Google's Schmidt: Android ‘started before the iPhone effort’
Steve Jobs wasn't too fond of Android. — Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt has taken issue with Steve Jobs' claims that Android copied the iPhone. — “Our lawsuit is saying, 'Google you f***in...
Republic Wireless Officially Unveils $19/Month Service: Unlimited Everything, No Contracts
Last week we broke the news on a previously-stealthy mobile carrier called Republic Wireless, which I've been tracking closely since. The story so far: Bandwidth.com, which provides the VoIP backbone...
I wish I had never heard of Google+'s brand pages
OK, you all know I'm Google+'s biggest fan, right? For the past five months I've poured almost all my time into my Google+ account, which has paid off with a fun community and a lot of followers. — ...
All-New Kindle Family
In addition to Amazon.com, customers will be able to find, discover and purchase the $79 Kindle, $99 Kindle Touch, $149 Kindle Touch 3G, and $199 Kindle Fire at Best Buy, Target, Walmart and more
HP to hold all-hands meeting tonight, fate of webOS likely to be decided
Word has made its made to us through multiple sources that HP plans to hold an all-hands meeting tonight — led by Meg Whitman — on which we'll likely hear what is going to happen with webOS.
Apple seeds iOS 5.0.1 early to end users for battery life testing, releases internal memo about battery issue
Following the release of iOS 5.0.1 to developers to test the new software against applications in addition to test for battery life and Siri improvements, Apple is now seeding iOS 5.0.1 to certain end...
Mozilla Firefox Adds Twitter Search and New Features that Make Web Browsing Easier
Today, we're releasing an update to Firefox for Windows, Mac, Linux and Firefox for Android. This update includes new features that make Web browsing easier and give users and developers more control...
Kobo Acquired By Japanese E-Commerce Firm Rakuten For $315 Million
E-bookseller and e-reader company Kobo is being acquired by Japanese e-commerce company Rakuten for $315 million. — Kobo, which was founded by Canadian bookseller and retailer Indigo, will now be wh...
Union: AT&T/T-Mobile merger will create 100,000 jobs
The merger between AT&T and T-Mobile USA will create more than 100,000 jobs in the U.S., a major telecommunications union said today, again putting its weight behind the deal. — The Communications W...
Head Of Communications Sean Garrett Leaves Twitter
Twitter Head of Communications Sean Garrett (@SG) has just announced that he's leaving Twitter in a series of tweets. When asked to confirm his departure, Twitter Communications Representative Caroly...
Killing the 500-shareholder rule
The 500-shareholder rule is heading for the scrapyard. — Senators Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) and Tom Carper (D-Del.) today introduced legislation that would effectively eliminate a rule that many have cited...
Yep, it is here: Oregon lets citizens vote for U.S. House by iPad
In tomorrow's election, disabled voters in five counties across Oregon will now be able to vote from an iPad. Election officials will be equipped with an iPad to visit disabled voters in nursing home...
Alibaba, Softbank Said to Seek Partners for Yahoo
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Softbank Corp. (9984) are talking with private-equity funds about making a bid for all of Yahoo! Inc. without the company's blessing, people with knowledge of the matter...
Facebook's Zuckerberg visits old stomping grounds at Harvard
(CNN) — Mark Zuckerberg went back to Harvard on Monday on a recruiting trip, his first visit since he dropped out of the prestigious university to found social-media giant Facebook. — Clad in his tr...
Yelp Moves Toward IPO, Picks Bankers
Yelp Inc., the online review website, has picked Goldman Sachs Group inc. and Citigroup Inc. to lead an initial public offering, according to a person familiar with the IPO plans. Yelp, based in San ...
Google chairman says will not favor Motorola
(Reuters) - The executive chairman of Google Inc on Tuesday played down concerns the search giant would give preferential treatment to Motorola Mobility Holdings after its planned purchase of the hand...
Computer Experts Building 1830s Babbage Analytical Engine
Researchers in Britain are about to embark on a 10-year, multimillion-dollar project to build a computer — but their goal is neither dazzling analytical power nor lightning speed. — Indeed, if they ...
Twitter Rolling Out Activity Streams That Make The Home Page A Dashboard
Twitter has begun the rollout, or at least a significant spot test, of the Activity and @USERNAME streams it announced in mid-August. The @USERNAME stream replaces the @Mentions and Retweets streams ...
Defiant retailer gives Apple the finger
An Australian retailer who Apple is threatening to sue for selling the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 despite an injunction is calling Apple's bluff and says it's ready for a “cat and mouse” game. The retai...
Salesforce debuts Do.com, a smart social productivity app for small teams
Salesforce has revealed a new web-based application called Do.com that combines task management with social features to create a smart way to get things done on your own and in groups.
Ignition, Accel, Greylock Put $40M In Apache Hadoop Distribution Platform Cloudera
Cloudera, the startup that commercially distributes and services Apache Hadoop based data management software and services, has raised $40 million in new funding led by Ignition Partners, Greylock, Ac...
Consumer Reports recommends the iPhone 4S
The Apple iPhone 4S is among the recommended models in our newly updated Ratings of smart phones. Apple's newest smart phone performed very well in our tests, and while it closely resembles the iPhon...
Yahoo, Microsoft and AOL announce display ad deals
Summary: Whether or not Yahoo is going to be bought by anyone soon (including Microsoft and AOL, as previously rumored), the three are linked for now by new display advertising deals. Basically, the ...
‘Apple Store’ App for iOS Updated to Support New Self-Checkout System for Retail Stores
In line with our report from the previous weekend, Apple has updated its Apple Store application for iOS [App Store] with new support for self-checkout at the company's retail stores.
AT&T launches VoIP app for international calls
AT&T is launching a new mobile app that allows its smartphone customers to make international calls via VoIP. The new AT&T Call International will allow customers to make calls overseas at cheap rate...
Adobe ‘Restructures,’ Eliminates 750 Jobs In North America And Europe
We've been hearing rumors of Adobe layoffs all day, and the company just released a statement announcing that it is ‘restructuring’ its business, which will result in the elimination of 750 jobs in No...
Saul Hansell Departs AOL to Be EIR at Betaworks
Saul Hansell, the prominent former New York Times tech reporter who went to AOL several years ago to head one of its content efforts called Seed, will leave the company to become an entrepreneur-in-re...
Early Results: The Open Graph and Music
Over the past few years, developers have started to demonstrate that when music is discovered through friends, people listen to more music and a wider variety of artists. At f8, we introduced an evol...
Researchers Find Amazon Cloud Servers Teeming With Backdoors And Other People's Data
Eurecom's researchers (from the left) Jonas Zaddach, Davide Balzarotti, and Marco Balduzzi — Renting a server from Amazon Web Services promises all the advantages of the Cloud: ephemeral …
Barnes & Noble Urges U.S. Regulators to Probe Microsoft on Mobile Patents
Barnes & Noble Inc. (BKS) asked U.S. regulators to investigate whether Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) seeks to monopolize the mobile-device market by demanding patent royalties on electronics running on Googl...
Dish in Talks for Internet TV
Satellite-TV Provider Also Posts Higher Profit but Subscriber Losses — Dish Network Corp. has approached several media companies about the possibility of licensing their TV channels for use on a new...
The Owner of Yahoo!'s Patents Could Cripple Facebook's IPO Aspirations
Yahoo! (YHOO) has been the subject of countless speculation in the press over the last few months since Carol Bartz was sacked as CEO and Dan Loeb bought a 5% stake in the company. — There is endles...
Apple: We Have No Plans To Bring Siri To Older Devices
Apple has allegedly given the official word that Siri will not be coming to older iOS devices, at least not any time soon. I received word yesterday from someone who contacted Apple with a bug report...
Google+ head responds to Zuckerberg: “We're delighted to be underestimated”
Google's Bradley Horowitz has fired back at Mark Zuckerberg's claim that the company is “building its own little Facebook” saying that Google is “delighted to be underestimated” by its rival.
Deprecation of Gmail App for BlackBerry
Beginning November 22, 2011, we will end support for the Gmail App for Blackberry (installed native app). Over this past year, we've focused efforts on building a great Gmail experience in the mobile...
The Social Graph is Neither
I first came across the phrase social graph in 2007, in an essay by Brad Fitzpatrick, though I'd be curious to know if it goes back further. — The idea of representing relationships between people a...
American Express Launches $100M Fund To Invest In Digital Commerce Startups
Recently, American Express has been pushing its own internal digital commerce initiatives including the company's digital wallet, Serve. Serve integrates a variety of payment options into a single ac...
Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus for T-Mobile available November 16th for $249.99 ‘down payment’
We already knew that the Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus would be available in a Wi-Fi version on the 13th of this month, but now T-Mobile and Samsung have announced that the carrier will offer the tablet as well...
Google+ Is Dead
The search behemoth might not realize it yet, but its chance to compete with Facebook has come and gone. — Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt didn't post his first Google+ message until three mo...
Scoop: The Boxee Box is getting a live TV tuner (video)
Boxee Box owners will soon be able to watch live television through the device, with the help of a special USB dongle that functions as a tuner for free over-the-air HD TV signals. The live TV featur...
Accel Debuts $100M Fund To Invest In Disruptive Big Data Companies
Accel Partners has steadily been making investments in infrastructure and companies looking to manage big data for the enterprise, including funding Cloudera, CouchBase, and even Fusion-IO.
The Big, Honking Problems With The TV Market, According To Steve Jobs
The hottest story in tech is the possibility of Apple truly entering the television market with an iTV of some sort. — The story has kicked up again because Jobs told his biographer that he “finally...
Will there be a Silverlight 6 (and does it matter)?
Summary: Microsoft is poised to release to manufacturing Silverlight 5. There's word from some of my contacts that this might be the last major release of Silverlight, but Microsoft isn't confirming ...
There's a meme that says when it comes to funding startups, “it's all about the team”.
Google delays Transformer Prime release date to Dec for Android 4.0 update
Are you patiently waiting for the world's first quad-core Android tablet? The always interesting Digitimes reports tonight that “sources from upstream supply chain” say Google is providing assistance...
AT&T to deploy LTE-Advanced in 2013
AT&T Mobility (NYSE:T) will launch LTE-Advanced network technology in 2013, a top company executive said Tuesday while speaking at the LTE North America conference in Dallas. — Krish Prabhu, preside...
China's Huawei in Android patent talks with Microsoft
The MediaPad is competitively priced against other tablets running the Android Honeycomb system — Chinese telecoms giant Huawei has confirmed it is in talks with Microsoft about its use of Android s...
Judges Challenge Phone Location Tracking
State and federal authorities follow the movements of thousands of Americans each year by secretly monitoring the location of their cellphones, often with little judicial oversight, in a practice faci...