Google+ Pages: connect with all the things you care about
In life we connect with all kinds of people, places and things. There's friends and family, of course, but there's also the sports teams we root for, the coffee shops we're loyal to, and the TV shows...
iPhone Security Bug Lets Innocent-Looking Apps Go Bad
Apple's iPhones and iPads have remained malware-free thanks mostly to the company's puritanical attitude toward its App Store: Nothing even vaguely sinful gets in, and nothing from outside the App Sto...
Samsung VP Gavin Kim departs to lead Microsoft's Windows Phone product management
Samsung's vice president of consumer and enterprise services Gavin Kim has left the company to join Microsoft as general manager of the Windows Phone team, BGR has exclusively learned.
Exclusive: HP weighing sale of webOS unit
(Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co is evaluating a potential sale of its webOS software platform in a deal that could fetch hundreds of millions of dollars but likely less than the $1.2 billion the compan...
Mark Zuckerberg & Sheryl Sandberg on “Charlie Rose” (full transcript)
Set your DVRs: Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg will appear in an exclusive, hour-long interview with acclaimed broadcast journalist Charlie Rose, airing Monday nigh...
THE TWEAKER — The real genius of Steve Jobs.
The real genius of Steve Jobs. — Not long after Steve Jobs got married, in 1991, he moved with his wife to a nineteen-thirties, Cotswolds-style house in old Palo Alto. Jobs always found it difficult...
HDD supply gap to narrow as Nidec resumes some production
Japan-based hard disc drive (HDD) motor supplier Nidec, which contributes close to 75% of the global HDD motor shipments, has announced its Ayutthaya plants in Thailand have already resumed production...
HTC Edge: First Quad-Core Phone Revealed (Images)
Meet the HTC Edge: reportedly the company's first — and probably one of the world's first — cellphone powered by a quad-core processor. Information from a reliable source paints Edge as a premium han...
Urban Airship Raises $15 Million From Verizon, Salesforce
Urban Airship, which helps companies add features like push notifications and in-app purchases to their mobile apps on multiple mobile platforms, has raised a $15 million Series C round with strategic...
Hidden Panorama Mode Uncovered in the iOS Camera
Developer and hacker conradev has uncovered a hidden panorama mode in the iOS Camera app. By changing a key value in the iOS SDK, a Panorama mode is unlocked in the Camera app that lets iPhone users ...
Apple to train retail managers on ‘union awareness’ (exclusive)
Apple's flagship retail store in downtown San Francisco the morning the iPad 2 launched. — Apple has begun planning how to respond if its retail employees unionize, CNET has learned. — In an inter...
Nook Tablet announced: $249, available November 17th
As expected, Barnes & Noble has taken the wraps off of its latest Nook today — the so-called Nook Tablet, designed to replace the Nook Color with refreshed specs across the board including an “HD view...
Lefkofsky as Would-Be Schmidt Tested at Groupon After IPO
Executive chairman Eric Lefkofsky must demonstrate that he can provide the oversight the company needs to fend off bigger rivals while chasing profitability — (Bloomberg) — Eric Lefkofsky prodded An...
Why Anti-marketer Google Has Embraced Marketing
As Web Giant Migrates to More Services Beyond Search, Its Philosophy Has Changed — When Google placed its first TV ad, a last-minute multi-million buy during the Super Bowl nearly two years ago, the...
Bing Central is Now Open
Today, we are lifting the curtains on Bing Central, one location for you to explore Bing services and features by completing fun missions, manage your Bing Rewards account, redeem great rewards in the...
Google “Freshness” Update Affects 35% Of Searches: Winners & Losers
Searchmetrics has measured the impact of last week's “freshness” updates to Google's search ranking algorithm, which affected around 35% of all searches. By measuring SEO visibility, Searchmetrics fo...
Confirmed: Google Testing New “Sources” Display In Search Results
Google has confirmed that it's testing a new content module in its search results that's (currently) called “Sources.” — The module appears to have been spotted first by Cyrus Shepard, who shared sc...
Watch out Billboard, Twitter Music Trends shows how hot artists are in real-time
Trending topics on Twitter are a great way to see what's hot right now on the mini social network. However, the topics that trend aren't always all that interesting to everyone, and can be cluttered ...
Top Google Lobbyist Leaving the Search Giant
Alan Davidson, the granddaddy of Google lobbyists, announced today that he is leaving the company later this month to take a sabbatical, according to an email obtained by the Alley. In a sign of just...
Apple likely to modify LED back-light solutions for next-generation iPads, say sources
LED back-light unit (BLU) vendors have reportedly offered two alternative backlight solutions for Apple to choose from for its next-generation iPad, according to sources at Taiwan-based BLU makers.
Google+ Pages: connect with all the things you care about
In life we connect with all kinds of people, places and things. There's friends and family, of course, but there's also the sports teams we root for, the coffee shops we're loyal to, and the TV shows...
Motorola Droid RAZR review
The Droid RAZR is a legitimate feat of hardware engineering — but is it your next phone? The Droid RAZR is one of those rare phones that qualifies as a leap forward in hardware design and engineering...
Spotify app on Windows Phone hands-on (video)
We just got our first hands-on with Spotify on Windows Phone, running on a Jil Sander device from LG, of all things. This instantly gives Spotify users a new reason to step up and subscribe to the pr...
From Heaven: iTV
Search for the word “cracked” in Walt Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs (or flip to page 555 if you have the bricks-and-mortar version). The second hit yields the following: … “It” is the mythical A...
Time Warner Cable experiences huge system-wide outage
Hey you — did your internet just freak out? Is it still freaking out? You're not alone: Time Warner Cable customers across the country are experiencing strange outages and slowdowns, and the company...
Zypr launches, aims to bring voice control to every device
Remember Jarvis, Tony Stark's chatty computerized assistant in Iron Man? Pioneer wants to bring something similar to everyday consumers. The company's launched Zypr, which aims to bring a single voi...
Google TV Scores An ‘Adult Video’ Channel, Courtesy Of Vivid
Never mind the Internet - the TV was invented for pr0n. And now Google TV users can get their fictional passion fix, too, thanks to adult film studio Vivid Entertainment. The latter, always aiming t...
Hadoop Start-Up Cloudera Teams Up With Storage Player NetApp
If a company has a batch of data of any reasonable size and wants to do anything useful with it, chances are that at one point or another it's going to wind up using some version of Hadoop. — Hadoop...
Adobe Elements on the Mac App Store: 5 implications
Adobe has begun selling its Premiere Elements and Photoshop Elements software through the Mac App Store. — Adobe Systems and Apple may not see eye to eye over the Flash Player plug-in, but they've c...
HTC confirms early 2012 Ice Cream Sandwich upgrades for Sensation, Rezound, Vivid, and others
HTC was a little equivocal in the immediate wake of Google's Ice Cream Sandwich announcement, but today the company's returned with a concrete list of its smartphones that are set to receive the upgra...
Bit by Bit, Work Exchange Site Aims to Get Jobs Done
SAN FRANCISCO — Philip Rosedale tried to change the nature of play with Second Life, a virtual world of colorful online avatars that got a lot of attention a few years ago. — Now he wants to change ...
The Darknet Project: netroots activists dream of global mesh network
A group of Internet activists gathered last week in an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channel to begin planning an ambitious project—they hope to overcome electronic surveillance and censorship by creating...
Twitter Nabs Former Oracle Development Exec As VP Of Infrastructure Engineering
Twitter has just announced a key engineering hire today. Adam Messinger will be joining the company as Vice President of Infrastructure Engineering. — Messinger was previously Vice President Develo...
Facebook's Zuckerberg and Sandberg Will Make Rare Joint Appearance on “Charlie Rose” Tonight
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg will appear tonight for an hour-long interview with Charlie Rose on his eponymous TV show, which airs on PBS and then Bloomberg.
HTC to push into emerging markets, eyes new tablet
(Reuters) - HTC Corp said on Monday it will put equal investment weight on emerging markets next year as it does in developed ones like the U.S. and Europe, and will dip its toes back into the tablet ...
Mozilla Developers Testing Mobile OS
Mozilla has been experimenting with an interesting idea called Boot 2 Gecko. Essentially, B2G (as it's called) is a mobile operating system based on the Web, as opposed to what the project's wiki cal...
In Love With Android: Q&A with designer Matias Duarte
The lead designer of the Android user interface has the job of making users fall in love with Google's mobile operating system. — The Android operating system for smartphones commands about 57 perce...
RIAA lawyer says DMCA may need overhaul
NEW YORK— The four largest record labels are unhappy with the way the courts have interpreted the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in recent years and may need to ask Congress for changes, according t...