SOPA, PIPA votes to be delayed in House and Senate
Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Tex.), author of the Stop Online Privacy Act, said on Friday that he is postponing consideration of the bill in response to concerns from critics who said the bill could lead to ce...
Anonymous goes nuclear; everybody loses?
#OpMegaUpload: like watching “War Games” play out, but with cyber-bombs. — In the aftermath of the Jan. 18 SOPA/PIPA blackout protests, the Internet community had amassed quite a bit of goodwill, fl...
RFS 9: Kill Hollywood
Hollywood appears to have peaked. If it were an ordinary industry (film cameras, say, or typewriters), it could look forward to a couple decades of peaceful decline. But this is not an ordinary indu...
Mannheim court rejects the first one of Samsung's German lawsuits against Apple
Judge Andreas Voss of the Mannheim Regional Court just pronounced his ruling on the first one of Samsung's seven patent infringement claims against Apple in Germany. Samsung's complaint over a patent...
Publisher Terry McGraw on Steve Jobs and Digital Textbooks: “This Was His Vision”
After Apple's big education presentation yesterday, McGraw-Hill CEO Terry McGraw chatted with a gaggle of reporters, and explained things like the logic behind $15 digital textbooks.
Engineering Windows 8 for mobile networks
It is unlikely that your end goal is just to get connected to the Internet. Instead, connecting to the Internet is a step (or a hurdle) towards what you really want to do …
New Google Accounts Require Gmail and Google+
If you try to create a Google account from Google's homepage, you'll notice that Google redesigned the page, but that's not all. You'll now have to create a Gmail account, a Google Profile and you'll...
Google to Shut Down Picnik, Social Graph API and Urchin, Open-Sourcing Sky Map
Google's spring cleaning campaign continues, the the company just announced the closure of a number of products, including the popular Picnik online photo editor which, until recently, was integrated ...
‘Absinthe A5’ Brings First Untethered Jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iPad 2
Noted iOS jailbreak author pod2g has teamed up with the Chronic Dev Team to release “Absinthe A5”, an enhancement to the popular Greenpois0n jailbreaking tool which adds the ability to perform an unte...
Facebook in talks to replace YouTube as Vevo's host
Facebook has held talks with Vevo about moving the music-video service away from YouTube and over to the social network's platform, sources with knowledge of the talks told CNET. — While the sources...
Microsoft Calls for Gay Marriage in Washington State
The company argues that it's hard to hire the best people in the world when the state where it's based discriminates against them. — In a week of tech industry protests about censorship, one company...
Zynga Confirms It Is Seeking Partners for Online Gambling Initiatives
Zynga is getting ready to try its hand at online gambling. — The company has confirmed to All Things D that it is actively investigating several opportunities, and is in talks with several partners ...
Layoffs Underway at Gilt Groupe Right Now: ‘General Atmosphere Is Terrifying’
Last Wednesday, Betabeat broke the news of impending layoffs at Gilt Groupe. Later that morning, CEO Kevin Ryan downgraded the estimates we had heard, telling AllThingsD that the company intended to ...
Facebook Weighs Expanding European HQ
Facebook Inc. is seeking to more than double the size of its European headquarters in Dublin as the most popular social-networking site prepares for a possible $10 billion initial public offering, thr...
First Look: Backplane, The Lady Gaga-Backed Community Platform With All-Star Investors (Invites)
Early last summer we wrote about Backplane, a mysterious startup with impressive backers and some major star power behind it: one of its cofounders, Troy Carter, is Lady Gaga's manager.
New Google Accounts Require Gmail and Google+
If you try to create a Google account from Google's homepage, you'll notice that Google redesigned the page, but that's not all. You'll now have to create a Gmail account, a Google Profile and you'll...
Exede: The satellite broadband service you've been waiting for?
ViaSat's Exede satellite broadband service has officially launched, with an entry-level package that starts at $50 a month and promises “feels-like-fiber” performance. — Buried among the gadgets, su...
The Great and Powerful Reddit
How the site went from a second-tier aggregator to the Web's unstoppable force. — Of all the sites that went dark on Wednesday to protest Congress' misguided anti-piracy legislation, Reddit was the ...
Damning Evidence Emerges In Google-Apple “No Poach” Antitrust Lawsuit
Next week a class-action civil lawsuit will be heard in San Jose to determine if Google, Apple, Pixar, Lucasfilm, Adobe, Intel, and Intuit conspired to eliminate competition for skilled labor.
Who Says Intel Is Weak? Just Look at Those Crazy Numbers!
Chipmaker Intel has grown its annual revenue by nearly $20 billion in two years. Let that thought sink in for a minute. — In 2011, it crossed the threshold of $50 billion in annual sales for the fi...
Is ‘5G’ mobile broadband just around the corner? IMT-Advanced explained
Can't wait to get on the 4G LTE bandwagon? Think bigger. A new standard called IMT-Advanced promises speeds up to 10 times faster, and it's just been approved. — With Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint rac...
Don't call it an ultrabook
Every year at CES, the tech-watching masses engage in a bit of trendspotting — an attempt to identify the one or two big themes of the show that may or may not come to define the year in technology. ...
China Telecom-Compatible iPhone Gets Regulatory Nod
China Telecom-Compatible iPhone Gets Regulatory Nod — Part iPad, Part Little Red Book. Yep, It's the Red Pad. — Top China Stories from WSJ: Taiwan Votes, Apple's China Challenge — Photos: iPhone S...