Apple Submits Updated Campus 2 Plans to Cupertino, Reveals Stunning Renderings
Steve Jobs surprised the Cupertino City Council when he personally showed up to explain and debut plans for a new massive Apple Campus 2. The original campus plans were submitted back in the summer …
Crystal Cox, Oregon Blogger, Isn't a Journalist, Concludes U.S. Court—Imposes $2.5 Million Judgement on Her
Imposes $2.5 Million Judgement on Her — A U.S. District Court judge in Portland has drawn a line in the sand between “journalist” and “blogger.” And for Crystal Cox, a woman on the latter end of th...
Yahoo Battles Brain Drain
Internet Company Braces for Wave of Exits After Holidays — To the catalog of problems facing Yahoo Inc., add employees like Greg Cohn. — Mr. Cohn joined Yahoo six years ago as a business strategis...
You'll Never Guess Which Venture Capital Firms Won The IPO Battle This Year
A cluster of five companies generated nearly $10 billion in value for a few venture capital firms, according to our analysis of SEC filings. — Pandora, Groupon and a few others brought in huge retur...
Isn't it ironic: Google Wallet “closed” on the airwaves Google lobbied the FCC to keep “open”
About four years ago, Google was in activist mode, campaigning the FCC to force our wireless airwaves “open”, serving consumers' interests above those of wireless operators.
Follow up to “Android graphics true facts”, or The Reason Android is Laggy
Yesterday +Dianne Hackborn posted to Google+ an article that dismissed the common accusation that Android is laggy because UI rendering wasn't hardware accelerated until Honeycomb: — https://plus.go...
StumbleUpon's Mobile Growth Rockets 800%; Company Unveils Major Redesign With 250 Brand Partners
StumbleUpon, the discovery engine that enables its users to “Stumble” onto personalized web content, unveiled a major redesign Monday, introducing a slew of upgrades that include a streamlined interfa...
Gowalla Founders v. Gowalla Investors
Location based service Gowalla is going to shut down at the end of January. The two founders, Josh Williams and Scott Raymond, will be heading off to Facebook. Loyal Gowalla users will be stranded a...
Yahoo News is seeing huge returns from Facebook's Open Graph, is this the future of Flickr?
Here Mike Kerns, who runs social and personalization at +Yahoo! News talks to me about the effects Yahoo has seen thanks to the inclusion of Open Graph technology from Facebook (AKA “frictionless shar...
‘Steve Jobs’ Becomes Amazon's Best-Selling Book of 2011
As predicted by Amazon following its release, Walter Isaacson's authorized biography of Steve Jobs has become the retailer's best-selling book of 2011. The milestone is a remarkable one given that th...
EC Opens Antitrust Proceedings To Investigate Apple, E-book Publishers ‘Cartel’
The European Commission this morning announced that it has opened formal antitrust proceedings to investigate whether a number of international ebook publishers have engaged in anti-competitive practi...
Exclusive: Verizon to take on Netflix with Web service
(Reuters) - Verizon Communications Inc plans to launch a standalone service allowing customers to stream movies and television shows over the Web, in a fresh challenge to Netflix Inc and the tradition...
With TVs, Microsoft Is Right and Apple Is Wrong
“The problem with innovation in the television market is the go-to-market strategy,” Steve Jobs told Hillcrest Labs' Dan Simpkins at D8 in 2010. “It's not a problem of technology; it's not a problem ...
How the iPad 2 Became My Favorite Computer
My iPad 2 and ZaggFolio, in the press room at IFA in Berlin, September 2011. — Can the iPad replace a PC? — Ever since Apple announced its tablet nearly two years ago, the Internet has been awash ...
Follow up to “Android graphics true facts”, or The Reason Android is Laggy
Yesterday +Dianne Hackborn posted to Google+ an article that dismissed the common accusation that Android is laggy because UI rendering wasn't hardware accelerated until Honeycomb: — https://plus.go...
RIM loses BBX trademark battle, next OS is named BlackBerry 10
Die-hard fans of RIM's mobile efforts should put those BBX tattoo plans on hold, as the US Federal Court has blocked the company from using the BBX trademark, favoring the existing use by BASIS Intern...
Siri Is Apple's Broken Promise
A long time ago, I made a compact with Apple. “You can control my entire technological life, from my computer to my phone to my stereo. I'll pay premium prices. I'll dive into your product ecosyste...
Behind RIM's $485M Write-off
On December 5th, three days ago, RIM announced a $485M write-off “related to its inventory valuation of BlackBerry PlayBook tablets”. Wall Street didn't like the news and dumped the stock, it went do...
Apple television rumored to come in 3 sizes, including 32" and 55"
Apple's full-fledged television set will arrive at the end of 2012 in three screen sizes, maxing out at 55 inches, a new rumor claims. — Citing sources in Japan, Australia's SmartHouse reported this...
The BBC's global iPlayer expands to iPhone and iPod Touch
Five months after BBC Worldwide launched its global iPlayer app to 11 Western European countries on iPad, the commercial arm of the UK broadcaster has announced that it's making the app available on i...
Verizon lights one candle for LTE, confirms Xyboard Droid tablet name, December launch
Today marks one full year after Verizon first flipped the switch on LTE, with 365 days of 4G speeds for customers in 39 markets. By the end of next week, Big Red will light up a few more cities …
PayPal Rains On Regretsy's Secret Santa Campaign Over Use Of Wrong Button
Accepting charitable donations online through a third party can be a tricky business. It often requires that you provide reams of documentation to this third party that you are a non-profit or that t...
C|Net Download.Com is now bundling Nmap with malware!
Hi Folks. I've just discovered that C|Net's Download.Com site has started wrapping their Nmap downloads (as well as other free software like VLC) in a trojan installer which does things like installi...
New Node.js blocked by Great Firewall of China
Chinese Internet censors are preventing local programmers from accessing the newest version of the popular Node.js programming framework. — The problem is that the version number — .6.4 — correspond...
Consumer Reports rates AT&T the worst among U.S. carriers (again), Verizon is the best
Consumer Reports, a U.S. monthly influencing purchasing decisions with its reviews and comparisons of consumer products, announced today that it rated AT&T the worst among wireless operators in the Un...
Sprint says 4G LTE devices coming in second half of next year
Sprint Nextel is going to be a little late to the game when it comes to 4G LTE devices. — Sprint Chief Financial Officer Joseph Euteneuer today said he expects the first 4G LTE devices to hit the ma...
Zynga, Vostu Settle Copyright Lawsuit; Brazilian Gaming Company To Pay Up
Zynga and Vostu has settled their copyright lawsuits, according to a representative for Vostu. Vostu has paid Zynga an undisclosed sum as part of the settlement and made changes to its games.
Don't write off Mozilla-Google revenue deal as dead
Mozilla and Google are renegotiating a deal by which Google shares ad revenue that results from searches the browser drives to its site. — The partnership, which Mozilla renewed in 2008 for three mo...
Is HTC's 20% Revenue Dip Last Month A Sign Of Things To Come?
Even though HTC has just come off of a record-breaking third quarter, it seems like some of the company's mobile momentum is evaporating. The Taiwanese company recently cut their Q4 sales forecasts b...
Asus: Netbooks Outsold Tablets Nearly 3 To 1 In 2011, Big Things In Store For 2012
Netbooks are still big business for Asustek. So much so that the hotness from 2009 outsold Asus tablets in 2011. Per numbers released at the company's global sales meeting (and relayed by Digitimes)...