Super Bowl XLVI: Mobile, Manning and Madonna
Now that the final Super Bowl touchdown has been scored, the dip bowl wiped clean and the last of the chicken wings devoured, we're taking a look at some game-day search trends to see what football fa...
Redbox pays $100 million for NCR's Blockbuster Express
Redbox announced today that it has acquired the assets NCR's entertainment business for $100 million. — NCR is a company that specializes in retail kiosks and it began operating more than 10,000 Blo...
Amazon in the Process of Launching a Retail Store
Amazon sources close to the situation have told us that the company is planning on rolling out a retail store in Seattle within the next few months. This project is a test to gauge the market and see...
HUD Google Glasses are real and they are coming soon
We detailed the first information about the Google [x] Glasses project in December. … Since then, we have learned much more regarding Google's glasses... Our tipster has now seen a prototype and said...
Samsung's quad-core Galaxy S III reportedly just 7mm thick, set to launch in May
Samsung's next-generation Galaxy S III will reportedly be one of the thinnest smartphones in the world when it is unveiled in the coming months. South Korea's Electronic Times News on Monday cited un...
Honeywell Files Patent Lawsuit Against Smart Thermostat Developer Nest
Conglomerate Honeywell, which develops thermostats, has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Nest Labs, the developer of the innovative smart thermostat. The lawsuit, which was filed United St...
Halliburton to ditch BlackBerrys in corporate transition to Apple's iOS platform
Exclusive: In yet another blow to troubled Research in Motion, one of the world's largest energy service corporations — Halliburton — plans to phase out thousands of employee BlackBerrys in favor of a...
‘Apple HDTV’ imagined in Best Buy survey: 42-inch model for $1,499
Best Buy appears to be sending surveys to customers getting feedback on potential new products and services — something that virtually every consumer-facing company does on a regular basis — but one t...
Apple's Macroscalar Architecture: Will it Take iOS to the Next Level?
The general consensus in the market today is that Apple's upcoming A6 quad core processor is to bring more performance to the 2012 iPad and iPhone. It's said that it will also preserve battery life d...
New High-DPI UI Resources in 10.7.3
Have you noticed that Safari's hovering-over-a-link pointing-finger cursor looks a little different in Mac OS X 10.7.3? It's not just that the finger is at a slightly different angle — it's a new UI ...
The NPD Group: Apple Leads Mobile Handsets in Q4 2011, But Android Attracts More First-Time Smartphone Buyers
According to The NPD Group, a leading market research company, Apple leaped past Samsung and LG to become the best-selling U.S. handset brand in the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2011.
Farewell Stack Exchange
I am no longer a part of Stack Exchange. — I still have much literal and figurative stock in the success of Stack Exchange, of course, but as of March 1st I will no longer be part of the day to day ...
Apple accused of patent infringement
SHENZHEN - A Shenzhen-based enterprise has accused technology giant Apple of patent infringement on the iPad - a trademark both companies claim. — The Pudong district court in Shanghai will hear the...
You Can't Copyright Porn, Harassed BitTorrent Defendant Insists
When confronted with an accusation that they have illegally shared unauthorized material online, Internet users quickly realize they are in a Catch 22 situation. Even if innocent, these accusations c...
Wolfram|Alpha Pro launching this week
Summary: Wolfram|Alpha's founder explains the next big step in the evolution of the “knowledge engine,” which is touted to enable users to dig deeper than ever into its vast library and personalize th...
SOPA and PIPA prompt Reddit, Mozilla, and 73 others to ask Congress to halt work on intellectual property laws
A coalition of 75 groups including Reddit, Mozilla, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Knowledge, Open Congress, and Human Rights Watch, have sent an open letter …
Defendant Ordered to Decrypt Laptop May Have Forgotten Password
A Colorado woman ordered to decrypt her laptop so prosecutors may use the files against her in a criminal case might have forgotten the password, the defendant's attorney said Monday. — The authorit...
Brazil wants Twitter to close accounts that warn of traffic controls
The Brazilian Federal Attorney's Office has filed a lawsuit against Twitter Inc., as the press agency O Globo reports. Filed with a motion for preliminary injunction, the lawsuit asks the Federal Jus...
Google Loses Bid to Exclude E-Mail From Oracle Trial
Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) — Google Inc., fighting a patent lawsuit filed by Oracle Corp., lost its appeals court bid to keep secret an engineer's e-mail that says the Web search company should negotiate a li...
An Ex-Zynga Engineer Is Ripping The Company Apart In Plain Sight
Whales, abusing contractors, and pushing metrics. — That's pretty much all Zynga is about, according to a former engineer. — An ex-engineer who was there about six months ago is opening up on an “...
Yelp advertising is a rip-off for small advertisers
Yelp! — That word could be coming out of the mouths of small-business owners when they hear how much the online reviews site is overcharging them for advertising. At a time when much online adverti...
At Fashion Week, a Peek at a New Tactic for Marketers
Watching the runways at New York Fashion Week can be an overwhelming experience for the editors and buyers who will descend on the city in the next few days. — Several dozen models will sashay up an...
Whatever happened to that “six strikes” P2P notice system? It's coming soon
Whatever happened to the “six strikes” system that was to help civilize the American Internet? — Three years ago, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) gave up its mass litigation str...
What's your X? Amplifying technology moonshots
Last week, we ran an experiment. We hosted a gathering, called “Solve for X,” for experienced entrepreneurs, innovators and scientists from around the world. The event focused on proposing and discu...
IAC Trying to Sell Vimeo, Seeking $300M Valuation
Barry Diller's IAC is testing the waters on a partial exit of Vimeo, according to two sources familiar with the situation. The company is hoping to raise a $50 million round of funding in conjunction...
Facebook's 99%: Later employees may pay almost double the tax rate that early employees will
Even Facebook isn't immune to the “Warren Buffett” problem. The widely-respected billionaire investor has famously said that he pays a lower rate on his taxable income than his secretary.
Exclusive: Facebook governance a concern for Calif pension fund
(Reuters) - Facebook's corporate governance rules, which give shareholders little say in how the social networking website would be run as a public company, are raising the hackles of one of the large...
Designing Windows 8 or: How to Redesign a Religion
There are lot of hard jobs at Microsoft. Like the guy who collects Steve Ballmer's dry cleaning. But Sam Moreau just might have the hardest gig in Redmond. Or at least the most harrowing. Over the...
Those Millions on Facebook? Some May Not Actually Visit
On the first page of Facebook's prospectus for its sale of stock to the public, it pegs the number of its “monthly active users” at a whopping 845 million people. The social networking site arrives a...
Sorry Nick, Mark Zuckerberg Doesn't Owe You Fifty Dollars
Nick Bilton wants his fifty bucks. The New York Times tech writer figures that's his share of Facebook's $100 billion valuation — based on his own contribution to the “poking, liking and sharing on t...
BitTorrent Giant BTjunkie Shuts Down For Good
Founded in June 2005, BTjunkie has been among the top BitTorrent sites for more than half a decade. — The site was never involved in any legal action, and to keep it this way the site's operators de...
Facebook's Mobility Challenge
Lots of people love their cellphones. Facebook, so far, is not a big fan. — Amid the jaw-dropping financial figures the company revealed last week when it filed for a public offering was an interes...
Taiwan smartphone maker HTC sees Q1 revenue falling
(Reuters) - HTC was once the standard bearer of the Android phone but that was 2010 — a long time ago in mobile terms. Now analysts say it faces another weak quarter and an uphill struggle to prove t...
Wolfram Alpha Pro democratizes data analysis: an in-depth look at the $4.99 a month service
On Wednesday, February 8th, Wolfram Alpha will be adding a new, “Pro” option to its already existing services. Priced at a very reasonable $4.99 a month ($2.99 for students) …
RedBox Partners With Verizon, Launches Streaming Service
Coinstar subsidiary Redbox today announced a new partnership with Verizon for the launch of a streaming video service. The joint venture will launch in second half of 2012, and be subscription-based ...
Vice President of iPhone and iPod Engineering David Tupman left Apple at the end of last year
Last year Apple saw the loss of many executives ranging from its OS X chief, iAd chief, and Global Security chief, and 2012 has started off with another leave: the departure Vice President David Tupma...
Google to start hanging Internet cables today in KCK
Company appears on pace to offer super-fast Internet in some neighborhoods by the first half of this year. — Google Inc. will begin construction today in Kansas City, Kan., on its long-awaited, much...
“Lilyhammer” Premieres Today
Hello. Ted Sarandos, Chief Content Officer for Netflix here. — Do you love the indulgence of watching episode after episode of your favorite shows on Netflix? — Have you ever wished you could do ...
Apple manufacturing plant workers complain of long hours, militant culture
Chengdu, China (CNN) — Miss Chen stares curiously at the iPad. Even though she works overtime in a factory in southwestern China that manufactures them, she's never seen the finished product.
Is GigaOM Buying paidContent?
Who wants to pay for paidContent? We'll find out soon, it seems, because the sales process for the pioneering blog and its parent company ContentNext appears to be wrapping up. — But if you were ma...
Busted By The FBI: The Life Of An Elite Teen BitTorrent Uploader
In the early part of the last decade when they were still the innocent side of 15-years-old, one schoolfriend showed another an Iomega ZIP drive (right) full of ‘warez’ - games and software with a big...
The Secret Google X Lab May Be Revealed Today (Feb 6), As “Solve For x” Website And YouTube Channel Go Live [Video]
The veil of secrecy surrounding Google's mysterious X lab may be getting pulled back later on today, as evident from new developments around the web in the last couple of days.
What's your X? Amplifying technology moonshots
Last week, we ran an experiment. We hosted a gathering, called “Solve for X,” for experienced entrepreneurs, innovators and scientists from around the world. The event focused on proposing and discu...
Women to Facebook: Stop banning our breast-feeding pics
Facebook has a long and tortured relationship with breasts. — Now women around the world have decided to tell the site to grow up. They are staging protests in order to get Facebook to change its p...