HP tested webOS on an iPad. It ran over twice as fast as the TouchPad.
HP's WebOS team almost certainly had an idea that the company's new tablet, the TouchPad, had very little chance of challenging Apple's dominance in the tablet market, as the company's webOS operating...
Germany vs. Facebook: Like Button Declared Illegal, Sites Threatened With Fine
Updated: German websites based in the state of Schleswig-Holstein have until the end of September to remove Facebook's ‘like’ button or face a fine of up to 50,000 Euro. — Germany has a long traditi...
AT&T VP: iPhone 5 coming in early October, prepare to get ‘really, really busy’
One of our high-level AT&T sources just informed us that an AT&T Vice President has confirmed to several employees that the iPhone 5 is slated to launch in early October. Additionally, the VP communi...
Exclusive: How the FBI investigates the hacktivities of Anonymous
On September 19, 2008, hackers from the Anonymous collective attacked the website of Fox News host Bill O'Reilly. The hackers found and immediately posted e-mail addresses, passwords, and physical ad...
HP begins TouchPad liquidation; 16GB cut to $99, 32GB $149
We were wondering how exactly HP was going to handle the glut of TouchPads in the market now that they've decided they're done making hardware for webOS. Now we have our answer: fire sale! — In a m...
Apple Sneaks A Big Change Into iOS 5: Phasing Out Developer Access To The UDID
Apple is making a lot of big changes to its mobile operating system with iOS 5, which is dribbling out in betas for developers ahead of a general release later this year. But there is one big change ...
A deal for Clearwire could be a wireless tipping point
Sprint is reportedly in talks with Comcast,, Time Warner Cable and Brighthouse Networks to raise the up to $600 million that Clearwire needs to transition to a Long Term Evolution network. Clearwire,...
Apple files inaccurate evidence in Dutch Samsung case
Is the iPhone and iPad maker shooting itself in the foot with manipulated images? — Apple has filed inaccurate evidence again in a major case against Samsung, this time in the Netherlands, where the...
Bootstrap from Twitter
We are happy to announce Bootstrap, a front-end toolkit for rapidly developing web applications. It is a collection of CSS and HTML conventions. It uses some of the latest browser techniques to prov...
Why Software Is Eating The World
This week, Hewlett-Packard (where I am on the board) announced that it is exploring jettisoning its struggling PC business in favor of investing more heavily in software, where it sees better potentia...
Why HP Wants Autonomy: Math Skills
Autonomy excels at analyzing the vast amounts of “unstructured data” being produced every day. — News broke today that HP, the world's biggest manufacturer of personal computers, had offered to acqu...
Firefox 7 Beta Puts Priority on Performance
Just days after the ready-for-primetime version of Firefox 6 was released, Mozilla, sticking to its aggressive development schedule for the browser, has rolled out the beta for Firefox 7 —a release of...
Microsoft offers webOS developers free Windows Phones and dev tools
Microsoft is offering webOS developers free Windows Phone devices and dev tools. — Brandon Watson, Senior Director of Windows Phone 7 development at Microsoft made the offer in a twitter message on ...
US surges to near global lead in mobile data
Consumers in the U.S. are second only to Sweden in using data, according to analyst Chetan Sharma — U.S. consumers are among the world's most voracious consumers of mobile data, motivated by the cou...
Sprint Said to Talk With Cable Companies About Clearwire Buyout
The third-biggest U.S. wireless operator is negotiating with Comcast and other cable companies to obtain control of Clearwire and help complete its LTE network — (Bloomberg) — Sprint Nextel Corp. is...
Google ‘Nexus Prime’ Android 4.0 phone could launch in October
Google's third-generation “Nexus Prime” smartphone — which will likely be the first Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich” phone to hit the market — will launch in October according to a new report from Kor...
Rose-colored glasses
Since HP's announcement yesterday that they're discontinuing webOS device development (and probably webOS itself, as we know it, but they won't admit that yet), I've read a lot of smart writers eulogi...
Wall Street Journal Confirms Early 2012 iPad 3 with Retina Display
In case you still had doubts, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple is indeed working on its next generation iPad for early 2012. The newspaper also seems to confirm the 2048x1536 Retina di...
Apple moves against knockoffs in New York
Apple Inc (AAPL.O) has moved swiftly and, until now, secretly to crack down on stores in the Chinatown section of Queens, New York, accused of selling knock-off Apple gear emblazoned with the company'...
The truth about scoops
In the wake of Motorola-Google deal, Felix Salmon, one of the finest bloggers in New York, penned a piece, Whither the M&A Scoop? Felix points out that “scoops are the most basic currency of business...
Google plans 840-person expansion near Seattle
Google's offices in Bothell, Wash., would be near the University of Washington's satellite campus and a revitalized downtown. — Google has filed plans to add up to 840 workers at an office park nort...
Why Rounded Corners are Easier on the Eyes
Designers use rounded corners so much today that they're more of an industry standard than a design trend. They're not only found on software user interfaces, but hardware product designs as well. S...
Help, I've fallen into a pit of steaming Google+ (what that means for tech blogging)
For the past six weeks I've been totally engrossed in Google+. Addicted is the right word. It's like those dinosaurs that fell into a pit of tar and couldn't get out. Heck, I'm not the only one.
Facebook Begins Rolling Out “The Ticker” To More Users
While we haven't confirmed whether or not the move is permanent, Facebook appears to be in the process of rolling out their live feed ticker to the homepage of all users. What's most significant is h...
Is Apple faking evidence to crush the competition? Not likely
Following allegations that Apple may have purposely doctored a photo of a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 to elicit an injunction from a German court, there are now new allegations that Apple is up to the sam...
Are Free Motorola Phones in Our Future? A VC's Take on Why Google is Buying Motorola
I was invited to go on Bloomberg West TV on Monday when news broke of Google's plan to acquire Motorola for $12.5 billion in cash. I hadn't had much time to digest the news before going on live telev...
Anonymous breaches another US defense contractor
The group has posted 1GB of documents from unmanned aerial vehicle maker Vanguard Defense Industries — The politically oriented hacking group, Anonymous, has released 1GB of what is says are private...
Apple, HTC might scale back phone orders due to economy
Apple supposedly trimming iPhone shipments — Despite talk of Apple having aggressive iPhone production plans, it and others might be throttling back overall orders based on economic worries. Chipse...