Making It Easier to Share With Who You Want
Today we're announcing a bunch of improvements that make it easier to share posts, photos, tags and other content with exactly the people you want. You have told us that “who can see this?” could be ...
Samsung cites Stanley Kubrick's ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ movie as prior art against iPad design patent
Late last night, Samsung filed its opposition brief to Apple's motion for a preliminary injunction in the United States. The main part of Samsung's opposition brief has not yet entered …
Google Fiber shows its potential with 151Mbps download speeds
Early last year Google set out on a mission to bring 1Gbps fiber-to-the-home networks in selected areas across the U.S. It was a big challenge, and one that states, counties, and cities fought hard to...
Sprint to Get iPhone 5, Sources Say
Sprint Nextel Corp. will begin selling the iPhone 5 in mid-October, people familiar with the matter said, closing a huge hole in the No. 3 U.S. carrier's lineup and giving Apple Inc. another channel f...
Unlocking Potential
It's important never to delude ourselves into thinking that technology changes the world. People are responsible for change—technology just helps out. At Obvious, our goal is to foster systems that ...
Six Months After The AOL Deal, HuffPo Employee Equity Is Down 40%
When AOL bought the Huffington Post in March 2011, Huffington Post employees had their vested stock options converted into AOL stock, priced at ~$20 a share. — Hopefully they sold! — Today, AOL st...
Sony's S1 Android Tablet is the Tablet S, due to arrive in early September
While one consumer electronics giant is unceremoniously exiting the tablet wars, after many teaser trailers we're hearing Sony is finally ready to reveal its entry. We uncovered the S1 PlayStation Ta...
Chicago Police to Airbnb Host: No Whites in Black Neighborhoods, Please
Chicago police officers confronted a black Airbnb host in the city's Engelwood neighborhood about renting to white tourists — allegedly over guest safety — in an episode the host filmed and posted to ...
Torture in Bahrain Aided by Nokia Siemens
The interrogation of Abdul Ghani Al Khanjar followed a pattern. — First, Bahraini jailers armed with stiff rubber hoses beat the 39-year-old school administrator and human rights activist in a windo...
Apple's struggles to meet 13-inch MacBook Air demand trigger price gouging
More than a month after introducing its latest Thunderbolt MacBook Airs, Apple is still unable to meet broader demand for the 13-inch models, which can be seen listed at prices well above MSRP on at l...
iPad, what is it good for? News and games for starters
When you pick up your iPad, where do you poke around first? I tend to hit Reeder initially, and often spend at least five minutes with the app before moving on to my local newspaper app. It looks li...
Failbook Phone: AT&T Already Looking To Ditch The HTC Status, Says Source
Surprise! Even a clever little gimmick like a dedicated Facebook button can't save a bad phone from an early demise. — After just 36 days on the shelves, a trusted source close to AT&T tells us the...
Google closes Android developer complaint forums
Silent support costs more, but it's less embarrassing — Google is shutting down the Marketplace forums which have, until now, required Android developers to resolve their problems in public and with...
Greplin Releases Must Have iPhone App To Organize Your Life And Avoid Rabid Googlers
It was only a year ago that I first wrote about Greplin, the “other half of search” for you online life. It's an incredibly useful search engine that indexes your online email, Facebook, Twitter …
Y Combinator Unloads Massive New Batch of Start-Ups
The start-up incubator Y Combinator today is pushing out 63 new companies, its largest and most daunting class ever. Of them, 31 are presenting themselves on the record for investors and press at the...
Judge says warrant required for cell phone location data
In recent years, the courts have struggled to decide whether the government needs a warrant to access historical records about a cell phone user's location. Some courts have found that when users tur...
Exclusive: Groupon turns to Citydeal team ahead of IPO
(Reuters) - No. 1 daily deals website Groupon Inc is turning to executives from Citydeal — the European business it bought last year — to help boost slowing growth in its domestic business, ahead of a...
Apple Wins Key Patents Related to Multi-Touch & “Numbers”
The US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 16 newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today. In our second and final granted patent report of the day you'll learn about two key ...
Windows Phone Reaches 30,000 Apps, Opens Marketplace to Mango Submissions
There are now 30,000 mobile applications available for Windows Phone, Microsoft's newest mobile operating system. That's a huge jump from the 11,500 apps Microsoft reported back in March, but still f...
Exclusive: Apple suppliers building cheaper, 8GB iPhone 4
(Reuters) - Asian suppliers to Apple Inc have begun manufacturing a lower priced version of its hot-selling iPhone 4 with a smaller 8 gigabyte flash drive, according to two people with knowledge of th...
Facebook Seeks Acquisitions to Fend Off Google
Facebook Inc., the world's largest social network, is planning acquisitions that will improve site design, keep its service reliable and advance mobile features to stave off competition from Google In...
China airs documentary proving military university is hacking U.S. targets
For a long time now there has been suspicion that China is a hotbed of hacking activity either endorsed or ignored by the government and targeting foreign individuals, companies, and even governments.
Geeks Beat Jocks as Bar Fight Breaks Out Over Control of the TV
Fans Muscle Into Sports Bars to Watch Pro Videogamers Do Battle on the Tube — SAN FRANCISCO—One Sunday afternoon last month, a hundred boisterous patrons crowded into Mad Dog in the Fog, a British s...
Identity, Authentication, and Provisioning Them Online
Christina jotted down some thoughts on indentity on a flight to SF and I read them this morning. In her post, she references Ev's excellent post on the same topic from a while back. So I went on a b...
This Is What Google REALLY Meant By “Don't Be Evil”
Google has been throwing its weight around and pissing a lot of people off. — It allegedly leaned on Motorola not to use a competing location-detecting service from Skyhook. Then it turned around a...
Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet now available for order, priced at $500 and up
It's been a while coming, but Lenovo's ThinkPad tablet has finally made its way to market. As expected, the line of Honeycomb slates is now available for order on the company's product page, with the...
Groupon Stumbles in China
China's joint venture in China, Gaopeng.com, has closed offices in some cities and laid off hundreds of employees. The moves appears to mark an abrupt reversal of Groupon's aggressive expansion into ...
Beware: Europe's ‘unitary patent’ could mean unlimited software patents
The battles seen in the US over software patents could spread to the UK and the rest of Europe if the unitary patent is allowed to come into force — Just as the US software industry is experiencing ...
Facebook reveals plans for second campus in Menlo Park
Even as Facebook starts moving its workforce to Menlo Park, the social networking company is unveiling plans for the second campus it expects to construct across from the 57-acre former Sun Microsyste...
Here's What Twitter Should Do To Make Photo Galleries More Useful
I like the new user photo galleries that Twitter started rolling out yesterday. They'll make photo search and discovery much easier, especially for those of us who've scattered our photo uploads acro...
Curve 9350, 9360, 9370 announced with BlackBerry OS 7; hit Canada this month
Curve 9350, 9360, 9370 announced with BlackBerry OS 7; hit Canada this month — RIM has announced three new BlackBerrys: the Curve 9350, Curve 9360, and Curve 9370. Each brings BlackBerry OS 7 to lo...
‘Wormhole’ links MIT and Stanford
In a Massachusetts Institute of Technology cafeteria, down the hall from an early radar dish, is the “wormhole,” an oddly-shaped plexiglass dome hovering over a video screen. The live signal displaye...
Amazon ‘ElastiCache’ promises to boost web app performance
Amazon Web Services this morning made a new pitch for running web apps on its cloud computing platform, introducing a feature called ElastiCache that promises to improve the performance of web apps su...
White House pledges new Net privacy approach
Danny Weitzner pledges new privacy laws without a “traditional regulatory structure.” — ASPEN, Colo.—A White House aide today previewed the administration's forthcoming approach to Internet consumer...
Forkly Launches to Discover Food You'll Like the Taste Of
Forkly is a beautiful new iPhone app that helps you discover new restaurants you might like and recommends dishes once you're at restaurants, based on your individual taste. Built by former leaders o...