AT&T pulls T-Mobile application from FCC, records provisional $4bn loss
The FCC's decision to request a formal administrative hearing into AT&T's proposed takeover of T-Mobile USA has caused the US carrier to take drastic action: AT&T and Deutsche Telekom have just announ...
The Closed, Unfriendly World Of Wikipedia
Right now, Wikipedia is busy asking for donations to stay afloat. Here's a thought. If it wants donations, maybe open things up so that outsiders feel like they can contribute expert knowledge witho...
Quad-core ASUS Transformer Prime tablet now available for pre-order
The highly anticipated sequel to ASUS' convertible Android tablet, the Eee Pad Transformer, is now available for pre-order in North America. Set for release some time next month, the Transformer Prim...
Microsoft planning beta of next-generation Office 15 suite in January
Microsoft is planning the first beta of its Office 15 software in January, WinRumors has learned. — The software giant is currently preparing final milestone builds of Office 15 in preparation for a...
MPAA Costs Hollywood More Than US BitTorrent Piracy
The movie industry claims that piracy is costing them billions of dollars a year. — Luckily for Hollywood, many Americans choose to consume their online media through legal services such as Netflix.
DROID 4 Scheduled to Launch December 8, Same Day as the Galaxy Nexus?
Could the DROID 4 find its way into stores on December 8 alongside the Galaxy Nexus? According to the latest info from our friends at Verizon, that's exactly what the plan is. Well, the Nexus is sti...
Forget Shopping, Friday Is Update Your Parents' Browser Day!
Thanksgiving is coming up, that time when families gather together to share food, extend gratitude, and marvel at how Dad still uses Internet Explorer 6. No, seriously, Dad, how can you be using a br...
Ubuntu Linux losing popularity fast. New Unity interface to blame?
Don't panic Ubuntu fans but your favorite desktop Linux distribution has fallen to fourth place in DistroWatch's latest ranking. — Ubuntu has been overtaken by Fedora, Mint, and openSUSE.
Microsoft's Black Friday: $100 Kinect, free Windows Phone, discounts on Office and games
Microsoft's growing retail footprint, in stores and online, comes with an obligation to participate in the annual Black Friday sales — at least if it wants to keep up with the competition in the madne...
Investors Are Un-Friending Social Media
Tech IPOs floated like butterflies. Now they're stinging like bees. — Limiting the share float as part of their initial public offerings helped Groupon, LinkedIn and Pandora Media achieve bubbly va...
Alibaba.com posts slowest quarterly growth in almost 2 years
(Reuters) - Alibaba.com, China's largest e-commerce firm, posted an 11.9 percent rise in quarterly net profit, its slowest growth in nearly two years, with the company raising concerns due to a weak t...
Google+ Gets A Thanksgiving Day TV Ad: “Sharing, But Like Real Life”
It wasn't that long ago that the idea of flipping on a television and seeing a commercial for anything Google-related seemed totally implausible. For many years, the company seemed to take a certain ...
Why Apple's customers cripple its user experience
Apple products have always cost more than the equivalent products elsewhere. It's one of the reasons that Apple has historically had very high brand loyalty and very low market share — a classic luxu...
Wary Of SOPA, Reddit Users Aim To Build A New, Censorship-Free Internet
Users of the social news and community site Reddit don't like the way the government seems to be muscling in on the Internet. So they plan to build a new one. — Redditors have flocked over the last...
Europe rules your ISP can't be forced to block pirate sites
Oink Hits 100K Downloads, With 100K Items Added In Under Three Weeks
In two and a half weeks since its launch, micro-recommendation app Oink has clocked in a 100k downloads, with a symmetrical 100k items added and tagged. A product of Kevin Rose's Milk Studios, Rose t...
Zinio Raises $20 Million For Digital Newsstand
Zinio, which bills itself as the world's largest digital newsstand and bookstore, has raised $20 million in new funding according to an SEC filing. — Zinio provides global access to thousands of mag...
IPOs stoke San Francisco housing market
(Reuters) - Adam Holm has been looking to sell his three-bedroom Victorian house in San Francisco's Potrero Hill neighborhood all year, but he needs one thing to happen first: gaming-company Zynga's i...