Netflix Launches in UK, Ireland Today
Today we're bringing Netflix to the UK and Ireland. I am Neil Hunt, chief product officer at Netflix. I'm proud to have led the product team that brings Netflix to the country where I grew up, after...
Boycott SOPA: An Android app that terrifies publishers and politicians
Armchair activists now have a tool that can transport their SOPA protestations into the real world: Boycott SOPA, an Android app that scans barcodes and tells you whether an object's manufacturer/publ...
Starting February 1, 2012: Use the Power of Kinect for Windows to Change the World
We're thrilled at the sales we've seen for Kinect - 18 million sold in the past year - and we were honored to receive a Guinness World Record for the fastest selling consumer electronics device ever.
Microsoft Reinvents Wi-Fi for White Spaces
Researchers show that they can make more efficient use of the airwaves than previously thought. But now Congress has to notice. — Microsoft has developed a new kind of Wi-Fi network that performs a...
Why I Hate Android
Why do I hate Android? It's definitely one of the questions I get asked most often these days. And most of those that don't ask probably assume it's because I'm an iPhone guy. People see negative t...
Consumer Electronics Show Loses Clout as Industry Shifts
The International Consumer Electronics Show, which will open on Tuesday in Las Vegas, is impossible to ignore. It will smother the city's gigantic convention center with gadgets and those who make an...
Enterprise Will Spend $19 Billion on Apple Hardware in 2012
The “Bring Your Own Device” philosophy spreading through enterprise these days is proving a real boon to Apple. — The company is expected to sell $10 billion worth of iPads and $9 billion of Macs to...
Google admits profiting from illegal Olympic ticket ads
Google earns millions of pounds from its online advertising service, AdWords — Google is profiting from ads for illegal products generated by its flagship automated advertising system, the BBC has f...
Tom Hanks' Web series to stream on Yahoo
NEW YORK (AP) — Tom Hanks' long gestating Web series is coming to Yahoo. — “Electric City,” an animated futuristic series Hanks has been developing for years, will premiere on Yahoo this spring. Th...
High-Speed USB 3.0 to Reach Smartphones, Tablets by Year End
USB 3.0 ports will reach smartphones and tablets by the end of the year or early next year, the USB standards setting organization said on Sunday. — Smartphones and tablets will likely get a MicroUS...
Nokia Lumia 900 - Born for the USA
LAS VEGAS, NV, United States - Nokia announces its biggest yet thinnest Windows Phone to date with the Nokia Lumia 900, its first phone to support high-speed LTE data transfers. — As our exclusive v...
Hackers expose defence and intelligence officials in US and UK
Security breach by ‘hacktivists’ reveals email addresses of 221 British military staff and 242 Nato officials — Thousands of British email addresses and encrypted passwords, including those of defen...
Why Everybody In Seattle Suddenly Wants To Work For Amazon
Amazon has been a cornerstone in Seattle for more than 15 years now, but it wasn't always seen as a great place to work. — Employees talked about long hours and a pressure-cooker atmosphere, and the...
Android as we know it will die in the next two years and what it means for you
I used to think that, as with Linux and web services in the early part of last decade, Android was going to be the mortar for the Internet of post PC devices— an essential ingredient to put stuff toge...
How People Watch TV Online And Off
At this point, video is just a regular part of the web. But how is it gaining on regular TV watching. Just in terms of audience reach, Nielsen estimates that almost 145 million people watch video on...
Viral Aggregator BuzzFeed Raises $15.5M To Transform The Way People Get Their News
Social media optimized and meme focused aggregator BuzzFeed has just raised a $15.5 million round of Series C financing, lead by New Enterprise Associates and followed on by Lerer Ventures, Hearst Med...
LG to launch Android phones with VMware virtualization on Verizon ‘in the coming months’
LG's here at CES 2012 showing off VMware virtual Android machines running on a Verizon Revolution — you can have a “personal” phone that you manage yourself, and then hit a button and click …
Myspace Plans “Over The Top” Web TV Service
Lots of folks are waiting for Google, or Apple, or Verizon or someone to offer a Web video subscription service that would rival cable TV. — None of those guys have announced their plans for that, y...
Enough with the Samsung bashing
Samsung Electronics did about $140 billion in revenue in 2011. They're the biggest tech company in the world by revenue. They make everything from cameras to telecom gear to TVs. They are also the ...
Nuance announces Smart TV play called Dragon TV
As a race for smart TV heats up, Nuance Communications Inc. aims to make obsolete the domestic battle for control over the TV remote. With Apple TV and Google TV both reportedly in the works, Burling...
Facebook's newest frontier: inside the car
(Reuters) - At restaurants, at movies and at the office, checking Facebook has become a regular habit for many of the Internet social network's more than 800 million users. — Now that habit has reac...
Ubuntu TV making its debut at CES, gets short demo clip
Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth promised that Ubuntu would come to TVs eventually, but we never expected it would arrive so quickly. A concept preview is here at CES for convention goers to get their e...
Vimeo launches Android, WP7 mobile apps; previews revamped iPhone, iPad apps
Popular video sharing site Vimeo has launched slick new mobile apps for Android and Windows Phone 7 devices. The company is also showing off its upcoming revamped iPhone app and brand-new iPad app at...
Google reportedly faces maximum fine from Korean trustbuster
Google could face the maximum fine for allegedly obstructing a Korean investigation of its business practices, the head of the Korean Fair Trade Commission told that country's fourth-largest newspaper...
Intel Awaits Microsoft's Next Number
Microsoft Corp. sent shock waves through the tech sector a year ago with a radical shift in strategy, a plan to develop a next generation of software that relies less exclusively on 30-year partner In...
The Envy 14 Spectre: HP designs a cool Ultrabook with a Gorilla Glass cover
Hewlett-Packard has designed a cool laptop that even Apple aficionados might admire for its creative use of glass materials. The new Envy 14 Spectre is a beautiful new 14-inch Ultrabook with a cover ...
Fusion Garage, The Guys Behind The CrunchPad, Are Officially Done And Owe Creditors $40 Million
The CrunchPad experiment — a $200 tablet for viewing the web — is officially dead. — An industry source just forwarded us the first page of a legal document showing Fusion Garage is done.
Hipmunk Checks In: Launches Hotel Search For iOS And Android
Getting travel search right on a mobile phone is tough. Thankfully Hipmunk, for the most part, has nailed it. — The service launched its iPhone application last February and an Android app in Septe...
IPhone Built for China Telecom Gains Regulator Approval
A version of the Apple's iPhone built for China Telecom's networks has received approval from a Chinese regulator, putting the iconic smartphone closer in the hands of customers of the mobile operator...
ViaSat residential satellite broadband internet hands-on (video)
Last Thursday, ViaSat announced pricing for its new home broadband service, which is set to deliver 12 Mbps+ download speeds (3 Mbps+ up) beginning next week for $50 per month. We just dropped by the...
Intel: More than 75 Ultrabooks coming in 2012
Intel said today that more than 75 thin laptops known as Ultrabooks are coming in 2012. — At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the world's biggest chip maker said that its third generation...