Introducing the Gmail app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch
Waiting. Walking. Watching TV. Working out. Winding down. Waking up. We check email pretty much everywhere these days. And when we do, we want easy access to our important messages so we can re...
Apple Confirms iOS 5 Bugs Causing Battery Issues for Some iPhones
Apple on Wednesday said it had found a few problems that are leading some iPhone customers to experience less-than-expected battery life with iPhones running its latest software. — “A small number o...
Yahoo! Announces Cocktails - Shaken, Not Stirred
Developers, time to geek out. Yahoo! has been working behind the scenes for the past several months on an exciting new technology that we think will deeply impact the web developer community. We cal...
Groupon Set to Price Its IPO Tomorrow, Go Public Friday
According to sources close to the situation, daily deals site Groupon is planning on pricing its IPO tomorrow and officially becoming a public company Friday, listing on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol...
RIM's Stock Falls Below Book Value
Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM)'s stock fell below its book value for the first time in nine years, a signal investors consider the BlackBerry maker to be worth less than the net value of its property,...
My offer to Google Reader
Like many others, I was curious when Google announced that it would be revamping the Google Reader UI and refactor its social components into Google Plus. To that end, I wrote a brief blog post about...
Apple to require sandboxing in Mac App Store apps as of March 2012
Apple sent an email to registered developers today that's bound to ruffle some feathers — again. As of March 2012, Apple will require all apps submitted to the Mac App Store to implement sandboxing.
Samsung to depose Jony Ive and other Apple designers by December 1, 2011
By Josh Rosenthall: — Apple and Samsung's US-based litigation on track for trial in July 2012. That being the case, depositions of some of Apple's key iPhone inventors will be taking place relative...
Jobs biog sells 379,000 copies Stateside
Walter Isaacson's biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs sold 379,000 copies in the US in its first week on bookshop shelves, BookScan US data has revealed. — The $35 publication, published by Sim...
Apple loses iPad design lawsuit against small Spanish tablet computer maker NT-K
Talk about David defeating Goliath: a small Spanish tablet computer maker named Nuevas Tecnologías y Energías Catalá from the Valencia region has successfully defended its Android-based tablet compute...
Amazon's Flow iPhone App Brings Augmented Reality To Barcode Scanning And Product Search
Amazon subsidiary A9.com has just launched a new augmented reality iPhone app—Flow Powered by Amazon. Flow uses augmented reality to help users explore and discover tens of millions of products …
Britain's $25 computer is coming by Christmas
Earlier this year British games pioneer David Braben surprised many people with the first appearance of the Raspberry Pi, a low-cost, open source computer aimed at children that he was helping to deve...
Has Carbonite had a privacy breach? I'm getting spam.
Oh ****, where's all this spam coming from? It looks like Carbonite, Inc. has been giving out customers' personal information. The company's admitted giving my email address to a third party, despit...
What's driving Hotmail's massive mobile adoption? The iPhone
Well, you didn't see this coming, did you? Hotmail, which due to some feat of magic remains the world's most popular webmail client, has exploded on Apple's mobile products since the introduction of ...
Angie's List Sets Price Range For IPO At $11 To $13 Per Share; Valued At Over $600M
Angie's List, which offers consumers a way to review and rate doctors, contractors and service companies on the Web, has just set the terms for its IPO. In a new filing, the company revealed that it ...
The Truth About Amazon Publishing
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) isn't exactly lacking for praise these days, and much of it is deserved. The company has revolutionized digital publishing: Its Kindle sparked the e-book boom, its e-bookstore has...
Is Apple Preparing An All-Out Onslaught Against Dropbox?
If you place files inside a hidden Mobile Documents folder on your Mac, these files will sync immediately to all of your other Apple devices and Macs, MacWorld discovered. — This file-syncing soluti...
Twitter quietly debuts new ‘Top News’ and ‘Top People’ search features
Twitter's web interface got a couple of nice new additions Wednesday, seemingly aimed at making it easier to find relevant content when conducting a search within the site. — For some users, Twitter...
Harvard dropout Mark Zuckerberg to return, pitch Facebook
Boston experts weren't surprised to hear that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is hoping to poach Hub engineers for his Silicon Valley social networking giant. — “If (Zuckerberg's) coming to Boston ...
Highlighting journalists on Google News
Great journalism takes more than facts and figures — it takes skilled reporters to knit together compelling stories. Knowing who wrote an article can help readers understand the article's context and...
Cisco Gen-Y study: Mobile devices valued more than higher salaries
Summary: New research reveals that Generation Y employees prefer device freedom over higher pay, and they would rather lose their wallets than their smartphones. — Last month, Cisco released the fir...
NetZero taps Clearwire to offer high-speed mobile broadband
NetZero, one of surviving brands of the dot-com bust, will use Clearwire's network to offer 4G mobile broadband service under the NetZero name starting next year under a five-year wholesale agreement ...
Striking It Rich In The App Store: For Developers, It's More Casino Than Gold Mine
For every developer making millions in Apple's app store, there are thousands who've had their dreams smashed into a million little pixels. What makes the App Store so popular with developers—and how...
AOL Beats Estimates, Posts Another Sales Ad Increase
Here's a first look at AOL Q3 earnings: Revenue of $532 million an earnings loss of $0.02 per share; Wall Street estimates for the company tend to be all over the map but Yahoo Finance thinks the cons...
With Card Case, Square launches hands free payments on iPhone
Square is making its Card Case digital wallet app hands-free, enabling users to walk into a store and pay without ever pulling out their smartphone. They just say their name and order. — With Card ...
Julian Assange loses extradition appeal
High court judges rule the WikiLeaks founder should face accusations of rape in Sweden — The WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, has lost his high court appeal against extradition to Sweden to face r...
How Microsoft decided to bet on Windows 8 for tablets
Microsoft's Michael Angiulo (left) and Steven Sinofsky show off Windows 8 at the company's Build conference in September. — Pitting product groups against one another is almost as much a part of Mic...
Could Google TV get its Kindle Fire moment?
Google started to distribute version 2.0 of its Google TV software this past weekend. One feature of the new version hasn't gotten much press yet, even though it could be key for the future of both G...
Video: The Steve Jobs '95 Interview, Unabridged
Computerworld — In 1995, Steve Jobs was on the cusp of middle age — 40 years old — when he sat down for an extensive and revealing one-on-one interview by the Computerworld Information Technology Awar...
BBM Music is here for BlackBerry smartphones!
Inside BlackBerry® Blog readers! We've got a new post for you from Sonia, announcing yet another great app for #TeamBlackBerry...read on for more! - Ed. — The BBM™ Music app is finally here, and w...
Microsoft goes HTML5 with new Bing for Mobile Hybrid Apps
Microsoft is pushing out new Bing for Mobile apps this week that are built on HTML5 and blend the best of native apps with a robust mobile web experience. Bing for Mobile Hybrid Apps will allow user ...
Verizon Roadmap: Galaxy Nexus Appears Headed for Release Just After Black Friday (Updated)
We just received word from multiple sources that Verizon is targeting the week of or just after Black Friday for the launch of the much anticipated Samsung Galaxy Nexus.
Dear Apple, it's about time for a Game Store
Open the App store right now. — Take a look at the top 25 free apps right now. Look carefully. Yes, most of them are games. — In the screenshot below taken a couple of days ago 15 of the top 25 ...
You Can Now Delete Your Klout Profile
Last week, Klout announced a new algorithm that drastically impacted Klout scores for thousands of users. It was also discovered that Klout collects user data from social media users on Facebook who ...
Facebook Claimant Says Zuckerberg Deleted E-Mails After Suit
Nov. 2 (Bloomberg) — Paul Ceglia, the New York man claiming half of Facebook Inc. founder Mark Zuckerberg's holdings, asked a judge to sanction Zuckerberg for allegedly destroying e-mail messages rela...
The Type of Companies That Publish Future Concept Videos
Joey deVilla, defending Microsoft's “Future Visions” concept video: … DeVilla isn't the only one who accused me of Apple-biased hypocrisy regarding my stance on Microsoft's “Future Visions” vs. Apple'...
The Long Haul to Capitalizing on Web Trends
Web companies often upend industries. But they can labor for years to fully make money on their revolutions. — Take Google Inc. When the Internet titan came onto the scene in the 1990s, the company...
Yahoo Pitching Plan to Private Equity
Yahoo Inc. is pitching private-equity firms on an arrangement in which they could take a minority stake in the Internet company while effectively gaining control, people familiar with the matter said....
Leading PC makers confirm: no Windows 8 plot to lock out Linux
Summary: The drumbeat from Linux advocates about a key security feature in Microsoft's forthcoming Windows 8 is getting louder. They call it an anti-Linux plot. But the two leading PC makers disagre...
Adobe Moves Deeper Into the Ad Business
Adobe is the company that powers much of the digital publishing world, and it's also the company behind Flash, the Web video standard. And it's also the company that's quietly positioning itself to b...
Revolutions on the Internet
I hate to wade into such a sterile debate as whether social media helps revolutions, but I made a point about it recently at a conference and people seemed to like it, so I thought I'd put it up here ...
Angry Birds Flies Past 500M Downloads, Drives Gaming Innovation
Mobile gaming firm Rovio said on Wednesday that its hit game Angry Birds had reached a record 500 million downloads in less than two years since its launch. — Unlike most mobile-game crazes, Angry B...
Researchers Flood Facebook With Bots, Collect 250GB Of User Data
In an experiment that reveals as much about the people on Facebook as it does about Facebook itself, researchers from the Unversity of British Columbia Vancouver infiltrated the social network with bo...
Sony Forecasts $1.2B Full-Year Loss
Sony Corp. (6758), Japan's largest consumer- electronics exporter, forecast a 90 billion-yen ($1.2 billion) annual loss after slashing television sales targets and the yen reached a postwar high. — ...
Cloudability Debuts To Help Manage And Monitor All Of Your Cloud Costs In One Place
Cloudability, a platform to manage and monitor all of your cloud costs in one place, is launching to the public today. For the past few months, the Portland-based startup has been in private beta.