Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple
Tim Cook Named CEO and Jobs Elected Chairman of the Board — Apple's Board of Directors today announced that Steve Jobs has resigned as Chief Executive Officer, and the Board has named Tim Cook, prev...
Dutch judge considers Apple's slide-to-unlock patent trivial and likely invalid
I previously reported on a preliminary injunction granted by a Dutch court today against the Samsung Galaxy S, Galaxy S II and Ace smartphones. In its official reaction, Samsung underscored …
Anonymous Leaks Nude Pics of BART Spokesman
Anonymous has declared war on San Francisco's commuter subway system, BART. They've staged protests and hacked website, but a leak of nude pics of a BART spokesman has taken things to another, more p...
Time Warner to Subsidize Subscribers' TV Device
Time Warner Cable, one of the nation's top cable and Internet providers, said on Tuesday that it would subsidize some purchases of a set-top box called Slingbox that allows users to watch their home t...
FCC commissioner: BART critics may be right
FCC Commissioners Robert McDowell (right) and Mignon Clyburn (left) say the agency is still investigating San Francisco's subway agency. — ASPEN, Colo.—Criticisms aimed the San Francisco Bay Area's ...
Google Forfeits $500 Million Generated by Online Ads & Prescription Drug Sales by Canadian Online Pharmacies
Facebook Targets Instagram With Photo Filters
Get ready for the photo-filter wars to begin. — Facebook plans to add a series of photo filters to its mobile application in the coming months with the hopes of drawing off fans of Instagram, the ...
A Trillion Pageviews for Facebook
Google today released an updated list of the most-visited sites on the web and it should not come as any surprise that Facebook takes the top spot with 870 million uniques. YouTube and Yahoo are next...
A new respect for entrepreneurs
The story is out that I turned down $500,000 of +Bill Gross money thanks to +Loic Le Meur . https://plus.google.com/108082478497335 384404/ posts/58saxADBQxy — First, hear it in my own words as I di...
First Windows Phone 7.5 ‘Mango’ phone, Fujitsu IS12T, released on KDDI au in Japan
Microsoft has just dropped us a line to note that Fujitsu and KDDI au have released the IS12T in Japan, becoming the first Windows Phone 7.5 (codenamed “Mango") handset to hit retail anywhere in the w...
Enterprise Social Networking Company Jive Software Files S-1 For IPO
Jive Software filed its S-1 for an expected IPO Wednesday. Jive reported revenue of $16.9 million, $46.3 million and $34.0 million for the calendar years of 2008, 2009 and 2010. For the six months e...
Video: Former CEO Carly Fiorina Gives Tentative Thumbs Up To HP Shakeup
It didn't take long for commentators watching last week's dramatic turn of events at Hewlett-Packard to hearken back to another equally dramatic shift at that company under another controversial CEO: ...
Obama and the Smartphone Wars
Unless the president intervenes, the International Trade Commission could send the wireless industry into a tailspin. — Patent litigation is a game created by government, and constructively so. But...
VMware puts Cloud Foundry on laptops
VMware has released Micro Cloud Foundry, a fully functional version of its open-source, Platform-as-a-Service software condensed into a virtual image that runs on developers' personal computers or lap...
China says Google has not sought approval on Motorola bid
(Reuters) - China's Commerce Ministry said it had not received an application for regulatory approval from Google Inc on its planned $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility Holdings. — Under Chi...
Samsung debuts new Galaxy lineup, refines naming strategy along the way
Good news everyone, we've got a new batch of Sammy smartphones to feast your eyes upon. Now for the downside: today's announcement is meant only to whet your appetite for their official unveiling at ...
Zillow hits profitability, posts 116% revenue gain in first earnings report as a public company
Well, we had a pretty good feeling that Zillow might post its first quarterly profit (at least on a net income basis) today. And the Seattle online real estate company didn't disappoint …
Why Apple Went To Dusseldorf
Earlier this month lawyers for Apple celebrated a small, but important victory in court. On Aug. 4 they filed a 44-page complaint with the Civil Chamber of the lower court of Dusseldorf, a wealthy ci...
Dutch court orders formally Europe-wide preliminary injunction against Samsung Galaxy smartphones
[DEVELOPING STORY — still adding detail] — The Rechtbank 's-Gravenhage (a Dutch court in the city of The Hague) today issued a formally Europe-wide preliminary injunction against Samsung's Galaxy S ...
How Google+ will succeed and why you'll use it whether you want to or not.
Editor's note: This is a guest post written by Tom Anderson, the founder & former President of MySpace. Follow him on Google, Twitter, and Facebook. — There's been more than a few “Google+ is doome...
Exclusive: HTC Puccini in the wild, AT&T LTE support confirmed!
Have a gander. Take as long as you need. That, friends, is the AT&T-bound HTC Puccini, and it'll be the first tablet to hit Ma Bell with inbuilt LTE support. According to our sources, the Android-b...
A new respect for entrepreneurs
The story is out that I turned down $500,000 of +Bill Gross money thanks to +Loic Le Meur . https://plus.google.com/108082478497335 384404/ posts/58saxADBQxy — First, hear it in my own words as I di...
‘What Idiot Wrote The Patent That Might Invalidate Software Patents? Oh, Wait, That Was Me’
We recently wrote about a surprising Federal Circuit (CAFC) ruling that might open the door to invalidating a lot of software patents. We received an an interesting comment on the post a few days lat...
Technology Devices Either Sell Big or Die Fast
Seven weeks after it was put on sale, Hewlett-Packard killed its TouchPad tablet, the company's competitor to Apple's iPad. — Last year, Microsoft pulled the plug on its Kin mobile phones only 48 da...
YouTube and comScore Deal Has Potential to Make Online Video Blow Up
I've long been bullish on YouTube, viewing it as the best advertising platform ever known to mankind (despite the giddiness that some have for Facebook and Twitter). — A Walled Garden?
The Newest Version Of Yahoo Mail Now Has 100 Million Monthly Active Users
The latest version of Yahoo Mail opened up to users a few months ago and the company is announcing a new milestone today—100 million monthly active users. — Additional features in the new version …
Millennial: Android Tops iOS For The Eighth Month With 61 Percent Of Mobile Ad Impressions In July
It's no secret that Android is growing at a fast clip, especially over the past year. As Millennial Media, one of the largest mobile ad networks in the U.S., reported recently Android's …
AT&T Roadmap: Samsung, HTC, BlackBerry, & More
Obviously the most anticipated addition to AT&T's lineup this fall will be the next iPhone (iPhone-s plural?), but that doesn't mean the carrier has forsaken other popular platforms. In fact, the com...
McAfee: Android malware surges 76%, iPhone untouched
McAfee shows Android facing huge spike in malware — Malware on Android is growing rapidly enough that it's now by far the most targeted platform, McAfee said in a new study (below). The number of v...
Online Video Platform Company Brightcove Files For $50 Million IPO
Online video platform company Brightcove this morning announced that it has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the SEC in connection with a proposed IPO of its common stock. The company ...
Microsoft previews smarter file copying in Windows 8
A consolidated dialog box showing multiple files being copied in Windows 8. This optional, detailed view shows transfer progress and throughput graphs. (Image Credit: Microsoft) — Microsoft tonigh...
Facebook and Twitter to oppose calls for social media blocks during riots
Ministers expected to row back from David Cameron's demand that suspected rioters be barred from websites — Facebook and Twitter are preparing to face down government ministers over calls to ban peo...
Epson, HSBC Korea, domain registrar hacked: 100,000 domains affected
Summary: A number of Korean websites, including Epson, HSBC and domain registrar Gabia, have been hacked, apparently by Turkish hackers. — A series of hacks have hit the South Korean population …
Samsung says it has “no intention” of buying HP's PC business
Rumours that Korean electronics giant Samsung was to outsource its notebook orders ahead of a potential move to buy HP's PC business have been quashed after the company issued a statement noting it ha...
China's Renren signs agreement with Microsoft's MSN
(Reuters) - Chinese social-networking site Renren said on Wednesday it has signed an agreement with Microsoft's joint venture instant messaging firm, MSN, to cooperate in areas of instant messaging an...
The impact of Oracle's defense of API copyrights
Long-held practice of API copyright exemption jeopardized — Recent examinations of Oracle's strategy in its Java copyright infringement case against Google reveal tactics that could seriously jeopar...
Ticketmaster Teams With Facebook So You Can Sit Next To Your Friends
Live events are inherently social, says CEO Nathan Hubbard. Buying tickets should be, too. — When Ticketmaster CEO Nathan Hubbard and his new executive team hit the road earlier this year touting a...