Flex it, baby! Nokia's new interface is seriously twisted
The Nokia kinetic device scrolls through photos and music playlists when its edges are twisted. — LONDON—Multitouch revolutionized user interfaces, and if Nokia researchers get their way, a mobile d...
Nokia Lumia 800 announced: an ‘evolved’ N9 with Windows Phone for €420
It's all come down to this. Nokia CEO Stephen Elop showed us his flagship Windows Phone over four months ago — a spitting image of our beloved Nokia N9 - and today we finally find out what's under th...
Why Amazon Is Happy to Burn Money on the Kindle Fire
Yet another big name Internet stock got punished for missing Wall Street's expectations yesterday. This time it was Amazon, which reported lower operating margins for Q3, and presumably more worrisom...
Facebook to build server farm on edge of Arctic Circle
Facebook is to build a multi-million ‘mini town’ on the edge of the Arctic circle to house all its computer servers, which would us as much electricity as a town of 50,000 people. — Luleå is situate...
Apple plans solar farm at data center site
Apple has quietly begun work on a solar farm that apparently could help power its sprawling data center in southern Catawba County. Permits issued by Catawba County show that the Cupertino, Calif., c...
Apple now has $81.5B in cash, 13.2M sq. ft. of facilities and 60K employees
Apple today filed its Form 10-K with the SEC that discloses information to stockholders and the commission. In an amongst the normal legal statements there were a few interesting facts.
Sprint cuts third quarter losses; iPhone 4s launch best in its history
Summary: On the iPhone, Sprint said the device “resulted in Sprint's best ever day of sales in retail, web and telesales” in its history. — Sprint reported a solid third quarter as the company added...
YouTube Close to Announcing Video ‘Channels’
Google Inc.'s YouTube is expected to announce as early as next week that it has signed a slew of partnerships with media companies and well-known personalities to produce original content for the popu...
Apple Ship to Store goes live in San Francisco
. — Yesterday it was revealed that Apple would begin to offer a ship to store option on its online store and it appears that it has just gone online. We heard it would be hitting San Francisco firs...
Report: Netflix hogs 32 percent of peak Internet bandwidth
Netflix again leads the pack as North America's largest consumer of Internet bandwidth, creating 32 percent of peak downstream traffic, according to the 2011 Sandvine Internet Phenomena Report, which ...
Nextdoor launches to bring your real neighborhood online
How well do you know your neighbors? If you're like most people these days, probably not very well. A recent study from Pew Research indicates that more than half of all Americans today know only so...
Hewlett-Packard Said to Plan ARM-Based Servers in Challenge to Intel: Tech
Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ), the largest computer maker, is planning to sell servers based on ARM Holdings Plc (ARM) technology, two people familiar with the matter said, posing a challenge to Intel Cor...
Steve Ballmer Staged An Emotional Event With Bill Gates To Keep Employees Happy, Says Book
Former Microsoft executive Kai-Fu Lee has a new tell-all autobiography out, and he has some juicy tales about his former employers. — According to CNET's Jay Greene, who pulled some of the best exce...
Google says Nexus One too old for Android 4.0
Once touted “Superphone” lacks horsepower — Google has revealed that while it will be giving a free upgrade for its Nexus S smartphones to Android 4.0, owners of its predecessor, the Nexus One, will...
Microsoft + Mozilla = New Firefox, With Bing
Microsoft's search engine Bing today announced something it probably should have made available a long time ago: a new version of Firefox with Bing as the default search option in the search box and t...
Citrix claims it will make virtual desktops cheaper than real ones
Citrix is touting new technology to make the up-front cost of virtual desktops cheaper for businesses than physical desktops within six months, while ensuring that virtual desktop performance doesn't ...
Anti-Facebook Social Network “Unthink” Launches To Public
Scrappy outsider startup Unthink.com, which bills itself as the “anti-Facebook,” is opening up its doors today, allowing in its first round of beta testers. The Tampa-based company with $2.5 million ...
Why Barnes & Noble is Selling Rugs
One of the many rugs now for sale on bookseller Barnes & Noble's website. — Last week, Barnes & Noble started selling items like rugs and cooking utensils on its website. “If shoppers are buying co...
AirPlay TV
I've been reading a lot of speculation recently about what a future Apple TV might look like. Not nearly enough of these analyses have talked about AirPlay. It's clear to me that AirPlay would be so...
OMGWTF: Passwords of 93,000 Politicians, Reporters, Bloggers Leaked
Sweden: In what is arguably the largest-scale security breach so far in Sweden that didn't come in the form of a parliamentary decision, a leak of 93,678 password-email combinations became public toda...