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We couldn't be more pleased to share what we've been cranking away on for the last several months. — Although much of the editorial team here has been publishing content and covering events on This ...
iPhone 4S Arrives in Hong Kong & South Korea on November 11
Apple® today announced that iPhone® 4S, the most amazing iPhone yet, will be available in Hong Kong, South Korea and 13 additional countries on Friday, November 11. Customers will be able to pre-orde...
An Open Letter To Chris Dodd: Silicon Valley Can't Help Hollywood If You First Cripple It With Bad Regulation
Dear former Senator Dodd: — It was refreshing to hear your recent speech, in which you suggested that there really isn't a “Hollywood vs. Silicon Valley” fight …
Adobe Acquires Auditude to Capitalize on Exploding Video Advertising Opportunity
Auditude Platform Empowers Publishers and Media Companies to Maximize Value of Video Content — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that it has acquired privately held Auditude I...
Samsung: Show Us The Source Code, Apple
Samsung are demanding the source code for iPhone 4S firmware as well as Apple's agreements with all major Aussie telco's as it looks to ban iPhone 4S here.The demand came today as Samsung faced yet an...
Republic Wireless to launch $19 unlimited voice, SMS & data service
Updated with more details: Republic Wireless, a division of Cary, N.C.-based VoIP and bandwidth provider Bandwidth.com will launch a hybrid cellular voice and VoIP service on November 8, 2011.
China ‘targeted 48 chemical and military companies in hacking attack’
Attacks are latest in a long line of internet hacks aimed at industrial and military targets traced back to China — Cyber-attacks traced to China targeted at least 48 chemical and military-related c...
Zediva's remote DVD streaming forced offline permanently
Permanent ban follows temporary injunction — Zediva has reportedly settled its dispute with the Motion Picture Association of America, bringing a permanent end to the company's remote DVD streaming ...
Apple's iPhone to make up more than half of Q4 smartphone sales across top-3 U.S. carriers
In the third quarter of 2011, Apple offered just two smartphones: the iPhone 4 and the iPhone 3GS. The latter was sold by just one carrier in the United States while the former was sold by two of the...
Appcelerator raises $15M, now largest third-party app publisher on iOS, Android
Skipping past the obvious “acceleration” puns, things are looking good for Appcelerator, maker of a cross-platform app development platform. — The company announced today that it has raised $15 mill...
Motorola Banks $228 Million from Unnamed Patent Holder
Motorola Mobility — the smartphone manufacturer recently snatched up by Google — has received a total of $228 million in cash and licensing fees from an unnamed company, and all signs point to Blackbe...
Instagram Now Has 12 Million Users, 100K Weekly Downloads In China Alone
Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom took the stage today at TechCrunch Disrupt Beijing to talk about the photosharing startup's international efforts and how it plans to deal with the onslaught of clon...
How Groupon Is Losing China
At this point, it's no secret: Gaopeng (Groupon's nascent effort in China) is a train wreck. By September of this year, the seven-month old endeavor had already accumulated $46.4 million in net losse...
New Apple Store app launches Thursday; here's how it will change Apple's retail operations
While information about Apple's new iOS app and retail plans have leaked out in various forms over the past few weeks, we now have the whole story thanks to a trusted source.
The inside story of how Microsoft killed its Courier tablet
Steve Ballmer had a dilemma. He had two groups at Microsoft pursuing competing visions for tablet computers. — One group, led by Xbox godfather J Allard, was pushing for a sleek, two-screen tablet ...
Amazon Cloud Music Player Deleted from iTunes due to ‘Legal Issues’
A Google search still brings up a page for aMusic on iTunes, although the page no longer exists. — Earlier this month, we posted about how to play the music stored in your Music Beta by Google accou...
Gmail's new look
Back in July we showed you a preview of Gmail's new look, and we've been working this summer to make even more updates and improvements. Today, we're giving you an in-depth look at the new design. I...
Yahoo buys Interclick for $270 million, aims to bolster targeting
Summary: Interclick employees will join Yahoo and get an interesting ride to say the least. — Yahoo has acquired Interclick, which makes advertising targeting and optimization software, in a deal va...
Free wi-fi in central London courtesy of Nokia
Most of the free hotspots are in and around London's Oxford Street — Nokia has switched on a trial of a free wi-fi service in central London. — From today until the end of 2011, the public will be...
Second Life Founder Launches Coffee & Power, A Jeff Bezos-Backed Marketplace For Skill-Based Jobs
Philip Rosedale, the founder of Second Life and Linden Lab, is debuting his new venture today— Coffee & Power, a marketplace for skill-based jobs. The San Francisco-based startup …
“Siri, how much data do you gobble up in a month?” Ars investigates
Apple's new iPhone 4S has been in users' grubby little hands for a bit over two weeks now. One of the main features of the 4S is the virtual “personal assistant” Siri, a technology that Apple acquire...
Apple Misses iTunes Match Launch Target as iTunes 10.5.1 Developer Beta Expires
At its “Let's Talk iPhone” media event early last month, Apple announced that it would be launching its iTunes Match service in the United States at the “end of October”. That launch date was itself ...
Anonymous Cancels Operation Cartel as Los Zetas Track Hacktivists
Members of the hacktivist collective Anonymous who threatened to post identifying information online about the civilian associates of Los Zetas, one of Mexico's most powerful and violent drug cartels,...
China Mobile Bypasses Apple's Approval to Add 5 Million IPhone Users: Tech
China Mobile Ltd. (941) failed to get Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s cooperation to make iPhones for its proprietary 3G network. That didn't stop the carrier from signing up almost 5 million users of the smartp...
Big Brands Like Facebook, But They Don't Like to Pay
Everybody wants to be liked. The question for Facebook Inc. is how much advertisers are willing to pay for the opportunity. — The centerpiece of Ford Motor Co.'s online campaign for the 2012 Focus ...
Net Applications: iOS Web share hit record 61.6% in Oct.
StatCounter's number is lower, but shows Apple's mobile share surging 33.6% since July — Sources: Net Applications, StatCounter. Chart: PED — The presence of Apple's (AAPL) mobile devices on the ...
Google Creates “GoMo” Portal To Help You Mobilize
Over the weekend Fusible.com surfaced several domain registrations from Google that suggested Google was creating a mobile site builder or portal. Then yesterday several outlets picked up on the Fusi...
Apple releases GarageBand for iPhone and iPod touch
Apple on Tuesday announced the release of GarageBand for iPhone and iPod touch. — Previously available for the iPad, GarageBand allows musicians to plug in their guitar to Apple's devices and create...
‘Completely new Google+ app’ for Android live on Market
Along with updates to the Google Reader UI and the roll out of the GoogleTV 2.0 update, an update to the Google+ app for Android is live on the market today. The update brings so many changes, Lead P...
CapLinked hits $10 billion in listed deals, opens to pro investors
CapLinked, an online platform that brings together companies and private individual investors, said it has eclipsed $10 billion in private deals listed on the platform since it launched a little over ...
Asustek expected to ship 1.8 million tablet PCs in 2011, says CEO
Asustek Computer expects its tablet PC shipments will reach its goal of 1.8 million units in 2011 as the company launches its second-generation quad-core Transformer Prime on November 9 and the compan...
Introducing Twitter Stories
Stories.twitter.com — Today we're launching the first in a series of Twitter stories. Read about a single Tweet that helped save a bookstore from going out of business; an athlete who took a hundre...
BlackBerry Bold 9900 and Torch 9860 coming to AT&T November 6th, Curve 9360 inbound November 20th
It's been a few months in the works, but the BlackBerry 9900 and Torch 9860 have finally received AT&T's stamp of approval and will be available this coming Sunday.