Helicopter view of your driving directions on Google Maps
Getting directions is one of the most popular features on Google Maps, whether it be for driving, walking, biking or transit. Today, we are launching a new feature that allows you to bring your upcom...
Alibaba's Jack Ma at Stanford: “We Are Very Interested” in Buying the “Whole” of Yahoo
In answer to a direct question about whether his company was going to buy Yahoo at a forum at Stanford University in Silicon Valley this afternoon, Alibaba Chairman and CEO Jack Ma said: “We are very ...
Teardrop Skepticism
Preface: I don't know what the new iPhone looks like. I don't even know whether there's only one new iPhone. The only thing I know is that there existed, months ago, “N94” prototype iPhones that loo...
Problems with Microsoft Security Essentials
Earlier today, we learned that the Microsoft Security Essentials tool began falsely identifying Google Chrome as a piece of malware ("PWS:Win32/Zbot") and removing it from people's computers. — If C...
Apple welcomes some users to iCloud with early email
As Apple prepares to introduced its iCloud service alongside iOS 5 and its new iPhone hardware in the next two weeks, the company appears to have let some “Welcome to iCloud” emails slip out early. —...
‘iPhone 5’ Silicone Sleeves Already Arriving at AT&T Retail Stores
Earlier today, we noted that Case-Mate cases for the redesigned “iPhone 5” had appeared in AT&T's inventory database. The addition yielded the interesting observation that AT&T is apparently placing ...
Amazon's $199 Fire sparks supply, margin questions
(Reuters) - The rock-bottom price of the new Kindle Fire tablet computer is raising questions about Amazon.com Inc's ability to keep up with demand and the device's effect on the company's already raz...
Amazon Sells Kindle Fire at Low Profit Margin to Promote Online Merchandize Sales
An IHS analysis reveals Amazon's business model for its new Kindle Fire tablet, with the company willing to settle for a razor-thin margin on sales of devices and digital content in order to achieve …
Ellison Takes New Swings at H-P
Larry Ellison, Oracle Corp.'s iconoclastic chief executive, has passed up few chances to tweak rival Hewlett-Packard Co. But the verbal potshots this week concerning H-P's $10.3 billion acquisition of...
How the Kindle Moved From BlackBerry to iPad
Do you remember the first generation Amazon Kindle? Although it helped change the publishing industry, it wasn't exactly the prettiest gadget. It was clunky, a strange shape, and looked more like a ...
Nokia paying developers to build Windows Phone apps
San Francisco (CNN) — As Nokia prepares for its next crucial venture into the U.S. and high-end smartphones, the Finnish cell-phone maker is missing a crucial piece: an abundant catalog of application...
Google's first store pops up in London
It is the ultimate brand of the internet era. But today Google embraces a more traditional form of retail technology for the first time in its short history. — The world's first “Google store” open...
Major security flaw lets anyone bypass AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II security [video]
BGR has uncovered a major security flaw on AT&T's version of the Samsung Galaxy S II that renders Android's security lock feature completely useless. Using a simple workaround, the security hole allo...
This Guy Built His Own iPhone 5 “Design Prototype”
Oh, you think you're a hardcore Apple fan? Sure, you might have plastered the back window of your hybrid with Apple stickers. Yeah, you've got something MG Jobs said painted on the wall above your b...
Amazon has Palm in its shopping cart — will it click Buy? (exclusive)
will it click Buy? (exclusive) — Who will save what's left of Palm from HP's bumbling? It could be Amazon, as the online retailing giant is in serious negotiations to snap up Palm from HP, VentureBe...
Aloha! 450 Google+ Employees Are In Hawaii For Offsite
Not sure how the tech press managed to miss this. Some 450 people who work on Google Plus are currently in Hawaii for an offsite. For tax purposes, we understand, the event involves work. But in re...
Apple removes click-wheel games from iTunes as iPod classic lives its last days
As Apple is rumored to discontinue its aging hard-drive-based iPod classic, the company has removed a section from the iTunes Store devoted to click-wheel games. — Users used to be able to access a ...
Next iPhone to likely come in 64GB, 32GB, and 16GB capacities
Following the news that Apple's new iPhone N94 device has appeared in the Apple internal inventory system, we are now hearing that this new iPhone will come in three storage capacities. Given that we...
Major Usenet Provider Ordered to Remove All Infringing Content
Two years ago BREIN, representing the movie and music industries, took News-Service.com (NSE) to court. — The group demanded that the Usenet provider delete all infringing content from its servers, ...
Apple's NDA Disclosed: Why You Won't See The iPhone 5 Until Tim Cook's Ready
An insider offers new details about the ironclad security around Apple prototypes: private jets, windowless rooms, amorphous storage cases padlocked to tables whose wood grain signatures are photograp...
Yahoo Favors Its Own Download Site, Then Offers Yahoo Toolbar Download, Too
While the US government accuses Google of, in part, favoring its own properties in search results, Yahoo appears to be doing the same thing on download-related searches. And, in the process of offeri...
Amazon likely to outsource 10.1-inch tablet PCs to Foxconn
Amazon is expected to outsource the production of 10.1-inch tablet PCs to Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry), and shipments of the 10.1-inch tablets are likely to begin before year-end 2...
IBM Tops Microsoft to Become Second-Most Valuable in Technology
International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) passed Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) to become the world's second-most valuable technology company, a reflection of industry changes including the shift away from ...
Adobe's Announcement Competes With Apple's
Are you excited about the announcement next Tuesday morning? You know the one, from that Silicon Valley tech company that begins with an A? — No, I'm not talking about the long-awaited unveiling of...
Best Buy To Cut The HTC Flyer Tablet To $299 On October 1st
Watch out for falling tablet prices! No, seriously, don't get burned by price cuts. The HTC Flyer is the latest tablet to see a major price reduction. Starting tomorrow, October 1st, Best Buy will ...
Yahoo Is Having A Big Mystery Press Conference Monday
Yahoo's president of Americas, Ross Levinsohn, will speak at a press conference early Monday morning to announce some as-of-yet undisclosed news. We'll be there! Our guess is this is not a press con...
Ubuntu One now works on Windows!
It's been a long time coming but today we are thrilled to tell you that the much anticipated Ubuntu One official client for Windows is now available for download. — A question we get asked a lot is....
Nexus Prime, Droid HD, Vigor show in Verizon Cellebrite unit
Nexus Prime and more tracked in Verizon system — Three flagship Android phones Verizon have surfaced in the Cellebrite catalog system that both confirms their Verizon attachments as well as that the...
Smart cities get their own operating system
Smart cities with devices chatting to each other may dot the planet in the near future — Cities could soon be looking after their citizens all by themselves thanks to an operating system designed fo...
Will.I.Am's Google+ profile gets the ultimate promotion: A link on Google's front page
How's this for a way to get into more people's Google+ circles? Google is currently promoting a Google+ Hangout from the band Black Eyed Peas on its coveted front page - linking directly to frontman ...
E-book ‘missing content’? Amazon must do better
Neal Stephenson's “Reamde” is for sale at Amazon. — It looks like Kindle e-book customers have found a digital-era hole in customer service that Amazon needs to fix. — Those readers are giving Ama...
Former Googler Builds Site That Shows You What Top Tech Companies Pay
Last night at an informal gathering of tech people, someone likened Silicon Valley to a “Las Vegas for people who want to make crazy s**t” equating VCs and angel investors to gamblers of sorts.
Widespread MobileMe Outage Affecting Mail, Me.com, and Find My iPhone
A number of Apple's MobileMe services appear to have been down for several hours now, and Apple's system status page indicates that the company is experiencing issues with MobileMe Mail, me.com web ap...
The Inside Story of the Kelihos Botnet Takedown
Earlier this week, Microsoft released a n announcement about the disruption of a dangerous botnet that was responsible for spam messages, theft of sensitive financial information, pump-and-dump stock...
Timelines.com Sues Facebook, Says Its New Timeline Feature Could “Eliminate” Them
Timelines Inc., a small venture capital-backed Chicago company that operates the Timelines.com website, has launched a trademark-infringement suit against Facebook on Thursday, claiming that the latte...
IBM Tops Microsoft to Become Second-Most Valuable in Technology
Sept. 30 (Bloomberg) — International Business Machines Corp. passed Microsoft Corp. to become the world's second-most valuable technology company, a reflection of industry changes including the shift ...
Samsung Electronics Gives Apple Proposal to End Australia Patent Dispute
Samsung Electronics Co. made a proposal to Apple Inc. to resolve their patent dispute in Australia regarding touch-screen technology, a Sydney court was told today. — Samsung lawyer David Catterns d...
Number of Circles you're in on Google+ showing up in Google search
If you're an author and decided to take the markup steps that Google+ announced a while back, your Google+ follower numbers are showing up next to your profile in Google search results. — In June, G...
Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus official: 1.2GHz dual-core processor and thinner body coming at end of October
Unwilling to be outdone by Amazon and its new 7-inch Android tablet, Samsung has gone back to the form factor of its first slate device and updated it with a new Plus model.
Apple exploring accelerometer, gyro stabilization for iPhone video recording
Using the built-in accelerometer and gyroscope, future iPhones could compensate for shaky video recordings with new software-based stabilization. — Apple's interest in allowing users to record bette...
Oracle to Launch NoSQL Database at OpenWorld
Oracle plans to launch and demo a NoSQL database at Oracle OpenWorld next week along with a Hadoop data builder and in-memory data store. — According to information from the Oracle Open World Web si...
AOL's Seed Is ‘Defunct’
AOL launched Seed, its platform for freelancers, to great fanfare in late 2009. — It was intended as a way for AOL to solicit content from freelancers. Editors would post stories, and writers would...
So it begins...AT&T starts sending out throttling warnings
Reddit user skelatwork shows the text he just got from AT&T. He was over 11GB (!!) today for the month which is pretty hefty to say the least. Next month, he's probably going to get throttled as per...
Is Apple Shoring up their Multi-Touch Patent Claims for Battle?
On September 29, 2011, the US Patent & Trademark Office published two multi-touch related patent applications from Apple that revealed a very odd twist. Apple had just been granted two identical pate...
Report: Google Remains ‘Most Attractive Employer’ Among Business, Engineering Students
Universum, a company that specializes in employer branding, has published some findings based on the preferences of over 160,000 career seekers with a business or engineering background from the world...
The early days of Techcrunch
I remember it well: back in June 2005, I sent Michael Arrington an email criticizing his personal blog design. I also remember that design quite well - it really did look like crap. Mike and I had b...
GetJar: We've given away $1 million worth of premium apps
Independent app store GetJar said today that it had given away $1 million worth of pay applications through its Gold program. — GetJar is just one of many alternative app stores that have sprung up ...