How to Upgrade to iOS 5 Today, Without Any Developer Account
One day and iOS 5 has been hacked already. Gizmodo reader and Apple lover Mert Erdir has discovered how to upgrade to iOS 5 without developer accounts, using a simple backdoor. Everyone can do it fo...
Link sharing made simple
We've been working on a bunch of features to make Twitter easier to use. Today, we're releasing something that many of you have been asking for - automatic link shortening on Twitter.com — How does...
Apple Files a Whopping 11 Separate US iCloud Trademark Applications
On June 7, 2011, the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple's eleven iCloud trademark applications. Apple filed one iCloud application per International Classification. The reason for filing e...
Wii U: first hands-on with Nintendo's new console
With its tablet-like controller, the Wii U is a seriously weird piece of kit. But, yet again, once you get your hands on it, a multitude of new gaming experiences tumble out of it. And the machine w...
Facebook changes privacy settings for millions of users - facial recognition is enabled
When Facebook revealed last year it was introducing facial recognition technology to help users tag their friends in photographs, they gave the functionality to North American users only.
AirPlay Mirroring in action (video)
One of the new iOS features that has been met with great enthusiasm from journalists and developers attending yesterday's WWDC keynote is AirPlay Mirroring. Apple's iOS software head honcho Scott For...
Square Raising New Round, Joining Billion Dollar Valuation Club
There are a bevy of startups in the process of raising big rounds of capital at billion dollar or higher valuations - something that was a rare occurrence even a few months ago. We're tracking most o...
Oracle wants a huge cut of Google's mobile advertising revenue plus compensation for fragmentation of Java
One of the best-kept secrets in the patent dispute between Oracle and Google is what Oracle demands in terms of compensation for past damages and on which terms (monetary and other conditions) …
Microsoft finalizes Windows Thin PC; available July 1
Microsoft has released to manufacturing its Windows Thin PC client, and plans to make it available to Software Assurance customers starting July 1, company officials said on June 7. — Windows Thin P...
Jeff Bezos on innovation: Amazon ‘willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time’
One question at Amazon.com's shareholder meeting this morning in Seattle clearly made an impression on Jeff Bezos, sparking an extraordinary response from the Amazon CEO and founder on the qualities …
Guess Which Company Is Winning The War For Tech Talent
Of all the big tech companies competing for engineering talent, Twitter has fared the best while Yahoo is doing the worst. — That's according to statistics released today by TopProspect, which helps...
Google Discontinues Its First Specialized Search Engines
They're no longer popular, but they're the first specialized search engines offered by Google, long before Image Search, Google News or Blog Search. Some people might remember Google Linux, Google BS...
What's Twitter's Identity Now That It's Apple's Identity Provider?
Apple this week anointed Twitter as a built-in feature of the next version of its mobile platform. — The partnership, announced during Apple's WWDC keynote yesterday, is an obvious diss to Facebook ...
Will Investors Take Groupon's Andrew Mason Seriously?
Andrew Mason's oddball tendencies have served him well as the head of a quirky Internet upstart. … But now that Groupon Inc. is on the cusp of holding an initial public offering, will the 30-year-old'...
iPhones And iPads Could Be Getting Intel Chips, Says Citi
Intel is in talks with Apple to manufacture its custom A4 and A5 chips, says Citi analyst Glen Yueng. — However, the manufacture of Apple's chips is only a prelude to a much bigger partnership.
Motorola Contacting XOOM Owners about 4G LTE, Upgrade Process Underway?
One of our gracious readers just forwarded along an email he received from Motorola customer support. According to said email the XOOM's promised 4G LTE upgrade for Verizon is already under way.
AOL After the Honeymoon
Arianna Huffington. Image by Getty Images for AOL via @daylife — What happens when you mix the ambition of Arianna Huffington with the desperation of Tim Armstrong? AOL shareholders will soon find...
Kindles Getting Cheaper, and Huge: 10 Percent of Amazon's Business Next Year
Amazon's Kindle e-reader, a gawky novelty just three years ago, is now a big business getting bigger. Really big. — Jeff Bezos and company continue not to release sales numbers for the devices, but...
Bain: 80% of Twitter engagement is link clicking
The social network's real-time access to myriads of content and high levels of user engagement is why marketers keep coming back for more. — Adam Bain of Twitter — FORTUNE — Hours after Apple (AAP...
How to Upgrade to iOS 5 Today, Without Any Developer Account
One day and iOS 5 has been hacked already. Gizmodo reader and Apple lover Mert Erdir has discovered how to upgrade to iOS 5 without developer accounts, using a simple backdoor. Everyone can do it fo...
You Can't Always Get What You Want: Apple's Disappointing Music Announcements at WWDC
There was a lot of buzz prior to today's announcements at WWDC about the deals that Apple had reportedly struck with the major record labels. Even before any Apple executives took the stage …
Apple iTunes And The Cloud: The Fine Print
For a certain segment of geeks, checking the changes to the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iTunes Store Terms and Conditions after new features are added or a new version is released is as much a ritual as unboxi...
App Engine: Google's deepest secrets as a service
The software scales. But will the Google rulebook? — Google will never open source its back end. You'll never run the Google File System or Google MapReduce or Google BigTable on your own servers.
Problems signing in to Skype
Update 2: — We are continuing to address today's problems, and are seeing indications that the situation is improving. — If you were disconnected from Skype earlier, you shouldn't need to manually...
FT Bypasses Apple's iTunes, Launches HTML5 Web App (Free Access First Week)
The Financial Times would rather not have Apple take a 30 percent cut of in-app subscriptions for its iOS publications, and has launched a HTML5 Web app that enables readers to access content across t...
AT&T's Bid for T-Mobile Is Backed by Microsoft and Facebook
In its quest to win approval of its $39 billion takeover of T-Mobile USA, AT&T just got a lot of help from its friends. — Eight technology giants, including Facebook and Microsoft, and 10 venture ca...
OmniVision and Sony to Supply 8-Megapixel Camera for iPhone 5
According to a new report from Digitimes, camera image sensor supplier OmniVision has won “significant orders” for Apple's next-generation iPhone, set to debut later this year. Whilst OmniVision has ...
Groupon Goes Into Supermarkets Via Loyalty Cards
Deal Has ‘Potential to Revolutionize Grocery-Marketing Landscape’ — Groupon is joining two Boston marketing-services and analytics firms to get deeper into the traditional grocery coupon business wi...
Changes to the open Internet in Kazakhstan
The genius of the Internet has always been its open infrastructure, which allows anyone with a connection to communicate with anyone else on the network. It's not limited by national boundaries, and ...
Next Big Thing in E-Commerce? Groupon Founders Fund Online Pawn Shop.
Groupon founders Eric Lefkofsky and Brad Keywell, who have famously extracted all sorts of money from the soon-to-IPO deals start-up and now run an investment group called Lightbank, are onto the next...
Exclusive: Patent Lawsuit Filed Against Skype Same Day Microsoft Deal Was Announced
Skype is no stranger to patent litigation. One time, even its founders pursued a lawsuit against it. But this is a new lawsuit, not yet reported as far as I can tell.
NGP renamed PlayStation Vita: WiFi-only $249, AT&T-only 3G $299
As rumored, Sony's PSP successor has been rebadged as the PlayStation Vita and given a retail price. The WiFi-only version of the device will run users $249, while the 3G model will cost $299, which ...
Online Ads: Where 1,240 Companies Fit In
Online advertising is a remarkably complex field. Terence Kawaja has a new way for potential investors to visualize it. — The market involves hundreds of small and large companies that help adverti...