Timeline: Now Available Worldwide
We recently announced our plans to introduce Facebook Timeline, an entirely new kind of profile. — Timeline gives you an easy way to rediscover the things you shared, and collect your most important...
IE to Start Automatic Upgrades across Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7
Everyone benefits from an up-to-date browser. — Today we are sharing our plan to automatically upgrade Windows customers to the latest version of Internet Explorer available for their PC.
SOPA votes derailed by politician's ‘offensive’ tweet
A marathon debate today in the House of Representatives on the Stop Online Piracy Act wasn't derailed by procedural questions, even though not one hearing had been held on how the law would actually w...
Apple Makes Siri iPhone 4 Port Legally Possible With Today's iOS 5.0.1 Update
Siri is by far the iPhone 4S's most-desired feature, and many non-4S users have been clamoring for hackers to make the voice assistant available on older iOS devices. While Siri ports have been demoe...
Zeitgeist 2011: How the world searched
This year marks our 11th annual look back at the searches that compose the year's Zeitgeist—the spirit of the time. With Zeitgeist, we look at the most popular and the fastest rising terms—the terms ...
An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the U.S. Congress
An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the U.S. Congress — Today, a group of 83 prominent Internet inventors and engineers sent an open letter to members of the United States Congress, stating th...
Bill Gates Confirms He Won't Return To Microsoft
Bill Gates refutes a full-time return to Microsoft, the company he founded, to spend the rest of his life working for his foundation. — Bill Gates today ruled out ever returning to the helm of Micro...
Within 2 Hours of Activation, Your Galaxy Nexus Will Receive an Update - Here are the Details
Once you have your Galaxy Nexus up and running for a couple of hours, an update will become available that brings you to Android 4.0.2 and build ICL53F. This is the update we showed you yesterday …
Exclusive: Iran hijacked US drone, says Iranian engineer
In an exclusive interview, an engineer working to unlock the secrets of the captured RQ-170 Sentinel says they exploited a known vulnerability and tricked the US drone into landing in Iran. — ISTANB...
CashVille: Zynga finally goes public in a triumph for social games
After months of delay, social game maker Zynga is finally going public in an initial public offering. The company priced its stock moments ago at $10 a share, the upper end of the price range.
Google granted driverless car patent
Kind of like auto-complete for journeys — Google has been granted a patent for driverless car technology, which can fully take over the control of a vehicle from a human driver. — This full-fat ve...
French President's Residence ‘Busted’ For BitTorrent Piracy
French President Nicholas Sarkozy is a man who has championed some of the most aggressive anti-piracy legislation in Europe. But today it's revealed that the occupants of his very own office and home...
Source Reveals Facebook Is Gushing Cash
A well-placed mole has forwarded us the Silicon Valley equivalent of hard-core pornography: an explicit look at Facebook's finances. They're even more staggering than we expected. A gusher of profit...
Horses**t
Last night I tweeted at John Gruber and MG Siegler: “What a load of horses**t. All due respect, but horses**t.” The tweet was in reference to a post on Daring Fireball citing MG's “review” of the Ga...
Microsoft takes the wraps off its So.cl social-search project
Summary: Microsoft is taking the wraps off a new learning tool, it social-search research project known as So.cl, from its FUSE Labs division. — Perhaps the best way to explain what Microsoft's new ...
Timeline Now Available on Mobile
Timeline gives you an easy way to see the things you've shared, and collect all your best moments in a single place. In addition to making timeline available on the web , today we're also launching t...
Dell quits netbooks, says 'thin and powerful is where it's at'
While very few are still buying netbooks, many manufacturers have continued to release the small Intel Atom-powered computers (see Asus, Toshiba, etc.). However, Dell isn't going to be one of those c...
US iPhone, iPad demand more than 40% stronger than expected
An Alphawise survey of American purchasing intentions indicates that US iPhone and iPad demand are stronger than expected; sales will continue to outperform expectations into 2012 and should enable Ap...
Accel Leads $14M Round In Cloud-Based, Visual Presentation Software Prezi
Cloud-based presentation software Prezi has raised $14 million in Series B financing led by Accel Partners with Sunstone Capital participating in the round. Accel's Andrew Braccia will be joining Pre...
Amazon selling more than a million Kindles per week, says demand accelerating for the Fire
It's going to be a Kindle kind of holiday for many folks around the globe. Amazon.com today said that it is selling Kindles at a rate of more than one million per week — marking the third consecutive...
Judge gives Universal Music 24 hours to explain takedown spree
A federal judge has given Universal Music Group until the end of the day Thursday to respond to charges that it abused the DMCA takedown process to censor a promotional music video by the locker site ...
New Mobile Obsession: U.S. Teens Triple Data Usage
Teens have officially joined the mobile Data Tsunami, more than tripling mobile data consumption in the past year while maintaining their stronghold as the leading message senders. Using recent data ...
Chrome 15 puts IE8 in rear-view mirror, takes No. 1 spot
First time in years that a non-Microsoft browser has been top dog — Google's Chrome 15 has jumped into the number one spot, replacing Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) as the world's most popula...
Behind the Scenes: How Fab Raised $40 million with a lot of data and not much pain
Let's face it, fundraising can be a real pain in the ass for the entrepreneur. — It takes up a ton of time that can be otherwise spent managing the business. — Sure, it's a necessary evil, but it'...
Obama doesn't let his daughters on Facebook
Summary: Facebook may be the world's largest social network, but it's not allowed at the White House. US President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama don't let their daughters use the service...
Where people get information about restaurants and other local businesses
People looking for information about local restaurants and other businesses say they rely on the internet, especially search engines, ahead of any other source. Newspapers, both printed copies and th...
Samsung's snarky TV ads have harshed the iPhone's vibe
Samsung's “buzz score” has overtaken Apple's in a key demographic, says YouGov — Click to enlarge. — The chart at right says it all. — Starting around Nov. 28 — six days after Samsung began airi...
Meet The Genius Behind Tweetbot, The Twitter App For iPhone Everyone's Going Nuts About
On Monday we spoke with Paul Haddad, the programmer behind Tweetbot, the best Twitter app in the App Store. — We asked Paul about what makes Tweetbot so good, and why tech fanatics are in a frenzy a...
Google's Crawler Now Automatically Detects Smartphone Content
Google today announced that its crawler for mobile sites, Googlebot-Mobile, can now detect smartphone optimized content. The idea here is to ensure that Google's mobile search can now direct searcher...
Galaxy Nexus now on sale from Verizon for $299.99 with next day shipping
It's December 15th in parts of the US which means that the Galaxy Nexus is now available to purchase from Verizon. It'll cost you $299 plus a two-year contract but you already knew that.
Tons Of Amendments Proposed For SOPA
The “markup” process for SOPA is going to begin shortly (at 10am ET/7am PT), and it's going to be quite a circus. This is when various amendments can be proposed and debated. You can watch it stream...
Apps vs. the web: Are they enemies or allies?
George Colony, the chairman and CEO of Forrester Research, re-ignited a minor firestorm recently, with a presentation at the LeWeb conference in which he argued that the web is dead, and being replace...