BT and TalkTalk lose challenge against DEA
Internet service providers lose final appeal after court rules the Digital Economy Act is legal and compatible with European law — The government has been given the green light to implement the Digi...
I'm getting sick of the bulls**t
I love the start-up world. I love working with founders and young companies. I love the excitement of working on business ideas that are new and different. I love seeing the success that often come...
Google, Motorola Mobility Ordered to Give Apple Android Development Data
Google Inc. and a Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. (MMI) unit were ordered by the U.S. judge presiding over an Apple Inc. (AAPL) patent lawsuit to turn over information about the development of Google'...
Jumio Raises $25M, Turns Webcams Into ID Readers
Jumio, the startup that made it possible to pay via webcam, is announcing a new Series B funding round of $25 million, led by Andreessen Horowitz and including Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin and ...
Adobe Lightroom 4 available now for $149, brings photo book creation and updated tools
The latest version of Adobe's photo-management and editing tool, Lightroom 4, was released in beta in early January, but today the software loses that status and officially replaces Lightroom 3.
Disney's YouTube Deal Kicks In, So Free Kids' TV Starts Showing Up
YouTube is gunning for the TV business by trying to create a new genre of Web video programs that will capture TV eyeballs and ad dollars. — But Google's Web video giant is also very happy to run go...
FTC to Require Western Digital to Sell off Assets in Acquisition
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission will require Western Digital to sell off assets used to manufacture desktop hard drives to a competitor as a condition of its US$4.5 billion acquisition of rival Hita...
Corruption, Lies, and Death Threats: The Crazy Story of the Man Who Pretended to Invent Email
Shiva Ayyadurai, pictured above, is a shimmering intellectual. He holds four degrees from MIT (where he lectures), numerous patents, honors, and awards. He also says he invented email, and there's a...
iPad maker Foxconn turns to X-ray inspections to cut defects
The supplier to Apple is adding inline X-ray inspection systems, in a move seen as a way to improve efficiency and reduce product defects. — A worker at an Apple supplier facility in Chengdu, China.
Just In Time For SXSW, Social Discovery Service Sonar Arrives On Android
Social discovery service (and TechCrunch Disrupt alumni) Sonar has some big news today, and just in time for SXSW: it's arriving on Android. According to founder Brett Martin, support for the Android...
Forrester: No Android Tablet Has More Than 5% Share vs iPad. How Does Amazon's Kindle Fire Compare?
On the eve of what may well be the launch of a brand new iPad from Apple comes some new analysis from Forrester Research on the current competitive landscape in tablets — or lack thereof, as the case ...
Bloomberg Expanding Tech Coverage
The financial news giant is launching a tech vertical, several new blogs, and creating original video content. — The crowded tech news scene will become even more crowded this week—Bloomberg has ann...
iOS Ebb and Flow
I'd like to fill in the picture I began in my recent post on Android fragmentation by examining the changes in version distribution of the other major mobile operating system: iOS. — Unfortunately, ...
Google's Rules of Acquisition: How to Be an Android, Not an Aardvark
In the technology world, acquisitions so often go awry that it's a wonder big corporations keep shelling out to buy smaller ones at all. Just look at disasters like News Corp's acquisition of MySpace...
Stakeout: how the FBI tracked and busted a Chicago Anon
“Script kiddie”—no hacker worth his salt wants to hear the term used to describe him. Anyone with modest computer skills can cause modest havoc using other people's code fragments, scanners, and infi...
Acer: $799 ultrabooks make no profit, aiming for $499 price nonetheless
Acer Global President Jianren Weng has been quoted at CeBIT today reiterating something he said at the beginning of December: ultrabooks will drop to the crazy-low price of $499 in 2013 and compete di...
Exclusive: Netflix in talks for cable partnership
(Reuters) - Netflix Chief Executive Reed Hastings has quietly met with some of the largest U.S. cable companies in recent weeks to discuss adding the online movie streaming service to their cable offe...
iOS 5.1 Gold Master passes QA
The Gold Master build of iOS 5.1 has been in a vigorous quality assurance phase for the past three weeks, with extensive testing being done internally by Apple as well as by various carriers/partners....
Twitter co-founders' Obvious Corp. announces Branch, a ‘curated discussion platform’
Obvious Corporation, the new endeavor of Twitter founders Biz Stone, Evan Williams and Jason Goldman, has today announced its second project. It's called Branch and it's a partnership with developers...
After eight years at Pandora, Executive VP Jessica Steel will be stepping down in May
The internet radio company that went public last year, Pandora, had an earnings call today, but we found out some more interesting facts about the company after the call.