New Mac Pros and MacBook Airs to launch this week with OS X Lion
We have been expecting new MacBook Airs this week and now it appears that the ultra-thin notebooks won't be the only new Macs this week. According to our source Mr. X, part numbers for an upgraded Ma...
Google: Changes coming to Google+ this week
Top Google exec acknowledges hearing “lots of criticisms” about Google +, and that the firm plans to respond quickly — Computerworld - It looks like Google will be making some changes to Google+ thi...
The first Google eBooks-integrated e-reader: iriver Story HD
Starting this coming Sunday, July 17, the iriver Story HD e-reader will be available for sale in Target stores nationwide and on Target.com. The iriver Story HD is the first e-reader integrated with ...
Foursquare Partners Up
Start-up Foursquare Labs Inc. has a large user base and a $600 million valuation, but unlike social-media stars Zynga Inc. and LinkedIn Corp., it has a big hole on the revenue line. — Now, the servi...
Spotify Plans To Launch as Invite-Only in the U.S. [REPORT]
Word on the digital street is that much-lauded European music subscription service Spotify will land on U.S. shores this week. — Our sources in the music industry told us Spotify won't open the floo...
One Million Registered Twitter Apps
Application developers play a fundamental role in helping people get the best out of Twitter. As an ecosystem, we've just crossed one million registered applications, built by more than 750,000 devel...
Cisco Said to Be Cutting as Many as 10,000 Jobs
Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO), the largest networking-equipment company, may cut as many as 10,000 jobs, or about 14 percent of its workforce, to revive profit growth, according to two people familiar wit...
Apple users buying 61% more apps, paying 14% more per app
Apple's (AAPL) business model is increasingly dependent on the health of its App Store, the rich breeding ground of the company's software ecosystem, and a report to clients issued Monday by Piper Jaf...
Ballmer mocks Mac sales while touting Microsoft's products
Today at the Worldwide Partner Conference, Microsoft took the verbal gloves off: During his keynote, CEO Steve Ballmer mocked Apple's Mac sales numbers. He compared the number of PCs sold in the last...
Courts approve Nortel patent sale to Apple/RIM group
Apple Inc, Microsoft Corp, Research in Motion Ltd and three other leading tech companies received court approval on Monday to buy wireless patents from the bankrupt Nortel Networks Corp for $4.5 billi...
Anonymous Leaks 90,000 Military Email Accounts in Latest #AntiSec Attack
Booz Allen Hamilton is a massive American consulting firm that does a substantial amount of work for the Pentagon. This means they've got a lot of military business on their servers—which Anonymous h...
Color Labs Chief Product Officer DJ Patil Resigns
Color Labs Chief Product Officer DJ Patil will soon be leaving the company as a full time employee, we've confirmed. Patil, who was LinkedIn's chief scientist until March, was only with Color for abo...
Exclusive: Facebook Hires New Director of Product, Tom Stocky, From Google
Longtime Googler Tom Stocky is Facebook's newest director of product, AllThingsD has learned. — Stocky posted about the move on his online profiles and Facebook confirmed he'd been hired.
Apple seeds iOS 5 beta 3, iTunes 10.5 beta 3, Xcode 4.3 Preview 3, Xcode 4.1 GM to developers
Apple has just seeded the third beta of iOS 5 to registered to developers. Beta 3 of iTunes 10.5 is also available and will be required to sync with iOS 5 beta 3 devices.
Amazon Backs End to Online Sales Tax in California
SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon said Monday that it would back a California ballot initiative that would roll back a new state law that forces more online retailers to collect sales tax. — Amazon's decision ...
HP shakeup: webOS now led by Stephen DeWitt, Jon Rubinstein in charge of ‘product innovation’
It looks like HP's decided to shake things up in its webOS division, almost exactly a year after it completed its purchase of Palm. Stephen DeWitt is now the senior vice president of webOS …
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Google Ventures Scaling Up With More Cash, ‘Googlers In Residence’
Google Ventures is scaling. … The two-year-old venture arm of Google Inc. is doubling its investment in start-ups to as much as $200 million a year, doubling its office space at the Googleplex in Moun...
Philly Papers to Sell Android Tablets
Publishers, desperate to prop up their legacy print business, have been scrambling to put their content on tablet devices. Now the Philadelphia Inquirer and its sibling Philadelphia Daily News are ma...
AT&T Subsidiary Creates AdMob Competitor That Is Local
A subsidiary of AT&T, which is known best for its yellow-pages products, is launching a mobile ad network that will target consumers based on their location. — The network will compete with Apple's ...
Apple Reveals the Next Chapter for iBooks & New Chip for iOS Devices
Last week the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that reveals one of the next chapters for Apple's iBooks. For children's books, Apple has devised a number of new ...
How Google+ Will Balkanize Your Social Life
For many, the new service offers the chance to press “reset on Facebook.” — Google launched its Facebook competitor, Google+, just over a week ago now. Even though sign-ups have so far been limited...
The first Google eBooks-integrated e-reader: iriver Story HD
Starting this coming Sunday, July 17, the iriver Story HD e-reader will be available for sale in Target stores nationwide and on Target.com. The iriver Story HD is the first e-reader integrated with ...
Why I'm Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem
Today I'm announcing that GRP Partners is doubling down on the Twitter ecosystem by investing in DataSift, a company who provides a real-time data platform and tools to third-party developers and corp...
Apple files second ITC complaint against HTC: better luck next time?
The ITC website reveals that Apple filed another patent infringement complaint against Android device maker HTC on Friday, July 8, 2011. By my count, that's Android-related lawsuit no. 48 (some dispu...
Beyond the iPhone 5: The future of Apple's mobile devices
There have been a flurry of rumors surrounding Apple's next iPhone this week. Some of them are reiterations of previous rumors, like a thinner and lighter iPhone, and some focus on a lower-end model ...
Google Readies Ambitious Plan for Web-Data Exchange
While Chattering Classes Obsess Over Google+, Marketers Should Keep an Eye on the Real Action — Wall Street-like exchanges have revolutionized online advertising, but Google is taking the concept fu...
Waiting for Gravity to Hit LinkedIn
Facebook's valuation in the private market this week was approaching $100 billion. Twitter is in the midst of a round of private fund-raising on terms that value it at as much as $8 billion — more th...
Don't call it the next tech bubble - yet
Signs of exuberance are everywhere: Tesla roadsters, soaring real estate, overpriced vinegar - and eye-popping valuations for pre-IPO companies like Facebook and Zynga. So why are so many Silicon Val...
Apple runs AirPlay, FaceTime ads for iPhone 4's last hurrah
iPhone 4 AirPlay and FaceTime ads pop up — Apple tonight ran two new TV ads for the iPhone 4 (below), both of which focus on features that are genuinely rare on rival platforms. “AirPlay” shows its...
LET'S TALK ABOUT MOBILE TECH
Written by Jason Pensill. — Now that I have had this post sitting in my ‘drafts’ section for some time now, I felt it was best to finally finish it. With the updated iPhone rumors, RIM slander, and...
Samsung CTO Responsible For The Galaxy Tab Line Steps Down
Omar Khan, the Samsung CTO who was responsible for the rise of the GalTab and other Android-powered smartphones, is moving to Citibank to handle that company's global digital banking initiatives.
Woods+
People call me a lot and say: What is this new thing? You're a nerd. Explain it immediately. — I know it's confusing. But this is their competitor to Facebook basically. Except you can list your...
The Best Show on Web Video Is the One You Can't See: Inside the $100 Million YouTube Channel Sweepstakes
If this were a reality show, you'd definitely watch: Hundreds of competitors fighting for $100 million in prize money and a chance at worldwide exposure. — Alas, you won't be able to view the event ...
Analysis: Apple-Samsung battle may spur supplier shakeup
(Reuters) - An intensifying quarrel between Samsung and Apple is triggering expectations that some of the pairs' $5 billion-plus relationship may be up for grabs. — With the electronics titans squar...