Facebook buys Gowalla
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Facebook has acquired location sharing service Gowalla for an undisclosed sum, according to a source close to Gowalla. — Facebook did not immediately respond to a request for c...
Red-Hot Kindle Fire Blazes its Way to Second Place in Media Tablet Market
Just two weeks after its introduction, Amazon's Kindle Fire already is shaking up the market, with the device expected to surpass all other iPad rivals to take second place in the global media tablet ...
Carrier IQ disputes spying accusations; security researchers agree
Carrier IQ, the beleagured online metrics company that has been accused of installing spy software on millions of smartphones, has broken its silence to say the critics have it wrong. — “While a few...
Comcast, Time Warner preparing to bid farewell to Clearwire
Cable providers Comcast and Time Warner Cable are planning to end their wholesale relationship with Comcast as a result of the Verizon Wireless deal, CNET has learned. — Clearwire is losing a few of...
Zynga Ups the Ante on IPO to Raise as Much as $1.15 Billion
Zynga is officially on its way to IPO-Ville. — The company has filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission to raise between $850 million to $1.15 billion. At the high-end that would be roughly ...
Why Siri Can't Find Abortion Clinics & How It's Not An Apple Conspiracy
“I'm standing in front of a Planned Parenthood,” the CNN reporter says, “And Siri can't find it when I search for abortion clinic.” No, it can't. It's not because Apple is pro-life. It's because Pl...
Google Makes Flight Search Results Better Looking, More Useful
In September Google did the first part of its integration with ITA, showing flight schedule information in search results and launching a separate flight search “portal” of sorts (Google.com/flights)....
$2.7 billion PER YEAR, possibly $16 billion in total
Today I watched a hearing in another patent infringement lawsuit brought by Motorola against Apple in Mannheim.
Justice Dept. approves Google's AdMeld acquisition
The Justice Department on Friday gave the green light to Google's $400 million acquisition of AdMeld, a major display advertising company. — The agency said the deal can proceed without any major co...
Apple gives Samsung some work-around options for its iPhone and iPad design patents
Redacted public versions of the legal briefs tied to Apple's July request for a ban on Samsung's products began to trickle in over the last few days. While we eagerly await the judge's decision on an...
The internet as a diversion and destination
Americans are increasingly going online just for fun and to pass the time. On any given day, 53% of all the young adults ages 18-29 go online for no particular reason except to have fun or to pass th...
Microsoft to drop Desktop App from Windows 8 ARM tablets?
Summary: Microsoft may have done an about-face and decided against offering the Desktop App and thus non-Metro-style apps, on Windows 8 ARM tablets. — Back in September, there was controversy as to ...
Movie studios force Lovefilm to drop Flash streaming
No more movies for older Mac and Linux users — DVD rental and movie streaming service Lovefilm has announced that it will be moving over to Microsoft's Silverlight for its video-on-demand from the p...
Confirmed: EA Acquires KlickNation, Source Says Price is Roughly $35M
Electronic Arts said it acquired KlickNation to beef up its RPG games on social networks after we broke the news about the deal yesterday. The Sacramento, Calif.-based company will become part of Bio...
Apple Sends Match.com's App To The Dog House For Untaxed Subscription Payments
Those looking for love won't find it in the App Store. Apple has removed Match.com's iOS app because it allowed the lonely to pay for Match subscriptions with a credit card through an external link r...
2TB hard drive shortage hits Apple's BTO iMacs with 5-7 week wait
Build-to-order iMacs with 2-terabyte hard drives now have an estimated shipping time of 5 to 7 weeks, in what is potentially the first sign of Apple being hit by a lingering global hard drive shortage...
The war over Kai-fu Lee's biography
The prominent technology executive has been accused of overstating his relationships with Barack Obama, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. Now, he's hitting back. — By Bill Powell, editor-at-large — FORT...
Verizon Wireless prepping two 4G Droid tablets for this month
The 8-inch Droid Xyboard (left) and its 10-inch brother. — Verizon Wireless will launch two more tablets, both carrying the premium Droid brand, before the end of the year, CNET has learned.
Swiss Govt: Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay Legal
In Switzerland, just as in dozens of other countries, the entertainment industries have been complaining about dramatic losses in revenue due to online piracy. — In a response, the Swiss government ...
Researchers find big leaks in pre-installed Android apps
Researchers at North Carolina State University have uncovered a variety of vulnerabilities in the standard configurations of popular Android smartphones from Motorola, HTC, and Samsung, finding that t...
Report: Syria bans iPhone to cover up crackdown on anti-Assad protests
Statement issued by Customs Department of the Syrian Finance Ministry says, ‘The authorities warn anyone against using the iPhone in Syria’; at least six demonstrators reported killed in Syria on Frid...
Silk, iPad, Galaxy comparison
In my previous blog post I announced Loadtimer - a mobile test harness for measuring page load times. I was motivated to create Loadtimer because recent reviews of the Kindle Fire lacked the quantifi...
Best Buy, Mophie recall battery cases for iPhone, iPod touch over possible fire hazard
Overheating and fire concerns stemming from two external battery cases have forced both accessory manufacturer Mophie and mega retailer Best Buy to issue recalls in conjunction with the US Consumer Pr...
Samsung And HTC Hit By Wiretapping Lawsuit Over Tracking Software
The swirling controversy over a company that reportedly installed tracking software on users' mobile phones has already produced its first two lawsuits. On Thursday, plaintiffs sued the company, Carr...
3-4M Amazon Kindle's Shipped, 5M Expected by 2012
We knew that the Amazon Kindle was a popular tablet but just how popular is slowly becoming clear. Water cooler talk in Taipei points to Amazon shipping between 3-4M Kindle Fire's and they are contin...
Verizon building a spectrum empire with cable deal
Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks are selling off the spectrum remnants of their stillborn wireless venture, SpectrumCo, to Verizon Wireless for $3.6 billion. The deal would allow ...
Microsoft to drop Desktop App from Windows 8 ARM tablets?
Summary: Microsoft may have done an about-face and decided against offering the Desktop App and thus non-Metro-style apps, on Windows 8 ARM tablets. — Back in September, there was controversy as to ...
RIM to Take $485 Million Charge Related to Tablet
TORONTO—Research in Motion Ltd. on Friday said it would take a $485 million, mostly noncash charge in its fiscal third quarter after marking down the value of its large inventory of PlayBook tablets. ...
Welcome to Androidland: Australia's (and the world's) first Android store
If you're an Android fan and happen to be local to the Australian city of Melbourne then you'll be pleased to know that the world's first dedicated Android store has opened, and it's called Androidlan...
Electronic Arts Acquires Another Social Game Company as Zynga's IPO Nears
Electronic Arts has acquired a small social games company, KlickNation, in its ongoing quest to challenge Zynga as the dominant game maker on Facebook. — KlickNation, which has been developing free ...
New Wikileaks files expose iPhone, BlackBerry phone and Gmail hacking technology
LONDON — Wikileaks founder Julian Assange unveiled today the latest batch of released files from the whistleblowing organisation. — Speaking to a number of students and members of the press …
The EC to slam Google with 400+ page SO
This article is provided to FT.com readers by dealReporter—a news service focused on providing insightful intelligence on event driven situations to investors. www.dealreporter.com — Story The Europ...
AT&T's 4G/LTE Network Already Live In Parts Of NYC
Early in November, AT&T exec Larry Solomon mentioned that their 4G/LTE network would be extending its reach to New York City sometime “soon.” — Turns out, “soon” means “sometime around December 1st”...
Alibaba Group testing a new social networking product
(Reuters) - Alibaba Group, China's largest e-commerce company, said on Friday it is beta-testing a new social-networking-product, as the firm expands outside e-commerce to seek other revenue streams. ...