Ballmer sees no value in splitting Microsoft up
Microsoft's Steve Ballmer at the company's 2011 annual meeting. — BELLEVUE, Wash.—Microsoft's chief executive told the company's shareholders at its annual meeting this morning that there is no bene...
Facebook Porn and Gore Exploit Spiraling Out Of Control
Summary: For the past few days an exploit has been hijacking Facebook users accounts and posting explicit gore and pornography to users' timelines. — Facebook users' outrage is mounting toward the s...
Jobs wanted own network with unlicensed spectrum
Apple's Steve Jobs wanted his own network that would use unlicensed spectrum rather than rely on mobile operators, says John Stanton — Steve Jobs initially hoped to create his own network with the u...
Apple Names Levinson Chairman of the Board; Disney's Iger Tapped as Director
Apple has tapped long-time board member Art Levinson as non-executive chairman of its board, replacing co-founder Steve Jobs, who passed away last month after a long battle with cancer.
DOJ: Lying on Match.com needs to be a crime
The U.S. Department of Justice is defending computer hacking laws that make it a crime to use a fake name on Facebook or lie about your weight in an online dating profile. — In a statement obtained ...
Search using your terms, verbatim
Behind the simplicity of Google search is a complex set of algorithms that expands and improves the query you've typed to find the best results. Automatic spelling correction ([vynal] to “vinyl") and...
Facebook, Twitter, eBay & Other Big Internet Companies Come Out Against SOPA
While Google has been pretty vocal about its complaints concerning PROTECT IP and SOPA, and Yahoo, LinkedIn and Zynga have expressed concerns elsewhere, the silence of large companies like Facebook, T...
Google Said to Be Near Universal Music Deal for Song Downloads
Google Inc. (GOOG) is near an agreement to secure songs from Vivendi SA (VIV)'s Universal Music Group for its new music service, said a person with knowledge of the situation. — An accord with Unive...
The magic of foursquare discovery, now on your big-screen devices. #new4SQ
NOTE (Tuesday, 1:30pm EST): Now live for all! Enjoy! — As foursquare has evolved, the focus has turned from simply ‘checking in’ to sharing our experiences and expertise, unlocking rewards and dea...
New Experience Now Available for All Android Tablets (iPad Coming Soon)
The new design is much more immersive and provides greater focus on the growing number of titles in the Netflix catalog. In fact, the new interface displays twice as many movies and TV shows as befor...
Greater choice for wireless access point owners
From tagging a post with your location, to checking in to a restaurant, to simply finding out where you are, location-based services have become some of the most popular features of today's Internet. ...
Rushdie Wins Facebook Fight Over Identity
SAN FRANCISCO — The writer Salman Rushdie hit Twitter on Monday morning with a flurry of exasperated posts. Facebook, he wrote, had deactivated his account, demanded proof of identity and then turned...
Sean Parker: “Little Startups Are Ridiculously OverFunded”
Speaking at the Techonomy conference today, Sean Parker warns about the downside of the explosion of seed-stage startups. “Little startups are ridiculously overfunded,” he say. “The market is ridicu...
Gartner Says Sales of Mobile Devices Grew 5.6 Percent in Third Quarter of 2011; Smartphone Sales Increased 42 Percent
Android OS Rose to Account for More Than 50 Percent of Smartphone Sales — Worldwide sales of mobile devices totaled 440.5 million units in the third quarter of 2011 …
Why Americans Use Social Media
Two-thirds of online adults (66%) use social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace or LinkedIn. These internet users say that connections with family members and friends (both new and ol...
Minimizing restarts after automatic updating in Windows Update
restarts can interrupt you right in the middle of something important.
LinkedIn's New CardMunch iPhone App: Reinventing Business Cards
Today, we've taken a giant leap forward to reinventing business cards with a complete relaunch of the LinkedIn's CardMunch iPhone app with a brand new mobile experience for professionals on LinkedIn. ...
Third Party Tools To Help Manage Your Google+ Page
Labels: google+, Google+ Pages, pages for businesses — Last week, we announced Google+ Pages, which provide a new way for businesses, brands, products, organizations and other entities to build a pu...
See your rated places and discover new ones directly on the map
(Cross-posted on the Google Places Blog) — Since the My Places tab was released earlier this summer, you've been able to view all the places you've rated in one manageable list. This list is now be...
Public Memorials for Diaspora Co-Founder Ilya Zhitomirskiy to Be Held This Weekend
Diapora co-founder Ilya Zhitomirskiy passed away on Saturday night, the team behind the distributed, open source social network acknowledged today. — Public memorial services for Zhitomirskiy are pl...
Recent Changes At Amazon & Best Buy Seem To Suggest A New Apple TV Is Coming Soon
The Apple TV is starting to look a bit stale. The current model was announced on September 1st, 2010, but being Apple's hobby, it always takes a back seat in the refresh van.
Benchmark, Marissa Mayer Put $5.5M In Stationery Design And Retail Site Minted
Minted, design community and e-commerce site for stationery and cards, has raised $5.5 million in Series B funding led Benchmark Capital, with IDG Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Marissa Mayer and Jeremy St...
Intel Capital's new $100M AppUp fund will finance application and content development
Intel Capital, the veteran investment arm of Intel, has announced the AppUp fund to invest $100 million in companies creating applications and digital content for multiple devices.
The making of the Xbox: Microsoft's journey to the next generation (part 2)
Editor's note: This story is the second of two pieces on the 10th anniversary of the launch of Microsoft's Xbox video game console, which debuted Nov. 15, 2001. The narrative is based on recent inter...
Greater choice for wireless access point owners
From tagging a post with your location, to checking in to a restaurant, to simply finding out where you are, location-based services have become some of the most popular features of today's Internet. ...
Microsoft Socl: inside the company's secret social network (exclusive)
Earlier this summer, a teaser page appeared at Socl.com revealing Tulalip, an oddly named service from Microsoft promising a new way to “Find what you need and Share what you know.” Facebook and Twit...
Gartner: Android Now Over 50 Percent Of Smartphone Sales, The Rest Decline
Android may have some shortcomings, but Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has made enormous advances with manufacturers in terms of getting its OS on their smartphones, and in subsequently getting consumers to buy ...
Google Music Store Chases Apple's ITunes
Google Inc. (GOOG) is entering the online music market almost a decade too late to pose a threat to Apple Inc. (AAPL), the largest seller of songs on the Web. — The service, scheduled to be unveiled...
What the Vaio Z says about Sony's little design problem
Sony's latest ultraportable laptop is stunning. It's beautiful and lightweight, with a classy metal chassis and impeccably tasteful trim. It has a powerful i7 CPU, 1600x900 13.1" display and a light...
BlackBerry Bold 9790 and Curve 9380 announced with BB OS 7, available in ‘the coming weeks’
After many leaks, RIM has finally come clean on its latest BlackBerry smartphones, the Bold 9790 and Curve 9380. Both devices run BlackBerry OS 7 with its newer browser, support for NFC and, of cour...
Adobe Touch apps hands-on: Photoshop Touch, Kuler, Proto, and more come to Android
While Adobe first announced its Touch Apps suite at MAX 2011 earlier this year, the Android version of the apps are finally rolling out today. Each app retails for $9.99, requires Android 3.1 or late...
Yes, You Can Install the Nook App on a Kindle Fire [EXCLUSIVE]
Although Amazon goes out of its way to hide all traces of vanilla Android from its new Kindle Fire tablet, it turns out tech-savvy users can still install select third-party Android applications outsi...
Amazon Web Services lands on supercomputer list, bolsters HPC offering
Summary: The new HPC instance includes 2 Intel Xeon processors with 8 cores each. The Cluster Compute Eight Extra Large also has 2 GB of RAM and 3.46 TB of instance storage. — Amazon Web Services i...
Sony Considers Internet Rival to Cable TV
Sony Corp. is considering launching an Internet-based alternative to cable-TV service, say people familiar with the situation, the latest threat to cable and satellite operators that now dominate pay ...
Siri sibling Trapit launches as intelligent discovery engine for the web's content
Say hello to Trapit. The latest offspring from CALO, the DARPA-commissioned artificial-intelligence project that gave birth to iPhone virtual assistant Siri, launches in public beta Tuesday as a pers...
Recent Google+ Posts & “Add To Circles” Buttons Are Coming To Google's Search Results
Earlier today, ‘All About Content’ reported that Google+ data was showing in Google's organic search listings. Two different items are now appearing in the search results pages, recent Google+ posts ...
New Study Shows Majority Of Americans Against SOPA; Believe Extreme Copyright Enforcement Is Unreasonable
One of the talking points we've been hearing about SOPA from the lobbyists pushing to get it approved is that the majority of Americans are in favor of the bill, because they want to “protect” intelle...
Zinio now available on Amazon Appstore, brings 5,000 magazines to Kindle Fire
After having already arrived on a host of Android slates, iPads and even TouchPads, Zinio's reader app has now made its way to the newest tablet platform — the Kindle Fire. The magazine marketplace m...
Vyatta nabs $12M from HighBAR, JPMorgan, Citrix to push cloud networking security
Leading software-based networking provider Vyatta has raised $12 million in a new round of funding, with a goal of continuing to improve security for physical and cloud infrastructures.
Visa Names Its New PayPal-Like Digital Wallet Service “V.me”
The brand that consumers will see when Visa's digital wallet launches early next year won't be the Visa logo. — The payments company will be using the name V.me to differentiate it from its more wel...
Amazon Kindle Fire Teardown
Amazon proposes to offer users a full media experience with their $199 tablet. It didn't take long until we decided to see what they crammed inside this value package. Did this teardown kindle a fie...