Apotheker's Exit Is Cheaper Than Expected For HP (But Still Pricey, Considering)
Léo Apotheker is gone from Hewlett-Packard, but he left so suddenly that the board of directors didn't have time to finalize his severance package. That is until today.
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The web is getting faster, and not just the speed of the pages, but also the speed of change. Before, it was fine to build a website and modify it only when new products were launched. All of us avi...
Autonomy's reaction to Oracle's statement
A spokesperson for Autonomy said on Thursday: — “Last week in response to a question about unstructured information Oracle made some less-than-enlightened comments on the subject, which Autonomy has...
Another Whopper from Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch
Oracle issued the following statement: — “Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch continues to insist that Autonomy was never ‘shopped’ to Oracle. But now at least he remembers and admits to meeting with Oracle Pr...
Microsoft Said to Add Comcast, Verizon Pay TV to Xbox Live
Microsoft Corp. plans to offer online pay television service from Comcast Corp. (CMCSA) and Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) through Xbox Live, in an bid to channel more entertainment to its video-gam...
Amazon Kindle Fire's Silk browser sounds privacy alarm bells
Amazon announced the newest addition to their Kindle line today named Fire. The Fire is a tablet based on the Android software stack with a customized Amazon interface layered over the top. — The f...
Brazil's $12 billion iPad deal is in trouble: sources
(Reuters) - A much-hyped $12 billion plan for Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn to produce iPads in Brazil is “in doubt” due to stagnant negotiations over tax breaks and Brazil's own deep structural prob...
Goldman: Microsoft Is Getting $444 Million Annually From Android Patent Licenses
Microsoft is will generate $444 million in revenue from Android patent deals for fiscal year 2012 (started in July 1, 2011, ends June 30, 2012), according to a note from Goldman Sachs's tech analyst t...
iPhone 4S / 5 appears in Apple's inventory system, iPod touch may see price drops
Yesterday we reported that tweaked iPhone 4 models and white iPod touch models have appeared in Apple's internal inventory systems ahead of the October 4th Apple event. Today, though, comes the big n...
The Planets Are Aligned: Facebook's Spartan And iPad Projects Set To Launch Early Next Week
Earlier tonight, Alexia found and posted some screenshots of something that sure looked a lot like the mythical “Project Spartan”. Shortly thereafter, Facebook took down the page in question.
Sean Parker Is Launching a Blog
The Sean Parkington Post? Seanster? Blogify? It's not clear what former Facebook president Sean Parker will call his forthcoming blog, but it's clear the famed tech hustler is serious about the end...
Reddit users overwhelm Facebook with data requests
Summary: Reddit users appear to have flooded Facebook with personal data requests. The social network has sent an e-mail to many of them saying it just can't keep up and they will have to wait. — R...
Chrome poised to take No. 2 browser spot from Firefox
StatCounter's data points to a December 2011 take-over by Google's browser — Google's Chrome is on the brink of replacing Firefox as the second-most-popular browser, according to one Web statistics ...
AOL + TechCrunch One Year Anniversary: A Look Back And A Look Forward
“So we begin another journey. I fully intend to stay with AOL for a very, very long time.” - Me, one year ago. — A year ago yesterday we announced the acquisition of TechCrunch by Aol.
Cable company a la carte plan is more like a bait-and-switch
Charging the same for packages and extra for ESPN doesn't make cable ‘pick your own channels’ — After years of fighting the idea of offering a la carte service- or product menus, cable TV operators ...
T-Mobile also files brief in support of Samsung against Apple
T-Mobile just submitted an amicus curiae ("friend of the court") brief in support of Samsung against Apple with respect to a possible US-wide preliminary injunction, along with — a formal request for...
Apple fears Samsung tablet will ‘seduce’ customers, court told
Asher Moses — Apple fears the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 will launch on to the market “with the velocity of a fire hose” and “take away iPad 2 sales so quickly” that customers may be permanently “seduc...
With ‘frictionless sharing,’ Facebook and news orgs push boundaries of online privacy
Facebook again may have gone too far in its quest to make privacy obsolete, and this time some news organizations could get burned by going along with it. — Facebook spent years making it easier …
U.S. Capitol Police Investigating Onion Twitter Joke
The Onion botched a joke about congressmen taking children hostage this morning on Twitter. Now, the U.S. Capitol police are investigating the joke. Everyone chill out! — Today, The Onion tweeted:...
Happy and You Know It? So Are Millions on Twitter
However grumpy when they wake up, and whether they stumble to their feet in Mumbai, Mexico City or Minnetonka, Minn., people tend to brighten by breakfast time and feel their mood taper gradually to a...
Will Stanford Take the F Train to Silicon Island? Tensions Rise as Deadline for Tech Campus Approaches
Here on Silicon Island? — “One of the things that infuriates me personally is we always seem to get left out of the conversation,” said Queens Civic Congress president Patricia Dolan.
Ex-NASA Man Squeezes Cloud Onto USB Stick
Yes, you can fit a cloud on a USB stick. — Founded by several of the brains who conceived OpenStack - the open source software platform for building Amazon-like “infrastructure clouds” - San Francis...
Apple tells education: no more boxed software (except Logic)
This should come as a surprise top no one. Boxed software's days have been numbered since Apple opened the Mac App Store in January 2011, but some people refuse to see the handwriting on the wall.
VentureBeat Needs To Put On Their Big Boy Pants If They Want To Fight With TechCrunch
VentureBeat leveled quite an accusation at TechCrunch this evening, claiming that they had evidence that suggested TechCrunch was trading stories for ad buys. The evidence?
Full Tilt Poker Site Loses License
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Gambling regulators on Thursday revoked the license of Full Tilt Poker, a popular Web site that once offered gambling to thousands of players around the world, saying the site had mis...
Music Piracy Continues to Decline Thanks to Spotify
When Spotify launched their first beta in the fall of 2008, we branded it “an alternative to music piracy.” — Having the option to stream millions of tracks supported by an occasional ad, or free of...
Microsoft cracks down on Windows Phone app “spam”, limits devs to 10 apps per day
Microsoft revealed on Thursday that it plans to take a tougher stance on bulk publishing of Windows Phone apps. — The Windows Phone Marketplace is growing week by week and recently passed 30,000 app...
AVOS' Delicious Disaster: Lessons from a Complete Failure
The re-launch of social link sharing site Delicious, now under the stewardship of YouTube founders Steven Chen and Chad Hurley under their AVOS startup banner, is nothing short of a complete, mind-bog...
iOS & Android Apps: Prime-time All the Time
On broadcast television, brands seek to reach their target audiences as efficiently as possible. For example, a brand might run a TV campaign targeting 24 - 35 year old females through prime-time sho...
Fake iPhone ring busted in China: report
(Reuters) - Chinese police in Shanghai have arrested five people for making and selling fake versions of Apple Inc's iPhone, a local newspaper reported on Thursday. — Police said those arrested were...
Shazam Brings Back Unlimited Tagging in Free iPhone App
Music identification service Shazam was one of the early hits on the App Store, with the company's free iPhone application seeing 1.5 million downloads over the first few months of availability. — S...
Spotify Adds “Private Listening” Mode After Complaints From Facebook Users
Spotify CEO and Founder Daniel Ek just tweeted that Spotify is currently rolling out a new desktop client in response to complaints from Facebook users. — The new client features a “private listenin...
HTC: Windows Phone to outpace competitors
SINGAPORE—Microsoft today released Windows Phone 7.5 operating system (OS), codenamed Mango, which focuses on making devices more socially connected and better catering to users' needs such as multita...
All Aboard: Google Bus Seeks Start-Up Ideas
DUBAI — A bus branded with the Google logo will be traveling across 10 governorates in Egypt starting this week, including stops at universities in Cairo and Alexandria, scouting for the next generati...