Apple will not release iPad 3 at Macworld or CES
Apple will not release iPad 3 at Macworld or CES — Reports began circulating earlier today that Apple would release two new iPads at Macworld Expo in January. These rumors are completely false. — ...
“Uncomfortable Dance”: Here's the Sexual Harassment Letter That Got Mark Hurd Fired
Finally, you can read for yourself about the controversial allegations of sexual harassment that eventually led to the departure of Hewlett-Packard's CEO Mark Hurd from his job. — Here's the entire ...
Verizon explains its string of LTE outages
Verizon's LTE network has had a hell of a month. After a year of smooth performance, interrupted only by one major glitch in April, the new ultra-fast 4G network has experienced a string of three out...
AntiSec dumps 860,000 Stratfor members' details, including 75,000 credit card numbers
As expected, hackers involved in the recent Stratfor hack have dumped everything other than the 200 GB of e-mails, which they are working on releasing after redaction.
Amazon May Miss Q4 Estimates, Despite Selling More Than One Million Kindles a Week
Since its introduction 13 weeks ago, the Kindle Fire has become the best-selling, most-gifted and most-wished-for product on Amazon. — But that could be a problem. — The device sells for about the...
Verizon to Charge Customers $2 Fee When Paying Bills Online or Over the Phone Starting January 15
Time to set up “auto pay” through your Verizon Wireless account. According to our sources, Big Red will start charging you a $2 fee both over the phone and online for your monthly bill transaction un...
Apple Envisions Face & Presence Detection Security for iOS Devices
On December 29, 2011, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that reveals one of the next chapters for device security. In 2009, Apple's presence detection patent ...
Exclusive: Microsoft's LTE Plans For Windows Phone
Since other sites are starting to leak glimpses of what Microsoft is doing with Windows Phone and LTE in 2012, I've decided to simply reveal what's happening. And as you might expect, Microsoft and i...
Bulls**t
Apple: — This web app or social network we're making is going to be great. — Our app-review rules are always in everyone's best interests. — Nobody wants a [popular new product category that Apple ...
Dear +MG Siegler, Are you seriously upset about your photo removal?
Andy Rubin Didn't Delete “Open” Tweet, Twitter Lost It, Then Found It
A couple days ago I noted something odd: Andy Rubin's first tweet, the one in which he gives the definition of open (for Android) was gone. Given that Rubin had just sent another tweet updating some ...
Burned By Fleeing Customers, GoDaddy No Longer Just 'Doesn't Support' But Actually “OPPOSES” SOPA
Just in time for the aptly named “Dump GoDaddy” day, our favorite PR piñata GoDaddy just emailed a number of press, with a fresh statement from new CEO Warren Adelman. — From the email ...
Apple slowly gaining patents to fight its war of attrition with Android
Apple was recently awarded a patent related to multitouch input processing, which the Internet immediately characterized as a “key multitouch patent” that Apple could use to target Android handset mak...
Facebook Messenger for Windows officially released
Summary: Facebook has responded to the leak of its Messenger for Windows application by simply releasing an official download. It's a great way to downplay the leak while keeping users excited. — M...
Facebook Started Saturating The US Market In 2011
Most third party web measurement firms have provided a steady drumbeat of positive growth news for Facebook over the years, as the company has gained tens of millions of users in the US and around the...
Apple to unveil two versions of next-generation iPad in January, sources claim
Apple is set to unveil its next-generation iPad - which will come in two versions - at the iWorld scheduled for January 26, 2012, according to sources at its supply chain partners.
Amazon: We Sold Over 4 Million Kindle Devices This Month; Gifting Of E-Books Up 175 Percent
Amazon has just released new data regarding its Kindle sales for the holiday season. According to the e-commerce giant, Amazon customers purchased millions of Kindle Fires and millions of Kindle e-re...
Why Windows 8 Tablets Will Surprise Everyone
At Microsoft's Build conference, Michael Angiulo, corporate vice president of Windows Planning, Hardware and PC Ecosystem, displays a prototype Windows 8 tablet. Photo: Microsoft — Windows-based ta...
Twitter Ignored Request To Keep Subpoena Under Wraps [UPDATED]
Twitter appears to have forwarded a subpoena requesting user information to at least one of the owners of the accounts in question, despite a request from the Suffolk Massachusetts District Attorney's...
Hurd Loses Appeal to Keep Accuser's Letter Confidential
Former Hewlett-Packard CEO and current Oracle president Mark Hurd has lost an appeal before a court in Delaware in which he sought to keep confidential a letter that contained allegations of sexual ha...
British teenage designer of Summly app hits jackpot
Nick D'Aloisio talks to Jane Wakefield about the inspiration for his app — Most teenagers will find any reason under the sun not to do their homework. — But 16-year-old South Londoner Nick D'Alois...
Samsung ships 1 million Galaxy Note units globally; coming soon to US
The phone / tablet hybrid devices sales are pretty good, going by the numbers released by Samsung today. The Korean giant has shipped over a million units since its launch in late October.
Ahead of I.P.O., S.E.C. Pressed Groupon on Accounting
Ahead of Groupon's highly anticipated initial public offering in November, the Securities and Exchange Commission repeatedly pressed the daily deals giant to defend its business model and its accounti...
Google and Facebook reign as the most-visited sites of 2011
Facebook may be growing in popularity, but Google is still the web brand to beat. — In 2011, an average 153.4 million people in the U.S. visited Google sites each month, making the search giant the ...
Bid for Same-Day Delivery Taps the Smartphone Boom
Numerous start-ups have tried to go after the Holy Grail of e-commerce—delivering things to people's homes and offices on the same day they ordered them—and have failed. — Postmates Inc., a San Fran...
Nintendo stealthily building app store for its next-gen console
Nintendo's next game console, the Wii U, is months away from launch, but its touchscreen controller is already turning heads — and The Daily has learned that Nintendo plans to implement a full-blown a...
HTC Unlocks Its Verizon and AT&T Bootloaders
Today, Peter Chou makes good on his word to no longer lock the bootloaders on HTC Android phones. Just in time for those New Year's Resolutions. — XDA Junior Member nightwings noticed, when trying ...
Apple's iPad Looms Large as Small Businesses Start Making Tablet Plans
Nearly three-quarters of small businesses are planning on buying a tablet over the next year, with the iPad topping the consideration list, according to a new survey from NPD. — Even the smallest of...
Facebook tries to appease frustrated developers
Summary: Developers this week complained about two separate Facebook issues. The first was in regards to the Javascript SDK and the second was about the Python SDK. Facebook responded to both. — T...
Verizon says LTE outage is resolved, 3G never affected
We've received a brief statement from Verizon this morning regarding the LTE outage it suffered yesterday afternoon: … As the company notes, 3G data service was totally unaffected — the problem is tha...
Not even one of Oracle's six patents-in-suit has been definitively invalidated — but four of them are under pressure
but four of them are under pressure — It's time for another fact check on the state of the Java-related patents Oracle is asserting against Google. Contrary to widespread misbelief, none of the six ...