Google to Replace Motorola Mobility CEO
Google Inc. (GOOG), which won U.S. approval for its acquisition of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. (MMI), is close to naming Dennis Woodside to run the business when the deal closes, three people fami...
Your Circles, now in Google Voice
To help make it even easier for you to organize your contacts, today we're adding Google+ Circles to Google Voice. Circles give you more control over how you manage your callers; for example, calls f...
Web Firms to Adopt ‘No Track’ Button
A coalition of Internet giants including Google Inc. has agreed to support a do-not-track button to be embedded in most Web browsers—a move that the industry had been resisting for more than a year. ...
Apple Readying ‘Products That Will Blow Your Mind’
Apple's Tim Cook, addressing shareholders for the first time since he took over as CEO from Steve Jobs in August, said today the company will introduce mind-blowing products this year. — “You can be...
“Unethical” HTML video copy protection proposal draws criticism from W3C reps
A proposal to put HTML video behind bars is making FIrefox sad — A new Web standard proposal authored by Google, Microsoft, and Netflix seeks to bring copy protection mechanisms to the Web.
T-Mobile USA Reports Huge Customer Defections, Says to Launch LTE in 2013
Deutsche Telekom said on Thursday that T-Mobile USA will launch high-speed LTE service sometime next year. — The company is the last major U.S. carrier to announce LTE plans and it has been question...
Exclusive: Susan Molinari to head Google's D.C. office
Former congresswoman Susan Molinari was named head of Google's Washington office on Thursday, increasing the tech giant's government firepower at a time of rising scrutiny from lawmakers and regulator...
Box bets on Android in business with new update, gives all users 50GB storage free
Cloud storage powerhouse Box has updated its Android app with tons of new features. And to celebrate, the company is giving away 50GB of free storage to any Android user who logs in during the next 3...
Google Music not living up to expectations (exclusive)
Google Music was supposed to have an inside track marketing music to the 200 million Android users, but performance so far is not what was expected. — Three months after launching, Google Music hasn...
Canalys: Android apps cost 2.5X more than iPhone apps
The top 100 paid apps total $374.37 on Android Market, $147 on the Apple App Store — Here's a puzzler. — Although conventional wisdom has it that Apple (AAPL) iPhone users are more inclined to pay...
Forgotten Apple founder takes to Facebook to explain his decision to quit after 12 days
The story of Ron Wayne, the third but oft-forgotten co-founder of Apple Computer (along with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak), is well known in our circles. — See our recent interview with the man for ...
Qualcomm Atheros expects a smoother rollout for next-generation WiFi
Qualcomm Atheros expects that the next-generation of WiFi wireless networking will roll out in a smoother manner than past industry transitions and with less confusion for consumers. — The new 802.1...
Chinese Court Rejects Injunction Against Apple's iPad
SHANGHAI—A Shanghai court rejected a Chinese company's effort to get a preliminary injunction against the sale of Apple Inc.'s iPad there over a trademark dispute and postponed the hearings pending th...
A closer look at Microsoft's Office 15 Technical Preview
Microsoft's next-generation Office suite recently reached the Technical Preview stage, allowing third parties to test Microsoft's pre-beta code. The software giant released early copies of Office 15 ...
People don't care about scoops, they care about trust
We have written a number of times about how social media and the “democratization of distribution” has compressed the news cycle to the point where the half-life of a scoop is measured in minutes rath...
Geoloqi Launches Platform for White Label Geolocation Apps
Geoloqi has been around as a multipurpose geolocation app for iPhone and Android since 2010, and its API has been available since last summer. But today the Portland, OR startup is releasing its real...
No PC to PC sync in new SkyDrive
One of the questions our commenters asked about the upcoming integration of Windows Live Mesh into SkyDrive was “what about direct Device to Device synchronization?”. Currently, you can use Windows L...
Feature: Mastered for iTunes: how audio engineers tweak music for the iPod age
In an age when Apple has become the top music retailer without selling a single physical disc, audio engineers are increasingly creating specially mastered versions of songs and albums designed to cou...
Introducing Mozilla Persona
This past year we've been building the core of a Web-scale identity system. We've been calling it BrowserID: our name both for the technology1 and the Mozilla service that implements the technology. ...
Scan Gets $1.7M From Google Ventures And Shervin Pishevar To Make QR Codes Actually Useful
The most impressive thing about Scan is that it, as a humble QR code app, has raised over $1.7 million in seed funding from, wait for it, Shervin Pishevar via Menlo Ventures, Google Ventures …
Facebook Redesigns Groups To Be More Timeline-y and Purposeful, Less Spammy
Today Facebook rolled out a limited redesign of Groups, featuring a big new Timeline-style cover image, and a prompt for users to prominently label “What should people post in this group?”.
Intel distributes LibreOffice, can Microsoft be pleased?
Intel supports LibreOffice, can Microsoft be pleased? — LibreOffice, the OpenOffice fork, is a very popular open-source office suite. But, while it has great support from Linux distributors, like o...
Milyoni gets $11 million to put movies on Facebook
Founded in 2009, Pleasanton-based Milyoni started as a merchandising platform on Facebook …
Study: Mobile Web and App Usage Now at Parity
The online analytics company comScore released its annual “Mobile Future in Focus” report earlier this morning. Just ahead of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week, comScore is taking a cl...
Obama unveils Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights
President promises privacy legislation and says Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and AOL are committed to working with Do Not Track technology in browsers. — The Obama administration plans to work with Con...
Apple Acquires Chomp; App Store Search And Discovery To Be Completely Revamped
With the countdown underway to 25 billion total app downloads, there's no disputing the success of Apple's App Store. We live in a world of hyperbole, but Apple's entry into this space really has cha...
Scoble: hit man of Silicon Valley?
Today a “journalist” (Dan Lyons) says I have been hitting up VCs to start my own fund. — Really? I didn't know that! — For the record, I'm not raising a fund. This article is NOT accurate. — B...
iPad + Office + Apple + Microsoft: Why It All Makes Sense
In case you missed the craziness this week, Microsoft appears to be making some Office apps for the iPad. Or maybe it's not. Or whatever. MG Siegler has a good wrapup of the nonsense here. — Offi...
Apple wants to reinvent keyboards, making them even thinner
Apple could make its notebook computers and keyboard accessories even thinner and lighter with a brand new take on the classic input method. — Apple's interest in reinventing the keyboard was reveal...
Samsung's Galaxy S II celebrates 20 million sold, just in time for MWC
After crossing the 10 million units moved threshold back in September, Samsung has joyously announced ahead of MWC 2012 that its Galaxy S II family of phones has sold 20 million since launching in Apr...
LG Optimus 4X HD unveiled: Quad-core Tegra 3, Ice Cream Sandwich, 4.7-inch display
If LG failed to impress so far with the slew of Android 2.3 phones it's shown off in the run up to MWC 2012, perhaps the Optimus 4X HD can make up for it. This 4.7-inch beast is its first to feature ...
Rovio Ownership Structure Revealed
The Finnish Arvopaperi magazine has announced the ownership structure of Rovio, the creators of Angry Birds. The information has not come up in any IPO filing, but through public information in the F...
Ahead Of Funding News, Boku Debuts NFC-Enabled Mobile Payments Platform For Carriers, Merchants And Consumers
Boku is debuting a brand new mobile payments platform today, that aims to disrupt the current way that consumers pay for goods via their mobile phones or credit cards.
Throttling unlimited data plans is pointless, study finds
AT&T's questionable policy with regard to unlimited smartphone data plan holders recently found its way back into the limelight following a new wave of subscriber complaints. The nation's No.2 carrie...
Report: Video Accounts For Half Of All Mobile Traffic; Android Biggest For Mobile Ads
Mobile video now accounts for half of all mobile traffic; and on some networks, that number is as high as 69 percent — a testament to the rise of smartphones and tablets as the mobile devices of choic...
The challenge of wooing Generation C
As Nielsen coins a new term to describe young adults ages 18-34, a group it considers bound together by a digitally connected lifestyle, one Gen C'er has some advice for advertisers. — The C in “Gen...