Apple: App Access to Contact Data Will Require Explicit User Permission
After a week of silence Apple has finally responded to reports that dozens of iOS applications have been accessing, transmitting and storing user contact data without explicit permission.
Facebook to Release Timeline for Brands This Month
Launch Announcement Expected at Company's Feb. 29 Marketer Conference — Facebook will be bringing its new Timeline profile pages to brands this month in the U.S., according to executives briefed on ...
Apple iPad plant conditions better than the norm: agency
(Reuters) - Working conditions at Chinese manufacturing plants where Apple Inc's iPads and iPhones are made are far better than those at garment factories or other facilities elsewhere in the country,...
LightSquared blew it, and here's why
LightSquared may have had a great case for building its wireless network, but the fledgling company lacked the political tact to see it through. — LightSquared CEO Sanjiv Ahuja delivers a speech at ...
Apple finally talks, says that Proview refuses to honor their agreement to transfer iPad trademark
Numerous online stores in China have taken the iPad off their shelves, after Proview said that Apple was breaking their trademark on the term “iPad”. The fight continues in court, but today …
Did Samsung just reveal a Galaxy Note 10.1 for MWC?
Samsung's official website may have revealed the name of a heretofore unannounced product: a Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1. The name appears on the company's invitation to a Samsung Developer Day at MWC t...
Facebook Launches Verified Accounts and Pseudonyms
Facebook, a service built on real names and real identities, will tomorrow start allowing prominent public figures to verify their accounts and then opt to display a preferred nickname instead of thei...
FCC requires VoIP services to report outages, mirroring landline rule
In a US Federal Communications Commission meeting today, the Commission ruled that internet telephony (i.e. VoIP) providers are subject to the same outage reporting rules as other service providers. 3...
DuckDuckGo Has Its First Million-Search Day
The growth chart continues to trend in the right direction for DuckDuckGo. — It was just about three weeks ago that we wrote about the search engine setting its own record with 731,000 searches in a...
Apple Asks for Court Approval to Sue Bankrupt Kodak in N.Y. Over Patents
Apple Inc. (AAPL) asked a bankruptcy judge for permission to sue Eastman Kodak Co. (EK) over allegations it's infringing patents that Apple says cover technologies used in printers, digital cameras an...
As more Windows Phone ‘Tango’ info leaks, questions resurface
Summary: New leaks about the next version of the Windows Phone operating system make me wonder if the Tango1/Tango2 rumors from last year are going to prove true, after all. — I haven't blogged much...
Cisco Appeals Europe's Approval of Microsoft's $8.5 Billion Skype Acquisition
Networking giant Cisco Systems today appealed to European regulators to reconsider their approval of Microsoft's $8.5 billion acquisition of the Internet calling service Skype. The EU approved the de...
Adobe shows off Photoshop CS6's content-aware move feature
Adobe has been previewing more and more CS6 features in the run up to its release, and today we have something significantly more interesting than its darkened UI. In a video posted to its YouTube ch...
RIM: PlayBook 2.0 Likely Coming During MWC
The BlackBerry PlayBook's new 2.0 OS will likely arrive as a giant over-the-air update during the Mobile World Congress trade show at the end of this month, BlackBerry senior brand manager Jeff Gadway...
HP CEO: Google-Motorola deal could close-source Android
HP CEO Meg Whitman said a closed-source Android and iOS could create a big opportunity for webOS in the long run — WebOS could be an important player in the long run as an open-source mobile operati...
Sony completes Ericsson buyout, Sony Mobile Communications is born
With regulators signing off, we knew it was just a matter of time before Sony's buyout of mobile partner Ericsson was complete, and it looks like today's the day. Sony has announced that it has compl...
The $600 Million Social Life Of Foursquare Founder Dennis Crowley
For Dennis Crowley, life has always been a game that should be played with friends. Few people could turn that mentality into a $600 million business. — Dennis Crowley sold his first startup to Goo...
Israelis Tap In to Silicon Valley
PALO ALTO—A group of visiting Israeli technology entrepreneurs recently got some blunt advice on how to do business in Silicon Valley. Be positive, smile a lot and don't bad-mouth a competitor, ventu...
As of today, everyone is now using the ‘new new’ version of Twitter
The eighth of December in the year of 2011 will forever be remembered as the day that Twitter changed forever. Ok, maybe the redesign it announced last year wasn't that big of a deal, but it took a f...
Twitter stores full iPhone contact list for 18 months, after scan
Twitter Inc. has acknowledged that after mobile users tap the “Find friends” feature on its smartphone app, the company downloads users' entire address book, including names, email addresses and phone...
Exclusive: Proview says any ban of iPad exports hard to impose
(Reuters) - A Chinese technology firm seeking to ban all shipments of Apple's popular iPad tablet into and out of the country has been told that China's customs authorities are unlikely to intervene i...
Gartner: Apple's iPhone Stole The Smartphone Show In Q4, 2011
We've seen handset makers like HTC, LG and Nokia all warning of declines in smartphone sales. But if there is a slowdown affecting some, it's not because people are not buying smartphones; it's becau...
Sony Says Price of 2 Whitney Houston Albums Was Raised by Mistake
Updated — Sony Music has responded to accusations that it was exploiting the death of Whitney Houston by raising the prices of two of her albums just hours after her death on Saturday.
Apple's Size Clouds Market
To Get a Picture of Corporate Health, Analysts Cut Tech Giant Out of the Frame — In analyzing U.S. corporate earnings and stock-market trends, apples-to-apples comparisons may now require tossing ou...
Walter Isaacson's ‘Steve Jobs’
What is Apple at heart: a software company, or hardware company? — This is a perennial question. The truth, of course, is that Apple is neither. Apple is an experience company. That they create b...
Kindle Touch breakthrough: Startup debuts handwriting recognition in puzzle book
Puzzle technology startup Puzzazz is giving Amazon's Kindle Touch a capability that even Amazon didn't envision — letting users input numbers and letters by writing them naturally with a finger on the...
AMD pumps extreme performance into mid-range computers with 1-gigahertz Cape Verde graphics chips
Advanced Micro Devices is rolling out new graphics chips today that will bring screaming performance to the mid-range of the gamer PC market. The new AMD Radeon HD 7700 series …
Google+ For iPhone Gets Instant Photo & Video Uploads
Google has updated the Google+ iOS app today, adding a key mobile feature, which was previously only available to Android users. Instant Upload, once enabled, automatically sends all photos and video...
AT&T Must Let Beastie Boy Vote on Net Neutrality, SEC Says
Feb. 14 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has told AT&T Inc. and other telecommunications companies they must include a resolution supporting wireless net-neutrality in annual ...
How Developers Are Shaping the Future of Music
That the music industry has radically changed in the last decade is a serious understatement. Technology has altered everything from the creation of music to its distribution, upending retailers, stu...
Chirpify turns Twitter into a payment and commerce platform
Twitter has become a high-powered news, information and interest network but it hasn't really flexed its potential as a commerce platform. But a new Portland, Ore. start-up called Chirpify is looking...