Apple Reports First Quarter Results
Highest Quarterly Revenue and Earnings Ever All-Time Record iPhone, iPad and Mac Sales — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2012 first quarter which spanned 14 weeks and ended D...
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales: MPAA chairman Christopher Dodd should be fired
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales had fighting words for Motion Picture Association of America chairman Christopher Dodd, calling the former Senator and current lobbyist out on his recent threats and pron...
Updating our privacy policies and terms of service
In just over a month we will make some changes to our privacy policies and Google Terms of Service. This stuff matters, so we wanted to explain what's changing, why and what these changes mean for us...
Google's New Terms Of Service & Privacy Policy: Anything You Do May Be Used To Target You?
It sounds like the Miranda warning so familiar to those who watch US cop shows. “Anything you can and do will be held against you in a court of law.” Next month, Google has a privacy policy and term...
Yahoo! Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2011 Results
Fourth Quarter Operating Income Increases 10% Year over Year — SUNNYVALE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)— Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) today reported results for the fourth quarter and full year ended Decembe...
iBooks Author EULA restrictions invite antitrust concerns
Apple's end user license agreement for the iBooks Author app has generated extensive controversy among authors and publishers. Namely, the agreement restricts paid distribution of “works” created wit...
Facebook Timeline Now Pushed To Everyone, Users Get A Week To Clean Up Profiles
You can run, but you can't hide. Facebook's biggest user interface overhaul since the Wall, the Facebook Timeline, is now becoming mandatory for all users. According to the company, over the next fe...
Gartner Says Apple Became the Top Semiconductor Customer in 2011
Top 10 Original Equipment Manufacturers Represented $105.6 Billion of Semiconductor Demand, Accounting for 35 Percent of Total Semiconductor Chip Revenue in 2011 — Leading electronic equipment manuf...
Ubuntu Wants to Replace Menus with a HUD
Ubuntu, the popular Linux distribution, has been experimenting with a number of interface designs lately. Today, the project's founder Mark Shuttleworth announced that the next major version of Ubunt...
Inside Apple's secret packaging room
It's no secret that Apple sweats every last detail when it comes to their products, an obsession which even includes a product's packaging — Adam Lashinsky's upcoming book, Inside Apple, provides an...
Larry Page to Googlers: If You Don't Get SPYW, Work Somewhere Else
Yesterday, I wrote that Google needs to come clean with its users: Either the company is meddling with search results (as all evidence suggests) or it is still committed to all the ideals it espoused ...
Steve Jobs looked to reinvent Apple's iPhone photography with instant capture system, advanced light-field sensors
“He had three things that he wanted to reinvent: the television, textbooks and photography,” said biographer Walter Isaacson in an interview following the release of his biography on Steve Jobs.
RIM's roadmap for 2012/Q1 2013: Two BlackBerry 10 phones, two Curves, HSPA+ PlayBook
We've been gathering info on what exactly Research In Motion is planning to release over the next year and even into early 2013, and we now have a solid picture to share with you.
Facebook Trades to Be Halted for Three Days
Shareholders of Facebook Inc., the Internet site preparing an initial public offering, are facing a three-day suspension of trading on secondary markets this week, people with knowledge of the matter ...
AT&T blasts Sprint for using roaming rules to support ‘massive disinvestment’ in its own network
AT&T is coming out swinging this afternoon over some material changes to Sprint's network in Oklahoma and Kansas that will see it shut down some of its own coverage in favor of roaming agreements with...
When It's Time to Start Over
Sometimes, the best way to improve something is to begin again from scratch. Even if it's your top-selling product. — In 2004, 37signals, the software company I co-founded, released a Web-based pro...
Dutch appeals court says Galaxy Tab 10.1 doesn't infringe Apple's design right
Apple's enforcement of design-related rights against Samsung's Galaxy Tab range of tablet computers has suffered yet another setback, with the Gerechthof 's-Gravenhage (an appeals court in The Hague, ...
The Pirate Bay declares 3D printed “physibles” as the next frontier of piracy
While the subject of online piracy is certainly nothing new, the recent protests against SOPA and the federal raid on Megaupload have thrust the issue into mainstream media. More than ever, people ar...
Facebook's Sandberg Gently Warns Europe About Privacy Rules
Concerned about privacy? Maybe you should be concernedabout the economy instead. That was the subtext of a keynote speech by Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's chief operating officer, at a technology conf...
You've probably underestimated just how big this is
I met a team at a mobile dev shop a couple of weeks ago and in the discussion I casually mentioned that mobile app usage exceeds web usage. Eyebrows were raised. I couldn't remember where I'd heard ...
Famous iPhone Hacker George Hotz Has Left Facebook
After hacking into Sony's Playstation 3, George Hotz was hired by Facebook last June. — That gig didn't last long. He no longer works there. — So what is he doing in his free time? — Hacking.
Supporting sensors in Windows 8
Adaptive brightness — The first system feature was automatic display brightness control, or what we call “adaptive brightness.”
Obama to honor wife of late Apple visionary's, Jobs
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President Barack Obama will honor the life of Steve Jobs by welcoming the late Apple visionary's wife Laurene Powell Jobs to his State of the Union address on Tuesday. — Powell...
How Words With Friends Beat Scrabble At Its Own Game
The creators of the social Scrabble-like smartphone and tablet game offer insight into their reinvention of board game night. — In July, Megan Lawless married Jasper Jasperse, whom she met as a rand...
Ice Cream Sandwich on Android tablets: A visual tour
We've heard all about how Google's Android 4.0, aka Ice Cream Sandwich, is changing the face of the Android phone. But what does the new software mean for the Android tablet? — Ice Cream Sandwich, ...
Boxee Live TV now available for $49 - let the cord cutting begin!
Boxee 1.5 rolls out to Boxee Boxes today and Boxee Live TV tuners have begun shipping! Order one now for your Boxee Box! With the addition of Live TV, the Boxee Box holds the distinction of being th...
Facebook added $15.3B and 230k jobs to European economy in 2011
Facebook added $15.3 billion in value to the European economy in the past year, COO Sheryl Sandberg said at the Digital Life Design conference in Munich Tuesday. — Sandberg, in her closing keynote o...
Obama: America Should Support The Next Steve Jobs
In his compelling State of the Union address tonight, President Obama laid out a blueprint for economic recovery, with numerous references to the technology sector. “An economy built to last is one w...
The real way to build a social network
If there is a guru of networking, it is Reid Hoffman. Here he explains how to do it right — and wrong — in an excerpt from his new book with Ben Casnocha, The Start-Up of You. — Reid Hoffman travel...
Twitter Bots Create Surprising New Social Connections
Researchers show how simple programs posing as real people can shape interactions on Twitter. — You might have encountered a “Twitter bot” before: an automated program that perhaps retweeted somethi...
Droid RAZR Maxx hits Verizon on January 26th for $299 on contract
While good handsets do tend to come in small packages, longer lasting ones are undoubtedly a bit fatter. And so, dear chubby phone chasing fans, Verizon's girthy revamp on its branding mash-up — the ...
Microsoft's SQL Server 2012 to launch on March 7
Summary: Microsoft's SQL Server 2012 database will launch on March 7. — The launch date for SQL Server 2012 is out of the bag: It's March 7. — On the SQL Server 2012 Launch site, Microsoft is feat...
Highlight, a Social Network for the Real World
For all that Facebook does to help you organize your online relationships, it doesn't do much to help you interact with folks in the physical world. Every time you enter a restaurant, conference, or ...
With powerful new apps, Producteev is the task management service of your dreams
If you're like me, you've tried and abandoned countless task management services. It's easy to make a half-hearted promise with yourself to organize your tasks, it's tougher to find a service that's ...
Nokia already nearly 50% of Second Generation Windows Phone market share
Using data available from OccasionalGamer's game collection, who has more than 1 million game installs, it is possible to estimate the relative share of the various Windows Phone 7 OEMs, and as can be...
Vimeo redesign offers cleaner interface, bigger videos, Tumblr-like feed for browsing
Search is great when it comes to video, but how should a video service best show videos to users that they don't necessarily know they want to see? YouTube's recent redesign opted for a visually busy...
Meredith To Acquire Allrecipes.com From Reader's Digest For $175 Million
Meredith (NYSE: MDP) Corporation, the publisher of women's magazines like Better Homes & Gardens and Ladies' Home Journal, is the new owner of the world's largest food website, Allrecipes.com, which i...
Audiobooks.com launches unlimited book streaming service for $24.95 a month
If you're a voracious audiobook listener and want access to as many books as you could possibly listen to, the just-launched Audiobooks.com streaming service might be worth looking into.
Mozilla releases Rust 0.1, the language that will eventually usurp Firefox's C++
After more than five years in the pipeline, Mozilla Labs and the Rust community have released the first alpha — version 0.1 — of the Rust programming language compiler. The Rust language emphasizes c...
Microsoft to replace Mix with a new developer conference
Summary: Microsoft is doing away with its annual Mix designer/developer event. This year, instead, the company is planning a developer conference likely to focus on Windows 8. — The rumors were tru...
Parse.ly launches predictive analytics dashboard for publishers
Online publishing is about to get a lot smoother for publishers. Whether that's a good thing for readers is another question, however. — New York-based startup Parse.ly is releasing its flagship pr...
Social TV Startup Bluefin Labs Lands $12 Million Investment
A Bet That Social Data Will Become Essential for TV Marketers — If there's any doubt that social TV is poised to become big business, Bluefin Labs is trying to put that to rest. The Cambridge, Mass...
Dutch appeals court says Galaxy Tab 10.1 doesn't infringe Apple's design right
Apple's enforcement of design-related rights against Samsung's Galaxy Tab range of tablet computers has suffered yet another setback, with the Gerechthof 's-Gravenhage (an appeals court in The Hague, ...
Was Megaupload Targeted Because Of Its Upcoming Megabox Digital Jukebox Service?
Last Thursday the US Justice Department came down hard on Megaupload and its mega founder, Kim Dotcom. In the days since, there has been a shake-up of sorts in the digital storage realm.
Star Wars crowdsourced film reaches million YouTube views
A feline cast member delivers a creditable performance in Star Wars Uncut — A “directors cut” of a fan-made version of Star Wars has passed one million views on YouTube. — The film, uploaded on 18...
Verizon rides iPhone 4S, LTE in Q4 at expense of profit margins
Summary: Verizon Wireless posted strong growth for the fourth quarter, but margins were hit in the short-term due to the iPhone. — Verizon's wireless unit rode an iPhone 4S upgrade cycle and Long-Te...
Measuring Facebook's economic impact in Europe
Facebook's users already know what the power of social means to them. — Whether it is finding old friends, keeping up with family, planning events or sharing special moments; the ability to connect ...