iPhone 4S Teardown
iFixit: “Siri, may we disassemble you for all to see?” iPhone 4S (Siri): “42” iFixit: “I didn't ask for the meaning of life, Siri...” iPhone 4S (Siri): “42 is the number of seconds you have left until...
What We Are Seeing
The Wall Street Journal has a story out today that says “Web Startups Hit Cash Crunch.” There has been a fair bit of reaction in the tech blogs and I thought I'd toss into the discussion some things ...
Google Announces Third Quarter 2011 Financial Results
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2011. — “We had a great quarter,” said Larry Page, CEO of Google. “Revenue was up 33% year on year a...
Apple's New IPhone Sells Out at U.S. Carriers
Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s latest iPhone has sold out for pre-order at AT&T Inc. (T), Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) according to the carriers' websites, signaling customer demand even before i...
U.S. judge says Samsung tablets do infringe Apple
(Reuters) - A U.S. judge said Samsung's Galaxy tablets do infringe Apple's iPad patents, but also said Apple might have a problem establishing the validity of its patents. — The comments from U.S. D...
Zynga Reveals Just How Much Power Mark Pincus Has
We already knew that Mark Pincus had considerable control over his online social-gaming company Zynga thanks to a multi-class stock structure. Now we know exactly how much that voting power represent...
MacBook Pros constrained, new models appear in Apple's inventory system
Apple's current line of MacBook Pros is heavily constrained with all models appearing to be nearly out of stock. Don't fear, though, if you want a MacBook Pro because new models are right around the ...
Khosla Venture's $1.05 Billion Fund
Venture-Capital Firm Plans to Invest in Clean Tech, Mobile Companies — Khosla Ventures, the venture-capital firm run by longtime Silicon Valley investor Vinod Khosla, closed a $1.05 billion fund tha...
Duck Duck Go
When I first got into the venture capital business in the early 90s, it seemed to me that half of the deals I brought to the partnership were dismissed with the line “sure it's cool but what the heck ...
Scott Forstall, the Sorcerer's Apprentice at Apple
The iOS chief is a lot like his mentor Steve Jobs: brilliant, presents well, a tenacious infighter—arguably just the taskmaster Apple needs to stay on top — The deteriorating health of Steve Jobs lo...
Steve Jobs patent enables Apple to shut down any new Android product in Australia
In a posthumous triumph for the late Steve Jobs, one of his more than 300 patents — a patent on touchscreen heuristics — just helped Apple score a major legal win in Australia that lends momentum …
Hulu Equity Owners Announce Decision To Terminate The Hulu Sale Process
The following is a joint statement from Hulu owners News Corporation, Providence Equity Partners, The Walt Disney Company and the Hulu senior management team: — “Since Hulu holds a unique and compel...
RIM Says Service Back Globally After Outage
Research In Motion said on Thursday that its service is returning to normal levels following a days-long outage in Europe that spread globally. — “BlackBerry services are operating well globally,” t...
Social Search
Today we're pleased to announce the beta launch of bitly's search platform and reputation monitoring service. — bitly shortens 80 million URLs every day, give or take a few. Now, with our new searc...
40% of Tablet and Smartphone Owners Use Them While Watching TV
American consumers are increasingly connected and our recent survey shows they are increasingly multitasking when it comes to multimedia. — Roughly 40 percent of tablet and smartphone owners in the ...
Google Said to Be Planning an MP3 Store
Five months after it introduced a cloud music service with limited capabilities, Google is in negotiations with the major record labels to expand that service and also open an MP3 store that would com...
Dell World: Dell gearing up to launch Windows 8 devices as Android disappoints
AUSTIN: Dell is throwing its weight firmly behind the Windows 8 tablet platform in a bid to challenge the dominance of the Apple iPad 2. — Michael Dell, founder and chief executive of Dell …
The Windows 8 Task Manager
Video: Mitt Romney on how he tried to hire Steve Ballmer
(Post updated with excerpts from Romney's remarks on free trade.) — I'm over in Redmond this afternoon to hear Mitt Romney, one of the leading candidates for the Republican presidential nomination, ...
Windows Phone, a year on
Windows Phone is in limbo. The company acknowledged that it has performed below expectations. During the last quarter for which we have data (ending June) I have an estimate that Windows Phone sold ...
KKR, Blackstone Said to Weigh Yahoo Takeover
KKR & Co. and Blackstone Group LP (BX) are among the private-equity firms considering possible bids for Yahoo! Inc., according to people with knowledge of the matter. — The firms may become part of ...
Dennis Ritchie 1941-2011: Message from Jeong Kim
Dennis Ritchie (right) receiving the Japan Prize in May 2011 — [Message from Jeong Kim, President, Bell Labs, to our employees] — It is with great sadness that I inform you that Dennis Ritchie has...
Samsung and Google Reschedule Android Event for Oct. 19 in Hong Kong
Samsung and Google have rescheduled the Ice Cream Sandwich launch event that was to have taken place this past Tuesday. The companies postponed the event in the wake of Steve Jobs's death.
Microsoft inks Android, Chrome deal with Quanta
Microsoft has signed a patent deal with Quanta Computer, the latest in an ongoing effort to convince hardware makers that they need to license technology from the software giant if they intend to use ...
Google Maps puts WebGL 3D graphics to use
WebGL isn't just for bouncy-marble demos anymore. Google Maps, a major site, now uses the 3D graphics technology after years of development.
The iCloud tax for Mac users
Last night, I updated my iPod touch to iOS 5. Lots of people had reported problems, but my update went smoothly, and soon I was going through the setup for some of the new features, such as iMessage,...
20 Million Stumblers!
We are excited to announce that StumbleUpon has just reached 20 million members! We've come a long way over the last few years, and I wanted to thank all of our Stumblers for helping us get to this p...
Mobile data traffic doubled in past 12 months
Thanks to our obsession with our iPhones, Android devices and iPads, the demand for mobile data is exploding. Data from Ericsson, which makes a majority of its money by selling hardware to mobile pho...
“We Are Absolutely in a Feature Race,” Says Bradley Horowitz of Google+
As Facebook changes to become more about personal expression and oversharing, and Twitter maintains it will stay simple rather than get caught up in a feature race, how will Google+ respond?
Privacy alert: Verizon is now monitoring your mobile Web habits
Verizon Wireless users, listen up: — Verizon is making a significant change to its privacy policy for mobile users this week. By default, the company will now use a bunch of your info for “certain ...
IRS Auditing How Google Shifted Profits Offshore to Avoid Taxes
Oct. 13 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Internal Revenue Service is auditing how Google Inc. avoided federal income taxes by shifting profit into offshore subsidiaries, according to a person with knowledge of ...
Steve Jobs patent enables Apple to shut down any new Android product in Australia
In a posthumous triumph for the late Steve Jobs, one of his more than 300 patents — a patent on touchscreen heuristics — just helped Apple score a major legal win in Australia that lends momentum …
LightSquared: GPS fix to cost industry $400M
SAN DIEGO—Start-up wireless provider LightSquared said today it will cost the commercial GPS industry as much as $400 million for gear that will eliminate the interference potentially caused by its pl...
SOS Online Backup launches cloud backup for Facebook, devices
Service will store data from mobile devices and desktop computers; will extend service to Twitter, Gmail by year's end — SOS Online Backup today announced a cloud-based backup service for mobile dev...
‘Angry Birds’ Maker May Hold IPO in 2012, Mighty Eagle Says
By Jon Erlichman and Diana ben-Aaron - October 13, 2011 — Rovio Entertainment Oy, the Finnish creator of “Angry Birds” mobile-phone games, may sell shares to the public as early as next year and is ...