Android 4.0 ‘Ice Cream Sandwich’ official: release in November, SDK available today (updated with screenshots)
Alongside a new flagship handset (check out our hands-on with the Galaxy Nexus!), Google is announcing an all-new version of its Android OS. Codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich …
Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results
CUPERTINO, California—October 18, 2011—Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2011 fourth quarter ended September 24, 2011. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $28.27 billion and...
Ceglia lawyer withdraws from Facebook lawsuit
(Reuters) - The New York man claiming half of Facebook Inc founder Mark Zuckerberg's lucrative stake in the world's largest social networking company is replacing his main lawyer for a third time, a c...
Designing an infinite digital bookcase
(Cross-posted on the Google Code blog) — As digital designers, we often think about how to translate traditional media into a virtual space. Recently, we thought about the bookcase. What would it ...
Twitter Is At 250 Million Tweets Per Day, iOS 5 Integration Made Signups Increase 3x
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has just dropped some numbers at a dinner here at Web 2.0 Summit. Costolo revealed that the company has gone from 100 million tweets per day to 1/4 billion tweets per day — a...
How Dropbox Will Die
Dropbox, the online file system, may be “tech's hottest startup” but that does not mean the company will survive. — There is always a “ hottest startup” in tech and in most cases the level of heat i...
Caught Between Two Conferences
Two technology conferences, two blocks away from each other in San Francisco, were two worlds apart. — On Tuesday, the Web 2.0 Summit and Research In Motion's developer conference explored the futur...
Samsung accused of lifting iPhone screenshot for Galaxy Player promo
Consumer electronics maker Samsung appears to have used a nearly three-year-old screen capture of the Maps application on the iPhone to promote its own Galaxy Player 50 portable media player.
Greylock, Andreessen Horowitz Back Cloud Enterprise Performance Analytics Startup Tidemark
Tidemark, formerly known as Proferi, has closed a $4 million Series B round from existing investors Greylock Partners, Andreessen Horowitz and Dave Duffield, co-founder and co-CEO of Workday and found...
Livefyre lands $4.5M to take on Facebook comments
Livefyre, the software platform that embeds live commenting on websites, has secured $4.5 million in a new round of funding. The San Francisco-based company says it plans to use the money to hire mor...
Dropbox: The Inside Story Of Tech's Hottest Startup
Here's that rare Steve Jobs story, one that's never been told, about the company that got away. Jobs had been tracking a young software developer named Drew Houston, who blasted his way onto Apple's ...
Verizon unveils DROID RAZR by Motorola, pre-orders begin October 27th for $299.99
Verizon Wireless announced the DROID RAZR by Motorola on Tuesday, a brand new Android 2.3.5 (Gingerbread) smartphone that will take advantage of the carrier's 4G LTE network.
RIM Co-CEO unveils next-gen BBX platform
Research in Motion Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis pulled back the curtain on a new name for its next-generation operating system, BBX. BBX combines the best qualities of RIM's older BlackBerry operating syste...
Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results
Highest September Quarter Revenue and Earnings Ever — CUPERTINO, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2011 fourth quarter ended September 24, 2011. The Com...
The impact of Apple's Siri release: From the former lead iPhone developer of Siri
OCT, WED 12TH, 2011 POSTED IN : Technical, User Experience BY : Jon Pielak Comments — The Siri application released with the iPhone 4s has the potential to radically impact how we interact with tech...
Nexus Prime pic, specifications outed by NTT DoCoMo?
Samsung's official press event in Hong Kong to debut the Nexus Prime smartphone isn't until Wednesday morning, but a Japanese carrier appears to have shared details of the phone on Tuesday. NTT DoCoM...
Google Docs Presentations Get Real-Time Collaboration, Transitions and Animations
Just about a year and a half ago, most of Google's productivity apps in the Google Docs suite received major overhauls that brought real-time collaboration and a number of other new features to Google...
Khosla, Founders Fund, and Eric Schmidt Put $10 Million Into BillGuard
The other day, I mentioned in passing that Khosla Ventures invested in BillGuard, a TC Disrupt finalist from last May. Here are more details. It turns out that Khosla led the round, a $10 million se...
Preliminary Reports Surface About iPhone 4S Screen Quality Issues
There is an open discussion on Apple's discussion forum where iPhone 4S owners are reporting problems they are having with their new phones display. The majority of complaints are about how the displ...
iOS 5 Already Powering 1 in 3 Eligible Devices
The latest and greatest Apple mobile operating system, iOS 5, has been available to the public for less than a week, and yet it's already been downloaded enough to power 33% of all eligible iOS device...
Social Navigation And Traffic App Waze Raises $30M From Kleiner Perkins And Li Ka-shing
Social mapping and navigation company Waze has raised $30 million in new funding from Horizons Ventures Hong Kong (the fund that manages the private venture investments of Facebook investor Li Ka-shin...
Lookout Finally Brings Intelligent Smartphone Security And Tracking Application To iOS
Lookout, a company that offers security services for a number of smartphone platforms has long catered to the mobile security need of Android, Windows Phone 7 and BlackBerry users but has not offered ...
[Exclusive] Ice Cream Sandwich Will Finally Bring Native Screenshot Capabilities To Android
In what will probably be the last melting drop of the Ice Cream Sandwich leaks (oh the puns), we wanted to highlight one highly desired little feature ICS is finally going to bring to Android …
Oracle Buys Enterprise Search And Data Management Company Endeca
Oracle has acquired Endeca, a company that powers enterprise search for large companies. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Endeca has raised a total of $65 million from Bessemer, Venro...
New Text-to-Speech API for Chrome extensions
Interested in making your Chrome Extension (or packaged app) talk using synthesized speech? Chrome now includes a Text-to-Speech (TTS) API that's simple to use, powerful, and flexible for users. — ...
‘Dark Pool’ Looks to Bring Pre-IPO Firms to Institutions
Liquidnet Inc., a so-called dark-pool operator that specializes in keeping big investors' stock-market bets out of the public eye, plans to launch a platform that will enable trading in privately held...
HTC to acquire children's apps developer Inquisitive Minds for $13 million
Taiwanese smartphone giant HTC continues its content push with an announcement that it has agreed to acquire children's app and interface designer Inquisitive Minds Inc. for $13 million.
Viacom, Google, Restart YouTube Copyright Case
They're back! — Viacom and Google, who have been tangling over copyright violations at YouTube since 2007, will be at it again today at a federal courthouse in New York. The two sides will start or...
RIM CEO Considers Operator Compensation to Restore Trust
Research in Motion Ltd. (RIM) will this week consider offering compensation to network operators following one of its worst BlackBerry service disruptions, co- Chief Executive Officer Jim Balsillie sa...
DHS issues warning that Anonymous may attack infrastructure
Bulletin says hacker collective could soon be capable of heavily damaging industrial control systems — The U.S. government is keeping a wary eye on what it says is hacking collective Anonymous' grow...
From a single hashtag, a protest circled the world
(Reuters) - It all started innocuously enough with a July 13 blog post urging people to #OccupyWallStreet, as though such a thing (Twitter hashtag and all) were possible. — It turns out, with enough...