B&N launching Nook Tablet for $249 on November 16th, and we've got the dirty details
Sitting down? Good. Come November 16th, Amazon's Kindle Fire will have company. We've wrapped our paws around a stash of documents confirming the impending launch of the first bona fide tablet in t...
Amazon next-generation Kindle Fire likely to have 8.9-inch display
Amazon is likely to change its product roadmap by shifting the display size of its next-generation Kindle Fire to 8.9-inch instead of 10.1-inch as originally planned, according to sources in Amazon's ...
CBS turned down an ad-based Apple TV deal
CBS CEO Les Moonves is known to occasionally drop pieces of information that he's not supposed to on his company's earnings calls, and this quarter was no exception. When asked about CBS's appetite f...
Exclusive: Apple Vice President of Global Security John Theriault departs company following lost iPhone 4S investigation
A sizable amount of Apple senior executives have left the company this year, with the latest being Apple's Vice President of Global Security.
Kevin Rose's Oink Hits The App Store
Oink, the first app from Milk, Kevin Rose's startup lab is now available in iTunes. Oink is an app that lets you rate things at different places, and uses social reputation to help others figure out ...
Amazon, Now a Book Lender
Kindle Owners Who Subscribe to Prime Service Will Be Able to Borrow E-Titles — As the e-reader and tablet wars heat up, Amazon.com Inc. is launching a digital-book lending library that will be avail...
Dialing Up 20 Years of Gadget Reviews
I began writing these Personal Technology columns 20 years ago, in October 1991, with the aim of reviewing computers and other digital products for average, mainstream users. The first line of my fir...
Google Ponders Pay-TV Business
Pilot Project in Kansas City Would Rival Cable, Satellite — Internet giant Google Inc. is considering a plan to offer paid cable-TV services to consumers, a move that could unleash a new wave of com...
Jawbone Up detailed: tracks activity, food intake and sleep cycles, available November 6 for $100 (video)
Back in July, Jawbone did something puzzling. The company, best known for its Bluetooth headsets, teased a photo of a colorful wristband called the Up — a deceptively simple thing …
Slate 2: HP tries tablets again with Windows, Swype, and a stylus for $699
If you had asked us six months ago which tablet HP would still be making come November — the TouchPad or the Slate — the obvious answer would have been the TouchPad. But just as HP's exiting the webO...
Facebook Co-Founder Eduardo Saverin Leads $7M Round In Scanning And Product Search App ShopSavvy
Barcode scanning and product search app ShopSavvy has raised $7 million in new funding led by Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin with Brad Martin (Former CEO of retailer Saks Fifth Avenue), James Bai...
Rumor: Suppliers say Apple will overhaul all product lines in 2012
Apple is rumored to be planning a complete overhaul for each of its product lineups, including the iPad, iMac, iPhone and MacBook Air, next year, according to sources within the company's supply chain...
APPLE: The Kindle Fire Is Good For Us Because It's More Android Fragmentation
Apple executives are saying that the low priced Kindle Fire could actually be a good thing for the iPad because it introduces another level of fragmentation in the Android platform.
Exclusive: Groupon Prices at $20 a Share; More Than 10x Oversubscribed, So It Adds 5M More Shares
Groupon has priced it shares for its public offering at $20 a share, several dollars above the expected price range. — The offering for the daily deal site — which has had a controversial IPO proces...
Generation App: 62% of Mobile Users 25-34 own Smartphones
Nielsen's third quarter survey of mobile users reveals that while only 43 percent of all US mobile phone subscribers own a smartphone, a mobile phone with a powerful operating system, the vast majorit...
A new Android app for Google Offers
Today we're announcing our new Google Offers mobile app, that allows you to discover, buy and redeem your favorite deals on the go. The free app will notify you about all the great Offers that match ...
Giving you fresher, more recent search results
Search results, like warm cookies right out of the oven or cool refreshing fruit on a hot summer's day, are best when they're fresh. Even if you don't specify it in your search, you probably want sea...
Google+ is not a social network, but it's not a graveyard, either
Over the past couple of weeks, the Internet's frothy enthusiasm over Google+ has dried into proclamations of its imminent death. — Social media experts and bloggers who were one month ago hailing th...
Racism: The Game
Advice from friends and mentors has been clear: just stop talking. And yet the tweets, emails and other messages just keep rolling in, featuring some of the most hateful stuff I've ever read. They r...
The curious case of Microsoft's stock
The following post is a meditation on a number of market dynamics. It should not be treated as investment advice, as it isn't. — Microsoft's stock is trading at roughly the same level as it did in ...
The End of the Credit Card?
A new app called Card Case foretells a world without cash and plastic. — Jack Dorsey, creator of Twitter and CEO of Square — Getty Images. — Paying for stuff with your phone sounds awesome until...
Motorola Xoom 2 and Xoom 2 Media Edition official, hitting the UK in mid-November
Well, here we go! After months of leaked specs and images, Motorola has finally decided to officially announce its Xoom 2 and Xoom 2 Media Edition, though just in the UK for now.
Introducing Plex for Google TV
It turns out that work on a fully functional myPlex client was not the only thing the Plex for Android team has been up to these days. We're happy to say that we were one of the 50 companies that Goo...
Sprint: 'We're taking the iPhone 4S speed issue seriously'
Sprint Nextel is working with Apple to figure out the connection issue affecting some iPhone 4S devices on its network, but doesn't yet have an answer for the problem. — “We're taking the reports of...
Qualcomm: Windows 8 will take us beyond smartphones
Summary: Microsoft's next-gen operating system won't yield big returns for Qualcomm in the near future, but ultimately will carry the chipmaker into a wider range of computing devices. — Qualcomm's ...
New study links video gaming to creativity
For those who like to play video games, or who let their kids play, a new study linking gaming to creativity in 12-year-olds may be very validating. — It reminds me of the little flutter in my chest...
Facebook vs. Google: The battle for the future of the Web
FORTUNE — Paul Adams is one of Silicon Valley's most wanted. He's an intellectually minded product designer with square-framed glasses, a thick Irish accent, and a cult following of passionate techie...
Apple Fights for iPhone Porn Domain Names Including iphone4s.com
Company files complaint over seven domain names that forward to mobile porn site. — If you really want to piss off a large company, just put some porn up on domain names that include its brands.
Google debuts slick YouTube player for Google+ and wider Chrome integration
Google has today announced a new, closer integration with YouTube and Chrome in its Google+ social network. The closer integration will come in the form of two Chrome extensions and a new YouTube “sl...
With an App, Your Next Date Could Be Just Around the Corner
Christina Wang has her date-night routine down pat. She combs her hair, fixes her makeup and then checks her phone, hoping to find Mr. Right, who might just happen to be nearby, right now. — Ms. Wa...