Gizmodo Officially Not Being Charged in iPhone 4 Case
The District Attorney of San Mateo County is moving forward in the case of the iPhone 4 prototype we posted about last year. Fortunately, nobody from our team is being charged. — Here's our parent ...
Amazon's Answer To Apple's Terms: A Web-Based Kindle Cloud Reader — Brilliant On PC, Better On iPad
Brilliant On PC, Better On iPad — Much has been made about Apple's recent changes to the iOS terms. At first, everyone was sure that many big players, would be forced to pull their apps, such as Ama...
Apple is also suing Motorola in Europe over the Xoom tablet's design
Here's a very interesting news item that is hidden deep inside Apple's complaint against the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 that led to an EU-wide preliminary injunction: — Prior to or simultaneously with ...
Why 193,000 people stopped paying for TV last quarter
With Cablevision reporting a loss of 23,000 subscribers and Dish Network shedding 135,000 in the second quarter, the U.S. pay TV industry has lost nearly 200,000 subscribers in the second-quarter — an...
Twitter Comes Alive With Realtime Activity Streams
Since its inception, content on Twitter has largely been displayed in the same basic manner. That is a linear, reverse chronological stream of Tweets. Two new sections being added to the service are...
Skype Details Its Future With Microsoft And Facebook
Skype CEO Tony Bates and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announcing Microsoft's intent to acquire Skype in May. — What does Skype's future look like? According to the company's vice president, a lot of...
Groupon Lost More Than $100 Million Last Quarter - Again - As Hiring Costs Jump
Daily deals juggernaut Groupon managed to significantly slash marketing costs last quarter, but its net loss in the second quarter of this year has almost tripled compared to last year as it hired mor...
Why are restaurant websites so horrifically bad?
The first thing that pops up when you visit the website of the San Francisco restaurant Fleur de Lys is a nearly full-screen animation of celebrity chef Hubert Keller's autograph. That makes sense—wh...
FTC Focuses Probe on Android, Web Search
Federal Trade Commission officials are focusing their antitrust investigation on several key areas of Google Inc.'s business, including its Android mobile phone software and Web search related service...
TwitPic Founder's Heello Launches As A Simple Twitter Clone
Last August, we reported that Noah Everett, the founder of Twitter photo sharing site Twitpic, has launched a new site, called Heello. The site wasn't open to the public yet, but a year later, it loo...
NYPD forms new social media unit to mine Facebook and Twitter for mayhem
The NYPD has formed a new unit to track troublemakers who announce plans or brag about their crimes on Twitter, MySpace and Facebook. — Newly named Assistant Commissioner Kevin O'Connor, one of the ...
News Corp Says It Lost $254 Million On MySpace
News Corp lost $254 million on MySpace, the company said as it reported revenue that beat analysts' expectations. — The loss pushed News Corp.'s Q4 net income down 22 percent to $683 million. — Ne...
Nokia exec: Android and iPhone focus on the app is “outdated”
Nokia's new superphones will offer a superior user interface and a better, cloud-enabled experience than its chief competitors, the company's top U.S executive told VentureBeat. — The reliance by Ap...
Google engineer, Adobe squabble over Flash bug credit
Adobe patched 13 critical bugs in its nearly-ubiquitous Flash Player on Tuesday, but came under quick criticism from a security engineer who works for Google, a close partner of Adobe. — Adobe patch...
Ford investigates creating a mobile data network using the cars themselves
By embedding advanced Wi-Fi in every car, vehicles could become nodes on a gigantic collaborative mesh network that could mitigate traffic and prevent accidents — A car can already tap into the mobi...
Google Parcel Service? Search company patents electronic shipping notifications
Google's battle against Microsoft and Apple over their use of “bogus” patents promises to result in greater scrutiny of its own intellectual property holdings. And we have a hunch that Amazon.com, UP...
FCC announces plan to update 911 to receive texts, video
Federal Communications Commission chairman Julius Genachowski announced a five-step plan to deploy the next generation of 911 services at a conference in Philadelphia on Wednesday. — The plan will a...
Study: Links from other news sites matter more than social networks
A new study of Web referrals to online publishers shows links from other content sites are more important than those from social media. — Links from content sites (including other news publishers or...
AT&T Bid for T-Mobile Faces California Review
AT&T Inc. (T), looking to win approval for its proposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile, is facing a challenge in California where regulators have raised questions about the deal's effect on consu...
Cisco promises more focus, but sees economic uncertainty ahead
Summary: Cisco's fourth quarter was better than expected, but economic worries persist. — Networking giant Cisco Systems put a troubled fiscal 2011 to bed and CEO John Chambers promised a “focused, ...
Survey: Consumers Don't Trust Google or Apple With Mobile Payments
Despite Slew of New Payment Apps, Credit-Card Companies Preferred Over Tech Brands to Handle Transactions — When we think “mobile payments,” a slew of tech brands fly to mind: Google's new Wallet ap...
Seeking Street Cred, HTC Investing $300 Million in Beats Electronics
Taiwanese cell phone maker HTC is making a strategic tie-up with Beats Electronics, investing $300 million in the digital sound company and working to incorporate Beats technology into its product lin...
Apple is also suing Motorola in Europe over the Xoom tablet's design
Here's a very interesting news item that is hidden deep inside Apple's complaint against the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 that led to an EU-wide preliminary injunction: — Prior to or simultaneously with ...
HP TouchPad gets permanent $100 price cut: $399 for 16GB, effective now
HP execs told us they would stop at nothing to be #2 in the tablet space, and this last weekend the company offered some deep discounts on its flagship HP TouchPad to get the ball rolling.
Apple Closes as the Most Valuable Company in the World
Apple passed ExxonMobil as the most-valuable publicly traded company several times yesterday, but ExxonMobil ended the day ahead of Apple. Both companies' stock prices were down today, but XOM fell q...
Vudu avoids the Apple tax with iPad mobile site
In its hunt to get on ever-more devices, Vudu is finally making its streaming video-on-demand (VOD) store available on the iPad. But while most streaming video services have launched apps on the tabl...
10 Facts About Steve Jobs We Just Learned From CNBC's Latest “Titans” Special
Few people have made as much of an impact on the computing world as Steve Jobs. — He helped make the idea of personal computers into a viable business, and to this day he seems to want to make last ...
Microsoft Keeps Chipping Away At Google's Search Market Share
Bing did not gain any market share between June and July, according to the latest numbers but Yahoo was up a notch, which amounts for a gain for Microsoft — and a slight loss for Google. — These mon...
Trendyol takes Turkey with $26m from Kleiner Perkins
Meet Demet Mutlu, the 30-year-old founder and CEO of Trendyol — a fashion website that is breaking boundaries in Turkey in more ways than one. — Since launching her flash sales service and fashion b...
Not even Huffington Post or TechCrunch could save AOL, which value plummeted over 25% today
AOL stock hit its lowest point since the company separated from Time Warner, after a 25.75 percent death-tumble. A last-minute rally pulled shares up, which earlier had fallen by more than 26 percent...
Erik Prusch named CEO of Clearwire, taking over a battered company in need of a lifeline
The job in front of Erik Prusch — who was promoted to president and CEO of Clearwire today — may be one of the toughest in wireless. The former CFO and COO at Clearwire will need to manage …
Founder Jay Adelson Brings His Hard-Earned Entrepreneurship Lessons To Revision 3
Silicon Valley survivor Jay Adelson has worn many hats in his two decades in the technology space: Equinix co-founder, Digg CEO, Simple Geo CEO and Revision 3 Co-Founder among others. His latest hat?...
Starbucks and the ‘Starkbucks’ Jonathan's Card Viral Marketing Campaign
Starbucks may be back to its old viral marketing PR tricks again, this time with a new but familiar campaign called “Jonathan's Card.” — So the story goes, mobile payment application developer Jonat...
BT kills Ribbit's web phone platform, sends customers to the fast-growing Twilio
BT, the UK-based phone giant, has killed the Ribbit web phone and messaging platform it owns and is advising Ribbit customers to head to competitor Twilio. — Twilio is a fast-growing company that so...
Yahoo Discount Means U.S. Portal Free in Deal
Yahoo! Inc. has cost its shareholders so much money that a buyer would now be able take over the most- visited U.S. Web portal for less than the value of its stakes in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Y...
Kno for iPad 1.5 adds ‘Quiz Me’ and ‘Journals,’ web and Facebook apps also announced (video)
A lot has changed for Kno since it first showed off a dual-screened e-reader at the D8 conference just over one year ago. In a world where the iPad is now king of a constantly-expanding tablet market...
Patent-infringement lawsuit against Fark settled for zero dollars. Also, patent trolls suck hairy donkey balls
A lot of you were already aware that Fark was sued by a patent troll back in January. I wanted to share that as of today, after eight months of legal work, that lawsuit was dismissed.