Arrington out at AOL (for real this time)
Not TechCrunch editor. Not AOL Ventures employee. Michael Arrington is on his own. — It has been a very long week for AOL. And it's about to get even longer. — Last Thursday, word leaked that o...
Netflix Cracks Down on Sharing: One Stream Per Customer Unless You Pay More
Netflix streaming customers who happen to share their account with other family members are having a frustrated Labor Day weekend as Netflix completes implementation of strict new limits on the number...
HTC Sues Apple Using Patents Obtained From Google Last Week
HTC Corp. (2498), Asia's second-biggest maker of smartphones, filed infringement claims against Apple Inc. (AAPL) today, using patents obtained from Google Inc. (GOOG) last week. — The nine patents ...
AT&T Unlikely to Avoid Multi-Billion Dollar T-Mobile ‘Break Up’ Fee
AT&T could still be forced to pay Deutsche Telekom a termination fee of at least $3 billion, even if U.S. regulators ultimately block AT&T's $39 billion takeover of Deutsche-owned T-Mobile.
Turntable.fm Is About To Rock An iPhone App; We Have Screenshots
For the past few months, few things on the web have been hotter than Turntable.fm. The Stickybits pivot got so hot, so fast, that a “trough of disillusionment” was inevitable — and we've probably bee...
Amazon's Future Is So Much Bigger Than a Tablet
Amazon has swiftly become the most disruptive company in the media and technology industries. Its potential in this space is simply off the charts: bigger than Apple's, bigger than Google's or Micros...
SF Police launch probe into iPhone search
SAN FRANCISCO—Police here have launched a probe into the investigation into a missing iPhone prototype conducted by Apple security personnel with the assistance of four plainclothes officers. — Lt. ...
Phoenix “iCloud” Company Dumps Trademark Lawsuit Against Apple, Changes Name
An Arizona company formerly known as iCloud Communications has dumped its trademark lawsuit against Apple and apparently changed its name. — The Phoenix-based iCloud caused a ruckus in the tech worl...
Eric Schmidt: Ice Cream Sandwich coming out in October or November
You can always count on Eric Schmidt to say a bit more than what he's supposed to. At the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Schmidt mentioned-intentionally or not-that Ice Cream Sandwich is com...
Apple 27" Thunderbolt Displays Shipping to Stores
MacRumors has learned that Apple is beginning to ship the new 27" Thunderbolt Display to stores and resellers this week. This means that customers should be able to see and buy the devices very soon....
.xxx rated: internet's red-light district has arrived
The scramble for the adult industry's new dedicated domain name has begun, its American founder tells Nick Clark — Stuart Lawley is expecting a gold rush - and xxx marks the spot. Following a decad...
How a grad student perfected the art of the TOS
Gregg Bernstein's eureka moment came the way so many do: while poring over typeface licenses. — He was designing for a record label, which required buying fonts and then paging through interminable ...
Seagate plays the 4TB card with its GoFlex Desk external HDD, shipping now for $250
That tangled mess of a backup solution feeling a little cramped? Yeah, join the crowd. Seagate's looking to give you a dash of capaciousness — a dash that you could desperately used — with its newes...
HP approached LG, Samsung about sale of PC business
Hewlett-Packard approached LG, Samsung and others about the sale of its PC business last year, a source told CNET. — The PC maker sounded out the Korean electronics giants late last year long before...
Verizon Wireless' Motorola DROID BIONIC launches September 8th, $299.99
Verizon Wireless on Wednesday finally made the Motorola DROID BIONIC official, again, along with release details and pricing. The sleek Android smartphone launches Thursday, September 8th, for a heft...
Did Wal-Mart Throw A Lawsuit To Get Access To Netflix Customers?
Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) recently surged into third place in the movie-download business, barely a year after buying the startup Vudu. Now, the giant internet retailer may have scored another coup.
Exclusive: Facebook first half revenue hits $1.6 billion: source
(Reuters) - Facebook's revenue rose to $1.6 billion in 2011's first half, a source with knowledge of its financials told Reuters. — Net income in the first half of 2011 came to almost $500 million, ...