New in Labs: Preview Pane
When I check my email, I often rely on the message snippets to figure out which messages to open first. Sometimes, though, I want to see more than snippets, which is why I'm happy to announce that yo...
Microsoft Responds To Google's Response To Microsoft's Response
If you thought that Microsoft and Google, two massive public companies, would quickly and quietly retire behind the scenes to continue their fight after their very public back-and-forth over the past ...
LinkedIn Beats The Street In First Quarter As A Public Company; Revenue Up 120 Percent To $121M
For the first time as a public company, professional social network LinkedIn is reporting its first quarter results today. LinkedIn's revenue for the quarter came in at $121 million …
Jailbreak hotspot-ers: AT&T is moving you to a tiered data plan involuntarily
We've gotten word from some readers that AT&T is moving forward and removing unlimited plans for users who jailbreak iPhones to tether or hotspot off of AT&T's unlimited data plans (for those grandfat...
Apple takes aim at copycat fake retail stores with new lawsuit
After a number of fake Apple retail stores in China gained publicity online, Apple appears to have taken legal action, undoubtedly looking to shut down the counterfeit locations designed to look like ...
Groupon's Strikeouts Reveal an Unspoken Truth: Jonathan Weil
Groupon's Strikeouts Reveal an Unspoken Truth: Jonathan Weil — About five miles south of Groupon Inc.'s headquarters, at U.S. Cellular Field, there's a veteran baseball player for the Chicago White ...
Mall Maps and Map Search come to Bing for Mobile
Today, we're happy to announce that we have added mall maps and map search to Bing for Mobile Browse. You may recall that we initially announced mall maps for the desktop last December. Since then w...
“Real Names” Policies Are an Abuse of Power
Everyone's abuzz with the “nymwars,” mostly in response to Google Plus' decision to enforce its “real names” policy. At first, Google Plus went on a deleting spree, killing off accounts that violated...
Why I develop for iOS
Sometimes I ask myself the question: why do I develop for iOS? I could also do Haskell development, do cool HTML5 stuff, or build compilers. As an indie developer, these are some important reasons f...
New iPhone App Provides a Glimpse of the Moments Before a Photo is Taken
Though there are plenty of apps for sharing still pictures taken on an iPhone, a three-person start-up is hoping to carve a niche with a program that captures not only a still picture but the several ...
Nokia's Losses Become Finland's Gains
Researchers find avenues for fraud in Square
Zac Franken, director at Aperture Labs, holds up the Square device for processing credit cards with a mobile device. His company has just discovered two ways to steal credit card data using Square. ...
Lion USB sticks now available for $69 through AppleCare, free to some
Our good friends in Applecare alerted us to the fact that Lion USB keys were now available and in stock at Apple. While officially they will cost a lofty $69, it appears, at least from the wording ab...
Apple's Inductive Charging Patent Finally Surfaces
On August 4, 2011, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that reveals two specific concepts of an “Inductive Charging System” for use with iOS devices. The first ...
We call it Grouptiva (Groupon Acquires Obtiva)
Today, Groupon is announcing that it is acquiring Obtiva (www.obtiva.com) the largest Ruby on Rails software development firm in Chicago. — We've been working side-by-side with our Obtiva colleagues...
Google Announces Plans To Bake Android-Like Web Intents Into Chrome
There's a lot of innovation going on in the browser wars these days, with huge strides in features and performance from all the top vendors. And there's a new feature on the horizon that's going to m...
iPhone 5, “Simplified iPhone 4” Headed to China Telecom in October?
If Apple hasn't yet signed an agreement to bring the iPhone to China Telecom, it must be very close to doing so. In July, Reuters reported that long-running discussions between the two companies were...
Official KISSmetrics Response to Data Collection Practices
I'm Hiten Shah, the CEO of KISSmetrics. First of all, I'd like to thank you for being part of the KISSmetrics community and allowing us to help you make better decisions for your online business. Th...
Rdio Launches Official iPad App, Beating Spotify and MOG
Users of the on-demand music streaming service Rdio now have a much prettier interface from which to browse and listen to songs on their iPads. The service's official iPad app finally launched earlie...
Nokia N9 countdown page goes live, 49 days to launch?
Google's powers of awkward PR translation may have been right on the MeeGo-money, judging by this coutdown page for the N9. The Swedish site, which just went live today, has begun its 49 days and cou...
comScore: Android Keeps Gobbling Up Smartphone Share, Now 40 Percent
When it comes to smartphones in the U.S., Android and Apple keep growing at the expense of other mobile platforms like RIM, Windows Phone, and Nokia's Symbian. The latest mobile subscriber numbers ar...
New in Labs: Preview Pane
When I check my email, I often rely on the message snippets to figure out which messages to open first. Sometimes, though, I want to see more than snippets, which is why I'm happy to announce that yo...
Skype 2.1 for Android enables video on majority of Android devices
We promised to add support for additional handsets when we launched our new Skype for Android app with video a couple of weeks ago. Today we are pleased to announce that with the release of Skype 2.1...
Security researchers hack Google's Chrome OS
When Google first started talking about its Google Chrome OS software a few years ago, one of the selling points was the promise that it would come with much better built-in security than other operat...
Study: Android is least open of open source mobile platforms
Market research firm VisionMobile has published a report that evaluates the openness of eight major open source software projects. The study—which was partly funded by the European Union—focuses larg...
Why I develop for iOS
Sometimes I ask myself the question: why do I develop for iOS? I could also do Haskell development, do cool HTML5 stuff, or build compilers. As an indie developer, these are some important reasons f...
FYI Google, Facebook's Former CTO Says It Would Take Two Years For ~250 People To Build A Clone
As the fruits of Google's rush to build a social network are now achingly public, someone has asked a pretty apropos question on Quora, “How long would it take to build Facebook as of July 2011?”
Exclusive: Eight Leaked Sony S1 and S2 Screenshots Reveal Honeycomb 3.2, Chumby App, Proprietary Adapter and More
Today I went snooping around Sony's support site where I was able to uncover some support documents for their upcoming S1 and S2 tablets that have gone public before they were supposed to.
Microsoft Research's .NET Gadgeteer steps out into the light, shoots daggers at Arduino (video)
Arduino, meet .NET Gadgeteer — your newest homebrew hacking rival. Born from Microsoft Research engineers' desire to build prototypes quickly and easily, the two-and-a-half-years …
Why Zillow insiders want to keep the stock above $25 per share
Team Zillow ringing the opening bell on Nasdaq — Shares of Zillow tumbled a bit this week — falling below $30 for the first time since its red-hot initial public offering on July 20th. Investors ar...
Google To Revive Realtime Search, Thanks to Google+
Google Realtime Search is coming back soon, and it will include data from Google+ and other social sources. — Realtime Search was, until last month, the search giant's method of delivering relevant ...
Leaked Verizon Document Reveals New Galaxy Tab, 4G Curve, and More
Provider's 2011 smartphone and tablet roadmap revealed. — This year's holiday season is just a couple of months away and it looks like Verizon has quite a lineup prepared for your shopping needs.
T-Mobile loses 50,000 customers in Q2 2011, revenue dips slightly
T-Mobile USA issued its Q2 earnings statement today and, while the outlook isn't quite as bleak as it was during the first quarter of this year, there's still some cause for concern up in Bellevue.
Sony's Debut of PlayStation Vita Player in U.S., Europe to Miss Christmas
Sony Corp. (6758) plans to begin sales of the PlayStation Vita portable player in the U.S. and Europe next year, missing the key Christmas-holiday shopping season. — The product will initially launc...
American Airlines And Gogo Roll Out In-Flight Personal Device Video Streaming To 767 Fleet
As we heard earlier this Spring, American Airlines became one of the first North American airlines to begin testing Gogo's in-flight streaming video to personal devices for passengers.
Spotify, Spokeo, AOL, Others Sued Over Web Tracking
Website analytics firm KISSmetrics and more than 20 of its customers, including Spotify, AOL's About.me, Slideshare.net, Spokeo and the news site Gigaom.com were sued Monday on the grounds that KISSme...
North Korean hackers hired to attack South Korea game network
(Reuters) - More than 30 North Korean hackers were hired to work in China by a South Korean crime ring to steal the personal data of South Korean gamers, and channeled $5 million to their impoverished...
Warner Bros. Pulls Back the Curtain on Flixster Collections, Its Ambitious Digital Video Bet
Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes spent a lot of yesterday's earnings call discussing the company's future in digital video. Here's one of his focal points: Flixster Collections …
LocalResponse Buys Social TV Advertising And Check-In Platform Philo
Local Response, a recently launched social advertising platform that allows local businesses to respond to the “check-in” with marketing campaigns, is making its first acquisition today.
HTC Explains Android Bootloader Unlock Process, Warranty-Voiding Tool Coming Later This Month
It's been a few months now since HTC CEO Peter Chou announced that the company will no longer be locking bootloaders on their devices, and enthusiasts have had nothing to show for it.