A Norwegian National Tragedy That Unfolded on the Web (Updated)
What's being described as the most violent day in Norway since the Second World War unfolded today for so many via social media. — Having seen early reports concerning an afternoon bombing attack ou...
Apple Releases iOS 5 Beta 4 With Over-the-Air Updates
Apple has proved once again that Fridays are still work days by dropping iOS 5 Beta 4. Developers can now download the latest iOS 5 beta in Apple's dev channel, and, for the first time, through the m...
Apple Recalls Some iMac Seagate 1TB Hard Drives
Apple has begun sending emails about a new hard drive recall, called the iMac 1TB Seagate Hard Drive Replacement Program: … Apple encourages owners with affected computers to go to an Apple Retail Sto...
On Succeeding Steve Jobs
On Wednesday, less than 30 minutes before Apple announced another record-breaking quarter of financial results, the Wall Street Journal published a story by Yukari Iwatani Kane, Joann S. Lublin, and N...
Scoop: Oracle scrubs site of embarrassing Java blog
The beginning of Sun's Jonathan Schwartz's 2007 blog post praising Google's use of Java in Android. — In the midst of its nasty legal battle with Google, Oracle seems to have resorted to a bit of We...
Former China Mobile Official Sentenced in Bribery Case
SHANGHAI — A former executive at China Mobile, one of this country's biggest state-owned telecommunications companies, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve Friday for accepting bribes, acco...
Apple Laptops Vulnerable To Hack That Kills Or Corrupts Batteries
A pile of dead Apple laptop batteries, victims of Charlie Miller's research. — Your laptop's battery is smarter than it looks. And if a hacker like security researcher Charlie Miller gets his digit...
Here's The Presentation That Inspired Google+
Why is Google+ designed the way it is? — Back when he worked at Google, Facebook product manger Paul Adams did a bunch of research that he says “formed a cornerstone of the Google social strategy.” ...
Spotify Gained 70,000 U.S. Subscribers in First Week: Sources
In my travels last night and in emails this morning I had three distinct label/publisher execs confirm the same number: that @Spotify has right in the ballpark of 70,000 paid Stateside subscribers aft...
The next-generation iPod touch's white front revealed?
We've received photos of a purported white iPod touch front panel. Specifically, this panel is the digitizer component, according to the iFixYouri iPhone repair shop. We obviously cannot confirm the...
T-Mobile says G-Slate is 200% faster than iPad 2, 300% faster than XOOM
A new page on T-Mobile USA's website makes some fairly bold claims about the carrier's premier Honeycomb tablet, the LG G-Slate. In comparing the sleek device to its steepest competition at AT&T and ...
Google Acquires Facial Recognition Software Company PittPatt
Google has just acquired facial recognition software company PittPatt (Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition), according to an announcement on the startup's site. — PittPatt, a project spawned from Carnegi...
Facebook wins dismissal of second Winklevoss case
(Reuters) - Facebook Inc won a dismissal of a second lawsuit by the Olympic rowing twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, who have sought to increase their $65 million settlement with the social media co...
Why Google's screwup on Google+ brand pages is a big deal
There's been a lot of sound and fury about the way Google has approached branded (i.e., non-personal) pages on its new Google+ social network. Much of it is a symptom of internecine warfare among the...
What's next for Kinect? Next week, avatar meetings; Later, PC and phone integration
During this week's Microsoft Research Faculty Summit, Microsoft Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie confirmed what was already largely suspected: Avatar Kinect will be available worldwide...
Android App Player for PlayBook Leaked, Runs Email and Some Apps
The Android App Player for the BlackBerry PlayBook has leaked out, allowing curious gadget enthusiasts an early hands-on with the (still underdeveloped) software. For those unaware, the Android App P...
New Case: Microsoft Sued Over Kinect and Motion Tracking Patent
Impulse Technology Ltd. v. Microsoft Corporation et al — U.S. District Court, District of Delaware — Case No. 11-cv-00586, Filed July 1, 2011 — Impulse Technology, an Ohio-based company, sued Mi...
Google Bows to Web Rivals
Internet Giant Removes Outside Customer Reviews From Search Results — Google Inc. has made changes to the way its search engine displays information about local businesses, a move that follows the d...
Open Letter To Google+ On The Subject Of Brand Pages
Hey Google, I'd say I know you're all new to the social game and should be forgiven that you have messed up with how to handle brands here so badly. Except, you're not new. — For one, you know that...
Google+ Games Stream confirmed
Google's help pages for Google+ have officially confirmed the upcoming Games Stream, a place where results from what will presumably be social-style gaming on the new network will be pulled together. ...
Oracle gets to depose Google CEO Larry Page for two hours on willful patent infringement, value of Android
Late on Thursday by local time, magistrate judge issued an order according to which “Oracle may depose [Google co-founder and CEO] Mr. Page for a maximum of two hours, excluding breaks …
Customers angry, staff defiant at China's fake Apple Store
(Reuters) - Customers at an Apple Store in the Chinese city of Kunming berated staff and demanded refunds on Friday after the shop was revealed to be an elaborate fake, sparking a media and Internet f...
Justin Bieber Takes A Picture Of Traffic, Instagram Usage Explodes
A few minutes ago, the Instagram team noticed their servers blowing up. What happened? Were they under attack? DDoS? No. — Bieber happened. — Yes, Justin Bieber just signed up for Instagram.
Verizon: 2.3 million iPhone 4 activations; strong Q2; McAdam CEO
Verizon delivered strong second quarter results, named Lowell McAdam CEO, added 1.3 million postpaid customers and activated 2.3 million iPhone 4 units. — The company reported second quarter earning...
iPhone 5 To Use Bluetooth 4.0 Rather Than NFC?
Two months after Apple joined the board of the Bluetooth special interest group, the company launched the first truly mainstream Bluetooth 4.0 devices in the world yesterday, namely the new Macbook Ai...
AP Finally Learns That On The Internet, You Can Link To Other Sites
Well, look at that. The Associated Press has reached 1993 or so, and realized that they can (and probably should) link to other sites when reporting on a story that those other sites reported first.
Acer insists return to profit in Q3, plans MacBook Air rival
Acer vows bounce back in summer — Acer chairman JT Wang at a presentation Thursday argued his belief that the company would return to profit in 2011. After posting two successive losses in the firs...
Anybody Who Thinks Microsoft Is Going Out Of Business Is Nuts — Here's Why
Here's Why — Windows is under attack. PC sales are tepid at best. But Microsoft keeps turning in solid — if unspectacular — quarters. — How? — By selling long-term software contracts to big com...
Dell quietly pulls the Streak to perform an update, might bring it back next month?
What Dell can give, it can taketh away. That's the story with the Streak, which has quietly vanished from retail as well as the outfit's online storefront. We first got wind of this when a tipster w...
Microsoft deal to buy Skype to close by October: CEO
ASPEN, Colorado — Skype chief executive Tony Bates said he expects Microsoft's purchase of the Internet voice and video leader to close by October, once it gets the green light from European regulator...