Padfone (update: eyes-on!)
If pads and phones are the fastest growing categories in consumer tech, surely a Padfone would be the ultimate combo? That's what ASUS thinks, and it's just introduced an Android smartphone device th...
Hidden device distorts news on wireless networks, brews beer, is time machine
We covered the Newstweek, a wall-wart sized box that injects fake news stories over public WiFi connections last February, but now there's a great walk through and it seems our doubts about this proje...
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 hits Best Buy's site, decorative Androids fall off in the process
Remember the Android tablet we said might be the first real competitor to the iPad 2 earlier this month? Well, it just made its debut on the Best Buy site, and while the big “Coming Soon” …
As RIM struggles, talk of a change at top surfaces
(Reuters) - The two men who made BlackBerry a household name may not have the luxury of time to fix Research In Motion's flagging fortunes. — Investors are clamoring for RIM to come up with a credib...
Samsung: 1 million Galaxy S II units sold
Samsung announced on Monday that it has sold more than 1 million of its new Galaxy S II handsets, and that the phone has been “selling like [hotcakes].” The Korean company said the time it took for s...
The Next 6 Months Worth Of Features Are In Facebook's Code Right Now (But We Can't See)
A few days ago, Facebook held a tech talk at their headquarters. The topic of the talk was pushing changes — bug fixes, new features, product improvements, etc. Every day, Facebook engineers push hu...
Ivy Bridge chips pushed to 2012, Macs will have to wait
Intel's Sandy Bridge chips, which are ticking inside 2011 MacBook Pro and iMac computers, are all the rage in the chips business at the moment. However, the pundits are already watching closely a nex...
NFC Digital Payments - what's in it for consumers?
Changing consumer behavior is very difficult. Making things more efficient, easier, faster, or more convenient isn't enough if it requires a change in normal consumer behavior. Many tech startups fa...
ARM Expects Half of Mobile PC Market by 2015
ARM Holdings hopes to wrestle dominance of the mobile PC market from Intel and have ARM-based processors in more than half of all tablets, mini-notebooks and other mobile PCs sold in 2015, the company...
PBS hacked in retribution for Frontline Wikileaks episode
The PBS.org website, and data associated with the PBS television network, its programs, and its affiliate stations, appear to have just been hacked by an entity calling itself LulzSec (or “The Lulz Bo...
Confirmed: Twitter Plans to Announce Photo-Sharing Service This Week
Twitter will announce a photo-sharing service at the D9 conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., this week, according to sources familiar with the matter. — Twitter CEO Dick Costolo is set to spea...
Anatomy of a trending topic: How Twitter & the crafting community put the smackdown on Urban Outfitters
Today has been a fun ride. Behold the power of social media muscle. — This morning, online buddy Gayla Trail (also known as You Grow Girl) posted a link to her Facebook page.
Gigabyte announces S1080 Windows 7 tablet with USB 3.0 and optical drive dock
We're here at Computex's pre-show event to get some hands-on time with a few new products. As expected many tablets are present, and one such device is Gigabyte's S1080 Windows 7 tablet, which we alm...
ViewSonic ViewPad 10Pro boots an Intel Oak Trail CPU into either Android or Windows 7 Pro
The ViewPad 10 era is over, here comes the epoch of the ViewPad 10Pro. Beyond the introduction of Intel's Oak Trail Z670 1.5GHz processor, the new Windows 7 Pro / Android 2.2 dual-boot tablet throws ...
Nielsen: Android's lead over iOS may have stopped growing
Google's OS is still more popular than Apple's, but no more than it was in March Apple (AAPL), Google (GOOG) and Research in Motion (RIMM) have reached something like a three-way stalemate in the batt...
Ultra-minimalist writing app iA Writer now available for Mac
If you're a minimalism freak you've come to the right place. Today marks the release of iA writer for Mac, a writing app or rather “digital writing tool” with so much minimalism, there's barely anyth...
Linus Torvalds Approves Linux 3.0 RC1
Nearly 20 years after Linus Torvalds' first Linux post and after 39 major releases for the Linux 2.6 kernel, the OS inventor signed off on Linux 3.0. The new kernel is now available as RC1. Torvalds...