Pegatron to begin shipments of iPhone 5 in September
Pegatron Technology has landed orders for 10 million units of iPhone 5 to become the second ODM of the smartphone. Shipments will start in September, according to industry sources. — As iPhone gros...
UK to legalize private copying of CDs: source
(Reuters) - Britain will signal on Wednesday that it intends to legalize copying of CDs or DVDs onto digital music players or computers for personal use, a government source said on Tuesday. — The m...
Only 92% of Newt Gingrich's Twitter Followers Are Fake
Yesterday, we published an item based on a former Newt Gingrich staffer's claim that Gingrich assembled his 1.3 million Twitter followers—a number that he's taken to bragging about—in part by buying f...
Push Pop Press acquired by Facebook
Last year Push Pop Press set off to re-imagine the book. We created a new way of publishing and exploring text, images, audio, video and interactive graphics, then teamed up with Melcher Media and Al...
Groupon Clones Struggle to Compete, but Are Ripe for Acquiring
While daily deal clones may not have a chance competing against the giants in the space, they still have a good chance of being sold. — A study by the 451 Group's M&A KnowledgeBase found that so far...
Google Hires Federal Trade Commission Intellectual Property Expert Michel
Google Inc. (GOOG), under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission for its dominance of Internet searches, has hired one of the commission's top intellectual property officials, Suzanne Michel, t...
Amazon App Store: Rotten To The Core
About 3 months ago, we set off on a little experiment into the world of the Amazon App Store. Back then people were hailing it as the solution to the problems with the Google Market, industry pundits...
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Twitter Rolls Out HTML5 Version Of Twitter.com For iPad
Because the stream of realtime palaver that is Twitter needed even more platforms to be consumed on even more devices, the company has just announced that it has started to roll out its HTML5-based Tw...
Apple hiring iWork web developer as it preps iOS 5 and iCloud support
Apple has posted a new engineering position on its iWork team to “build the front and/or back end of scalable web applications,” indicating an expansion of the company's existing iWork.com and future ...
Skype Now Optimized for your iPad
Since the introduction of Skype for iPhone with video calling on New Year's Eve 2010, we've seen growing demand for a Skype app for the iPad. — The wait is over, as today we launched Skype for iPad ...
The Latest Groupon Killer: Amazon
While Groupon has become perhaps the fastest-growing company in the history of humanity, Groupon fans have been forced to fend off nagging questions about when and whether competitors would start peck...
Samsung Australia's official comment on Apple's complaint to the Federal Court, Galaxy Tab 10.1 will be sold in AU
After reaching out to Samsung late last night for a statement in regards to Apple's complaint to the Federal Court of Australia about the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and its likeness to the iPad …
Android Trojan records phone calls
CA security team finds more advanced Android malware — A new Android Trojan is capable of recording phone conversations, according to a CA security researcher. — While a previous Trojan found by C...
Federal court to order film service Zediva shut down
Zediva, the video service that attempted to build a business by exploiting loopholes in copyright law, suffered a serious setback today when a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction against th...
Hands-on with the Skype iPad app that came and went (and came back again)
Update: The Skype iPad app is now available once again in the U.S. App Store, so if you like the looks of what you see below, go ahead and check it out for yourself. — Late Monday night, Skype for i...
Why You Can'T Search For PhpBB On Bing
I've discovered an interesting bug: You can't search for “phpBB” on Bing. — I was doing some research for my startup naming business when I came across a deleted forum post I wanted to read. Google...
iSuppli: iPad competitors no match in design efficiency
Teardown experts compared six competitors — Teardown and technology analysts iSuppli have done a comparative analysis of the design of the iPad and iPad 2 against five of its main competitors and fo...
Red, Delicious, and Rotten
How Apple conquered China and learned to think like the Communist Party. — A friend in Beijing recently told me a story about the time a China Telecom technician came over to install the Internet co...
GoToMeeting gets high-definition video conferencing
Citrix GoToMeeting, a web conferencing solution that we've written about previously, has unveiled the ability to create high-definition video conferences. The new service, which is dubbed HDFaces and...
Aiming to Address TouchPad Shortcomings, HP Updates Software While Cutting Prices
Hewlett-Packard on Monday released a software update to its TouchPad tablet that the company hopes will help address at least some of the early criticism of the product. — “Over the last month …
Facebook's mobile users
A little idle browsing: Facebook has a page for every app authorised to connect to its system, and those pages give active users (examples: iPhone, Blackberry). So, you can see how many people are us...
Sun website users' personal details hacked
News International warns names and addresses may have been posted online by hacker, understood not to be linked to LulzSec — News International has emailed thousands of people to warn them that one ...
Motorola ‘Pax’ for Sprint said to be a beefed-up XPRT with dual-core processor
We've just been sent these shots of a new Motorola Android phone said to be codenamed “Pax.” Look a bit familiar? Indeed, this is the very same unit leaked by Pop Herald a few weeks ago that had bee...
Turntable.fm Picks Union Square Ventures as Investor Over Kleiner and Accel
In a room of bobbing avatars, “Radiohead” takes on new meaning. — While the legal paperwork is still being finished, Betabeat has learned from multiple sources that Union Square Venture is the big n...
The New Yorker Will Make More Than $1.2 Million From Its iPad App This Year
Last week, the news coming out of Conde Nast's digital division wasn't good. — What a difference a few days makes. — Twenty thousand people have paid $59.99 for a year-long subscription to The New...
Government hankers for hackers
(Reuters) - The National Security Agency has a challenge for hackers who think they're hot stuff: prove it by working on the “hardest problems on Earth.” — Computer hacker skills are in great demand...
AMD regains microprocessor market share in Q2
Advanced Micro Devices regained some lost market share against Intel in the PC microprocessor market during the second quarter, according to market researcher IDC. — The results are interesting beca...
Deals site ChoozOn raises $3.2M from angel investors
Bellevue deals site ChoozOn has raised $3.2 million from angel investors. — Leading the Series A round and joining ChoozOn's board of directors are Michael Orsak of Worldview Technology Partners and...
Some 13 Percent of Twitter Employees Used to Work at Google
A significant portion of Twitter employees — something like 13 percent — used to work at Google. — According to LinkedIn, 87 of the 641 people who say they currently work at Twitter were formerly em...
New Layar Vision recognises real world objects and displays AR objects on top
Recently a few startups have started to appear with mobile apps allowing you to point a smartphone at an object and view some kind of augmented reality object or information associated with it.
Apple's Safari Grows Faster Than Chrome in July
Apple's Safari last month posted its biggest increase ever in usage share, beating perennial champion Chrome in the gain game, Web metrics vendor Net Applications said today. — The browser bundled w...
WIMM Labs introduces tiny wearable computer platform, we go hands-on
Tablets and smartphones might rule the present, but if you ask the folks at WIMM Labs, the future of data consumption is a one-inch by one-inch square. The Palo Alto startup just revealed its new, we...