Nokia likely to launch Windows 8 tablet PCs in 4Q12, say sources
Nokia will team up with Microsoft to venture into the tablet PC market by releasing a 10-inch Windows 8-based tablet PC set on Qualcomm's dual-core platform in the fourth quarter of 2012 at the earlie...
CNN in Talks to Acquire Mashable, Sources Say
AUSTIN, Tex. — CNN, a unit of Time Warner, and Mashable are in advanced talks that may lead to an acquisition of the social news Web site, three people with knowledge of the talks said. — Mashable, ...
Posterous is Joining the Flock at Twitter
Big news: Posterous has been acquired by Twitter! — The opportunities in front of Twitter are exciting, and we couldn't be happier about bringing our team's expertise to a product that reaches hundr...
So Sirious: iPhone User Sues Apple over Voice-Activated Assistant
Siri, the iPhone 4S's deadpan voice-activated assistant, is imperfect. She's stumped easily. Her command of English is only so so. In the U.K., she's a man. But is Siri a fraud? — A New York man...
Exclusive: Darpa Director Bolts Pentagon for Google
Darpa director Regina Dugan will soon be stepping down from her position atop the Pentagon's premiere research shop to take a job with Google. Dugan, whose controversial tenure at the agency lasted j...
Social gift app Wrapp steams ahead with UK launch
When the CEO of Wrapp told us last week that the social gifts company was speeding up its expansion plans in order to combat the threat from a Samwer brothers clone, he wasn't joking: today the busine...
A Code of Conduct for Content Aggregators
As words and articles became digitized over the last 15 years, they began to float, there for the plucking and replication elsewhere. Words like “curation” and “aggregation” became the language of th...
Microsoft to let Windows 8 web browsers play nice with Metro, Firefox version in the works
We previously heard that Mozilla was planning a Metro version of Firefox, and now developer Brian R. Bondy has announced that the company has begun work on it. While that's good for Firefox fans …
Facebook throws up roadblock for Google-hosted blogs
Summary: Facebook has started prompting users who post any link from Google Blogger with a CAPTCHA test. This seems to affect all blogspot.com links as well as Google-hosted blogs with a custom URL. ...
Sir Jonathan Ive: The iMan cometh
Mark Prigg meets Sir Jonathan Ive, the British man behind the design of Apple's iconic products — Sir Jonathan Ive, Jony to his friends, is arguably one of the world's most influential Londoners. T...
Hollywood Studios Warm To Apple's iCloud Effort
Apple Inc. and Hollywood are proving how complicated it is to build alliances in the digital-media business. — Last week Apple said five major movie studios had agreed to allow consumers to buy thei...
Marvel Comics' Axel Alonso: New App Augments Reality [Video]
Marvel comic book heroes are jumping off the page with some new digital features. — Marvel Entertainment, a subsidiary of Walt Disney Co., is adding augmented reality to its comics using a new “Marv...
Silicon Valley has become the new Motor City
Back in the bleak days of the dot-com bust, a number of naysayers would sum up Silicon Valley's sorry state by wondering whether the region was on its way to becoming the next Detroit. — Now a decad...
OMG: 5-Week-Old App Draw Something Hits 20 Million Downloads And Generates 6-Figures Per Day
Win 75K in prizes for YOUR startup in BI's annual business-plan competition! Deadline is March 31 so apply now! And hear from Fab, Lot18, and more at the Startup 2012 conference on May 3, 2012!
Facebook throws up roadblock for Google-hosted blogs
Summary: Facebook has started prompting users who post any link from Google Blogger with a CAPTCHA test. This seems to affect all blogspot.com links as well as Google-hosted blogs with a custom URL. ...
Pinterest Aims at the Collector Hidden Inside All of Us
AUSTIN, Tex. — Seeking attention for your start-up? You may want to look beyond the Internet-savvy throngs clogging the sidewalks and bars here. — Many start-up companies trying to attract interest...
Facebook, Friend or Foe?
Investors have realized that companies no longer compete with Facebook, they compete on it — Stuck to the wall by the entrance to Badoo's office in London's Soho district is a postcard that says 'No...
Samsung Accused by Apple of Violating Order in Infringement Case
Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) was accused by Apple Inc. of violating a court order in a patent- infringement case by failing to produce source code as directed by a judge. — Samsung “only partial...
The Google that never was: how the search giant killed a 2007 redesign
Creative Lab's Chris Wiggins, Maps's Evelyn Kim, Gmail's Michael Leggett, Chrome's Nicholas Jitkoff, and Search's Jon Wiley also discussed the big changes in structure and approach to the more recent ...