Microsoft Office for iPad: Separating fact from fiction
Summary: If the Daily.com is right, Microsoft's Office for iPad could be launching well ahead of Office for Windows 8 on ARM tablets. — The Daily.com — the folks that brought us last year's rumor th...
Nook Tablet 8GB official at $199, Nook Color price down to $169
Our sources were right on the money: Barnes & Noble has just announced an 8GB version of its Nook Tablet, pricing it in direct competition with the Kindle Fire at $199. The Nook Color has also been r...
U.S. Official Warns About ‘Anonymous’ Power Play
U.S. Official Signals Growing Concern Over Anonymous Group's Capabilities — The director of the National Security Agency has warned that the hacking group Anonymous could have the ability within the...
Research, no motion: How the BlackBerry CEOs lost an empire
“We are no longer a company that is innovative and energetic, we are drowning in paperwork.” — By many accounts, the problems at RIM go deeper than just outdated software. Things reached a crisis p...
Comcast unveils $4.99 per month Streampix service, taking aim at Netflix
Streampix movies will be available on the iPad — Comcast this week is rolling out a new video streaming service called Streampix, an offering that will be available only to subscribers of the giant ...
Aussies' fix for ‘stagnated’ email
Email has “stagnated” and three Australians who quit Google say they have built a product that will change the way we interact with email and allow us to get through our bulging inboxes “20 per cent f...
The iPad 3 Rumor Roundup
iPad 3 has more tapered edges than the iPad 2, but a little bit thicker — What is the latest and greatest with the iPad 3? We have all the rumors, and all the purported specs covered. We also have...
Android is most-used smartphone OS in UK, overtaking Apple, data shows
With its iPhone, Apple may be the most-used brand, but Android now has more than a third of installed base of consumers — Android has taken over from Apple and now has the largest share of the insta...
Flickr Is Getting a Major Makeover
The new Flickr photo view, slated to roll out 2/28/2012. — Markus Spiering has, as they say, a good eye. Most of his resume was in mobile before he became a senior product manager for Flickr. In M...
Netflix And The Weinstein Company Enter Into Their First Multi-Year Streaming Deal
Netflix streaming just got a bit more classy. The Weinstein Company is releasing “a diverse slate” of its titles exclusively to Netflix streaming. These titles will hit the service within a year …
Over-the-Air TV Catches Second Wind, Aided by Web
It's cool to have rabbit ears again. — Largely relegated to obscurity decades ago, old-fashioned television broadcasts—over the airwaves and not via cable or satellite—are enjoying an unexpected rev...
Legal claims can be served via Facebook, High Court judge rules
Legal claims can now be served via Facebook in Britain, after a landmark ruling in the English High Court. — Facebook can be used to serve legal claims in Britain, following a ruling by a High Court...
The U.N. Threat to Internet Freedom
Top-down, international regulation is antithetical to the Net, which has flourished under its current governance model. — On Feb. 27, a diplomatic process will begin in Geneva that could result in a...
Amazon Appstore more lucrative for many devs than Android Market
Investment in Amazon Appstore is paying off in a big way for many top developers, a good chunk of whom are pulling in more money for their apps on Amazon than through Google's Android Market.
eBay to Acquire WHI Solutions
eBay Inc. has reached a definitive agreement to acquire WHI Solutions (WHI), a provider of software and digital catalog solutions for auto parts distributors and retailers. … I'm a fairly stereotypica...
Apache releases first major new version of popular Web server in six years
Summary: The first new version of Apache, the world's most popular Web server, has just been released after six years with new cloud-friendly features The Apache Software Foundation has just announced...
Canonical reveals Ubuntu for Android
Canonical is making good on its promise to bring its popular Ubuntu flavor of Linux to a broader range of devices by announcing Ubuntu for Android, a release that will enable a full desktop computing ...
Google gets real-time data from LSE
(Reuters) - The London Stock Exchange Group is to provide real-time market data to Google, bolstering the search-engine's Google Finance offering with free access to London prices previously only avai...
Silicon Valley: The rise of the adolescent CEOs
(Reuters) - Josh Buckley, chief executive of an online gaming start-up, is looking forward to next month's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, particularly for the parties and the accompanyin...
Google to Sell Heads-Up Display Glasses by Year's End
People who constantly reach into a pocket to check a smartphone for bits of information will soon have another option: a pair of Google-made glasses that will be able to stream information to the wear...
Microsoft Office for iPad expected in coming weeks
Back in November, The Daily initially uncovered the existence of an iPad version of the Microsoft Office Suite. Sources now say that the app will soon be submitted to Apple for approval. — A brief ...
CIA to software vendors: A revolution is coming
(Reuters) - The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency told software vendors on Tuesday that it plans to revolutionize the way it does business with them as part of a race to keep up with the blazing pace o...
Facebook plans to release a new premium ads product Feb. 29
According to leaked documents, Facebook plans to upgrade its premium ads on February 29. The company expects the new ads to perform 40 to 8o percent better than its previous product. — As the owner...
China firm preparing for Apple iPad talks: lawyer
SHANGHAI — A Chinese firm involved in a trademark row with Apple over the iPad name is preparing for talks with the US technology giant, the Chinese firm's lawyer said Tuesday, raising hopes for a set...
‘PayPal Mafia’ Gets Richer
Yelp and Facebook's IPOs will give another boost to Silicon Valley's influential PayPal alumni — The fortunes of the so-called PayPal Mafia are poised to grow. — Jeremy Stoppelman and Max Levchin ...
RIM finally rolls out BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 with integrated email and Android support
RIM has announced that the second version of the OS for its much-maligned BlackBerry PlayBook tablet is rolling out today - chances are that it's too late to do much good for the device's long-term ch...
The Older You Are, The Harder It Is To Win At Social
A big problem investors and pundits have with companies like Google, Microsoft and Apple is that they are seemingly incapable of creating a successful social network, despite being successful in many ...
Facebook expected to unveil plan for mobile ads
Facebook disclosed an eye-opening fact when it filed plans to go public this month - 425 million members access the social network on smart phones and tablets. — The disclosure sent up red flags for...
Panel to Consider Computer Option for Taxis
Just as New Yorkers have grown used to blaring televisions in the back of taxis, the Taxi and Limousine Commission is considering another electronic option: embedded tablet computers. — The commissi...
Twitter partners with Yandex for real-time search
(Reuters) - Twitter and Russian search engine Yandex have agreed a partnership that will allow Yandex to show new tweets in its search results almost instantly, as Twitter becomes an increasingly impo...
Official screenshot confirms that web-based video chat is coming to Windows Live Wave 5
Back in August last year, we spotted an interesting set of resource icons from Windows Live Wave 5, suggesting that a web-based video chat service might be coming to Windows Live web properties soon.
Chrome kingpin Pichai promises Android upgrades
In a Q&A, Chrome leader Sundar Pichai promises the Android version will improve “by leaps and bounds” and says the browser will make Google money directly. — Sundar Pichai, leader of the Chrome effo...