Stop Online Piracy Act Vote Delayed
The House Judiciary Committee is considering whether to send the Stop Online Piracy Act to the House floor abruptly adjourned Friday with no new vote date set — a surprise given that the bill looked c...
Why RIM Needed To Fire Its Co-CEOs Months, If Not Years Ago
The two Waterloo Wallys running Research in Motion (NSDQ: RIMM) have presided over the incredible destruction of shareholder wealth in 2011 by misleading the public again and again about its ability t...
Why Heather Matters
TechCrunch CEO Heather Harde announced her departure today. — I'm so angry. — Drift back to the end of 2006. TechCrunch was a year and a half old. My hobby had turned into a business. Federated...
UMG claims “right to block or remove” YouTube videos it doesn't own
Universal Music Group has responded to Megaupload's request for a temporary restraining order barring the music giant from further interference with the distribution of its “Mega Song.” UMG insists t...
Android 4.0.3 announced, bringing ‘variety of optimizations and bug fixes’ to phones and tablets
Merely a day after Verizon's version of the Galaxy Nexus was gifted with v4.0.2, Google itself is announcing Android 4.0.3, a so-called “ incremental release of the Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) pl...
Exclusive: Made in Texas: Apple's A5 iPhone chip
SAN FRANCISCO - Apple Inc is famous for relying on low-cost Asian manufacturers to both source and assemble its popular gadgets, but the consumer device giant recently started receiving a critical com...
Signing in with a picture password
with numbers, symbols, and capitalization—it can take upwards of 30 seconds to enter a long, complex password on a touch keyboard.
Sprint: Carrier IQ has been disabled on our devices
A recent rumor has hit the internet stating that Sprint has asked its manufacturer partners to remove Carrier IQ's software from all of the devices that it carries. We reached out to Sprint for a com...
Exclusive: Google CEO's inner circle: Meet the L Team
(Reuters) - The most powerful group at Google Inc used to be known simply as “The OC,” short for operating committee. Now, it goes by a more telling name: “L Team,” short for Larry's Team. — The ch...
Amazon Paid You $5 to Leave a Store; Now eBay Is Giving You $10 to Return
EBay is partnering with three major retailers to get online shoppers to also buy at brick-and-mortar stores. — The partnership is an obvious comeback to last weekend's promotion by Amazon, which mot...
Google's Android Update Alliance Is Already Dead
At the Google I/O conference in May, many Android phone vendors and U.S. wireless carriers made a long-awaited promise: From then on, any new Android phone would receive timely OS updates for at least...
Android Ice Cream Sandwich now rolling out to Nexus S (GSM versions)
Hope you're hungry, Nexus S users: Google has just announced it's rolling out Ice Cream Sandwich to your phones starting right now. — According to a note posted by the Android team on Google+, the N...
With Siri TV, Apple Will Dismantle the TV Networks
Steve Jobs died without fully transforming television, but the day after he passed away, Apple unveiled Siri, its natural language interface. Though it's currently only embedded in the new iPhone 4S,...
In-flight dating? Using social media to find a seatmate
In what could be fodder for a flight from hell - or potential membership in the Mile High Club - KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is launching a “meet and seat” service early next year that will let passenger...
Zynga shares slump 10 percent below IPO in first day
Summary: While there was hope for Zynga, the largest technology flotation since Google's public debut in 2004, the company's share price dropped by nearly 10 percent in its first day. — At the end o...
New iPad 3 Internal Replacement Part Appears, hints Major Redesign
As any new Apple product launch gets nearer, the frequency of leaks of supposed parts, and components increases. A new replacement part for iPad 3 Microphone Mic Flex Cable Ribbon has just been surfa...
Digitimes: Apple to begin producing 7.85-inch iPads in Q2 2012
Digitimes has published an interesting report this evening, saying Apple will begin the production of a 7.85-inch iPad in Q2 2012. Apple will reportedly begin selling the smaller iPads prior to Q4 20...
Samsung hits Apple with four new patents in Germany but backtracks on the iPhone 4S
Today the Mannheim Regional Court held two hearings involving Apple and Samsung. In the first one, Apple was the defendant; in the second one, Samsung faced a lawsuit from Apple over a rather famous ...
Square Enix servers hacked, 1.8 million users affected
This is shaping up to the year of high-profile hacker attacks in the gaming world, as game developer Square Enix announced this week that 1.8 million user accounts were compromised as a result of a re...
Roku's official iPhone remote app is available, has gesture control and channel selection for all
Directly on the heels of an update for its newest media streamers, Roku has released its official iPhone remote app. Apparently “inspired by user feedback”, it allows users to launch or rate channels...
Stanford Pulls Bid for New York Tech Campus
Stanford was the frontrunner in the application for an applied sciences sciences and engineering campus on Roosevelt Island. But according to a press release from the Stanford news service, that's no...
Bing, Yahoo Now Neck & Neck In US Search Market Share
Bing's slow growth in US search market share continues, and Microsoft's two-and-a-half-year-old search engine is now practically neck-and-neck with Yahoo. Both, however, remain far behind Google. — ...
Apple to launch 7.85-inch iPad in 2012, say sources
Apple is likely to launch a 7.85-inch iPad prior to the fourth quarter of 2012 in addition to a new iPad scheduled to be released at the end of the first quarter, according to sources in the supply ch...
iPhone 4S Debuts in Over 20 New Countries, Pricing Starts as High as $1400
In line with our report from earlier this month, Apple has launched the iPhone 4S in a number of new countries today. Based on an examination of Apple's site and those of its carrier partners …
Pair of Robbers Want Only iPhones, No BlackBerries
The snobby robbers turn their noses up at phones that aren't the ever-coveted iPhones — A pair of would-be robbers targeting Columbia students in upper Manhattan seem to be rather picky as they prow...
Adobe Pays $400 Million for Efficient Frontier
Last month Adobe said it was buying search marketing firm Efficient Frontier, but didn't disclose a purchase price. Yesterday it came clean: The deal will end up costing around $400 million. — That...
Verizon Galaxy Nexus Review: Bigger, faster, cheaper and less Google
LTE just makes that Ice Cream Sandwich all the more tasty... The biggest difference philisophically is demonstrated in the logos above. No longer a Google Phone, the Verizon Galaxy Nexus is a Verizo...
SigFig Shows Its iOS-Owning Investors Big on AAPL, Its Android-Owning Ones Not So Big On GOOG
A study by investment analysis startup SigFig suggests that iPhone-owning investors are 20% more likely than the average investor to also own Apple stock, while investors with Androids are 25% less li...
SOPA Casts Light on the Growing Technology Divide
Two articles grabbed my attention yesterday that touched on a growing concern I've been wrestling with far longer than SOPA/PIPA or any individual bill has been bouncing around; namely, that the peopl...
Zynga Shares Pop 10 Percent To $11 On First Trade, Valued At $7.7 Billion
Zynga has finally hit the public markets today, marking the largest technology IPO since Google. Yesterday, the social gaming giant priced its IPO at $10 a share, which was on the higher end of the $...
Analysis: Apple struggles to take bigger bite out of China
(Reuters) - Apple Inc's share of China's booming smartphone market has risen sharply in the past two years, but for now the company that sells the iconic iPhone is being outpaced by nimble rivals.
“I'd love if tech writing as a whole held itself to a higher standard:”
There's an old expression that we get the politicians we deserve — ie if you don't like it, don't vote them into office. Over the past few months I've …
Dear Congress, It's No Longer OK To Not Know How The Internet Works
I remember fondly the days when we were all tickled pink by our elected officials' struggle to understand how the internet works. Whether it was George W. Bush referring to “the internets” or Senator...
This Is Like The Third Reorg Since Cisco Hit The Panic Button Last Year
Cisco has been poaching executives from other companies and has now given them the authority to run some major business units. — In yet another reorg, recently added talent from rival Juniper and pa...
‘For Dummies’ Publisher Sues BitTorrent Users to “Educate and Settle”
During October, John Wiley and Sons became the first book publisher to go after BitTorrent users in the US. With this lawsuit the company followed mostly in the footsteps of movie studios, who togeth...
Yelp, YouTube and 23andMe Co-Founders All Working on New Start-Ups
In recent weeks, I've stumbled onto a few fresh new start-ups from the departed co-founders of current influential tech companies. None of them are talking about what they're doing yet, but I thought...
Ebay-owned StubHub acquires Zvents for event listings
Ticketing giant StubHub, owned by eBay, has acquired local event-discovery and promotion service Zvents, according to eBay's internal employee blog eBayInk. Exact terms of the deal were not disclosed...