FTC to Serve Google With Subpoenas in Broad Antitrust Probe
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is poised to serve Google Inc. with civil subpoenas, according to people familiar with the matter, signaling the start of a wide-ranging, formal antitrust investigati...
Nokia's first Windows Phone: images and video, codenamed ‘Sea Ray’
Ok, this one's odd. In fact, we didn't believe the images until a video just surfaced showing Nokia CEO, Stephen Elop, foolishly asking a crowd of people to “put away their cameras” for the unveiling...
Sources: PopCap In Late Stage Acquisition Discussions With EA For $1 Billion+
Following up on our story earlier this evening that PopCap Games is in late stage acquisition discussions for a sum of over $1 billion — we've now heard from two sources that the buyer is Electronic A...
Even MySpace's Founders Have Stopped Using MySpace
How over is MySpace? So over that even the guys who founded it can't be bothered to update their profiles. Former CEO Chris DeWolfe “cringes” on the rare occasions when he visits his page on the soo...
Mac OS X 10.6.8 is out, and you need it for Lion
Say, had you wondered about those strange system requirements for Apple's Final Cut Pro X — Mac OS X 10.6.8, yet only dot seven was available? Wonder no more. Late today, Apple released the dot 8 up...
Apple iPhone 5 said to come with dual LED flash
Recent market rumors have indicated that Apple's iPhone 5 is likely to come with a dual-LED flash with Taiwan-based LED packaging firms Everlight Electronics, Edison Opto and Lite-On Technology being ...
T-Mobile USA: We're now carrying over a million unlocked iPhones
As AT&T tries to swallow up the American wing of the German telekom, many have wondered whether Apple would allow T-Mobile to carry the iPhone. Apple's answer so far is a no*, but that hasn't stopped...
Five Reasons Domains Are Getting Less Important
While discussing possible names for a product recently, someone asked me if we were at the point where getting the perfect domain name was less important than it used to be. While I'm still a sucker ...
LulzSec Releases Arizona Law Enforcement Data In Retaliation For Immigration Law
LulzSec has just released a a torrent of data it claims to belong to Arizona law enforcement. — From their press release:
New Japanese Pop Idol Shocks Fans With News-She's Not Real (video)
A star is born! (and she only takes up 150 gigs of memory) — Only 15 seconds in the limelight and she'd already created an overnight buzz. She was the newest member of the very popular all-girl Jap...
Exclusive: Top ISPs poised to adopt graduated response to piracy
Some of the country's largest Internet service providers are poised to leap into the antipiracy fight in a significant way. — After years of negotiations, a group of bandwidth providers that include...
Google Unveils a Laptop With Its Brain in the Cloud
Would you buy a laptop that comes with only one major program—a Web browser—and doesn't allow you to install widely used software such as Microsoft Office, Apple's iTunes, Adobe Reader, or, in fact, a...
New iOS Camera Features in the Works + Glass Apple Store TM on the Way
On June 23, 2011, the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple's patent application titled “Image Capture Device Having Tilt and/or Perspective Correction. Apple's patent generally relates to ima...
Things I'd like to see in Turntable.fm
First off, if you haven't heard of Turntable.fm, what rock have you been hiding under? It's the new killer music site started by Stickybits founders Seth Goldstein and Billy Chasen. Basically you jo...
Twitter plans bolder advertisements
Twitter is looking at introducing advertisements among the short messages that users see in the most active part of the social networking service, according to people with direct knowledge of its plan...
Winklevoss twins press Facebook case in Boston federal court after dropping Supreme Court appeal
As the old saying goes, it ain't over until it's over. — And Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are not finished with Facebook yet. The dramatic seven-year legal feud that inspired “The Social Network” m...
The FBI stole an Instapaper server in an unrelated raid
One of Instapaper's five leased servers was hosted at DigitalOne, a Swiss hosting company leasing blade servers from a Virginia datacenter. Early Tuesday morning, the FBI raided the datacenter to sei...
Hulu Plus for Android is available now... for six devices
The good news is that Hulu Plus for Android is on the market, but the bad news is that you may not be able to install it yet. The official Hulu Blog has just been updated with news that six phones — ...
Tablet Display Technology Shoot-Out Apple iPad 2 - Motorola Xoom - Asus Transformer
Introduction Tablets are essentially large portable displays - handheld screens designed for conveniently viewing content and images anywhere you want while untethered. For Tablets the display is the...
eBay Acquired Magento For Over $180 Million - But Not Everyone Is Smiling
Earlier this month, eBay acquired Magento, developer of an open-source e-commerce platform. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but we've heard from multiple sources that the ecommerce and digital ...
Nevada Passes Law Authorizing Driverless Cars
The State of Nevada just passed Assembly Bill No. 511 which, among other things, authorizes the Department of Transportation to develop rules and regulations governing the use of driverless cars, such...
Apple Gets Antitrust Approval for Nortel Bid
Apple Inc. (AAPL) got approval from U.S. antitrust regulators to bid for the assets of bankrupt Nortel Networks Corp., according to an agency statement. — The Antitrust Division of the Justice Depar...
There Aren't Many Exits Over $100mm
I was reading Mark Suster's latest blog post (actually its a presentation embedded into a blog post) and I came across this slide. — I don't know what the source of this data is and I don't know if ...
The State Of iFund: 3 Years, 25 Companies, 2 Exits, Over 300 Million Downloads This Year
Today at their offices in Menlo Park, venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is celebrating the third anniversary of the iFund. Technically, the fund started in March of 2008 alongside...
Prototype dual-screened 2-in-1 Android smartpad from Imerj preview
From the front it looks like yet another plain smartphone — dark, nondescript, and maybe a little like an iPhone 4 that's had its right-most extent sliced off. Pick it up, though, and you realize thi...
BankSimple: A Bank That Doesn't Suck
BankSimple's dream team (left to right, from top): Thomas Lockney, engineer; Shamir Karkal, CFO; Bill DeRouchey, creative director; Josh Reich, CEO; Toby Sterrett, engineer; Brian Merritt, operations;...
Harry Potter and the amazing exploding book industry
Despite the obvious demand, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has adamantly refused to offer electronic versions of her phenomenally popular series for young adults — until now. As part of Thursday's ...
Upping our game: What's new in the Games Hub for Mango
I used to play games on my Xbox only on the weekends. Now that I work on and own a Windows Phone, I play them at least once a day. As a new “avid gamer” and one of the program managers behind the Ga...
Apple May Face India Probe for Anticompetitive Practices
Apple may face scrutiny from an Indian regulator for alleged anticompetitive behavior in connection with iPhone 4 sales in India. — A Competition Commission of India official said on Wednesday that ...
Kind of Screwed
TL;DR version: Last year, I was threatened with a lawsuit over the pixel art album cover for Kind of Bloop. Despite my firm belief that I was legally in the right, I settled out of court to cut my lo...
Dox everywhere: LulzSec under attack from hackers, law enforcement
Hacking group Lulz Security has found itself coming under attack from all angles, drawing unwanted attention from both law enforcement and other hackers groups. Though the group's antics have won it ...
On Bubbles ... And Why We'll Be Just Fine
This post originally ran on TechCrunch. — I recently spoke at the Founder Showcase at the request of Adeo Ressi. I asked what the audience most needed to hear. — He said, “They need an unbiased v...
Tilera's 100-core processors take on Sandy Bridge
Tilera has introduced a range of processors with up to 100 cores, aiming to take on Intel in servers that handle high-throughput web applications. — The chips in the 40nm 64-bit Tilera Gx family, an...
Yahoo Chairman Backs CEO Bartz, but Investor Wants Her out
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz was backed by the company's chairman at the start of the company's annual shareholder meeting on Thursday, but got ripped by an investor who called for her resignation. — Yahoo...
Viacom And Time Warner Take A Break From Legal Battle Over TV On iPads
iPads and other tablets that enable television watching are looking to be one of the legal flash points between content owners and distributors; that became clear when Viacom (NYSE: VIA) launched a la...
Apple Reveals a Directional Audio UI & Invisible Spatial Arc
On June 23, 2011, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that reveals various concepts behind a newly advanced directional audio interface. In one scenario, a spec...
AT&T Scales Up Its Content Delivery Ambitions
AT&T has been in the content delivery business, broadly speaking, for a long time. Even when one refers to the nerdy niche business of “content delivery networks,” AT&T has still been doing that for ...
Facebook Testing Home Page Design That Keeps Ads and Bookmarks Visible as You Scroll
Facebook is testing a new home page design that allows the news feed to be scrolled independently of the rest of the page. This allows ads, app bookmarks, and the top navigation bar to remain visible...
Google's Page, Schmidt Face Senate Subpoena Threats
Google Inc. (GOOG)'s reluctance to provide a top executive for testimony to a Senate panel probing its market power has prompted threats of subpoenas for Chief Executive Officer Larry Page and Chairma...
The Rise and Inglorious Fall of Myspace
It once promised to redefine music, politics, dating, and pop culture. Rupert Murdoch fell in love with it. Then everything fell apart — Alamy, Bloomberg, Getty Images — In 2006, Jeremy Jackson—...
Survey: 90% of Companies Say They've Been Hacked
If it sometimes appears that just about every company is getting hacked these days, that's because they are. — In a new survey ( download .pdf ) of 583 U.S companies conducted by Ponemon Research on...