Exclusive: Microsoft Replaces Lees as Head of Windows Phone Business
Microsoft is moving the current head of its Windows Phone business, Andy Lees, to a new role, AllThingsD has learned. — Terry Myerson, the corporate VP who has led engineering efforts for the phone ...
Wikipedia Mulls Total Blackout to Oppose SOPA
Later this week, the Senate's House Judiciary Committee will vote on the “Stop Online Piracy Act” (SOPA). — Supporters of the bill say it's needed to safeguard the interests of rightsholders who cla...
Dish Network Seeks to Partner With T-Mobile USA If AT&T Acquisition Fails
Dish Network Corp. (DISH), the second largest U.S. satellite-TV provider, is seeking to partner with T-Mobile USA if AT&T Inc. (T)'s takeover bid fails, Chief Executive Officer Joseph Clayton said in ...
FBI: Carrier IQ files used for “law enforcement purposes”
The spook in your pocket — A recent FOIA request to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for “manuals, documents or other written guidance used to access or analyze data gathered by programs develope...
Apple adds ability to delete individual Photo Stream pics in iOS 5.1 beta 2
Apple on Monday provided developers with a second beta of iOS 5.1, with the latest update granting the ability to delete individual photos synced to the iCloud Photo Stream feature.
Modern Warfare 3 Passes $1 Billion in Sales in 16 Days
Modern Warfare 3, the first-person shooter video game, passed $1 billion in sales in just 16 days, according to Activision Blizzard, the game's distributor. Modern Warfare 2, an earlier installment o...
A Rare Apple Compromise
Apple Inc. is learning to compromise. — Facing challenges winning over advertisers for its iAd mobile advertising service, Apple is softening its approach to advertisers as it loses ground to Google...
Facebook Doesn't Need to ‘Like’ Wall Street
Mark Zuckerberg should unfriend Wall Street. — Facebook's founder has come a long way from his Harvard University dorm room, where the idea of a social-networking site first took shape. As The Wall...
Why Twitter Engineers And Execs Keep Quitting - One Insider's Explanation
From the outside, Twitter seems like it's doing very well. It has 2,400 advertisers and 100 million active users, 50 million of whom send 250 million tweets every day. The company is worth $8 billio...
Blogger Gets “The First of Many Google+ Features”
Blogger has announced “the first of many Google+ features” today, launching an automatic +snippet sharing box after you publish a blog post. It only saves a few clicks, but this makes it as easy as h...
AT&T, Verizon test 4G LTE Nokia Lumia phone
A version of Nokia's Lumia 800 with 4G LTE is in labs at AT&T and Verizon right now. — Behind the scenes, Nokia is making some headway with the big two carriers in the U.S. — The Finnish handset v...
Firefox Source Code Is So Big, It Hit the 32-Bit Virtual Address Space Limit
Mozilla, or rather the Firefox team, is facing a somewhat unusual problem that is holding up development in some cases. Firefox can't reliably be compiled because the linker runs out of virtual addre...
EXCLUSIVE: Big Sony Ericsson Arc HD (Nozomi) live shots pop up
Now look what we found in our mailbox this morning. We just received photos of the upcoming Sony Ericsson flagship and some specs to go with them. Unfortunately, we didn't get the name cleared out s...
Microsoft iPad mania: New OneNote app today; new Lync app soon
Summary: The iPad-optimized version of Microsoft OneNote is out, and the Lync mobile client for the iPad, iPhone, Android and Symbian phones is coming “shortly.” — The early warning indicators were ...
Are We Suffering Global Gadget Fatigue?
Are people suffering from gadget overload? Are they exhausted by the consumer equivalent of the brain fatigue — information overload — that is caused by a constant updates of devices and online media...
Apple TV Set-Top Box Predicted to Sell 4 Million Units, Grab 32% Market Share in 2011
Market research firm Strategy Analytics today reported on the release of its new research report covering “connected TV players” such as the current Apple TV and Roku boxes.
A Very Rare Video of Steve Jobs Telling the History of Apple
This very rare video was recorded in the 1980s. It shows Steve Jobs talking about the origin of Apple. It's fascinating to see how he hints at the Next Big Thing, back when the Macintosh was still a...
Apple Releases iTunes 10.5.2 with iTunes Match and Audio Distortion Fixes
Apple today released iTunes 10.5.2, an update bringing improvements to iTunes Match and fixes for an audio distortion issue experienced with certain CDs. … The download is currently available via Appl...
O2 starts an Apple Iphone 4S rental scheme
UK MOBILE OPERATOR O2 has announced it has started a rental scheme for the Iphone 4S smartphone. — The service is called O2 Lease, which it claims is the UK's first smartphone leasing service. The ...
Jive Software Prices IPO At $12 Per Share
Enterprise social networking company Jive Software has priced its IPO at $12 per share, according to the WSJ. — Jive sold 13.4 million shares, up from previous plans to sell 11,700,470 shares priced...
Apple tells MFI's to get busy building next-gen iOS accessories with Airplay over Bluetooth 4.0
AirPlay, a proprietary protocol by Apple allowing for worry-free wireless streaming of audio, video, photos and related metadata between certified devices, is about to gain an enhanced support …
Next generation iPads to be available in 3-4 months, say sources
The next generation iPads are expected to be available in the next 3-4 months as makers in the supply chain have started delivering parts and components for the new tablets to OEM contractors while re...
Apple's Mac App Store Downloads Top 100 Million
Apple® today announced that over 100 million apps have been downloaded from the Mac® App Store™ in less than one year. With thousands of free and paid apps, the Mac App Store brings the App Store exp...
Samsung says sells over 300 million mobile handsets in 2011
(Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd (005930.KS) said on Sunday its annual mobile handset sales this year had exceeded 300 million units for the first time in the company's history. — The world's...
Why Spotify can never be profitable: The secret demands of record labels
Imagine a new hot-dog selling venture. Let's also say there's only one supplier to purchase hot dogs from. Instead of simply charging a fixed price for hot dogs, that supplier demands the HIGHER of ...
Google, Motorola Mobility Review Temporarily Halted by EU
European Union regulators suspended their antitrust review of plans by Google Inc. (GOOG), the biggest maker of smartphone software, to buy Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. after requesting more inform...
Salesforce, a Leader in Cloud Computing, Draws Big Rivals
SAN FRANCISCO — For over a decade, Marc Benioff has had to listen to dismissals of the company he founded, Salesforce.com, as a marginal player in the business software industry. — But recently Sale...
Microsoft: Windows Phone 7.5 does not support NFC, coming next year
NFC support for next-generation Windows Phones — Microsoft was forced on Monday to correct a previous statement it made on NFC support in Windows Phone 7.5. — The software giant mistakenly reveale...
Opening up a world of educational content with YouTube for Schools
When I was in school during the 90s, watching videos in the classroom was a highlight of any week. The teacher would roll in a television on a cart, pop in a VHS tape, and then we'd enjoy whatever sc...
Intel Slashes Sales Outlook by $1 Billion on Hard Drive Shortage
Chipmaker Intel just warned that fourth-quarter sales will come in below expectations because of hard drive shortages that are hurting the PC industry, and thus sales of its microprocessors.
Viral coefficients + store feature + branding + influencers = cool apps on iOS first
At LeWeb last week former Google CEO, Eric Schmidt was asked by an audience member why the coolest apps come out on iOS first. Apps like Flipboard and Instagram. He answered:
One Million Mobile Apps, and Counting at a Fast Pace
Somewhere at a computer last Wednesday, a developer pushed a button and the one millionth mobile app went to market. — Apps shrink the programs that were once available only on a desktop computer to...
Adults Now Spend More Time With Mobile Devices Than With Print Media
Adults are spending more time with their mobile devices than they're spending with print media, according to a report released Monday by eMarketer. — According to the New York-based market research ...