Welcoming your favorite Disney movies to rent on YouTube
Today, the first of hundreds of The Walt Disney Studios movies from Disney, Disney ·Pixar and DreamWorks Studios are coming to YouTube. These titles join thousands of full-length feature films from ...
Microsoft Signs Nondisclosure Agreement With Yahoo
Microsoft has signed a nondisclosure agreement with Yahoo, according to a person briefed on the matter, formally lining itself up as another potential bidder for the struggling Internet company. — B...
Know Your Meme's Casually Pepper Spray Everything Cop
The pepper spray incident at the University of California Davis campus has gone viral. And one place where people are expressing their reaction on the internet is on the Know Your Meme website, run b...
Apple's Black Friday 2011 deals revealed: discounts on iPad, iPod, iMac, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and accessories
A trusted tipster has provided us with the details on Apple's Black Friday (November 25th) 2011 sale. The sale is very similar to Apple's offerings in past years …
Nokia's Microsoft Phones May Not Get Traction, Analyst Says
Microsoft and Nokia have yet to prove whether their marriage will give birth to healthy handset sales. One analyst is not expecting much. — James Faucette, an analyst at Pacific Crest Securities, c...
Malls track shoppers' cell phones on Black Friday
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Attention holiday shoppers: your cell phone may be tracked this year. — Starting on Black Friday and running through New Year's Day, two U.S. malls — Promenade Temecula in sout...
The Sketchbook of Susan Kare, the Artist Who Gave Computing a Human Face
Graphical interface pioneer Susan Kare, photo by R.J. Muna — Point, click. — The gestures and metaphors of icon-driven computing feel so natural and effortless to us now, it seems strange to recal...
SkyDrive - designing personal cloud storage for billions of people
SkyDrive has grown tremendously since we launched in 2007, and recently, we've made a number of updates to SkyDrive: — In June we overhauled our website and used the latest browser standards to simpl...
Steve Jobs Movie: “Something I'm Strongly Considering,” Says Social Network's Aaron Sorkin
Aaron Sorkin is taking on one tech mogul at a time! Earlier this year, Sorkin won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for his Facebook flick The Social Network.
4sqwifi Uses Foursquare To Show You Nearby WiFi Locations And Their Passwords
Foursquare, and most of the apps built on top of the location service's developer platform, are great for exploring the physical world for entertainment. But a new iPhone app called 4sqwifi (download...
CONFIRMED: Samsung Galaxy Nexus U.S. Launch Is In December
There's been a lot of confusion as to when Samsung and Google's Galaxy Nexus would launch in the U.S. — When the phone was first announced, the company said it would be available in November. — We...
Samsung Is Going Right For Apple Fanboys' Jugular With Its Latest Commercial
I got a good laugh out of this one. — Samsung is kicking off a new ad campaign this week, directly taking a swipe at Apple fanboys and the iPhone and promoting its flagship Galaxy S II line of Andro...
Amazon will take over Android app distribution
Assume the Kindle Fire will sell very well, even though it needs a lot of help. — The only way most Kindle Fire owners are going to be installing apps is from the Amazon Appstore for Android. The F...
Apple Television Could Be Ready for Commercial Production by Feb. 2012
There may be more to Apple's developing relationship with Sharp than simple supply-chain diversification and OLED panels for future iPhones and iPads. The Japanese company is said to be playing a rol...
H-P Offers Customers Path Away From Maligned Chip
Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday offered help to customers who want to shift away from systems that use a microprocessor called Itanium. But H-P insists it is not dumping the chip, nor reacting to a nasty ...
U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman: Google's Blogger Needs a Terrorist-Flagging Feature
Last week, the New York Police Department arrested Jose Pimentel for building a pipe bomb that he planned to use to hurt and potentially kill U.S. military personnel (though whether he was actually ca...
Google responds to Galaxy Nexus volume bug: ‘we have a fix’
The Galaxy Nexus volume bug has been squashed in Google's labs. The Android software maker has just announced it has a fix for the problem plaguing UK owners of the new Nexus, which will be rolled ou...
Undercover Researchers Expose Chinese Internet Water Army
An undercover team of computer scientists reveals the practices of people who are paid to post on websites — In China, paid posters are known as the Internet Water Army because they are ready and wi...
HTC Cuts Sales Forecast on Competition From Apple, Samsung
HTC Corp. (2498), the largest seller of smartphones in the U.S., cut revenue forecast as much as 23 percent as the global economic crisis and rising competition from Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Samsung Elec...
HTC considering Chrome OS for Internet-access devices
Although Chromebooks offered by Acer and Samsung Electronics may see low cumulative sales of 25,000-30,000 units at the end of 2011, HTC is evaluating the feasibility of combining the advantages of Ch...
Exclusive: Lenovo also working on a 5-inch Android tablet, because pockets need love too
No matter how tempting the specs on Lenovo's leaked 10.1-inch tablet are, you might prefer something fairly more portable just for the sake of your regular pockets. Well, it looks like Lenovo's got y...
Windows Phone Marketplace Is Riding High On Free Content
Last week, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) revealed on the anniversary of the Windows Phone Marketplace that the app storefront now has some 40,000 apps in its catalog. Some numbers out today reveal that ther...
HTC could drop its planned purchase of S3 Graphics following the ITC ruling favoring Apple
Taiwanese handset maker HTC's lawsuit against Apple over infringement of S3 Graphics' patents has suffered a fatal blow (in addition to this one) as the United States International Trade Commission …
comScore Forecasts 15 Percent Growth for 2011 U.S. Holiday E-Commerce Spending
First Three Weeks of November Exhibit Strong Online Spending Activity Spurred by Early-Season Deals — comScore (NASDAQ : SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today reported holiday season...
Western Digital cleared to buy Hitachi disk drive business
(Reuters) - Western Digital has secured conditional approval from the European Union's competition regulator to purchase Hitachi's hard disk drive business for $4.3 billion, after it agreed to sell se...
Apple and Microsoft to Add NFC Support (E-Wallet Technology) to Phones in 2012
I go to Starbucks pretty often, I'm a big fan of their iPhone app that allows me to pay for my coffee by having the barista scan a code on my screen. The process is quick and easy and I have fun earn...
Apple Removes Big Fish Game Subscription Service From Its App Store
Apple Inc. (AAPL) removed Big Fish Games Inc.'s subscription service from its App Store, reversing a move that would have given iPad users access to dozens of video games for a monthly fee.
Google Now Censors The Pirate Bay, isoHunt, 4Shared and More
Since January 2011, Google has been filtering “piracy-related” terms from its ‘Autocomplete’ and ‘Instant’ services. — Google users searching for terms like “torrent”, “BitTorrent” and “RapidShare” ...
Microsoft's Craig Mundie On Siri: Been There, Done That (Video)
Microsoft Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie isn't nearly as impressed with Siri, the voice recognition interface for the Apple iPhone 4S, as a lot of other people. Mundie, in fact, con...
Barack Obama Joins Google+, White House Itself Still Not There
First Britney Spears takes the top Google+ spot away from Google CEO Larry Page today. Now the President of the United States, Barack Obama, has opened an account. — Not Yet Verified, But Yes, Real...
Steve Jobs Exhibit on Display at U.S. Patent Office Museum
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office last week opened a new exhibit honoring Steve Jobs at its museum in Alexandria, Virginia. Located in the atrium of the office's Madison Building headquarters, the...
Important step toward computing with light
Research at MIT produces long-sought component to allow complete optical circuits on silicon chips. — David L. Chandler, MIT News Office — There has been enormous progress in recent years toward t...
Palantir, the Vanguard of Cyberterror Security
The Silicon Valley up-and-comer fuses fingerprints, DNA, video, and manifold other data to provide the best heads-up technology yet — In October, a foreign national named Mike Fikri purchased a one-...
Hackers Leak Facebook Law Enforcement Guidelines
A group of hackers claiming to represent Anonymous's Antisec movement hijacked two Gmail accounts belonging to a retired California Department of Justice cybercrimes investigator, now a private invest...
Google going after YouTube typo domains that lead to survey scams
Google is going after several popular typos of the web address YouTube.com, all owned by the same person. — Each typo domain leads unsuspecting users to a site that looks confusingly similar to the ...
More smartphones now sold in China than in U.S.
Smartphone adoption may be high in the U.S. but overall smartphone sales are highest in China. A new research note published by Strategy Analytics on Wednesday estimates that 23.9 million smartphones...