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Today we introduce a new version of Twitter. We've simplified the design to make it easier than ever to follow what you care about, connect with others and discover something new. You'll see this ne...
Samsung to beat Apple to market with Retina-resolution tablet in February
BGR has learned from a trusted source that Samsung is set to launch an 11.6-inch tablet running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich next year, and it will most likely be unveiled at Mobile World Congress i...
webOS all-hands meeting scheduled for tomorrow morning - it all finally comes to a head
We've just received word that tomorrow will finally bring the answers for which we have been waiting. HP CEO Meg Whitman has weighed the options for what to do with webOS, and tomorrow at 10:30 AM Pa...
AT&T Starts Throttling Heavy iPhone Data Users To 2G Speeds
If you've been whining about why the iPhone 4S has no 4G, get ready for a real letdown — 2G speeds. The move by AT&T to throttle its top 5 percent of data users to a snail's pace is an unwelcome Chri...
Why Google is bending to Verizon over Google Wallet
Google has complied, so far, with Verizon Wireless's request to withhold the Google Wallet mobile payments service from the new Galaxy Nexus phone. — Why? — Because Verizon is a very important par...
Introducing the Subscribe Button for Websites
In September we introduced Subscribe to make it easier for people who want to share their public updates with more than just friends to build an audience of subscribers. Today we're launching the Sub...
Google launches Currents, new social reading platform for iOS and Android
Following an extensive period of beta testing and refining, a promising new Google product is ready for prime time. Today, the search Goliath took the wraps off of a brand new social publishing platf...
Apple Picks Instagram As The “iPhone App Of The Year”
Apple released its iTunes Rewind 2011 and App Store Rewind 2011 today, the company's annual lists detailing of the top selling apps, music, TV shows, movies and podcasts for the year. This year, the ...
How productive is an Apple store employee?
Apple publishes data about its “retail segment” which ifoAppleStore.com catalogs. Here are some statistics I was able to compute from the data: — The stores generate over $100k per employee per quar...
Tablet image results in new carousel view
In July, we started to evolve the Google design and experience on Android and iOS tablets by updating features like larger touch targets and enhanced image viewing to make searching faster and easier....
Facebook IPO sparks dreams of riches, adventure
(Reuters) - Traveling to space or embarking on an expedition to excavate lost Mayan ruins are normally the stuff of adventure novels. — But for employees of Facebook, these and other lavish dreams a...
Sorry, Folks, Bill Gates Is Not Coming Back to Microsoft
While it is fun to play “what if” games, the fact is that Bill Gates is not planning a return to Microsoft, the software giant he founded with Paul Allen decades ago. — Folks are getting worked up a...
Microsoft: We Can Remotely Delete Windows 8 Apps
Microsoft will be able to throw a “kill switch” to disable or even remove an app from users' Windows 8 devices, the company revealed in documentation released earlier this week for its upcoming Window...
Logic Pro and MainStage Headed to Mac App Store, Boxed Software Discontinued [Updated]
Apple today issued a notice to resellers announcing that it has discontinued the boxed versions of its Logic Studio and Logic Express audio software packages effectively immediately …
Why An Investment Firm Was Awarded $2.5 Million After Being Defamed By Blogger
No miscarriage of justice here. — It was the $2.5 million dollar lawsuit heard round the blogosphere. The Seattle Weekly reported that an “Oregon blogger” had been found guilty of defamation and or...
Social networking's salad days are ending, Forrester says
Forrester CEO George Colony speaks at LeWeb. — PARIS—Bad news, would-be social networking start-ups. — “Social is running out of hours. Social is also running out of people,” concluded George Col...
YouMail yanked from Android Market due to T-Mobile complaint
YouMail, a mobile voicemail and visual message management app, suddenly disappeared from Google's Android Market on Thursday. The free app is still available in Apple's iTunes Store for iOS devices, ...
Zynga bets on Google TV with new Texas HoldEm Poker app
Zynga is finally bringing its mega-popular Texas HoldEm poker game to the living room TV set, but it's not going through a major video game console manufacturers to get there. — In addition to its s...
Google Launches Schemer, An Activity Recommendation Engine To ‘Discover New Things To Do’
We've been wondering exactly what Google Schemer is for some time now. Google has just officially launched Schemer, a new activity recommendations portal that allows people to 'discover new things …
Exclusive: Facebook Does A Major Reorg Around Key Products
Facebook has done a major corporate reorganization in an effort to be more nimble, sources said. — The new structure integrates design, product and engineering teams around key product areas such as...
Apple's New Campus Will Put On A Spectacular Show Every Year, Starting On Steve Jobs' Birthday
The City of Cupertino published more details on Apple's enormous new circular headquarters Tuesday. And if you're looking for ‘one last thing,’ that final flourish Apple Chief Steve Jobs was known fo...
Acer CEO: We're Going to Stop Selling Cheap, Unprofitable Crap
Acer CEO J.T. Wang has settled on a turnaround strategy for the company, one that will return it to profitability after two consecutive quarters of net losses. Acer is going to pin its hopes on the u...
Retail association pissed about Amazon.com's Price Check app
The Retail Industry Leaders Association isn't too happy about Amazon.com's Price Check app and a new promotion that the Seattle online retailer is unveiling this Saturday. — The company announced th...
French court denies Samsung request for iPhone 4S ban
Via Twitter I just learned that the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris, the first-instance court for all French patent lawsuits, has denied Samsung's request for a preliminary injunction against the...
Apple TV updates stream purchased TV shows to Australia, Canada and the UK
Apple TV users (the hockey puck, not the pie in the sky rumored flat panel with magic fairy dust inside and an extra unaired season of Firefly) in Canada, Australia and the UK were gifted a download t...
AT&T's 4G LTE network is live in San Francisco
New York City by the end of 2011? How's about San Francisco by the end of December 8th? We can't say for certain that it's lit up for good ("testing," you know), but at least for now it's absolutely...
Marissa Mayer at LeWeb: Google+ Was a Pleasant Surprise
Marissa Mayer, Google's vice president for local, as well as maps and location services, was interviewed by Crunchfund's MG Siegler on stage at the LeWeb conference in Paris this morning. This wide-r...
Start-Ups Aim to Teach Coding
With computer programmers in demand, new start-ups that aim to train people in coding skills are also becoming hot properties. — Ventures that teach computer programming, design and other once-nerdy...
Apple Never Designed the iPad - They Undesigned it
You have probably heard about the continual struggle between Apple and Samsung over similarities in their designs. Apple is suing Samsung and asking the courts to block the sale of the Galaxy Tab in ...
Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime Review
One of the biggest things that deters people from relying on tablets is the lack of a convenient physical keyboard. Now, Taiwan-based Asus is attacking this issue with a new Android-based tablet and ...
Nokia may drop Vertu luxury phones altogether
Company said to be selling off Vertu division — Nokia is reportedly attempting to step away from the luxury market, which it had engaged for more than a decade through the Vertu brand. The Finnish ...
Is Verizon even allowed to discriminate against NFC apps like Google Wallet?
Verizon Wireless has been careful to point out that it is not technically blocking the Google Wallet app/service from the new Galaxy Nexus phone, and that it is still negotiating with Google.
Who Are the ‘Most-Read’ Authors?
Saving a story for later can tell us a lot about loyalty, longevity and quality—and it changes the way we think about the most popular stories on the web — If we're to believe Woody Allen, “80 perce...
Fast Approximate Anti-Aliasing (FXAA)
Anti-aliasing has an intimidating name, but what it does for our computer displays is rather fundamental. Think of it this way — a line has infinite resolution, but our digital displays do not. So w...
Microsoft and GE creating new health care company in Seattle region, employing 750 to start
Updated with additional details from Microsoft. — In a surprise joint venture between two corporate giants, Microsoft and General Electric plan to form a new health-care technology company …
Coming Soon: Twitter to Show Off What It's Building, in Its New Building
Twitter invited press, including AllThingsD, to come to an event this morning in San Francisco in order “to come see what we're building.” — Does that mean new products? Probably — but with this co...
Google to invest $300 million in Hong Kong data centre
(Reuters) - Google Inc said it will invest $300 million in its Hong Kong data centre, due to come online in early 2013 after the company broke ground on Thursday. — The $300 million investment inclu...
Verizon And RedBox Planning Major Partnership For Early 2012 Launch
Yesterday, it was reported that Verizon was planning a Netflix competitor and in talks with various content producers to provide the streams and downloads. TechCrunch has obtained additional informat...
How Twitter's Trending Algorithm Picks Its Topics
Hands-on with the $19-per-month Republic Wireless Android phone
If you can live with some modest restrictions, you can get a contract-free Android smartphone for just $19 monthly. — Last month, Republic Wireless made waves when it announced an Android phone with...
Twitter Bots Drown Out Anti-Kremlin Tweets
Thousands of Twitter accounts apparently created in advance to blast automated messages are being used to drown out Tweets sent by bloggers and activists this week who are protesting the disputed parl...
Publishing To Facebook Subscribers Shouldn't Make Us Spam Our Friends
I have one major gripe with Facebook's Subscribe feature: I have to publish to all my friends to reach my Subscribers. In September, Facebook launched Subscribe, its Twitter-esque option that lets pe...
The E-book Investigations: Are Publishers And Apple Breaking The Law?
It's been a week to forget for publishers after both the Justice Department and the European Commission announced investigations into e-book pricing tactics. Meanwhile, dozens of law firms are steami...
Clearwire boosts size of stock offering to $350M
Clearwire expects to raise $350 million in its stock offering next week, an increase over its previous plans to raise $300 million. — The money-losing mobile broadband provider and wholesaler plans ...
Mark It Down: June 6, 2012
“Six months from now you'll say the opposite. Because ultimately applications vendors are driven by volume. And the volume is favored by the open approach that Google is taking.” — That was Google...
T-Mobile Nokia Lumia 710 - confirmed through FCC manual
We know next week T-Mobile and Nokia have a little shindig here in NYC going on—we'll be there for that one, so don't fret. But in the meantime, you can rest assured that yes, it is indeed for the No...