Jobs's final plan: an ‘integrated’ Apple TV
View Photo Gallery — Steve Jobs, who co-founded Apple and revolutionized personal computing, died Oct. 5. He suffered from a rare form of pancreatic cancer. — The new biography on Steve Jobs has a...
Here's what actually matters about Groupon (and what doesn't)
Cue the knives and daggers! Groupon is proceeding with its IPO process, and will reportedly conduct its big road show next week. You can watch CEO Andrew Mason pitch the company to potential investo...
Engineer who ripped Jeff Bezos returns with mea culpa, and a story about the Amazon founder
Last week, Google engineer Steve Yegge accidentally posted a fascinating 4,771 word rant in which he attacked his employer and ripped his former boss, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, as a tight-fisted ...
Why computer voices are mostly female
(CNN) — To most owners of the new iPhone, the voice-activated feature called Siri is more than a virtual “assistant” who can help schedule appointments, find a good nearby pizza or tell you if it's go...
Google pays $100 million for offices in Mountain View, extending a property-buying surge
Google (GOOG) bought a big office complex in Mountain View, in its largest property purchase of 2011 in Silicon Valley, a deal that broadens the tech titan's remarkable expansion plans in the region.
Galaxy Nexus coming to Verizon ‘this year’
Verizon has just confirmed that it's getting the LTE-enabled version of Samsung's Galaxy Nexus — the first Ice Cream Sandwich device, announced to considerable fanfare earlier this week — though it's ...
1 in 4 tablets from last quarter run on Android? Hmmm.....
Shock image threshold falls under internet pressure
(Reuters) - The threshold for publishing gruesome images like those of Muammar Gaddafi's death is falling as the internet and social media make many of the editorial decisions that used to be left to ...
Google Voice app returns to iTunes, iOS 5 crash bug fixed
Less than a week after it disappeared from iTunes, the Apple-friendly Google Voice app is back and declared iOS 5 friendly, per its official Twitter account. Also improved is operation when you don't...
Amazon Throws A Minor Curveball With HTML5-Powered Kindle Format 8
Amazon has announced an update to the Kindle file format integrating many HTML5 tags and CSS attributes. Many expected a concession by Amazon in the form of an EPUB-compatible upgrade, and this comes...
T-Mobile wants the iPhone, but only if it's AWS-compatible
In an official statement released on Thursday, T-Mobile SVP of Marketing Andrew Sherrard addressed T-Mobile's absence from the lineup of U.S. carriers offering the iPhone — a list that now even includ...
Murdoch says Myspace was “mismanaged in every possible way”, could have sold for $6 billion
To say that News Corp has had some problems over the past few years would be a grievous understatement, but that's about the best way in which it can be stated. In short, the company has been a carni...
Sprint to nix ‘unlimited’ from mobile broadband and hotspot plans in November
We'd heard rumblings that unlimited data for Sprint's mobile hotspot plan was going the way of the dodo, but come November folks, it'll be official. Data sent and received over tethering — not smartp...
Facebook Testing “Facebook Credits for Websites” That Helps Third-Party Sites Sell Virtual Goods
Facebook has just announced a closed, limited test in which for the first time it will allow websites to process payments for virtual goods using Facebook Credits.
ITC staff dismisses public interest concerns over possible ban of HTC Android devices
Are Apple and Android engaged in a battle to death, and who will go down? That's the big discussion topic du jour. — The Associated Press published excerpts from Steve Jobs's biography according …
Building a Firewall for the Facebook Generation
Palo Alto Networks is updating the corporate firewall to handle modern Web services like social networks, Skype, and Google Docs — For the past 15 years or so, security pros have relied on the trust...
The Next Web appoints CEO
In January 2008 we started The Next Web Blog with a .org domain name. Since then a lot has changed and we've grown from a bunch of guys passionate about the web to a real company and even more import...
Reed Hastings Knows He Messed Up
Part of Steve Jobs's legacy is how incredibly well he managed the Apple product rollouts. What do you think Jobs, who never minced words, would say about how Netflix has operated in the last three mo...
Dropbox's Mobile API Gets A Security Boost (And Is Now Mobile Web-Friendly)
Red-hot startup Dropbox — you know, the file syncing service that just raised $250 million at a $4 billion valuation — has announced something this week that's getting slightly less attention than its...
HEY, GROUPON HATERS, ANALYZE THIS: Groupon Breaks Even In Q3
For the past six months, just about every pundit in the world has piled on Groupon, denouncing it as a crappy, fraudulent Ponzi scheme that will ultimately collapse in a heap. — At the heart of this...
Last week I accidentally posted an internal rant
Amazingly, nothing bad happened to me at Google.
Android Tablets Gained on IPad in Third Quarter, Researcher Says
Sales of tablet computers running Google Inc. (GOOG)'s Android software rose last quarter at the expense of Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s iPad, after companies led by Samsung Electronics Co. introduced new mode...
Al Gore on Steve Jobs: He's The Kind of Guy That Comes Along Once Every 250 Years
As an Apple board member, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore spent a lot of time with company co-founder Steve Jobs, who passed away earlier this month. During an interview at AsiaD today …
Verizon sold 2M iPhones last quarter, 700K less than AT&T
Verizon, the largest wireless carrier in the U.S., sold two million iPhone 4 units last quarter, falling 700,000 short of rival AT&T. The carrier also declined to reveal its launch numbers for the iPh...
Apple airs its first amazing iPhone 4S Siri commercial
Apple has aired their first television commercial about the iPhone 4S and it is amazing. The commercial is about the iPhone 4S Siri voice command feature and the ad goes through a few real-world uses...
A Google TV 2.0 Sneak Peak
After reading my Google TV 2.0 lament, our friend Scott Greczkowski of Satellite Guys passed us a few dozen action shots of the upcoming lean back experience. — The original Google TV initiative, co...
Android Market reaches half a million successful submissions
37% of published apps have been removed from the Android Market. — Download our free Android Market Insights Vol. 6. — Over the past few months, the Android Market has been maintaining an exponent...
Exclusive: Yahoo Overhauls Marketing Unit — The Internal Memo
The Internal Memo — Yahoo is drastically rejiggering its marketing division, according to an internal memo sent today to employees from its Chief Marketing Officer Elisa Steele, in a move that seems ...
BitTorrent Throttling Internet Providers Exposed
Hundreds of ISPs all over the world limit and restrict BitTorrent traffic on their networks. Unfortunately, most companies are not very open about their network management solutions. — Thanks to da...
Mobile phone brain cancer link rejected
Mobile phone safety has been much debated over the past two decades — Further research has been published suggesting there is no link between mobile phones and brain cancer. — The risk mobiles pre...
Nintendo Gets Serious About Streaming, Announces Hulu Plus Will Soon Hit The Wii, 3DS
Hulu Plus has long been missing from the Wii leaving Netflix as the only major streaming service on the gaming console. But that changes soon. Nintendo just announced that Hulu Plus will soon be ava...
The Inside Scoop on Facebook's $1.6 Billion Ad Machine
Why Facebook Will Surpass $4 Billion In Revenue This Year — Facebook has become a ubiquitous part of our culture and day-to-day lives. Still, many in the ad industry reacted with surprise when the ...