Biographer: Jobs refused early and potentially life-saving surgery
Apple CEO Steve Jobs refused to allow surgeons to perform what could have been life-saving surgery on his pancreatic cancer, says his biographer Walter Isaacson. In one of his deepest discussions wit...
AT&T Activates One Million iPhone 4S'
Activations Surpass All Previous Launches; Customers Prefer AT&T Speed Advantage — AT&T today announced it activated more than 1 million iPhone 4S' as of Tuesday, making it the most successful iPhon...
HOW TO: Spy on the Webcams of Your Website Visitors
Update (10/19): CNET says that Adobe is working on a fix and it could be ready by end of week. — Update (10/19): Adobe emailed me and said “our product team is wrapping up their investigation and is...
Upcoming changes to Reader: a new look, new Google+ features, and some clean-up
In the next week, we'll be making some highly requested changes to Google Reader. First, we're going to introduce a brand new design (like many of Google's other products) that we hope you love.
Microsoft to Help Halve Phone Costs Next Year in ‘Volume’ Drive
Oct. 20 (Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp. expects production costs of handsets using Windows Phone 7 software next year to drop by more than half from when the platform was introduced. — Cooperation wit...
A New Look for Gmail
A video from Google's YouTube channel (update: the video is now private, but there's a mirror here) introduces a new Gmail interface. It's based on the Preview theme that's already available in Gmail...
Microsoft Revenue Up 7% To $17.37B, Earnings At $0.68 Per Share
Microsoft just reported its first quarter 2012 earnings today with revenues of $17.37 billion, an 7% increase from the same period of the prior year. Microsoft's operating income was $7.20 billion, i...
Visual.ly Raises $2 Million To Make Even More Infographics
Visual.ly, the team built from the infographics team behind Mint's spectacular infographics, has raised $2 million in seed funding, led by Crosslink Capital, SoftTech and 500 Startups as well as angel...
ASUS' Jonney Shih unveils Transformer Prime Android tablet: 10-inch, 8.3mm, quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 3
Whoa, Nelly! ASUS head honcho Jonney Shih just revealed the “next-generation Transformer tablet” here at AsiaD! It's the same one that we saw teased just yesterday …
iPhone 4S Carries BOM of $188, IHS iSuppli Teardown Analysis Reveals
On the outside, the iPhone 4S may have disappointed some with its perceived lack of new features. But on the inside, the latest member of the iPhone line includes a wealth of innovation, including a ...
Not Just Google: Siri Searches Bing And Yahoo Too
Earlier tonight Danny Sullivan discovered that Siri will also search Bing and Yahoo, though it searches Google by default. If you say, “Search the web for . . .” or you ask Siri a question it can't a...
Samsung Beats Apple in Smartphone Shipments
HONG KONG—Samsung Electronics Co. shipped more than 20 million smartphones in the quarter ended Sept. 30, a person familiar with the situation said Thursday, beating close competitor Apple Inc., which...
Yahoo's Jerry Yang: There Are Plenty of Options Beyond Sale
Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang said on Thursday that the company's board continues its strategic review process, but that there are a number of options beyond just selling the company. — “The intent go...
Google+ Guru Bradley Horowitz On Products, Platforms and that Pesky Memo
While Google has struggled mightily in its early efforts to “get the social thing,” it has managed to get more than a few people to try out its latest effort, Google+. — But the question of just how...
Apple Working on a Thinner MacBook Pro Design
While Intel is obsessed with pushing their Ultrabooks into the market to attack Apple's MacBook Air, Apple is working on producing a thinner MacBook Pro for road warriors who need the convenience of a...
This Is The Google Music “Twist”: You Can Share Songs After Buying Them
Yesterday, Google mobile head Andy Rubin said that the company's long-awaited music store will have some kind of twist. — Now we know what it is. — A person in the recording industry who has been ...
Apple taking iOS 5 on a world tour for developers November through January
In past years, Apple has held “Tech Talk World Tours” for developers, covering their latest version of iOS. Now that iOS 5 has been released into the wild, Apple has announced that the iOS 5 Tech Tal...
First Look: AT&T's new HTC TITAN, Samsung Focus S and Samsung Focus Flash
Just a few minutes ago at the All Things D Asia conference, Windows Phone President Andy Lees gave the world its first look at AT&T's new lineup of new Windows Phones. We talked speeds and feeds on t...
Jobs questioned authority all his life, book says
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A new biography portrays Steve Jobs as a skeptic all his life - giving up religion because he was troubled by starving children, calling executives who took over Apple “corrupt” a...
Anyone with a Smart Cover can break into your iPad 2
Talk over an iPhone 4S security flaw regarding Siri working from the Lock screen has made the rounds the past few days, but this “security flaw” is not so much a flaw, but an indented feature from App...
Samsung Beats Apple in Smartphone Shipments
HONG KONG—Samsung Electronics Co. shipped more than 20 million smartphones in the quarter ended Sept. 30, a person familiar with the situation said Thursday, beating market leader Apple Inc. as well a...
Coupon Craze Continues With CouponCabin Raising $54 Million
Investors are seeing a smart shopping opportunity in the age-old practice of saving and redeeming coupons. — CouponCabin.com of Whiting, Ind., is the latest online coupon company to raise capital. ...
Twitter Founder: Can't Compete in China
“The unfortunate fact is …
The Multitasking Jack Dorsey on the Inspiration of Steve Jobs
Jack Dorsey says he takes a lot of inspiration for what he does from late Apple founder Steve Jobs. — When he designs products, whether at Twitter or Square, Dorsey said he aims to create products t...
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates: Exclusive bio excerpt in Fortune Monday
They were the best of frenemies for nearly 30 years. Walter Isaacson has the inside story. — Click to enlarge. Image: Time Inc. — The first excerpt from the year's most eagerly awaited — and car...
Google Hits Space Bars
Ever since Google Inc. bought its New York City headquarters for $1.9 billion in 2010, the tech giant has been dealing with a new role: landlord. — Google has shown it's making a big economic bet on...
Exclusive: Kingdom Eyes Twitter Stake
The ultra-wealthy Saudi investor who owns stakes in Citigroup and News Corporation is examining a swoop on the internet industry that would involve acquiring hundreds of millions of dollars-worth of s...
Samsung's Won-Pyo Hong: Galaxy Nexus wasn't designed just to skirt Apple patents
Well, so much for that. Samsung's Executive Vice President of Product Strategy — Won-Pyo Hong — didn't say a whole heck of a lot on stage here at AsiaD, but he did clarify one thing near the end of h...
Venture Capitalists, Secondary Markets And How Everyone Is A Facebook “Investor”
Venture firms have been buying stock on secondary markets in quasi-public companies for some time. This means they're buying stock from other stockholders, not investing money into the company.