Exclusive: Tiered Data Plans Headed to Verizon July 7, Packages Start at $30 for 2GB
We knew that July 7 was going to mark the beginning of something after Verizon extended out the free 4G hotspot promo one more time to the 6th, but what we weren't 100% sure of was if it would have to...
Yesterday's Authentication Bug
Yesterday we made a code update at 1:54pm Pacific time that introduced a bug affecting our authentication mechanism. We discovered this at 5:41pm and a fix was live at 5:46pm. A very small number of...
Apple Tried And Failed To Make A Black MacBook Air?
Apple did indeed test out a black powder-coated MacBook Air, but the treatment absorbed body oils and didn't live up to Steve's standards, according to an anonymous Apple employee. — This employee g...
Introducing SkyDrive for the modern web, built using HTML5
We're committed to making SkyDrive the best place to get access to your content from anywhere, collaborate on Office docs, and share photos. Mike recently talked about how we're delivering access to ...
Caterina Fake Raising $2M for New Social Start-Up
Caterina Fake, co-founder of Flickr and Hunch and an investor in companies like Etsy, has a new start-up that she says will be consumer-facing and social. — She's raising what looks like a $2 millio...
Wow! The foursquare community has over 10,000,000 members!
And, to commemorate this pretty crazy occasion, we put together a little infographic. Be sure to click through to see it bigger; if you're anything like us, watching the full-size animated map puts b...
If You Use All Your iCloud Storage, Apple Sends You This Email
A reader sent us this email he received from the “MobileMe Quota Service”, informing that he was using 4.2GB of his 5GB of free iCloud storage. — The email notes that once the storage is full, iOS d...
EFF and Bitcoin
For several months, EFF has been following the movement around Bitcoin, an electronic payment system that touts itself as “the first decentralized digital currency.” We helped inform our members abou...
Now Your Embarrassing/Job-Threatening Facebook Photos Could Haunt You For Seven Years
These privacy sunglasses are seeming like more of a necessity — Last week, the Federal Trade Commission gave a stamp of approval to a background check company that screens job applicants based on th...
THEY STILL EXIST: Startups That Survived The Dot-Com Bust And Are Ready To Cash In On The New Boom
Pandora's recent IPO is a good reminder that the tech industry is sometimes a game of attrition. — The company was founded in 1999 and struggled for years — founder Tim Westergren went through …
Google bypasses admin controls with latest Chrome IE
‘Screw your BOFH. Install our plug-in’ — Google has released a new version of Chrome Frame - the Internet Explorer plug-in that turns Microsoft's browser into a Google browser - letting users insta...
Intel adds Sandy Bridge chips for ultraslim laptops
Intel has added three power-frugal Sandy Bridge chip models to its lineup, while a research note Monday from a Gleacher & Company analyst says the chipmaker will boost its presence in the burgeoning m...
Seesmic dumps BlackBerry: Start of a stampede?
Seesmic, a popular third-party Twitter client for desktop and mobile devices, today announced it would end support for BlackBerry handsets at the end of June. In a blog post today, the company shared...
Revealed: Facebook's music plans involve Spotify, others
For the past few months, I have been hearing about Facebook and Spotify getting a lot closer as companies, with a much tighter integration between the two services. However, Facebook's musical ambiti...
Huawei MediaPad revealed: world's first 7-inch Android 3.2 tablet, dual-core 1.2GHz Qualcomm CPU
It's here folks — the planet's first Android 3.2 tablet. Huawei just introduced a downright luscious new slate over in Singapore, with CommunicAsia being the launchpad for the 7-inch MediaPad.
New Top-Level Domains Approved by ICANN
The Board of ICANN today gave final approval to the most dramatic change to the Internet in four decades — allowing the expansion of new Top-Level Domains (TLDs). This monumental decision will allow ...
Hulu Plays Along With Apple's New Rules. Who's Next?
Apple's new subscription rules could have posed a problem for services like Hulu. But when Steve Jobs changed his mind earlier this month, life got a lot easier. — Here's the old version of the Hul...
New security issue at Dropbox
I don't have much more in the way of useful details (e.g. screen video showing it in action), though I do have one other guy who performed the same tests b/c I wanted to rule out that my local-to-my-m...
Investors Provide Millions to Risky Start-Ups
PALO ALTO, Calif. — What if you threw a $41 million party and nobody came? A start-up company called Color knows how that feels. — In March, Color unveiled its photo-sharing cellphone application —...
Best Buy Battles Over Use of ‘Geek’
Retailer Fights to Protect Squad's Trademark; Putting Rivals—and a Priest—on Notice — Just a few decades ago, a geek was a carnival freak who bit the heads off of chickens and rats. — Then geek be...
Tech Firms' Workers Sell Shares, Fearing a Bubble Will Burst
SAN FRANCISCO — While Silicon Valley and Wall Street debate whether a new technology bubble is in the making, some early Facebook employees are not taking any chances. They're leaving the company to ...
Adobe Software Updates To Help Devs Build iOS, PlayBook And Android Apps
Adobe is today pushing updates to its application development software product Flash Builder and the open source Flex framework to enable developers to build apps for iPhone, iPad and BlackBerry PlayB...
The Android Market: 'It's a loud, obnoxious baby'
Having ported a hit game from iOS, one developer reveals the good, the bad and the ugly — Battleheart character. Source: Mika Mobile — “With Battleheart having been on sale for a few weeks, I fee...
Small Group Rode LinkedIn to Big Payday
For Reid Hoffman, the chairman of LinkedIn, it took less than 30 minutes to earn himself an extra $200 million. — With the hours ticking down to his company's stock market debut, Mr. Hoffman dialed ...
RIM is black-burying carriers with half-baked BlackBerrys
Launching new products is always difficult. Launching new products with hundreds of different carriers is exponentially more difficult. Apparently there is an easy way and a hard way to do things, h...
Skype Gets More Social with Deeper Facebook Integration
We are excited to announce the new Skype 5.5 Beta version for Windows, which enhances the user experience and features new updates to Skype based on user feedback. Skype is also continuing to bring p...
TiVo iPhone & Android Apps Coming “Soon”
While TiVo has alluded to additional companion mobile apps, via Twitter and other venues, the June issue of CEPro provides concrete details via a full page advertisement targeting custom installers: …...
Japanese ‘K’ Computer Is Ranked Most Powerful
SAN FRANCISCO — In the rankings of the world's most powerful supercomputers, a Japanese machine has earned the top spot with a performance that essentially laps the competition. — The computer, know...
Abracadabra! Magic Trumps Math at Web Start-Ups
Over a decade ago, Internet companies promoted new ways to measure their business performance, introducing concepts like “eyeballs” and “mindshare” to investors. — Now the latest wave of Internet st...
‘Reminder: Call Dad’ Is Another Notch In Google's Belt Of Social Fail
Google, Google, Google ... I don't know if it's that you just don't understand the intricacies of intrapersonal relationships or if getting the social stuff right is just extremely difficult ...
Why Turntable.fm's Lame/Awesome button is awesome
Turntable.fm has certainly created a sensation - over the last couple of weeks it has been one of the hottest topics on the web. — Deservedly. It really changes the game in making music truly socia...
Yup, YouTube Counts Video Ads As Regular Views
Movie trailers are among the most popular videos on YouTube. A typical movie trailer gets millions of views, but how many of those views are natural and who many are pushed as paid-for ads? Yes, mov...