Ebay's Got A Hunch, For Around $80 Million
Breaking this morning: Ebay will announce the acquisition of New York based startup Hunch, say sources. The price tag will be somewhere around $80 million. — Hunch was founded by Chris Dixon, Cater...
Google Confirms no Flash for Ice Cream Sandwich, for the time being
If you lucky owners of the Galaxy Nexus in these first days of its release complete with the first iteration of Ice Cream Sandwich, you'll notice that you do not have Adobe Flash Player installed, nor...
Adobe: Flash for Android 4.0 before end of 2011, no Flash for Android 5.0
Adobe has confirmed to Pocket-lint that it plans to release Flash for Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich by the end of 2011, but it will be the last update going forward. That means that there will be a ...
Grand Central Apple Store, the biggest in the world, scheduled to be announced this Tuesday
We reported on the construction progress of the future Apple grand Central store earlier this month and have since received further information and pictures from our trip to the location and from the...
The new Google Search app for iPad
(Cross posted on the Inside Search Blog) — Today, we're very pleased to be launching a significant redesign for the Google Search app for iPad. As you can see in our video, whether you're doing res...
Mixed Results as Google Enters Microsoft's Turf
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Michael O'Brien, vice president for information technology at Journal Communications, would prefer not to have the employees of the Milwaukee media company use Microsoft's Offi...
A Personal Appeal TO Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales
So we meet again Wales ... Yes I know, another holiday season, another reason to poke fun at your silly, scopophobia-inducing banner ads belying the very noble cause of raising $29.5 million for an un...
Spotify Says It's Headed in a “New Direction”
Apple launched its newest music offering a week ago. Google went a few days later. Now Spotify says it has something up its sleeve, too: The streaming music service just sent out a mysterioso invita...
2,446 Articles Later, A Goodbye to Mashable
Dear friends, family, colleagues and supporters, — Friday, November 18, was my last day at Mashable. I want to thank the Mashable team for 3+ amazing years. They truly have been the best years of ...
Hacker Says Texas Town Used Three Character Password To Secure Internet Facing SCADA System
In an e-mail interview with Threatpost, The hacker who compromised software used to manage water infrastructure for South Houston, Texas, said the municipality said the district had HMI …
8.9-inch Kindle Fire to launch in Q2 of 2012, says DigiTimes
DigiTimes cites supply chain sources in claiming that Amazon's followup to the 7-inch Kindle Fire will measure 8.9-inches and launch at the end of the second quarter of 2012. That's a bit more specif...
Oh, You Don't Have A Galaxy Nexus Yet? Because Woz Does.
Woz Spotting. It's something of a tradition amongst tech circles — or, at least, amongst my particularly geeky tech circle. Any time someone spots Woz wozzin' his way around the Valley, it feels wei...
Man Survives Steve Ballmer's Flying Chair To Build ‘21st Century Linux’
Mark Lucovsky was the other man in the room when Steve Ballmer threw his chair and called Eric Schmidt a “f**king pussy.” Yes, the story is true. At least according to Lucovsky. Microsoft calls it ...
Western Digital ordered to pay $525 million to Seagate in settlement
Storage manufacturer Seagate has been awarded $525 milion as a settlement in its dispute with Western Digital. The pair have been in arbitration over allegations of misappropriated confidential infor...
The OS Wars: We Have A Winner
It's clear who has won the OS wars: The user. — Just a few short years ago, Apple computers were little more than afterthoughts outside of artists' circles. They certainly were not the go-to comput...
Facebook is gaslighting the web. We can fix it.
Facebook has moved from merely being a walled garden into openly attacking its users' ability and willingness to navigate the rest of the web. The evidence that this is true even for sites which embr...
Peter Thiel To The New Yorker: “I Don't Consider [The iPhone] To Be A Technological Breakthrough”
Peter Thiel is a grump, but a special kind of grump. He is a dystopian utopian (if such a person can exist). The investor who wrote the first check for Facebook both believes in the power …
Expedia Buying Out RenRen To Grab More Of Chinese Travel's eLong
Expedia is buying Chinese social network Renren out of its stake in global travel site eLong. — Expedia first invested in eLong in 2004 has owned a majority of the site since May, when it bought an ...
McAfee: Nearly All New Mobile Malware In Q3 Targeted At Android Phones
Intel-owned McAfee has released its third quarter security report, which shows that malware targeted towards phones running on the Android operating system continues to be on the rise.
The trials and tribulations of HTML video in the post-Flash era
Adobe reversed course on its Flash strategy after a recent round of layoffs and restructuring, concluding that HTML5 is the future of rich Internet content on mobile devices. Adobe now says it doesn'...
Disruptions: For Teenagers, a Car or a Smartphone?
The auto industry has a lot of problems. It has to worry about workers' pension and health care costs, too-frequent recalls and the rising cost of gas. I think there is something else that should co...
No One's Noticing Twitter's New Ad Experiment, Which Is a Good Thing
Just over two weeks after announcing its intentions, Twitter is starting to drop ads — ahem, “promoted tweets” — into users' timelines. Despite months of hemming and hawing over the danger of polluti...
Exclusive: Apple swaps GPU suppliers again
Never means 3 years in Cupertino — Remember when we said that AMD's (NYSE:AMD) Llano loss in the MacBook Air had repercussions? Sources point to that deal as a big part of the reason why Nvidia (NA...
Copyright is Failing, Who Feeds the Artists? Asks EU Commissioner
European Commissioner for Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes has once again spoken out against the so-called copyright monopolies. — Last year at the Forum d'Avignon she noted that if media companies want ...
Study: 65% of tablet buyers want an iPad, 22% a Kindle Fire
ChangeWave says Kindle Fire 1st non-iPad to matter — Amazon's Kindle Fire is the first tablet outside of the iPad to get any meaningful demand, ChangeWave said in a new study. Although Apple was st...
iPhone 4S Finally Receives Network Access License in China?
As we know, China Unicom is expecting to offer its customers the new iPhone 4S at some point later this year, and now it appears that it has just comes a little closer to reality and we could see the ...
iPad Magazine Readers to Publishers: More, Please
After an initial wave of excitement about iPad magazines, some publishers have dialed back their enthusiasm. But the readers who have actually downloaded them like them quite a bit. — So says a sur...
Nook Tablet Teardown
When it rains (gadgets), it pours (gadgets). We've seen a lot of neat devices come out in the past few weeks and have managed to get our hands on B&N's response to the Kindle Fire: the Nook Tablet. ...
The Facebook Phone: It's Finally Real and Its Name Is Buffy
This is the first in a series of posts this week about the Facebook phone. — After years of considering how to best get into the phone business, Facebook has tapped Taiwanese cellphone maker HTC to ...
Anatomy of Facebook
Think back to the last time you were in a crowded airport or bus terminal far from home. Did you consider that the person sitting next to you probably knew a friend of a friend of a friend of yours? ...
Samsung in last-stage talks to launch Google TV: president
(Reuters) - Samsung Electronics, the world's top TV maker, is in last-stage talks with Google to roll out Google TV, the head of Samsung's TV division told reporters on Tuesday. — Yoon Boo-keun, pre...
Google just used its Search app to sneak most of Chrome OS onto the iPad
With the announcement of its new Search app, Google gave iPad users more than just a slick and well-made native search app that bests the experience on any Android tablet. It also managed to squeeze ...
Bezos Gone Wild! Amazon Selling Every Non-iPhone Smartphone for One Penny
Through next Monday, Amazon is selling all non-iPhones for one penny with a new two-year contract. — Smartphones on sale for $0.01 include the Motorola Droid Razr, which Verizon sells for $299 with ...