Our Next Chapter at Etsy: A Letter to the Community
I never thought I would be writing this letter when I joined Etsy almost three years ago. Then there were 60 people at the company — now we are 200. I've been here for a long time and we've been thr...
Google+ Makes Its First Aquisition And Buys Social Group Startup Fridge
This past weekend we wrote that social group startup Fridge was shutting down the product. We assumed that meant it was being acquired. — We assumed right. Austin Chang, Fridge's founder …
‘Anonymous’ hackers to FBI: There is nothing you can do to stop us
Global hacker collective “Anonymous Operations” together with “Lulz Security” on Thursday issued a statement to the FBI and other international authorities. The release is a response to statements ma...
Known Issues with Adobe products on Mac OS 10.7 Lion
All Products: Files stored in Library Java Runtime needs to be installed manually, otherwise applications may behave inconsistently Crash Reporter Scrolling behavior opposite of expected Rosetta suppo...
Nexus S for AT&T landing on July 24th for $99.99, pre-orders start today
Samsung on Thursday announced that an AT&T-ready version of its Nexus S smartphone will be available from Best Buy and Best Buy Mobile Stores beginning on July 24th for $99.99 on contract.
Read It And Weep: Nokia Reports Loss Of Nearly €500 Million, Huge Declines
Nokia's CEO Stephen Elop once said that his chief competitor is not Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), but if you compare today's quarterly figures from Nokia (NYSE: NOK) with those of the Cupertino mobile upstart, ...
iPad Trouncing Android in Enterprise
The tablet is not yet a standard-issue sidearm in enterprise, but it's well on its way to becoming one — particularly Apple's iPad. — According to Good Technology, which provides mobile device manag...
2011 MacBook Air benchmarks are amazing, outperforms all 2010 MacBook Pros
The subtle change in clock speed from 1.4 to 1.6 GHz in the 2011 11-inch MacBook Air might sound small on paper, but in terms of benchmarks, it's nothing short of monumental. Using Geekbench as a bas...
Hackers Hit Anonymous Social Network
Just two days after it was revealed to the world, the Anonymous Social Network has been hacked. — Disclaimer: this whole situation could very easily be one big, silly joke. It's certainly ridiculou...
Wolfram launches new document format, meet CDF
Wolfram on Thursday rolled out its Computable Document Format (CDF), which aims to turn documents into interactive applications. — The goal is to turn “lifeless documents” into ones that bring data ...
Bing gets Metro treatment, includes HTML5 live tiles
Microsoft is testing live tiles across its Bing search engine homepage. — The software giant first announced its HTML5 version of Bing at the original beta launch of Internet Explorer 9 in September...
Earvin ‘Magic’ Johnson Joins Detroit VC Firm To Invest In Tech Startups
NBA legend Earvin ‘Magic’ Johnson this morning announced that he is joining and investing in Detroit Venture Partners, a VC firm that invests in seed and early-stage technology companies primarily loc...
AT&T's Q2: 3.6 million iPhone activations; Android diversification effort underway
Updated: AT&T's smartphone diversification effort appears to be paying off as the company added 331,000 net postpaid subscribers, activated 3.6 million iPhones and doubled Android device sales from a ...
Thousands of scientific papers uploaded to The Pirate Bay
A user called Greg Maxwell just uploaded a torrent with 18,592 scientific publications to The Pirate Bay, in what appears to be a protest directed both at the recent indictment of programmer Aaron Swa...
The Decline and Fall of Facebook
Roger McNamee is a smart guy and a very successful investor as a co-founder of Elevation Partners. He made a breakfast presentation last month at the Paley Center for Media in Los Angeles that is wel...
Circles Fatigue: The Dark Side Of Google+
One of Google Plus's most unique features, Circles, initially attracted users to the service and set it apart from competitors. But it may also be one of the network's biggest turnoffs—only a few wee...
Top general says Defense Department IT in ‘Stone Age’
Cartwright sees fault with proprietary systems — Computerworld - WASHINGTON — U.S. Marine Corps Gen. James “Hoss” Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was sharply critical Tuesday...
Cyber Weapons: The New Arms Race
The Pentagon, the IMF, Google, and others have been hacked. It's war out there, and a cyber-weapons industry is exploding to arm the combatants — In the early morning hours of May 24, an armed burg...
20th Century Fox to launch movies on Android phones
Twentieth Century Fox is bringing movie downloads to Google's Android smartphone and tablet platform for the first time later this year, setting up the fast-growing operating system as a media platfor...
Larry Page's First 100 Days as Google CEO: Focus, Focus, Focus
Larry Page has demonstrated he wants to create a more streamlined, more potent Google, and he's doubling down on search — When a new President is sworn into the Oval Office, we like to take stock of...
Judge won't toss lawsuit against Apple, AT&T over iPad 3G
Judge wil not dismiss iPad 3G data lawsuit — Federal Judge Ronald Whyte on Wednesday denied a motion to dismiss a lawsuit over iPad 3G data. He believed the class action case could go ahead as its ...
Apple Spent $2.6 Billion For The Nortel Patents And It's Just Getting Started ...
The total winning bid for Nortel was worth $4.5 billion.
Acer buys iGware, makes a $320 million bet on the cloud
There's no question that cloud computing has hit the mainstream — even the US federal government, which isn't typically a front-runner when it comes to tech adoption, has taken the plunge. Now, Taiwa...
Apple Said to Consider Making an Offer for Hulu Online Television Service
Apple Inc. (AAPL) is considering making a bid for the Hulu online video service, according to two people with knowledge of the auction. — Apple is in early talks that may lead to an acquisition offe...
Yes, Google Chrome Built For OS X Lion Is Coming — But It Will Take Time
But It Will Take Time — Like just about every other Mac user in the world, yesterday I upgraded my machines to OS X Lion. It's great. But perhaps the most annoying quirk is that Google Chrome, my b...
The iPad's Dominance of the Tablet Market
So this new report from the consulting firm Strategy Analytics, “Global Tablet OS Market Share: Q2 2011”, came out yesterday and made some news today:1 … Clearly, Strategy Analytics are talking about ...
Lodsys sues Rovio over Angry Birds for iPhone and Android
Today Lodsys has amended its complaint against mobile app developers and modified the list of defendants, leaving out one of the seven developers sued on May 31 (Vietnamese company Wulven Games) but a...