Leo Apotheker's last memo to HP employees
Leo Apotheker may not be the CEO of Hewlett-Packard anymore — Meg Whitman took his place this morning — but the former chief executive didn't head out the door without sending one last memorandum to h...
A Business Insider retrospective
After reading Ryan McCarthy's post at Reuters about Business Insider, I wanted to run some numbers. — After all, they've linked to nearly every significant article I've written for the last few year...
Here Comes the Next Bump for Netflix: A Blockbuster/Dish Streaming Service
It's been a bad few months for Netflix. Today might be another lousy day: Dish Network is holding a press conference at 1 pm ET, and the odds are very, very, very good the satellite TV company will u...
Defect in Wintek-made touch panels may influence initial iPhone 5 shipments
A defect has presented in some iPhone 5 touch panels produced by Wintek which may affect the ability to meet initial shipment targets for the launch which is expected in October, according to iPhone s...
uTorrent Adds Android, iOS, PS3 and Xbox Integration
With more than 100 million active users a month and a market share of nearly 50 percent, uTorrent is without doubt the most-used BitTorrent client. — Despite the success story that it is, the uTorre...
Cellphone service comes to some NYC subway stations
New Yorkers will finally be able to use their cellphones in subway stations—as long as their commute takes them through one neighborhood in Manhattan. — The 6 line in New York, one of the train line...
AT&T begins Mango update program September 27th. Full details.
For all of you on AT&T and awaiting Mango, we have some big news for you, so grab yourself a seat, because you're hearing it here first. Looks like that earlier info about “being on time” was accurat...
Motorola Edison (Atrix 2) for AT&T preview
Motorola has been rumored lately to be working on an AT&T smartphone codenamed “Edison” that would likely replace the Atrix 4G in the lineup, and as luck would have it, we had an opportunity to play w...
Microsoft clears up Linux confusion over Windows 8 Secure Boot feature
Microsoft chose to directly respond to confusion surrounding its Windows 8 Secure Boot feature on Thursday. — Microsoft's Windows chief, Steven Sinofsky, admitted there had been some comments recent...
Oracle seeks $1.16 billion from Google in Android case
(Reuters) - Oracle Corp on Thursday estimated it suffered roughly $1.16 billion of damages from Google Inc's alleged copyright and patent infringement of Java technology used in the Android operating ...
Google Overhauls Product Search, Plans To Close Boutiques.com
Google's new Product Search home page is very un-Googley. Dare I say that it actually looks ... stylish? — It's dominated by an oversized image area that changes through a series of five different ...
FT Web-based app more popular than app sold in Apple store
(Reuters) - More than 700,000 people use the Financial Times' Web-based mobile application to access news and other content, making it more popular than the version sold in Apple's App Store. — The ...
Apple and Dropbox partner with the EFF to fight for user privacy in Congress
Apple and Dropbox have become two of the first technology companies named in a call-to-action by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to agree to stand up against the U.S Government's demands for ...
LEAKED MEMO: Jerry Yang Tells Yahoos The Company Is For Sale
After Yahoo fired CEO Carol Bartz, cofounder Jerry Yang told employees that the company had not begun a sales process. — Since then, reports here and elsewhere have suggested that is a bunch of mala...
TechCrunch Founder Michael Arrington Launches A New Blog, Uncrunched
TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, who recently left the company he founded over six years ago, is back in action. Or at least, he has proven that he still knows how to set up a WordPress blog.
Google+ for iOS Update: Mobile Hangouts, New Notification Settings, And More
A major update to the official Google+ app for iOS has been released on the App Store, and it adds the features mentioned by Google earlier this week when the service hit official “beta” status (open ...
Comcast Working on iPad TV Streaming Service Called AnyPlay
Comcast, the United States' largest cable and internet provider, is working on a television streaming solution for iPads, to compete with Cablevision and Time Warner. The streaming product was announ...
Uh-Oh: Groupon Loses New COO, Who's Going Back to Google
In a blog it just posted, Groupon said its recently hired COO, Margo Georgiadis, “has decided to return to Google (her former employer) in a new role as President, Americas.” — She was only hired in...
What's Next?
So, as promised, here's an update on what I'm doing next. It's pretty exciting. [Update: so exciting, in fact, that while I was writing this post, Henry Blodget scooped me on my own news.] — I'm s...