Syrian Internet Shutdown
Starting at 3:35 UTC today (6:35am local time), approximately two-thirds of all Syrian networks became unreachable from the global Internet. Over the course of roughly half an hour, the routes to 40 ...
PostRank has been acquired by Google!
From the seed of an idea in late 2006, to the launch of PostRank in mid 2007, and an incredible four years of continuous learning, iteration, and developing and launching new products—what an amazing ...
Groupon IPO: Pass on this deal
Groupon has filed its S-1 and hopes to raise $750M in its initial public offering. Given they're currently losing a staggering $117M per quarter, despite revenues of $644M, they'll be burning through...
Apple pays music bigs $100M+
Apple will fork over between $100 million and $150 million in advanced payments to the four major music labels in order to get its iCloud off the ground, three separate sources told The Post. — The ...
YOU DON'T SAY: WORDS “FACEBOOK” AND “TWITTER” ARE BANNED FROM FRENCH AIRWAVES
The French are notorious for their obsession with maddening, micro-meddling rules and regulations. — Anglo-Saxons who live in France, as I do, constantly struggle with the puzzling paradox in a soci...
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Apple Hires The Guy Who Hacked Together A Better iOS Notifications System
Back in February, I wrote that MobileNotifier (a replacement notifications system for jailbroken iOS devices) would be the one thing that would make anyone want to jailbreak — and I stand by it.
Facebook VP Chamath Palihapitiya Forms New Venture Fund, The Social+Capital Partnership
Facebook vice president Chamath Palihapitiya will leave the company as he launches a large new venture fund called The Social+Capital Partnership, with backing from some of the worlds leading business...
MI6 Hacked Al Qaeda Website, Swapping Bomb Recipes With Cupcake Recipes
Just imagine the look of surprise on an al Qaeda member's face when they thought they were loading a tutorial on how to “make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom” but actually got...a recipe for mojito ...
A tour of the new Music +Video Hub
From the beginning, the chief design principle for the Music+Videos Hub in Windows Phone was simple: make it easy to discover and consume the content you love. — In Mango, it only gets better. — T...
Twitter.com Adds Content From Amazon, Foursquare, Meetup & More
Amazon, AOL Video, Gowalla, Foursquare, Meetup and Plancast are the newest social tools to be integrated with Twitter.com, allowing users to access more multimedia content without leaving the site.
Woah! Apple Worth More Than Microsoft And Intel Combined
At the close of markets today, Apple has a bigger market cap than Microsoft and Intel combined (the so-called Wintel alliance). — Here's how much Apple, Microsoft and Intel are worth on Wall St.: —...
Xbox LIVE Diamond subscription TV service to debut at E3
Microsoft is planning to reveal its Xbox LIVE subscription TV service at E3, WinRumors has learned. — The software giant is close to finishing a key number of components for its full Xbox LIVE subsc...
Android Share Surges Again, Apple Gains A Bit, RIM Destroyed
New data from comScore on the U.S. smartphone market shows Android share is still surging, while Apple is just barely growing share. — Research in Motion and Microsoft, on the other hand are being d...
BlackBerry Bold 9900 won't launch until September
BlackBerry fans will just have to keep waiting for the company's latest and greatest handset. We have confirmed with multiple sources that the BlackBerry Bold 9900 won't be launching until September ...
U.N. Report Declares Internet Access a Human Right
A United Nations report said Friday that disconnecting people from the internet is a human rights violation and against international law. — The report railed against France and the United Kingdom, ...
Anonymous steals 10,000 Iranian government emails, plans DDoS attack
Anonymous has hacked into Iranian government servers and procured over 10,000 email messages from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. — The Ministry's website is still down as of this writing, and the ...
U.S. Antitrust Regulators Concerned Over Apple's Interest in Nortel Patents
Last December, it was revealed that Apple was among the parties interested in bidding on a huge trove of patents from Nortel Networks that had been placed up for auction. While group of over 6,000 pa...
Microsoft to launch Office 365 on June 28
Microsoft is holding its official launch of its cloud-hosted application suite, known as Office 365, on June 28. — CEO Steve Ballmer will be on hand at the New York launch event, according to an inv...
LulzSec versus FBI Affiliates + Whitehats
Dear Internets, It has come to our unfortunate attention that NATO and our good friend Barrack Osama-Llama 24th-century Obama have recently upped the stakes with regard to hacking. They now treat hac...
Going Digital: Editor Josh Quittner Leaves Time Inc For Flipboard
This should be interesting. Flipboard is getting an editorial director from the world of print magazines: Josh Quittner, my former boss at Business 2.0 magazine and most recently the editor at Time I...
Apple Retail 10th Anniversary Poster: “We've learned a lot.”
Click for larger. — The most public celebration of Apple Retail's tenth anniversary was the rollout of iPad interactive shopping guides, something Apple calls the “Smart Sign”. But behind the scene...
C'est Magnifique: Google to Offer Paid Version of Translate API
In response to developer sadness and anger, Google has announced it plans to offer a paid version of its Google Translate API. Last week the company said it would pull the plug after the Translate AP...
Gmail Hack Targeted White House
People who work at the White House were among those targeted by the China-based hackers who broke into Google Inc.'s Gmail accounts, according to one U.S. official. — The hackers likely were hoping ...
Adobe CEO: Android Will Overtake iPad Just Like it Did the iPhone (Video)
Adobe's Shantanu Narayen debunked a myth today at D that there's an ongoing feud between it and Apple over running Flash on iOS. — Still, he didn't hesitate downplaying Apple's early lead in the tab...
Windows 8: The Beginning of the End of Windows
I have a longstanding rule for evaluating new tech products: Don't judge anything by the demo. I've seen far too many product previews that hid fundamental flaws in usability. Until you can touch an...
Google's CEO steps into spotlight
In his most extensive public comments since becoming Google's (GOOG) CEO, Larry Page on Thursday delivered a carefully crafted response to critics who say the company is too free-spending, too unfocus...
AT&T's Ralph De La Vega on the T-Mobile Deal, Service Issues, Spectrum Shortage
Trying to buy T-Mobile USA for $39 billion. Looking to fend off new competition with Verizon over the iPhone. The looming spectrum crunch and the shift away from unlimited data pricing.
Amazon May Soon Need to Collect Sales Tax
A proposal in the U.S. Senate aims to end the longtime exemption for e-commerce — California visitors to Wal-Mart Stores' (WMT) website must pay $214 to buy a Philips Electronics (PHG) 22-inch LCD H...
Start-up Offers New Hires $10,000, and All the Accoutrements of Hipsterdom
Earlier this year, my colleague Claire Cain Miller and I reported on the fierce recruiting wars among tech companies as they competed to hire and retain talented software developers and engineers.
Microsoft cuts down on Windows Phone Marketplace bulk publishing
The move follows criticism that Microsoft is simply bumping up its Marketplace numbers …
Internet service to Syria reportedly cut as more protests erupt
All Internet service to Syria has been cut as protesters again pour into the streets of several cities in anti-government demonstrations, Al Jazeera reports. — Al-Jazeera quotes a government-sponsor...
HTC takes the Sense UI open-source and reaches out to developers
After re-introducing unlockable bootloaders last week, HTC has announced a new developer initiative called HTCdev, which would offer mobile app developers with various tools and resources to build app...
The Billion-Dollar Startup Club: Then and Now
“A million dollars isn't cool. You know what's cool? A billion dollars.” — Once news of Groupon's IPO filing subsides, look out for headlines that Airbnb has joined the billion-dollar club. The s...