RIM's first QNX phone revealed: BlackBerry Colt to launch in Q1 2012
While Research In Motion just recently announced its new BlackBerry 7 device lineup — including the fantastic BlackBerry Bold 9900 — we all know that the real-deal smartphones are still in the oven.
After 21 Years: Goodbye Microsoft
Today I announced that after 21 years I am leaving Microsoft to build a new company. — I'm not yet ready to disclose details about the new venture but I can say I will be staying in the Seattle area...
Spotify's U.S. Score So Far: 1.4 Million Users, 175,000 Paying Customers
That Spotify invitation you scored may be a little less rare than you thought. The streaming music service has already signed up 1.4 million U.S. users for its free trial, according to a source famil...
Lightning in Dublin Knocks Amazon, Microsoft Data Centers Offline
A lightning strike has caused power outages at the major cloud computing data hubs for Amazon and Microsoft in Dublin, Ireland. The incident has caused downtime for many sites using Amazon's EC2 clou...
Photos show the cultural difference between Black Hat and Defcon hacker events
Thousands of security professionals, hackers, federal agents and media descended on Las Vegas this week to attend the Black Hat and Defcon conferences. Both conferences exhibit the extremes of hacker...
Apple Sued over Fast Booting in OS X with a Patent linked to LG Electronics
A Floridian Company by the name Operating Systems Solutions, LCC, has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple for OS X's fast booting operation. The interesting twist to this lawsuit is tha...
Lion Support & HD Video Calls with Skype 5.3 for Mac OS X
On the heels of our recent update to Skype 5.2 for Mac OS X, we are pleased to announce that we are making even more improvements to our Mac client with the release of Skype 5.3 for Mac OS X. Along wi...
Updated: Fresh IPOs stumble amid market tantrum. Is the IPO window closed?
It's day two of complete market mayhem. Has the chaos closed the window for companies looking to file for an initial public offering? — As of market close, the NASDAQ composite index was down nearl...
Social Developers Hopeful About Google+ Platform Potential
Facebook has had a de facto monopoly on social platforms over the last couple of years, and until the launch of Google+ the main other options for developers been mobile — and those require a distinct...
Anonymous hacks Syrian Ministry of Defense website
Anonymous, the online hacktivist group, has taken over the Syrian Ministry of Defense website and posted the following message on its homepage: … Scrolling across the top of the website are links to v...
Comcast Announces $10 Web Access For Low-Income Families
Cable and Internet provider Comcast is launching a new initiative aimed at bridging the digital divide, offering discounted web access and home computers to families that meet income requirements. — ...
Network effects: Social media's role in the London riots
In the wake of a controversial police shooting, Britain's capital city has been rocked by two straight days of widespread rioting and looting. As with previous riots — such as those in Vancouver, Bri...
On Twitter Acquiring Bagcheck...
The BBC launches a new TV-friendly version of iPlayer
The BBC today launches a brand new version of iPlayer that is tailored specifically for TVs. — BBC iPlayer is a video-on-demand service, offering UK users the chance to catch up on TV and radio broa...
Dropbox funding: Are founders personally cashing in on $300M round?
[Update: We've just heard from a close source close to the investor syndicate on the pending round, and he said it's not true the founders are getting a majority of the round. He would not specify de...
Sony gets ‘epic fail’ award from hackers
Las Vegas (CNN) — It's the Oscars for hard-core computer hackers, except that the trophies at the Pwnie Awards are cutesy little toy horses with pink and purple manes. — An explanation helps make so...
Facebook's News Feed Links Status Updates to Pages Even If Users Don't
Facebook is now showing a special type of news feed story that links to a Page when multiple friends post updates that mention the Page's name, even if they don't explicitly tag it. The story reads “...
200,000 BitTorrent Users Sued In The United States
Mass file-sharing lawsuits have been filed all across the United States in recent months, almost exclusively targeting BitTorrent users. Copyright holders have embraced this new revenue stream by the...
Apple Launches $999 iMac for Educational Institutions
Apple has quietly launched a lower cost $999 iMac for educational institutions this morning. The new low-end model is labeled “Education only” and is not available for individuals. The new iMac appe...
Apple releases tool to create an OS X Lion recovery/installation external drive
For those who are unable to use the web-based recovery tool for OS X Lion, Apple has released a new Mac application that allows users to create their own OS X Lion recovery/installation external drive...
MobileMe users who migrate to iCloud get 25GB of storage in transition
Since opening the tool for developers to migrate from MobileMe to iCloud, Apple has revealed to MobileMe users that they will retain their MobileMe storage when their account becomes an iCloud account...
What's the Fastest Web Browser in the “Real World?” Chrome.
Compuware's benchmarks division, Gomez, has just released new data from a website measurement project whose goal was to determine what the fastest web browser is in the “real world” of desktop users.
A New Kind of Marketing Company From Former Apple Exec Forming With Backing of Twitter's Dorsey
Allison Johnson, who had been a top marketing exec for Apple, is finally close to launching on a new kind of marketing firm, sources said, with backing from Twitter Co-founder Jack Dorsey and Malaria ...
Amazon's New(ish) Social Network — Now Lifting Even More Info From Facebook, Twitter
Now Lifting Even More Info From Facebook, Twitter — Screenshot of my Public Notes profile at kindle.amazon.com — Amazon's “Public Notes” feature for Kindle has been available for months. So why di...
Syrian hackers retaliate, deface Anonymous' social network
Counters Anonymous' earlier sabotage of nation's Ministry of Defense site — Computerworld - After the hacking gang Anonymous took credit for defacing Syria's Ministry of Defense website, a Syrian gr...
Apple fires back at Lodsys, insists on intervening on behalf of developers
Apple insists it will intervene on behalf of developers being sued by patent troll Lodsys, reports Florian Mueller of FOSS Patents. This insistence on behalf of Apple shows that the company is seriou...
Digg's New Newswire is a Radical Experiment in Social News
Digg, the social news site that was once the darling of tech-loving web users everywhere, has faced a rapid decline in interest as the rest of the web grew up and it remained relatively slow and imper...
Meet Google's Voice Hunter On A Quest For 300 Languages
Google wants Voice Search to master the Tower of Babel. So Linne Ha travels the world, gathering the language samples used to train it. — Google's Voice Search, which launched on cellphones in 2008...
How Your Social Data Will Power Walmart's E-Commerce Revolution
Walmart is planning to launch several new projects this holiday season based on the technology it acquired from the social media startup Kosmix back in April. Kosmix's platform previously powered sev...
I Am Jonathan's Starbucks Card: A Social Payment Experiment (With Free Coffee)
Jonathan's Starbucks card lives in Jonathan Stark's wallet. You can download a copy of the card (shown here) and, when there is money on it, scan it at any Starbucks to buy coffee and, as far as anyo...
Facebook Adds Two New Security Features to Its Mobile Platform
Facebook announced two new safety features for its mobile platforms today intended to make interacting with the platform easier and more secure. Facebook is bringing its “social reporting” feature to...
Feature: One month with Google+: why this social network has legs
If you're a stranger who follows me on Google+, you might think I rarely use the service. That's because the majority of my posts have been limited to the seven circles I created for friends, acquain...
My Suggestion on Patent Law
It is easy to complain. Much harder to come up with solutions. Many won't like what I propose, but who wants to make lawyers happy anyway ? — The solution ? — 1. End all software patents. Don'...
The Startup You Want To Work At The Most Is Your Own
By now it is a common axiom in Silicon Valley small talk that good engineers are, at the moment, murder to come by. While the most prominent talent battles have thus far been between Facebook and Goo...
After Much Ado, a Google Book Deal in France
PARIS — France has caused plenty of headaches for Google. Its politicians have denounced the U.S. Internet giant as a cultural imperialist; its publishers have called it a copyright cheat. — Yet Fr...
Shopper Receipts Join Paperless Age
At an Old Navy store in Manhattan the other day, Fabienne Michel made a routine purchase of khaki shorts. But she left the store without something equally routine: her receipt. — The sales clerk ha...
How Blackberry, not Twitter, fuelled the fire under London's riots
Over the weekend parts of London descended into chaos as riots and looting spread after a protest organised around the yet unexplained shooting of a man by Police. Of course, there was huge amounts o...
Apple's rumored ‘Replay’ service a ways off
Warner Bros.' is one of at least four top film studios that Apple has yet to obtain streaming-movie licenses from, sources say. — The rumors from last week about Apple being “on the edge” of launchi...
IPad rivals have better chance in Europe: Forrester
(Reuters) - Would-be rivals to Apple's iPad have more of a chance in Europe than they do in the United States, but they need to cut prices fast to grasp the opportunity, IT research firm Forrester sai...
AMD Sitting out Smartphone Market
Advanced Micro Devices is not immediately chasing the market for smartphones as it does not align with the company's strength in technologies like graphics, an executive said on Monday. — Smartphone...