One on One: Walter Isaacson, Biographer of Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson is the author of “Steve Jobs,” the best-selling biography published last month. The following is an edited version of our interview. — When did you first meet Steve Jobs? — I've k...
A human review of the Kindle Fire
I expected the Kindle Fire to be good for books, great for magazines and newspapers, great for video, and good for apps and games. — In practice, it's none of these. Granted, I've only spent two da...
Wolfram Alpha Offers New Twist On Flight Search: Literal Answers To What Planes Are Overhead
You may not love this as much as I do, but that's okay. Wolfram Alpha has just launched what I'd have to put on any year-end list of the coolest search technologies of 2011: a tool that tells you …
Apple asks to see Samsung's call center records
By David Goldman: — Samsung and Apple are currently in the pre-trial phase of litigation known as Discovery. During the discovery process, each side asks the other for documents and other materials...
Nook Tablet review
DOES THE NOOK TABLET HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO EXTINGUISH THE KINDLE FIRE? — Exactly one year ago, Barnes & Noble made an interesting move, one no other company in the tech industry had yet been bold en...
Motorola fairly likely to win German patent injunction
Apple demands 2 billion euro ($2.7B) bail — The German city of Mannheim is slowly but surely giving Cupertino some serious headache. — After a default judgment against Apple Inc. over two patents ...
Facebook Employees Go Nuts As Zuckerberg Tells Them The IPO Is Coming
A source close to Facebook employees emailed us yesterday to say that the rumor flitting from employee to employee is that “a Facebook S1 filing is coming really soon. Possibly as soon as next month....
Apple reportedly prepped AMD-powered MacBook Air, dropped it at last minute
Apple is said to have developed a MacBook Air running Advanced Micro Devices' Fusion Llano processor last spring, but scrapped it at the last minute because of production issues, according to an unver...
Personal Is A Secure Vault For All Of Your Private, Digital Data
We wrote about stealthy startup Personal earlier this year when the company announced $7.6 million in funding from Steve Case's Revolution LLC, Allen&Company, and others. This week, Personal finally ...
Google patents Android pattern unlock
One of the treats that immediately set apart the first version of Android from Apple's iOS software (besides the notification center invoked with a pulldown gesture) is the pattern unlock feature on t...
BlackBerry Playbook gets massive, temporary $300 price cut in Canada
So, PlayBooks haven't exactly been flying off the shelves... anywhere. Not even in RIM's native Canada. But that might actually change over the nex few days as BestBuy, Walmart, Staples and Future S...
Up to 50 Ultrabooks “to be launched at CES”
As many as 50 Intel Ultrabooks will be launched at next January's CES, according to the show's organisers. — Speaking at a CES Unveiled event in London, Shawn DuBravac, director of research for show...
Apple Launches Local Currency Payments For its China iTunes App Store
Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) iTunes App Store has rolled out a major upgrade this morning in China, and now, for the first time, it actually accepts payments in the local currency, the renminbi (RMB).
What Is Sony Now?
At 69, Sir Howard Stringer's time as CEO of the unwieldy electronics giant is running out. Can he and heir apparent Kazuo Hirai turn it around? — Sir Howard Stringer remembers when 2011 was going t...
US Committee to Investigate China's Huawei, ZTE
A U.S. House Intelligence Committee is launching an investigation against Chinese telecommunication equipment suppliers Huawei and ZTE to find whether the companies pose a security threat to the count...
Major Newspaper Publishers Band Together On Social Shopping Portal
A group of eight newspaper publishers—Advance Digital, A. H. Belo Corporation, Cox Media Group, Gannett (NYSE: GCI), Hearst, MediaNews Group, The McClatchy Company (NYSE: MNI), and The Washington Post...
3D Printing Startup Shapeways Raises $5.1 Million, Plans NYC Production Facility
Of all the cool things going on in technology, one of my favorites is 3D printing. It's got such a futuristic quality to it: input a digital schematic, and you get a physical product custom cut to yo...
Facebook scores LEED gold for Oregon data center
Facebook unveiled its green data center and energy efficient servers in Oregon this Spring, but now the social network giant has achieved another milestone: it's been granted a LEED gold certification...