Google Developing Home Entertainment System
Google Inc. is developing a home-entertainment system that streams music wirelessly throughout the home and would be marketed under the company's own brand, according to people briefed on the company'...
Kickstarter crosses threshold as two projects hit $1 million in donations
The crowdsourced funding site Kickstarter has been doing remarkably well recently, giving thousands of entrepreneurs the opportunity to bring their projects to life. It also just hit a major mileston...
Texas Jury Strikes Down Patent Troll's Claim to Own the Interactive Web
TYLER, Texas — After threatening web companies for more than a decade, Michael Doyle and his patent-holding company Eola — named after the Irish word for knowledge — may be finished.
Download a Copy of The Pirate Bay, It's Only 90 MB
Last month The Pirate Bay announced that it will stop hosting torrents in the very near future. — This change is expected to go into effect before the end of the month. From then on, Pirate Bay use...
FBI: Steve Jobs had 2.65 GPA, avoided the gym, wasn't a communist
Steve Jobs shows off a Next computer in Redwood City, Calif., on April 4, 1991. (Ben Margot / Associated Press) — We detailed the major tidbits from Steve Jobs' just-disclosed FBI files in an earli...
Music Labels' Joint Venture, VEVO, Shows Pirated NFL Game At Sundance
Over the last decade the major music labels — and their trade organization, the Recording Industry Association of America — have established a repeated pattern of attacking consumers in the name of sq...
Apple to Announce iPad 3 First Week in March
Apple's not holding an event in February. But it is holding one in March — to launch its next iPad. — Sources say the company has chosen the first week in March to debut the successor to the iPad 2...
Leaked iPad 3 Components Reveal New Internals, But No New Design [Exclusive]
Images of leaked iPad 3 components hot off the factory floor have been provided to Cult of Mac. They reveal that the internal components of Apple's third-generation iPad are significantly different t...
Steve Jobs' FBI File Released
The FBI has released, and posted on its web site, Steve Jobs' 191-page FBI file. Read it here. The file consists of a 1991 background investigation conducted when Jobs was being considered for an ap...
Zuckerberg Takes Control, You Get $100
Mark Zuckerberg must be one persuasive deal maker. — After eight years, Mr. Zuckerberg, the co-founder and chief executive of Facebook, has an ironclad grip on the social networking giant. He owns ...
Google Social is Exploding Online!
Now that the dust has settled from the initial launch of Google+ it is time for some analysis of the social network's functionality and popularity. No doubt people are extremely excited with the new ...
Chutzpah: Google also wants 2.25% of every iPhone sale
It's not enough that Google borrowed the phone's look and feel to make Android? — From Google's IEEE letter. Source: FOSS Patents. Click to enlarge. — It took a Techmeme news cycle for the impor...
Alibaba Seeking $3 Billion Loan to Buy Back Yahoo Stake
Chinese Internet giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is in the process of raising a US$3 billion loan from around six banks to buy back the stake that Yahoo Inc. owns in the company, people familiar with...
No New Mail? Try Google+
What's the message displayed by Gmail when there's no message in your inbox? If you answered “No new mail! Want to read updates from your favorite sites? Try Google Reader”, you are right. It was ...
File Sharing in the Post MegaUpload Era
On January 18, 2012 global file sharing traffic collapsed. In a series of coordinate raids, US and New Zealand authorities seized thousands of MegaUpload servers and arrested its founder (at his own ...
End of an Era: Google's Very First Employee, Craig Silverstein — Technically, No. 3 — Leaving
Technically, No. 3 — Leaving — Google's very first employee, Craig Silverstein, is leaving the company to join the high-profile online learning phenom, Khan Academy. — News of the departure first a...
Inside Yahoo: Less Show, More Sell
New CEO Aims to Reduce Emphasis on Ads, Boost Commission Revenue — New Chief Executive Scott Thompson's plan for turning around Yahoo Inc. is beginning to take shape: He wants to push the Internet c...
Report: How Americans are Spending their Media Time... and Money
Americans spend more than 33 hours per week watching video across the screens, according to the latest Nielsen Cross-Platform Report. But how they're consuming content—traditional TV and otherwise—is...
Google May Open Retail Store at European Headquarters in Dublin
Google Inc. (GOOG) may open its first stand- alone retail store at its European headquarters in Dublin, according to a filing by the world's most popular search engine. — The Google Store would be o...
Lytro Teardown Shows Potential Wireless Capability, Smallish Sensor
It's been a while since we've heard anything about Lytro (other than nearly grabbing a Crunchie (I voted for them)), the camera where you shoot now and focus later. And the latest news comes not from...
Skimlinks is the real story behind Pinterest's success
I love it when a startup I've been covering for literally years suddenly finds itself in the spotlight, and for the right reasons. In this case, Skimlinks, originally from London but now with a growi...
End of an era: Kodak discontinues camera business
Eastman Kodak has shocked the world today, announcing that it has put an end to its camera business. — By the end of June, Kodak expects to phase out its digital cameras, pocket video cameras, and d...