AT&T's Nokia Lumia 900 launch delayed, now set to debut on April 22nd for $99.99
BGR exclusively reported this past January that the Nokia Lumia 900 will retail for a mind-blowing $99.99 with two-year agreement when it launches on AT&T. We also reported that the sleek smartphone w...
Todd Park Named New U.S. Chief Technology Officer
I'm very excited that President Obama today is appointing Todd Park as the new U.S. Chief Technology Officer, with the important task of applying the newest technology and latest advances to make the ...
Exclusive: Sprint iPad shows up in Best Buy's database
If you were keeping score during Apple's iPad keynote on Wednesday, you noticed AT&T and Verizon listed amongst the carriers that will get the new iPad, but what about Sprint? It's going to be rockin...
How Apple Squeezes Four Times the Number of Pixels into its New iPad Retina Display
Apple's new iPad offers multiple enhancements, the most prominent of which - and clearly the focus of Apple's marketing campaign - is the 2048 × 1536, 264 ppi retina display.
Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas
One of the more surprising things I've noticed while working on Y Combinator is how frightening the most ambitious startup ideas are. In this essay I'm going to demonstrate this phenomenon by describ...
Tether launches $30/year web-based tethering service for iPhones, works around Apple's restrictions
Tether made news in November, 2011 when Apple seemingly accidentally accepted their application into the iTunes App Store. The $14.99 piece of iPhone software allowed anyone to simply download …
Is it open? Business hours are now on foursquare!
On the prowl for a late night snack? Or a cafe that's open super early? Or a place that's still serving brunch on a late Sunday afternoon? — Now when you're looking for great places to try, you'll...
Gundotra: Google+ Won't Let 3rd-Party Apps Post Because “Your Stream Could Easily Be Overwhelmed”
Today at his SXSW fireside chat, head of Google+ Vic Gundotra said “I am 100% to blame” for the social network lacking an API seven months after launch. The reason?
Intel aims for faster Thunderbolt with PCI-Express 3.0
Intel is working to boost data transfer speeds with a faster pipe on Thunderbolt, a high-speed connector technology that link computers with peripherals, the company said on Thursday. — Intel is wor...
Twitter's Secret History As the World's Worst Tech or Media Business
Twitter Inc.'s been spinning quite a turnaround story in the press lately. The microblogging service “has finally turned a corner,” declares the cover of Bloomberg Businessweek. “It's a juggernaut,”...
Anonymous leaks Symantec's Norton anti-virus source code
Summary: Anonymous has released what appears to be the source code from Norton Antivirus 2006, in what could be a seriously damaging exercise for Symantec. — Anonymous, for which LulzSec was distant...
Google Begins to Scale Back Its Scanning of Books From University Libraries
Google has been quietly slowing down its book-scanning work with partner libraries, according to librarians involved with the vast Google Books digitization project. But what that means for the compa...
Something's Unraveling, Alright
Jolie O'Dell at VentureBeat: Apple's press conference showed a brand unraveling While today's Apple event unveiled a couple new improvements to an expected lineup of products, it also revealed a certa...
Mozilla begins development of Firefox for Metro
Summary: Mozilla today announced that it has begun “a very large project” to build a Metro styled version of Firefox for Windows 8. Can Firefox for Metro really be ready this summer? — Mozilla's Br...
Cha-ching! Chegg raises $25M more for textbook and education platform
Textbook rental service Chegg has raised nearly $25 million in equity funding, according to a form D the company filed Friday with the Securities and Exchange commission. — “The funding is led by ex...
PayPal's New Digital Wallet Will Offer Personalized Deals, Flexible Payments, And More
We've been hearing recently about PayPal's in-store payments platform for large retailers (which will soon be rolled out to small businesses as well). But we haven't seen PayPal do much in the past f...
Apple brings in 73 Korean-American contract attorneys and 20 reviewers to sift through tons of Samsung documents
Apple is facing a huge challenge in dealing with truckloads of Korean-language documents produced by Samsung in two federal lawsuits in California and two ITC investigations.
Twitter Catches the ‘SPDY’ Train
Twitter has embraced Google's vision of a faster web and is now serving webpages over the SPDY protocol to browsers that support it. — SPDY, pronounced “speedy,” is a replacement for the HTTP protoc...
Why are companies defecting from Google Maps?
First Foursquare and now Apple are scaling back their use of Google Maps. Why are major players starting to back way from Google's nearly ubiquitous mapping service? — In recent years, Google Maps ...
Leaked: Police Plan to Raid The Pirate Bay
In the spring of 2006 a team of 65 Swedish police personnel entered a datacenter in Stockholm. The officers were tasked with shutting down the largest threat to the entertainment industry at the time...
T-Mobile executive: Key to fixing industry is removing device subsidies
Cole Brodman, CMO of T-Mobile, speaks at the GeekWire Summit in Seattle (Karen Ducey Photography) — As mobile devices become more powerful, prices continue to fall. And while consumers now have mor...
Apple TV now treats DVD digital copies as iTunes purchases
Previous Apple TV hardware still limited to 720p — Users trying out the new Apple TV software update v5.0 have uncovered a significant change in the way the unit (both the previous 2011 version and ...
Apple Investing $300 Million in Austin, Texas to Add 3,600 More Workers
The State of Texas today announced that Apple has committed to spend $304 million to expand its operations in Austin, seeking to add 3,600 employees to its facilities there. … Apple's campus in Austin...
Microsoft's next-gen Xbox will reportedly drop disc drives, launching in 2013
Microsoft has stayed quiet on its plans to launch a successor to its wildly popular Xbox 360 console, but a new report today has suggested that the company will do away with the traditional disc drive...
iTunes 1080p video looks better, saves space using better H.264 compression
In the comments on yesterday's AppleTV story, many people doubted whether 1080p support in the third-generation AppleTV will be very useful. That question becomes even more relevant when observing th...
FBI's ‘Sabu’ Hacker Was a Model Informant
As soon as he was caught, an influential computer hacker agreed to become a government informant and “literally worked around the clock” to help federal agents nab an elusive collective of alleged cyb...
Apple A5X and the great quad-core confusion, explained
When Apple announced the New iPad, the part about the Apple A5X chip has created a lot of confusion, hype, joy and sometime sheer anger: first, many now believe that the new iPad is a Quad-Core tablet...
Facebook Co-Founder Chris Hughes Is Buying ‘The New Republic’
Social media meets old media: — Saying that he's convinced “the demand for long-form, quality journalism is strong in our country,” Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes tells NPR's Steve Inskeep that he...
Green Dot acquires location-based services company Loopt for $43.4 million in cash
In a move straight out of left field, Green Dot, a U.S. provider of prepaid debit cards, has acquired Loopt for total consideration of $43.4 million in cash. — The press release is below, we're upda...
Cloud's price race to zero: Microsoft cuts Azure pricing, eyes Amazon
Summary: Cloud computing costs are falling fast for IT buyers and are already on par with electricity rates. — Microsoft on Friday cut pricing on its Azure storage as you go service and its extra sm...
Advertising: Google Remixes Four Classic Campaigns - Advertising
GOOGLE is going all Marty McFly on Madison Avenue, sponsoring a back-to-the-future project that reimagines classic campaigns from the “Mad Men” age for modern sensibilities — and technologies.
China Telecom Starts Selling iPhone 4S, Receives Over 200,000 Pre-orders
Major Chinese carrier China Telecom starts selling Apple's iPhone 4S in China today, and the phone is available for sale at 2,850 retail outlets of China Telecom, and from local electronics retailers.
H.P. Attempts to Take On Amazon's Cloud Service
Within two months, Hewlett-Packard will offer a large and powerful cloud computing service similar to Amazon Web Services, but with more business-oriented features, according the head of the project. ...
New Apps Connect to Friends Nearby
Smartphones have become indispensable for some people to find nearby cool new places for a bite or a drink. — Social networks like Facebook help those people connect with friends and colleagues. — ...
Germany Wants To Charge Search Engines To Use News Excerpts
Germany's government wants search engines and news aggregators to pay news publishers for using pieces of their material. — Its coalition committee has resolved that a collecting society should char...
Vevo rolls out new “bigger, smarter, faster” video platform, and makes Facebook mandatory
One week after we reported that Vevo users would soon only be able to log in using their Facebook credentials, the video-streaming website is rolling out an entirely new version of the platform, that'...