Preliminary injunction granted by German court
The leading German news agency, dpa, just reported that Apple has been granted a preliminary injunction against Samsung's Android-based Galaxy Tab 10.1 …
RIM's BlackBerry blog hacked after it cooperates with police over London riots
RIM's Inside BlackBerry blog was hacked on Tuesday afternoon, after the company declared it would cooperate with UK Police to help bring individuals involved in the London riots to justice.
Nokia: the N9 isn't coming to America
If you've been eagerly awaiting September 23rd so you can grab your very own Nokia N9 in America, the company's first (and last) MeeGo smartphone may not be shipping in your region after all. We've b...
Gamification is Bulls**t
My position statement at the Wharton Gamification Symposium — In his short treatise On Bulls**t, the moral philosopher Harry Frankfurt gives us a useful theory of bulls**t. We normally think of bul...
Why Did Tim Armstrong Want the AOL Job Again?
Image by Getty Images North America via @daylife — AOL (AOL) is down 50% year-to-date. Its stock is off 20% today alone after disappointing earnings. — Is this what Tim Armstrong envisioned when ...
Newspaper giant Tribune Co. developing tablet device
(CNN) — Hoping to take a small slice from Apple's big pie, newspaper publishers are developing tablet computers of their own. — The Tribune Co., one of the largest U.S. news enterprises, is working ...
Windows Phone ‘Tango’ to be Microsoft's lower price-point operating system?
Summary: Information about Microsoft's successor to Windows Phone OS Mango (codenamed Tango) is slowly starting to leak. — Until today, I've said nothing on my blog about Tango — the Windows Phone o...
AntiSec stole thousands of personal records, analysis shows
A massive data cache posted on the Internet by hacker group AntiSec over the weekend contained thousands of Social Security numbers, dates of birth, passwords and telephone numbers, among other person...
Apple Briefly Ranked as Most Valuable Company in the World
Apple, Inc. is now the most valuable public company in the world as measured by market capitalization. Apple's market cap briefly passed ExxonMobil today, reaching $341.55 billion in valuation. Exxo...
Get Ready For A Photo App Explosion With iOS 5
At this point, it's already clear that the iPhone has become the camera many people use on a daily basis. The iPhone 4 is now by far the most popular camera on Flickr (and that's true even though it'...
Armed With $7M In New Funding, Movieclips Lands Deal With YouTube To Be The Vevo Of Film Clips
We're big fans of online movie clips site Movieclips.com, which launched in 2009 as a search engine with over 20,000 different clips from thousands of titles from the libraries of 20th Century Fox …
Why Did Microsoft Cut Dolby Out Of Windows 8?
On its earnings call last Friday, audio technology company Dolby announced that the next version of Microsoft Windows might not included its technology. — Its stock dropped about 18% on the news. —...
bitly Acquires Twitterfeed
For years now, we've worked closely with our friends at Twitterfeed to enhance their social media publishing tools with branded short links and realtime data. Today, we are excited to announce that w...
Quark sold to merger and acquisition company
Platinum Equity replaces the Ebrahimi family as QuarkXPress developers — Quark, developer of the desktop publishing software QuarkXPress, has been acquired by Platinum Equity, a Los Angeles merger a...
Save a tree or two, use Taiwan erasable paper
The product uses a thermal printer, the same kind as that used in fax machines. When the message is no longer needed, the paper can be erased with the flip of a switch — ready to be used up to 260 ti...
California: No Facebook for Inmates
Thousands of inmates in California's state prisons have access to contraband mobile phones and are updating their Facebook accounts, and now the state is asking the social network to close them down. ...
Visa uses carrots, sticks to boost mobile payment adoption
Summary: Visa launches three initiatives to prod merchants to get on the mobile payment bandwagon. — Visa is planning to roll out dual mode chips in it infrastructure in an effort to step up mobile ...
The fate of mobile phone brands
The violence with which new platforms have displaced incumbent mobile vendor fortunes continues to surprise. — Nokia's Symbian platform has gone from 47% share to 16% in three years — Microsoft's ph...
AOL iPad Mag “Editions” Missed The Memo About The AOL Way
The iPad magazine looks gorgeous and works about as well as Zite, Flipboard, et. al. It even understands if you're not into AOL content. And it's cool with that. Why? Its creators, David Temkin an...
Amazon Web Services suffers another outage: Company says issue now resolved
Amazon.com's EC2 service suffered another outage this evening, taking out several high-trafficked Web sites and adding another black eye to the reliability of online services. The outage, which Amazo...
Crowdsourcing Platform ChallengePost Raises $4 Million
Start-ups that rely on the Internet as a source of free labor are nothing new. But the idea keeps coming back, in different forms, because it seems to work. — Latest example: ChallengePost, a two-y...
NYT Labs: Can a newspaper think like a startup?
After delaying the project while it launched a paywall, the New York Times has finally rolled out its version of Google Labs, the now-shuttered project that provided a home for the search company's va...
Facebook's Messenger app hides a dirty little secret: Video conferencing
Facebook isn't fantastic at hiding secret stuff in their Apps. Just last month, its iPad ambitions were outed by some folks rummaging around in the App. Today, Facebook released their Messenger app ...
Motorola: We'd Work With Microsoft If We Could Get That Nokia Deal
Motorola Mobility CEO Sanjay Jha now says he'd be interested in shipping Windows Phones if Motorola could get the same kind of deal that Nokia got from Microsoft. — In other words — a big up-front p...
The Nerve Center of the World's Biggest Cyber Attack
See that screenshot above? That's the nerve center for Operation Shady Rat, the newly notorious cyber attack possibly set up by some government-sponsored Chinese hackers. I just spent the last 30 mi...
Visa uses carrots, sticks to boost mobile payment adoption
Summary: Visa launches three initiatives to prod merchants to get on the mobile payment bandwagon. — Visa is planning to roll out dual mode chips in it infrastructure in an effort to step up mobile ...
Hate Lines and Live in Mountain View? We've Got an App for You (TCTV)
A new startup called Pago is launching today, and if you live in Mountain View your life may have just gotten a lot easier. You can now go to more than 50 local merchants- coffee shops, dry cleaners ...
IBM, NCSA abandon petascale supercomputer project
IDG News Service - Citing unforeseen complexities and greater-than-anticipated costs, IBM and the University of Illinois' National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) have abandoned plans to...
AOL's Q2: Global Advertising Revenue Finally Up Again, Net Loss Narrows
Internet access, content and online advertising company AOL (which also owns TechCrunch) this morning reported its earnings for the second quarter of the year. — AOL reported a net loss of $11.8 mil...