Scott Forstall is Apple's ‘CEO-in-waiting’ says new book
The senior VP's chief weakness, writes Fortune's Adam Lashinsky, is his naked ambition — Jobs and Forstall. Source: AppLecture.com — He's young (43). Comfortable on stage (played Sweeney Todd in...
Sources: Four More Board Members Will Be Following Yang Out the Door
According to sources close to the situation, Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang is just the first shoe to drop in what is shaping up to be what looks like a large exodus of board members from the Silicon Val...
Windows 8 Secrets: PC and Device Requirements
Last month, Microsoft released its hardware requirement documentation for Windows 8 logo certification. This documentation contains Microsoft's guidelines for designing systems which successfully mee...
Samsung says not interested in buying RIM
(Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co said on Wednesday it was not interested in taking over Research In Motion after shares of the BlackBerry smartphone maker jumped more than 10 percent following a tec...
Apple Files German Design Lawsuit Against Ten Samsung Smartphone Models
Apple Inc. (AAPL) filed another suit in Germany, seeking to ban sales of Samsung Electronics (005930) Co.'s smartphone models, including the Galaxy S Plus and the S II. — The suit targeting 10 smart...
Apple Turns to iWork Executive for Textbooks
As Apple Inc. prepares to unveil a new digital-textbook service on Thursday, the spotlight is falling on its vice president who is leading core aspects of the new service: Roger Rosner. — According ...
Facebook Open Graph Actions Are Coming This Wednesday
Facebook will on Wednesday launch the Open Graph applications it first debuted last September, sources told AllThingsD. These are the apps made by outside developers that “frictionlessly” and continu...
Fundamental Oracle flaw revealed
A design decision made by Oracle architects long ago may have painted some of Oracle's largest customers into a corner. Patches have arrived, but how much will they correct? Over the past two months...
Troubling Google Contractor Allegedly Caught Vandalizing Open Street Map
The official blog of Open Street Map reports tonight that someone at a range of Google IP addresses in India has been editing the collaboratively made map of the world in some very unhelpful ways …
CloudFlare Builds ‘Stop Censorship’ App, Lets Sites Easily “Black Out” Against SOPA
Whatever position you may take on SOPA, or on whether or not sites should black out against SOPA (Yes it has come to this), the issue has reached a boiling point today with sites like Wikipedia and Re...
AMD to launch ultrabook platform with lower cost
As Intel is ready to launch its next-generation Ivy Bridge platform for ultrabooks in April, hoping to bring down the average price of ultrabooks to US$799-999 with enhanced performance, AMD is also s...
Netflix Hit With Class-Action Suit By Angry Investors
Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) has been hit with a class-action suit by a group of disgruntled investors who claim the online movie-rental chain withheld information from them prior to its steep stock-price plu...
Aussie wunderkind gets $US250k for technology that could revolutionise web
He is 16, an Australian living in London and recently scored $US250,000 in investment from a billionaire for a technology that could change the way we read emails, news articles or any other text on o...
iTunes Match Launches in 19 New Countries: Latin America, Baltics, Netherlands
Earlier today, we noted that iTunes Match had begun going live in Netherlands, following last week's news of an agreement between Apple and Dutch copyright oversight group Buma/Stemra.
Samsung Group plans record $41 billion investment in 2012
(Reuters) - Samsung Group, which includes Samsung Electronics Co, said on Tuesday it is raising its 2012 investment to a record $41.4 billion, underscoring the widening gulf between the dominant South...
Google: That QR Login Page is Just an Experiment, “We're Already Working on Something Better”
A nifty little undisclosed Google service made the rounds on the Internet today. By going to a specific website, Google would give you a QR code to scan on your phone and then let you log …
SendGrid raises $21M from Bessemer, Foundry, others to make automated e-mails painless
E-mail infrastructure startup SendGrid has raised $21 million in its second round of funding and created a partnership with Microsoft's Windows Azure platform to convince more enterprises to use …
What Might A Facebook Search Engine Look Like?
(image) Dialing in from the department of Pure Speculation... As we all attempt to digest the implications of last week's Google+ integration, I've also be thinking about Facebook's next moves. Ther...