For Jobs's Biological Father, the Reunion Never Came
RENO, Nev.—Periodically in the past year, Abdulfattah “John” Jandali would shoot off an email to Steve Jobs, the son he never met. They were simple notes: “Happy Birthday” or “I hope your health is i...
Steve Jobs Died at Home of Respiratory Arrest
Steve Jobs died at home of respiratory arrest and a pancreatic tumor at about 3 p.m. on Oct. 5, according to his death certificate. His occupation was listed as “entrepreneur.” — The Santa Clara Co...
The iPhone 4S Appears to Have 512MB RAM
Last week, the Infinity Blade developer first suggested that the iPhone 4S still had 512MB of RAM, just like the iPhone 4: … The developer would be in a position to know as they had demoed their game ...
Secret US Court Order demands email data for WikiLeaks volunteer Jacob Appelbaum
The Wall Street Journal was the first to report tonight that Jacob Appelbaum, a hacker, security researcher, and human rights activist, is the subject of a secret court order demanding his email data ...
At Long Last, Facebook Releases an iPad App
It has been the equivalent of waiting for Bigfoot. Bloggers had seen it. Developers said they had worked on it. Facebook denied its existence. Everyone else just wanted to know if it was real. — ...
Microsoft's Windows Phone Boss Says Dual-Core, LTE Models Coming
Sales of the first crop of Windows Phones may have been less than CEO Steve Ballmer was hoping for, but Windows Phone unit boss Andy Lees said the company met its more important goal — becoming credib...
Discovery orders Steve Jobs documentary with ‘Mythbusters’ hosts — EXCLUSIVE
EXCLUSIVE — Discovery has ordered a documentary on the life of the late Steve Jobs, with the Mythbusters duo on board to host. The network is teaming with NBC's Peacock Productions for iGenius: How ...
Adobe demos incredible unblur feature for Photoshop
Adobe is developing an upcoming feature for Photoshop that could end the problem of blurred photos forever. — The new feature was demoed at the company's MAX 2011 event, drawing gasps of amazement f...
Twitter Will Get “Tweet” Trademark, Settles Lawsuit
Twitter is closer to having dominion over the word “tweet.” — On Monday, James Eliason, CEO of Twittad, said in an interview that Twitter would drop a lawsuit it filed against his company last month...
Facebook Totally Caved To Apple On Its New Mobile Platform
Facebook announced a huge extension of its mobile platform today, and as long rumored, the company is going to be spreading its payment platform, Facebook Credits, to the mobile versions of all Facebo...
Reddit's jailbait shutdown may not be what it seems
r/jailbait is officiallly closed, Reddit admin Max Goodman has confirmed in a statement on Reddit. — Our original story is below. — Reddit administrators appeared to shut down r/jailbait, a contro...
Pastebin Helps Occupy Wall Street Spread the Word
A STRENGTH of the Occupy Wall Street protest movement has been its flexible organization and nondoctrinaire agenda: “The one thing we all have in common is that we are the 99 percent that will no long...
Calif. Governor Veto Allows Warrantless Cellphone Searches
California Gov. Jerry Brown is vetoing legislation requiring police to obtain a court warrant to search the mobile phones of suspects at the time of any arrest. — The Sunday veto means that when pol...
An Early Sign the Amazon Kindle Fire May Do Well
In the continuing debate over whether there is a tablet market or just an iPad market, the early signs for the iPad's toughest competitor yet, the Amazon Kindle Fire, are good. It became the number o...
Spotify Loss Widens Despite Higher Revenue
Spotify, the streaming digital music service that was just given a big boost through a partnership with Facebook, saw its revenue more than quintuple last year, but the company still lost more than $4...
iPad now 97% of tablet traffic, eclipses iPhone, iOS remains mobile leader
A new market research report notes that mobile devices now amount to almost 7 percent of all US web traffic, with Apple's iOS representing a 58.5 percent slice of all mobile traffic and the iPad now a...
The t.co URL Wrapper
Tens of millions of links are tweeted on Twitter each day. Wrapping these shared links helps Twitter protect users from malicious content while offering useful insights on engagement. All links subm...
Jerry Yang And Yahoo Cofounder David Filo “Are Not On The Same Page Right Now”
Yahoo cofounder Jerry Yang wants to raise money and buy the company back. — But Yang's cofounder, David Filo, is “not on the same page right now” regarding the direction of the company, a source cl...
DVDs will be staying at netflix.com
It is clear that for many of our members two websites would make things more difficult, so we are going to keep Netflix as one place to go for streaming and DVDs. — This means no change: one website...
HP set to decide future of Palm, webOS this week
HP is rumored to have finished the initial bidding process for its webOS unit and will hold an all-hands meeting tomorrow that may reveal its future plans for selling or spinning off the group, accord...
Venture capital fundraising waning, falls to 2003 levels
It's not a great time to be raising a venture capital fund. A new report out this morning from Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association shows that 52 venture capital firms raised ...
The new iPhone portfolio and implications on ASP
The iPhone portfolio is now larger than ever. It's arguable that, for the first time, we can actually call it a portfolio vs. the [n, n-1] pair of products that's been available to date. A year ago ...
For mobile in-app sharing, Twitter tops Facebook 3-1
Mobile developers are increasingly finding the power of social integration in their apps, which is one way to make them engaging and sticky and to help get the word out about their apps. But all soci...
Hands-on with Myriad's Alien Dalvik 2.0 on an iPad (video)
Last week, Myriad outed its plans to unveil Alien Dalvik 2.0 — which works on iOS — at CTIA, which starts today. But, knowing our readers would be chomping at the bit to see it in action a little ear...
Zynga to Detail Game Plans for Facebook Apps at “Unleashed” Event
Zynga is planning to unveil “brand-spankin' new play” at a press event tomorrow in San Francisco, where it is now expected to share its plans for leveraging Facebook's new HTML5 mobile platform.
iPhone 4S Pre-Orders Top One Million in First 24 Hours
Apple® today announced pre-orders of its iPhone® 4S have topped one million in a single day, surpassing the previous single day pre-order record of 600,000 held by iPhone 4. iPhone 4S is the most amaz...
Dart: a language for structured web programming
Today we are introducing an early preview of Dart, a class-based optionally typed programming language for building web applications. Dart's design goals are: — Create a structured yet flexible lang...
Steve Jobs's secret legacy: Dying Apple boss left plans for four years of new products
Despite knowing he was dying, Steve Jobs worked for more than a year on the products that he believed would safeguard the company's future. — It was also revealed today that Jobs fought hard …
BlackBerry services collapse
Millions of BlackBerry smartphone users have been cut off by a major fault at RIM, the Canadian company that makes the devices. — BlackBerry online services cut off — The glitch, which struck at a...
Court Order Seeks Email Data of WikiLeaks Volunteer Jacob Appelbaum
The U.S. government has obtained a controversial type of secret court order to force Google Inc. and small Internet provider Sonic.net Inc. to turn over information from the email accounts of WikiLeak...
Jobs's Death Increases Plea for Releasing $76 Billion Cash: Tech
Oct. 10 (Bloomberg) — At a meeting with Apple Inc. finance chief Peter Oppenheimer this year, investor Kishore Rao asked the company to tap its billions in cash to pay a dividend. — Oppenheimer had ...
SocialGrapple Joins Google
SocialGrapple has joined Google. The below notification was just sent out; more details to come. … SocialGrapple was created by Andrey Petrov.
Mozilla: Rising revenue, but rising challenges
Not bad for a nonprofit. — The Mozilla Foundation, the developer of the Firefox Web browser and an organization charged with defending openness on the Web, plans to report today that its revenue inc...
Acer Aspire S3 Ultrabook hits the US and Canada this week, rings in at $899
And the Ultrabooks have arrived! We just got word that the Acer Aspire S3 will go on sale in the US and Canada this week for $899 — making it the first pinch-thin, MacBook Air competitor to hit the m...