Hello America. Spotify here.
We're excited to let you know that today we're bringing Spotify to the US. — This is a great day for anyone who loves music in the US and, of course, a real milestone for us at Spotify. I'm proud o...
France Tracks Down 18 Million File-Sharers
Under France's new Hadopi law, alleged copyright infringers will be hunted down systematically with the ultimate goal of decreasing piracy. Alleged offenders are identified by their Internet provider...
Manning-Lamo Chat Logs Revealed
A little more than a year ago, Wired.com published excerpts from instant messenger chats between accused WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning and Adrian Lamo, the ex-hacker in whom he confided and who rep...
CHART OF THE DAY: This Is What Microsoft Is Getting For Its Big Bing Investment
After spending billions of dollars over the last two years fighting Google with Bing, what does Microsoft have to show for it? — Not much from a marketshare perspective. The latest comScore data sh...
Tech Boom Drives Turnover At Popular SoMa Address
For a sign of how the region's technology boom is progressing, consider the growth going on at just one San Francisco building that has attracted start-up tenants. — A year ago, the 75,000-square-fo...
Google+ Improves on Facebook
Google, the most popular Web site on earth, is worried about the second-most popular site. That, of course, would be Facebook. — Why else would Google keep trying, over and over again, to create a ...
Nuance's Dragon Go Is a Voice-Powered Search App That Knows Where to Look
When it comes to voice-powered search, there are plenty of options. Of course, Bing and Google have voice search as a built-in option and there are plenty of other apps specializing in all manner of ...
Apple Soars to Third Place in U.S. PC Market With 10.7% Share
Research firms Gartner and IDC today released their preliminary quarterly personal computer shipment data, offering up a picture of market performance during the second quarter of 2011. Overall, the ...
Live traffic information for 13 European countries
Since introducing the live traffic feature on Google Maps in 2008, our team has been working hard to make this feature available to more users in more countries. Just in time for summer travel, we're...
China: 1.3 million websites shut in 2010
Chinese web users are frequently blocked from accessing sites such as Youtube — More than one million websites closed down in China last year, a state-run think tank has said. — The Chinese Academ...
Sony Preparing New Reader to Challenge Kindle
Sony Corp. (6758), Japan's largest exporter of consumer electronics, plans to introduce a line of upgraded digital book readers in the U.S. as early as next month to challenge Kindle-maker Amazon.com ...
Sprint's Virgin Mobile brand to test throttling while Sprint pokes fun at throttlers (video)
Alanis Morrisette couldn't have possibly thought up something this ironic to put in her hit song. On the same day Sprint launches an ad campaign trashing T-Mobile's “unlimited” …
Crittercism Raises $1.2 Million From Kleiner Perkins And Google Ventures For App Support
Yesterday, at the MobileBeat Conference in San Francisco, Google Ventures Managing Partner and Co-founder of Android Rich Miner announced that Crittercism, a startup that provides support infrastructu...
Shareable Google News badges for your favorite topics
(Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog) — On Google News, the average reader of political news has read 20 articles about politics in the last six months. Where do you stand? — Starting today,...
New MacBook Airs Coming Next Week, Not This Week
Still waiting for the MacBook Air refresh? You can put your credit card down for a bit. Although many speculated it would, Apple didn't bring the new machines to market today. And it's not going to...
Introducing BrowserID: A better way to sign in
Today we're excited to announce BrowserID: an experimental new way of signing into websites. Our goal with BrowserID was to design something safe and easy for users and the developers. We'd love for...
Google launches Photovine app for Apple's iPhone, not Android
Google quietly launched yet another new social networking effort this week — a new photo-sharing app called Photovine for the Apple iPhone. — Yes, the iPhone. Which runs Apple's iOS, the smartphone...
Is Google replacing our memory?
A Columbia University study has found that Google and other search engines are literally changing the way our brains process and retain information. — The research was conducted by Columbia psycholo...
Apple pays $945 to settle iOS location tracking suit
Apple has paid up for inadvertently tracking a user's location in iOS-based devices. — The company was ordered by a South Korean District Court judge in June to pay 1 million won ($945) for tracking...
Live traffic information for 13 European countries
Since introducing the live traffic feature on Google Maps in 2008, our team has been working hard to make this feature available to more users in more countries. Just in time for summer travel, we're...