Apple's new MacBook Airs to bring back backlit keyboards - sources
With the release of new models later this month, Apple is set to reinstate a feature to its MacBook Airs that went missing when the company overhauled the ultra-thin notebooks into more cost-affordabl...
Exclusive: Key Apple patent lawyer to leave, source says
Apple Inc's chief patent counsel will soon leave the company, at a time when the iPhone maker is fighting numerous legal battles around the world, according to a source familiar with the situation.
Google+ To Pass 10,000,000 Users Tomorrow (on 7/12)
As I promised on Saturday night, I have finished updating my Google+ membership model with new data and re-estimated the Google+ user base. — My surname-based analysis shows that the number of Googl...
Google's Photovine Site Is Live — It Looks Like A Photo-Sharing Service
It Looks Like A Photo-Sharing Service — Last month, Google got the trademark on the word Photovine and registered the domain through MarkMonitor. — A tipster just pointed us to the site and it look...
Google Offers beta launching in New York City and the Bay Area
Following our first launch of Google Offers beta in Portland last month, we're bringing great deals to the Big Apple and the Bay Area starting today. Subscribers who sign up at www.google.com/offers ...
Apple Souvenir T-Shirt Jokes About Company's Secrecy
This $17 t-shirt sums up most visits to Apple's corporate headquarters in Cupertino. Available only at Apple's Company Store, it's a bit more classy than “I visited Apple HQ and all I got was this lo...
Police: Internet providers must keep user logs
Law enforcement representatives are planning to endorse a proposed federal law that would require Internet service providers to store logs about their customers for 18 months, CNET has learned. — Th...
Ballmer: Windows Phone 7 Not Successful Yet
While Microsoft has enjoyed many successes over the past year, Windows Phone 7 hasn't been among them, admitted Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer during the opening keynote Monday at the 2011 Microsoft Worl...
Citrix Buys Cloud.com for More Than $200 Million; Redpoint Is on a Roll
TechCrunch has learned that Citrix Systems is buying Cloud.com for between $200 million and $250 million. The deal should be announced within the hour. Cloud.com gives companies their own private EC...
AMD Launches Radeon HD 6990M, Most Powerful Mobile GPU Yet
Firing the latest salvo in the GPU arms race, AMD today announced the Radeon HD 6990M GPU, which, it claims, will blow past all other graphics chips on the market. The chip, which packs in 1.7 Billio...
Ebay and auction sites may be liable for trademark abuse
European court says online marketplaces can be held responsible for the infringement of trademarks on counterfeit goods they promote, following a series of cases brought by L'Oreal to defend its brand
How To Build An Audience On The Internet: The Kevin Rose School Vs. The Fred Wilson School
What kind of content creator are you? Kevin Rose or Fred Wilson? Blogging or “self-publishing” in any form was supposed to democratize and revolutionize the media industry.
The iPad Was Built For Something Like StumbleUpon, Now They Have A Worthy App
Since its inception, StumbleUpon has always been one of the most perfect lean-back apps. Long before anyone even used that term, the StumbleUpon toolbar took various pages on the web and allowed …
AT&T to unveil first two 4G LTE products
AT&T is jumping into the actual 4G game with its first two LTE products. — The Dallas telecommunications giant plans to show off a laptop card called the USBConnect Momentum 4G and a mobile hotspot ...
CloudFlare gets $20M to make the web safe — and fast
and fast — Web security startup CloudFlare has raised $20 million in a series B funding round led by New Enterprise Associates. The San Francisco-based company plans to use the money to build out it...
Kleiner-Backed Katango Organizes Your Facebook Friends Into Groups For You
Perhaps there's something to these friend circle/list/groups after all. — As you've doubtless heard by now, Google recently launched a social network that revolves around one core idea: people want ...
A new Android Market for phones, with books and movies
Recently, we've been hard at work improving Android Market to give you new ways to find great applications and games, purchase books, and rent movies. Today, we're releasing a new version of Android ...
Facebook for Every Phone
At Facebook, we work to ensure people around the world have a great Facebook experience no matter where they are or how they access our site. Today, we're launching the new Facebook for Every Phone a...
People really hate the Netflix price hike
Subscribers have been up in arms since Netflix announced a changed pricing structure earlier today that will raise the price for a combined DVD and streaming subscription from $10 to $16 a month. The...
Dropbox Raising Massive Round at a $5B-Plus Valuation
We've heard from multiple sources that Dropbox is finally moving on raising its next venture round and it's a whopper. They've had preliminary conversations with several investors, several solid offe...
Microsoft denies WP7 for tablets: ‘we view a tablet as a PC’
Microsoft's Lees says no Windows Phone 7 tablets — Microsoft's Windows Phone president Andy Lees at the Worldwide Partners Conference once again tried to shoot down hopes for tablets based on Window...
Brains! Why EA May Spend $1.3 Billion on PopCap
After weeks of speculation, Electronic Arts has confirmed that it has agreed to acquire PopCap Games for $750 million in cash and stock. — TechCrunch had originally reported that the two companies w...
China Telecom plans to launch iPhone near year-end: sources
(Reuters) - China Telecom Corp Ltd plans to offer Apple Inc's popular iPhone in China by close to the end of 2011, sources said, making it the second operator to do so in the world's largest mobile ph...
The Engadget Interview: HP's Stephen DeWitt
HP caught the industry by surprise yesterday, announcing some serious executive reshuffling, with Stephen DeWitt, the company's former head of Personal Systems Group Americas stepping up to fill in th...
One-Third of iPhone Users Mistakenly Think They Have 4G
According to a new survey from Retrevo, 34% of iPhone users are under the mistaken impression that they already have “4G” cellular technology on their devices, highlighting the confusion that has resu...