Students Can Now Save Up To 80% with Kindle Textbook Rental
Low rental prices and flexible rental periods of any length between 30 and 360 days — Margin notes and highlighted passages are stored in the Amazon Cloud for viewing anytime, anywhere - even after ...
Apple Retail Stores Receive Golden Master Copies of OS X Lion
Apple appears to be setting up the final pieces for OS X Lion's launch this week. A previous report even pinpointed the release as early as Wednesday morning. — We've now been able to confirm that ...
Apple to launch low-priced iPhone for $350, iPhone 4S/5 end of summer
We know these next-generation iPhone rumors have been out of control (aren't they every year right before a new iPhone is slated to be released?), but we just received some new information from an inc...
Apple, Samsung, LG work on new LCD
Samsung Electronics and LG Display, the world's two largest makers of liquid crystal displays (LCDs), are close to securing big orders from Apple, industry sources said. — Apple is looking to order ...
LulzSec Hacks Murdoch-Owned ‘The Sun,’ Redirects Homepage To @LulzSec Twitter Account
Looks like hacker group LulzSec is back in action, this time redirecting the homepage of the Murdoch-owned The Sun (http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/ homepage/) to a fake story about Murdoch's death …
Bye Bye, Borders: Chain Shuttering All Remaining Stores
Borders is closing its 399 remaining stores. 11,000 employees are being laid off. — Yesterday's deadline for new bids on Borders came and went, with Phoenix-based venture capital firm Najafi “reluc...
Zynga Updates IPO Filing to List Investors and Google's One of Them
Lookie, what do we have here? — This afternoon Zynga filed a 619-page document with the SEC — that's triple the length of its original IPO filing. In other words, it is packed full of brand new inf...
Battlemap: Apple's heavy patent artillery against HTC's guerrilla warfare
On Friday (July 15, 2011) an Administrative Law Judge at the US International Trade Commission (ITC) issued an initial determination that HTC's Android-based products infringe two Apple patents.
Microsoft Offers Reward for Information on Rustock
Last month, I shared with you that the Rustock botnet has remained inactive since Microsoft and its partners took it offline on March 16th. — Today, we take our pursuit a step further. After publis...
Google Buys G.Co To Create An Official URL Shortcut For Google Products
Google joins Internet biggies Twitter (T.Co) , Overstock (O.co) and Amazon (A.Co, Z.Co and K.Co) today in taking over the G.Co domain name, buying the TLD in order to build the official URL shortcut f...
Outgoing federal CIO warns of ‘an IT cartel’
Vivek Kundra, in appearance before White House science committee, also tells of the risk of data sharing
New Tech Gadget News Site Name: The Verge
A new tech site, which has been founded by a number of former staffers of AOL-owned Engadget, will be announcing its new name — The Verge — during an appearance by Editor-in-Chief Josh Topolsky tonigh...
Dell wants to use Google+ Hangouts for customer service
Dell could soon use Google's new group video chat platform Google+ Hangouts as an alternative to the traditional customer service call, according to the company's chairman and CEO, Michael Dell. — H...
Reputation.com Raises a New $41 Million Round
Reputation.com has raised a $41 million round of funding, as the online privacy start-up aims to expand its business with new offerings. — The new round was led by venture-capital firm August Capita...
Firefox world loses Web dev guru to Chrome
For years, an extension called Firebug has been a powerful tool that kept Web programmers loyal to Firefox. — But now, as browser makers add their own tools geared to attract those who build Web sit...
This Fall, Apple Has A Shot At Becoming The Most Valuable Company In The World
In January, we noted that Apple surged past an amazing $300 billion market cap, making them by far the most valuable tech company in the world. In fact, the valuation made them the second most valuab...
Privacy Isn't Dead. Just Ask Google+.
Some people have a very hard time trusting Facebook. — After dozens of privacy problems over the years, they've grown extremely weary of what the company is doing with my personal information. I, f...
Cisco To Cut 6,500 Employees, Take $1.3B Charge
Cisco Systems (CSCO) this afternoon said it will lay off 6,500 workers, or 9% of its full-time workforce, in an effort to shave $1 billion in annual costs. — The company will take a one-time $1.3 bi...
Netflix hires Reddit Chief Architect: Will outages end?
Updated. Netflix has made a hire that could help put an end to some of its recent outages: Former Reddit Chief Architect Jeremy Edberg announced via Twitter that he has joined the streaming company a...
Is Social In Google's DNA?
Google is an algorithm driven-company. “PageRank” (named after Larry Page himself) was the “founding algorithm” of Google—the one that gave it superior search results, and eventually led to Google “w...
IBM Posts Q2 Revenue Of $26.7B With Net Income Up 8 Percent To $3.7B, Ups Outlook
IBM just released its second quarter earnings today. Big Blue reported $26.7 billion in revenue for the quarter which is up 15 percent (or up 5 percent adjusting for currency).
NPD data suggests Apple sold record 4.2M Macs in June quarter
The latest domestic sales figures from the NPD Group suggest Apple may have sold as many as 4.2 million Macs in the June quarter, a sum that would represent the company's best quarter ever. — Domest...
Borders May Be Dead, But e-Reader Kobo Is Still Alive And Kicking
I am old enough to remember when going into a chain store like Borders and picking out books physically was something one did to save time. Plus, as any bookworm will tell you, rifling through bookst...
Sequoia Leads $10 Million Investment In Dolphin, The Customizable Android Browser
The desktop browser wars are fiercer than ever, with Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, and *cough* Internet Explorer all in a heated race for users (and new features). But there's a relatively …
Apple Seeks to Broaden iPhone in China
Apple is getting closer to offering its iPhone through China's largest mobile carrier, state-owned China Mobile, further opening a vast market and spurring what could be the next growth catalyst for t...
Great News! Adobe Acquires EchoSign
We're extremely pleased to announce that EchoSign is now part of the Acrobat family — Adobe has acquired EchoSign. — “Together, our aim is to make electronic signatures the standard way for people t...
Roku 2 - Nearly Upon Us?
Since the Roku 2 passed through the FCC approval process a few weeks ago, we've learned a bit more thanks to leaks from a pair of beta testers and some industry info that recently came my way. As wit...
Stop the iPhone 5 Rumor Insanity
The new iPhone will be called the iPhone 5 or the iPhone 4S, and it will come in one, two, or three models, with one being a smaller, cheaper device, or not. It will have NFC, unless it doesn't. It ...
HTC to appeal Apple patent infringement complaint
HTC has said that it would appeal a ruling by the US International Trade Commission (ITC) which found that HTC had infringed two patents held by Apple — HTC has received notice of the ITC judge's in...
Chinese Web Search Giant Serves Two Masters
BEIJING — A government official's X-rated photos appear on the Internet and immediately go viral. Online traffic spikes as Web users hunt for the images with gleeful schadenfreude. — When Represent...
SeaMicro Packs 768 Cores Into its Atom Server
The new SeaMicro SM10000-64HD server packs up to 768 Intel Atom cores into a 10u chassis. — Pushing the boundary of high-density computing, SeaMicro today introduced a new version of its next-gener...
How Hackers Stole 24,000 Files From The Pentagon
We're all human, you know? That's roughly the trick that the hackers most likely relied on when, earlier this year, they managed to steal over 24,000 files from a defense contractor. — The Pentagon...