iPad 3 4G Teardown
Our CXO flew to the Telstra store in Melbourne, Australia and was first in line to get the iPad 3 for our deconstructive pleasure. A big thanks to Macfixit Australia for letting us use their facility...
Exclusive: Kevin Rose Will Join Google
Digg founder Kevin Rose has been hired by Google, according to sources close to the situation. — Rose's mobile app incubator Milk yesterday announced it was shutting down its only product, Oink. — ...
Introducing PayPal Here: The Future of Commerce for Small Business
PayPal has a long history of helping small businesses. For 14 years we've provided the tools and services that have allowed millions of small businesses to grow by solving the complex and critical ta...
PayPal unveils ‘PayPal Here’ Square competitor for mobile payment
PayPal has more than just a digital wallet system for consumers planned. As rumored, today president and CEO John Donahoe has unveiled a small dongle that can be used to accept credit card payments t...
Nokia working on own tablet: design chief
(Reuters) - Nokia design chief Marko Ahtisaari is spending a third of his time on creating a tablet for the cellphone maker, which would stand out among hundreds of iPad-challengers, he said in an int...
Anarchy in the App Store
Path bills itself as a social network that cares about privacy. For a while it was also an App Store outlaw. When iPhone users downloaded it through Apple's popular storefront, the software surrepti...
Anonymous has just released its own operating system: Anonymous-OS
For reasons unknown at the moment, the famous and perhaps infamous hacker group Anonymous has just released its own OS. As described on Source Forge, “Anonymous-OS Live is an ubuntu-based distributio...
Amazon is No. 1. Who's next in cloud computing?
Amazon Web Services is, by all accounts, the largest cloud service provider by far, although good luck finding third-party numbers to verify that. Amazon, like most of the big cloud providers, doesn'...
RIM confirms BB10 is coming to BlackBerry Playbook
RIM has confirmed to TechRadar that the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet will be getting BB10 OS when it's ready. While there's no word on any new tablet hardware (the future of the PlayBook line is defini...
WSJ Says Big Google Search Changes Coming? Reality Check Time!
The Wall Street Journal is out with a story saying that Google is about to make one of the biggest changes in its history of offering web search, providing more direct answers and gaining “semantic” s...
Sarkozy wants Internet giants to pay tax in France
PARIS — French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Wednesday he wants “Internet giants” to pay tax in France, shortly before he was due to meet the founder of the micro-blogging site Twitter. — “It is...
Virgin Media wins tube Wi-Fi contract
London Underground Wi-Fi service, to be free for the Olympics, will be rolled out to 80 stations — Virgin Media has been awarded the contract to provide Wi-Fi access on London Underground platforms,...
Microsoft Office 15 Preview
Forget the rumors. Here's what it's really like to use the Office 15 Technical Preview, which Microsoft recently made available only to a select group of customers under non-disclosure agreement. I ...
The Retina iPad Apps To Test Tonight And Tomorrow
The new iPad nears. Apparently Walmart will be selling them in just a few short hours, well before Apple itself does tomorrow morning. Meanwhile, the first direct-to-consumer shipments should be hit...
Google Plus: The problem isn't design, it's a lack of demand
While Google continues to maintain that its Google+ social network is doing just fine, thank you very much — with a user base of about 100 million, according to the web giant — skepticism about the ac...
Lame hacker tool or trojan delivery device? Hands on with Anonymous-OS
On March 13, an anonymous benefactor announced the availability of Anonymous-OS, a new live-bootable Linux distribution tailored for a... particular class of user. The package was posted on Sourcefor...
Cisco Acquires Israeli Video Software Firm NDS for $5 Billion
Update: This deal was just confirmed by Cisco, which moments ago pushed out a press release. I've embedded the text below and will revise the post momentarily. — Networking giant Cisco Systems is s...
Survey says 90% of people want their next phone to have a larger screen
When Google announced the Samsung Galaxy Nexus back in October of last year we were taken aback by their decision to equip it with a 4.65 inch display. Then last month at Mobile World Congress we saw...
Lenovo will be ‘first to market’ with a Windows 8 tablet, says source
Michael Dell said that he would offer an enterprise tablet “on the exact day” that Windows 8 ships to customers, but his company may have some competition right out of the gate: We've learned that Len...
RIAA chief: ISPs to start policing copyright by July 12
Comcast, Time Warner and Verizon are among the ISPs preparing to implement a graduated response to piracy by July, says the music industry's chief lobbyist. [Read more]
Judea Pearl named 2011 winner of Turing Award
UCLA professor cited for pioneering work in extending our understanding of artificial intelligence — Judea Pearl is the winner of the prestigious Turing Award for his pioneering work in the field of...
What to Expect from Firefox in 2012: SPDY, Quiet Updates, Better Web Apps
Last year, Mozilla managed to get Firefox back on track. While the long delay of Firefox 4 gave competitors like the up-and-coming Google Chrome a chance to gain quite a bit of market share, Mozilla ...
Britney Spears Gets On Path, Which Is Raising Up To $30M At A $250M Valuation
So rumor (and Twitter) has it that singer Britney Spears was at Path yesterday, hanging with founder Dave Morin and rockstars Danny Trinh and Matt Van Horn in their spacious offices — and actually sit...
BermanBraun Buys Most of Shelby Bonnie's Whiskey Media
In a deal that was just signed, longtime Silicon Valley exec Shelby Bonnie has sold his social publishing start-up, Whiskey Media, to Santa Monica-based entertainment and interactive production compan...
How Y Combinator Started
Y Combinator's 7th birthday was March 11. As usual we were so busy we didn't notice till a few days after. I don't think we've ever managed to remember our birthday on our birthday. — On March 11 ...
Aol Snaps Up Hyper-Local Photosharing App Hipster
Breaking: Aol (who is my employer somehow) has picked up local photosharing app Hipster for a low seven figures we're hearing. The Hipster team of five will be working for the Aol mobile team out of ...
Exclusive: Microsoft Office 15 will include third-party ‘Agaves’ web extensions
Microsoft is planning to allow developers to create “Agaves” web extensions to bring third-party functionality to Office clients, according to sources with knowledge of its Office 15 plans.
Why “More Bars in More Places” means s**t for nothing now
Years ago we heard AT&T's pitch: “more bars in more places”. Their campaign was to let everyone know that they had the best signal around. Sure, that may have mattered then, but the definition of si...
Hiring of Kevin Rose by Google sends all the wrong signals to Silicon Valley
“Embrace failure” is the first thing anyone will tell you is the secret to Silicon Valley's success. There are other things of course, but that's likely the first thing that will pop out of people's ...
The New Apple TV Will Finish What The Mac Started: Killing Off Discs
I remember watching the HD DVD vs. Blu-ray wars closely a few years back. I wanted one to win so I could go out and buy a next generation movie player. But the battle went on and on, and by the time...
Sarkozy wants Internet giants to pay tax in France
PARIS — French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Wednesday he wants “Internet giants” to pay tax in France, shortly before he was due to meet the founder of the micro-blogging site Twitter. — “It is...
Anonymous claims that the operating system, ‘Anonymous-OS’ is fake
Yesterday we reported that, for reasons that we couldn't entirely understand, Anonymous had released its own Linux distribution. — Not long after, one of the active Anonymous Twitter accounts tweete...
Appirio raises $60M to be your one-stop cloud service shop
Cloud service consulting company Appirio announced today it has raised $60 million in its fourth round of institutional funding. — “We are seeing more companies going cloud first, saying they're not...
AOL says it plans to “evolve” AIM and not kill it, but it's a bit late for that
Oh, AOL. The company that opened the gates to the Internet for so many of us has definitely had its troubles as of late. It's sad to see what is going on at the company, especially since products …
Dropbox Seeks Big Solutions
Arash Ferdowsi was a Massachusetts Institute of Technology student when he met fellow MIT student Drew Houston through a mutual friend. — The pair collaborated, working from a Cambridge, Mass., apar...
ST-Ericsson readies revamp, soon a takeover target
(Reuters) - ST-Ericsson is preparing to unveil a major operations revamp within two weeks, placing the troubled mobile chip venture on track for a takeover by a peer or competitor that would create a ...
Korea's FTC slaps a $40 million fine on Samsung, LG and operators over mobile price fixing
Finding the biggest domestic mobile manufacturers and operators guilty of colluding to fix prices and defraud consumers, South Korea's Fair Trade Commission (FTC) has slapped Samsung …
Foursquare's Dennis Crowley At SXSW: Location Is The Future [Video]
Foursquare CEO and cofounder Dennis Crowley is a South By Southwest veteran, having launched his location-based check-in app at the conference in 2009. — This year he's back in Austin, Texas and som...
Salesforce Tackles Talent Management With Rypple Integration, Debuts Site.com As A Simple CMS
Back in December, Salesforce announced the acquisition of social performance platform Rypple, and revealed that it will be entering the human capital management (a.k.a. employee and talent management ...