Major ISPs agree to “six strikes” copyright enforcement plan
American Internet users, get ready for “six strikes.” Major US Internet providers—including AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, Cablevision, and Time Warner Cable—have just signed on to a voluntary agreement wit...
Apple's App Store Downloads Top 15 Billion
Apple® today announced that over 15 billion apps have been downloaded from its revolutionary App Store™ by the more than 200 million iPhone®, iPad® and iPod touch® users worldwide. The App Store offe...
“Download map area” added to Labs in Google Maps for Android
One way we bring you new product features is through Google Labs—a collection of fun, experimental features you can turn on if you're interested in the functionality. In fact, Google Maps itself star...
iPhone 5 redesign likely says WSJ, but have you met the iPad HD?
The Wall Street Journal now seems to be confirming what our sources told us back in April about the iPhone 5 (or whatever Apple decides to call it). According to the report (which closely mirrors som...
CONFIRMED: Turntable.fm Has Raised $7.5 Million Round At $37.5 Million Valuation
We read earlier today that group music/DJ site Turntable.fm was raising a multi-million-dollar round. — After speaking with sources involved in the financing, we can confirm that term sheets were in...
Check out Cosmic Panda, A New Experimental Experience for Videos, Playlists, and Channels
With nearly 8 years of video uploaded and 3 billion views logged every day on YouTube, it's clear you like to watch and share YouTube videos. While you're watching your favorite or new videos …
Turntable.fm and the Siren Song of the Start-up Pivot
There is no more overused and reviled word in the world of tech start-ups than pivot. Pivot. Pivot. Pivot. — It seems to capture the manic energy of the current tech industry, in which an idea ca...
Apple's IAd Mobile Business Is Said to Trim Prices as Advertisers Defect
Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s iAd mobile-advertising business has cut rates by as much as 70 percent as some marquee clients are using rival services, two people with knowledge of the matter said, signaling the...
EXCLUSIVE: Apple Store Sets Secret Service on Spy Camera Artist
Artist Kyle McDonald installed a program on computers in two New York Apple Store locations that automatically takes a photo every minute. Now his personal computers have been confiscated by the U.S....
Visa Says It's Still Not Processing Transactions for WikiLeaks
Contrary to widely-circulated reports in the Associated Press and Forbes, Visa did not lift its financial blockade on WikiLeaks, a Visa spokesperson tells The Atlantic Wire. Earlier today, headlines ...
Zynga Combines Privacy Education, Gaming And Rewards With PrivacyVille
Getting ahead of any privacy issues surround your product is an important part of product development for any company. Facebook, unfortunately, learned this the hard way. Social gaming giant Zynga i...
Google Grabs Former Yahoo Ari Balogh En Route to StumbleUpon
The Web discovery start-up StumbleUpon has hired Japjit Tulsi, who was previously a director of engineering at Google, as its VP of engineering, filling the role it had previously tried to give to for...
Investment Values Twitter at $8 Billion
While Twitter isn't rushing to go public like some of its larger peers, the micro-blogging service doesn't lack investor interest. — The San Francisco, Calif.-based start-up is in the process of rai...
Facebook & its double standard on sharing
Mark Zuckerberg announced the Skype-Facebook collaboration yesterday and showed off a great product built by the Skype team. As he talked about the world, he amplified his long held belief that peopl...
Former Top Editor Makes Another Talent Raid on AOL's Engadget for New Competing Gadget Site
I love the smell of blog wars in the morning! — Acting as Facebook often does to Google, a new site started by former Engadget editor Josh Topolsky just hired away yet another passel …
A Walk in the Woods With Mark Zuckerberg
You might think a long quiet walk through the woods with Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, is a treat only his closest friends and dearest family get to enjoy. Yet a chummy stroll with one of...
Facebook trapped in MySQL ‘fate worse than death’
According to database pioneer Michael Stonebraker, Facebook is operating a huge, complex MySQL implementation equivalent to “a fate worse than death,” and the only way out is “bite the bullet and rewr...
Motorola Droid 3 officially hits Verizon, coming July 14th for $199.99
Sure, after months of leaked videos and specs Verizon's announcement of the Droid 3 doesn't really come as a shock, but hey, that doesn't take the excitement away from some of us physical keyboard lov...
Free-to-play Revenue Overtakes Premium Revenue in the App Store
Among the most common questions we get from game developers (either from our current partners or new ones coming through the Flurry Game Acceleration Program) is whether the free-to-play (a.k.a. freem...
Samsung Electronics Second-Quarter Profit Drops After Slump in Displays
Samsung Electronics Co., the world's largest maker of televisions, posted a 26 percent drop in second-quarter profit after a slump in sales of flat screens masked a surge in demand for smartphones and...
Apple filings reveal heated, wireless stylus concepts for iPad and iPhone
Though Apple has thus far resisted the market for stylus devices, a freshly-filed pair of filings show the company continues to explore the space with concepts such as a “heated stylus” for more preci...
Facebook and Google+'s video chat tools compared
Video chat is the big thing again, at least according to Facebook, which let loose a new video chat service yesterday. Powered by Skype, the new feature lets Facebook users start a video calls with o...
Google+ Brand Pages Coming in Two Weeks
Ford, MTV and Mashable Likely Among First Allowed to Create Company Pages — Soon after the launch of Google+ came the inevitable next question: When can brands set up pages there, as they have succe...
Biz Stone Joins Early Twitter Investor Spark Capital As Strategic Advisor
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone is joining Spark Capital (which was an early investor in Twitter) as a strategic advisor, according to Spark Capital partner Bijan Sabet. … Sabet actually led Spark's inve...
Google Realtime Search & The Aftermath Of The Google-Twitter Split
Last Friday, Twitter quietly shutdown its “firehose” of tweet data that was being piped to Google. Like a gas station no longer getting deliveries, Google in turn effectively had to hang a “Closed” s...
Study: 32% of all US iPhone 4s are on Verizon
AT&T had an eight-month head start with the iPhone 4, but Verizon has still ended up with a healthy 32 percent of the U.S. iPhone 4 market, according to a study by the mobile analytics company Localyt...
Apple to Patch Latest Jailbreak Hole in Upcoming Software Update
Earlier this week, the browser-based JailbreakMe.com solution went live once again, bringing a simple new method to jailbreak a number of iOS devices including the iPad 2. The tool has proven popular...
Updated: Kindle and Nook NYTimes.com Subscribers Finally Get Digital Access
Over three months after announcing that Kindle New York Times subscribers would “soon” also have free access to NYTimes.com (NYSE: NYT) the way print subscribers do, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is providing t...
Airbnb takes on Europe. Will it revolutionize the industry, again?
Three years ago, Airbnb was a tiny startup that no investor wanted to touch. Whether not returning emails, or providing a flat out, “No” the San Francisco based firm had a “snowball's chance in hell”...
Apple prepping major iPhone revamp for 2012 with “new way of charging the phone”
HP's Touchstone wireless charging technology as shown with the Pre — The Wall Street Journal follows up on their earlier report about the iPhone 5, once again calling for a thinner and lighter devic...
Apple Store overnight planned for July 13th, new MacBook Airs and Lion signage awaits
We've heard from a few overseas sources that Apple Retail stores are planning ‘overnights’ on July 13th. Overnights are generally where Apple refreshes store displays and trains up management on new ...
Apple vows to fix security hole in iPhones, iPads
Apple vows to fix critical security hole in iPhones, iPads following Germany's warning — Companies: — Related Quotes — SymbolPriceChange — 351.76 — BERLIN (AP) — Apple says it is working on ...
“Download map area” added to Labs in Google Maps for Android
(Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog) — One way we bring you new product features is through Google Labs—a collection of fun, experimental features you can turn on if you're interested in the f...
Google's Schmidt sees room for several social networks
(Reuters) - Google Inc is leaving open the door to more co-operation with social-media giants Facebook and Twitter, and believes there is room for multiple social networks as it rolls out its own, exe...
Good Bet: We Can Stop Betting on Spotify's U.S. Launch Next Week
Alrighty. So we know that Spotify has a new round of funding, and deals with most of the big music labels, and we know that the music service itself says it's coming to the U.S. soon. So when will i...
The Kids Are All Right...Running the Company
Young founders are nothing new for Silicon Valley companies. But they are growing in number and prominence these days—another sign, tech-watchers say, of how the Internet is changing entrepreneurship...
Government facilities targets of cyber attacks
(Reuters) - Two U.S. government-funded research laboratories and a defense contractor were targets of a “highly sophisticated” cyber attack last week, the latest in a string of assaults on U.S. intere...
Microsoft's Android Shakedown
In the 1980s, attorney Gary Reback was working at Sun Microsystems, then a young technology startup. A pack of IBM employees in blue suits showed up at Sun headquarters seeking royalties for 7 patent...
Patent trolling with Microsoft
Sometimes I really can't figure out Microsoft. Does the left-side corporate brain not connect to the right? — Take this new business in Microsoft patents supposedly applied to Android. HTC already...
What Apple's like in bed
A new sleep-tracking app for the iPhone from Lark offers a peek into life inside a retailing partnership with Apple. — FORTUNE — Julia Hu got into bed with Apple (AAPL) so she could sell gadgets tha...
eBay Buys Zong For $240 Million In Cash To Boost PayPal's Mobile Payments Technology
eBay has acquired mobile payments company Zong for $240 million in cash. The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2011. — Zong has been one of the pioneers in the mobile payment...
Nintendo Pares Gains After Company Rules Out Expansion Into IPhone Games
Nintendo Co. pared gains in Osaka trading after the company ruled out expanding into smartphone games, damping speculation triggered by affiliate Pokemon Co.'s development of software for Apple Inc. (...