BlackBerry 10 is a failure that won't be able to compete, company source says
Bad products, horrible software and no cohesive vision have seemingly turned Research In Motion into a company without motion at this point. Throw in a huge delay before BlackBerry 10 smartphones sta...
Paul Graham: SOPA Supporting Companies No Longer Allowed At YC Demo Day
At this point quite a few internet companies have protested H.R. 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in creative ways. Held by many to be the worst thing to ever happen to the Internet if it pass...
Google Will Pay Mozilla Almost $300M Per Year in Search Deal, Besting Microsoft and Yahoo
Please see this disclosure related to me and Google. — Earlier this week, Google and Mozilla said they had struck a deal to renew their search royalty agreement for another three years.
Study: Apps Are For Android, Games For the iPhone
The iPhone is the domain of the game. Android is the land of the app. 2011 showed some very distinct trends in user activity on the two major mobile platforms. A study done by Xylogic shows that of ...
Facebook was the top search term for third straight year
Social network search term tops list for sixth straight year; Justin Bieber and Kim Kardashian most popular public figure and top personality search New York, N.Y., Dec. 21, 2011 - Experian Hitwise, a...
Apple investigating fuel-cell-powered MacBooks
Apple could build new notebooks that are even smaller and lighter than current battery-powered devices by switching to fuel cells for power. — The prospect of fuel-cell-powered MacBooks and other de...
Nevada Sets Stage for Online Poker
Move Is Part of Effort to Become Key Player if U.S. Legalizes Internet Gambling — Nevada is positioning itself to become the first state to allow Internet-poker games within its borders, a move that...
Facebook Launches Suggested Events Feature Based On Checkins
We're creatures of habit. We go where we've already gone. That's why Facebook's new Suggested Events feature I just discovered is so powerful — it knows where we've been thanks to our checkins.
With Sync Solved, Dropbox Squares Off With Apple's iCloud
In early 2009, just months after Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi launched Dropbox, a service that promised to sync users' photos, music, and documents across computers, Apple's MobileMe team suggested...
Republic Wireless changes stance: unlimited will be truly unlimited, ‘no thresholds’ or asterisks
Credit where it's due: Republic Wireless has just made an about-face on the only major downfall we saw in its new wireless proposition. While most of the big boys have had an asterisk by …
Codecademy Builds ‘Labs,’ A Web-Based Code Editor
Smoking hot startup Codecademy, a service which teaches you how to program online has launched its Labs feature today, as a sign of things to come. — Codecademy founder Zach Sims tells me that Codec...
Construction to begin soon on ‘prototype’ Apple store in downtown Palo Alto
Work is set to begin “any day now” on a prototype Apple store in the heart of downtown Palo Alto, according to city planning officials. The city issued a building permit on Dec. 12 for the modern …
Lion-Compatible Quicken 2007 for Mac Promised in ‘Early Spring’
Intuit today sent out an email to its Quicken for Mac customers providing an update on the company's efforts to develop a version of Quicken 2007 compatible with OS X Lion. We noted earlier this year...
Apple Has More Online Shoppers Than Walmart
Tech Maker's Traffic Trumps That of World's Largest Retailer in November — Apple got more traffic online last month than Walmart Stores. In fact, Apple is the only retailer other than Amazon and eB...
Amazon recruiting engineers and researchers for Cambridge office, slated to open in February
Amazon's Massachusetts strategy in the past could be described with two words: free shipping. When the tech giant has acquired local companies, it has shipped the products and people out to Seattle.
EFF Reverse-engineers Carrier IQ, Requests Help in Deciphering Data
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, in a continued bid to fight against injustices related to emerging technologies, has cracked open the Carrier IQ software package. Since first contacted by Trevor ...
Yelping In The Beemer: Review Site Inks Deal With BMW
Yelp is now established and mainstream enough to be included in BMW's Online/in-car content. Yelp reviews and related content will shortly be available to BMW owners “who subscribe to the optional BM...
New iPhone? No thanks, say cash-conscious Europeans
(Reuters) - Weakening economies and falling prices of rival smartphones are hurting sales of Apple iPhones across Europe, data from research firm Kantar Worldpanel ComTech showed on Thursday. — The ...
New app makes Siri dictate for Mac
A developer is tapping Siri's brain for dictation. — Typing with your hands is so retro. — Own an iPhone 4S and Mac computer? Check out a new hands-free typing app called Air Dictate. — There a...
Jacob Goldman, Founder of Xerox Lab, Dies at 90
Jacob E. Goldman, a physicist who as Xerox's chief scientist founded the company's vaunted Palo Alto Research Center, which invented the modern personal computer, died on Tuesday in Westport, Conn. He...
Apple nears German court rebuff in row with Samsung
(Reuters) - A German court rejected Apple's claims that Samsung Electronics' reworked tablet PC still looks like a copycat version of the iPad, in a preliminary assessment. — Apple is fighting sever...
Mossberg's Look at 2011's Biggest Tech Products
While other industries struggled, consumer technology seemed to march ahead as always in 2011, with important new products and services continuing to roll out. Sure, some tech companies, like BlackBe...
Evernote Releases Skitch for iPad
Skitch is a popular tool for annotating screenshots and images with the ability to quickly share them with others. It was purchased by Evernote back in August of this year and today they are proud to...
How the iPhone Zapped Carriers
Americans are glued to their mobile devices, obsessively calling, texting, emailing and downloading applications. So why is the U.S. wireless industry in such straits, as shown by AT&T Inc.'s crucial...
How SOPA's ‘circumvention’ ban could put a target on Tor
A little-noticed section of the Stop Online Piracy Act could make it illegal to distribute Tor and other software that can “circumvent” attempts by the U.S. government to block pirate Web sites. — T...
Some Thoughts On The IPO Market For Web Companies
We have an IPO market for web companies again. I don't have all the names in front of me, but this year has brought IPOs for Pandora, LinkedIn, Groupon, Zynga, and TripAdvisor. These five companies ...
Citi Survey: 27 Percent Watch Netflix Online Versus 15 Percent For Hulu
Both Netflix's brand and shares have been battered this year after price hikes last summer and the botched attempt to spin off the DVD rental business. Netflix was roundly criticized for its miscommu...
Hasbro sues Asus over Transformer Prime tablet
Don't say we didn't tell you so: Hasbro sued Asus over the name of its Transformer Prime tablet last week, in a Los Angeles court. The toymaker is no doubt worried that the name could be confused wit...
The Engadget Interview: Fusion Garage's Chandra Rathakrishnan... post-fallout
If we learned anything from our last encounter with Chandra Rathakrishnan, it's that the Fusion Garage CEO is nothing if not candid when discussing his company's past failings.
The TripAdvisor IPO
Great startup story. Raised a total of $4.2m in venture capital, sold to IAC/Expedia for $210M, and had some interesting adventures and pivots along the way. They started out by trying to aggregate ...
LogMeIn provides free remote Mac access from iOS devices
LogMeIn has a nice holiday gift for iOS device owners this season: a new free app called simply LogMeIn (iTunes link) that provides remote viewing access and control of Macs and PCs on your iPhone, iP...
Exclusive: a look at Kinect Fusion and Lightspace from Microsoft labs
As you might have seen in our second episode of On The Verge, our own Joshua Topolsky recently toured Microsoft's Building 99, where the company conducts a variety of wild research. Today we're pleas...
Study Shows AT&T's LTE Network Is Faster Than Verizon's — For Now
For Now — 4G LTE provides significantly improved download speeds over 3G, AT&T's slightly faster than Verizon's. Image: Metrico Wireless — Verizon has been touted as having the biggest, baddest, f...
Radeon HD 7970 official: 28nm, 2,048 Stream processors, and a $549 price for January 9th
AMD today launches the Radeon HD 7970, its first graphics card built at a 28nm production process and the first member of its Southern Islands family of GPUs. As its name suggests …
LinkedIn open sources code from IndexTank acquisition
Solid engineering talent is such a prized resource nowadays that many tech firms have taken to doing acqui-hires, which is the practice of buying a company for its employees rather than for its produc...
SetJam acquired by Motorola Mobility
Video discovery startup SetJam just got acquired by Motorola Mobility, founder and CEO Ryan Janssen wrote in an email Thursday morning. Financial details of the deal weren't disclosed, but Janssen wr...
In-Car Video Chat And 4G Streaming From OnStar
Detroit's North American International Auto Show is typically thought of as the kick-off of the year's major auto shows. — As automakers continue to integrate technology more and more into their veh...
MySpace plans Japan exit as Twitter, Facebook continue to grow there
It was once one of the Internet's heavyweights, but these days MySpace is a pale shade of its former glory. Proof in point, word has it that the News Corp owned company will close its Japan office on...
New Agreement Between the United States and Europe Will Compromise the Privacy Rights of International Travelers
The European Parliament will vote soon on an agreement to formalize US procedures for retaining and providing EU based Passenger Name Record (PNR) data of EU and US citizens traveling into …