New iPad Sales Top 3 Million in Under 4 Days
Apple announced today that it has sold 3 million new iPads in less the four days of availability, calling it the “strongest iPad launch yet.” … Apple didn't announce first weekend sales numbers for th...
Apple Announces Plans to Initiate Dividend and Share Repurchase Program
Expects to Spend $45 Billion Over Three Years — Apple® today announced plans to initiate a dividend and share repurchase program commencing later this year. — Subject to declaration by the Board o...
Foxconn not to take legal action after retraction
(Reuters) - Foxconn Technology Group, the top maker of Apple Inc's iPhones and iPads, said on Monday it had no plans to take legal action over a U.S. radio program about its activity in China, parts o...
Teens, Smartphones & Texting
Teens are fervent communicators. Straddling childhood and adulthood, they communicate frequently with a variety of important people in their lives: friends and peers, parents, teachers, coaches, boss...
Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated
“Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” —another American monologist Many consider this week's THIS AMERICAN LIFE episode one of the most painful they've ever listened to. In particular...
Microsoft Said to Finish Windows 8 in Summer, With October Debut
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) will finish work on Windows 8 this summer, setting the stage for personal computers and tablets with the operating system to go on sale around October, according to people with ...
Zynga Is In Talks To Buy “Draw Something” Maker OMGPOP
Zynga is in talks to acquire OMGPOP, the maker of massive hit Draw Something, according to a source with direct knowledge of the discussions. It's my understanding that the talks have not yet entered...
Nokia's Redesign of the Windows Phone UI
We all know that back when the Nokia and Microsoft partnership was announced, Nokia was given special rights to alter the user interface as they saw fit. At least with the current Lumia devices, we d...
Amazon Acquires Robot-Coordinated Order Fulfillment Company Kiva Systems For $775 Million In Cash
Amazon has just announced that it will acquire order fulfillment company Kiva Systems for $775 million in cash. We've embedded the release below. — Kiva Systems' interconnected hardware …
Twitter and Facebook Are Tomorrow's News Service. For Now, Though ...
Just 9 percent of American adults frequently get their news from their pals at the two services.
Samsung and RIM sued for infringing lol-worthy emoticon patent
In an apparent quest to make the patent system look even more ridiculous, a firm on Thursday sued Samsung and Research in Motion for allegedly infringing a patent titled “emoticon input method and app...
HTC rumored to have bought MOG
HTC's Beats Audio unit may have bought music subscription service MOG, according to a rumor reported by Business Insider Monday. Insider writer Matt Rosoff based his report on a single source, but we...
Facebook Is Said to Plan Paying 1.1 Percent Fee to Banks
Facebook Inc. (FB), the social- networking website seeking to raise $5 billion in an initial public offering, will pay underwriters a 1.1 percent fee, two people with knowledge of the company's plans ...
The Pirate Bay Claims It's Going To Host The Site Via Drones Flying Over International Waters
One of the more amazing things about the recent moves by the entertainment industry to put in place stricter laws around the globe to attack file sharing, is that they still don't realize …
Facing Fees, Some Sites Are Bypassing Google Maps
SAN FRANCISCO — When it comes to offering online maps to their users, some companies have been leaving Google Maps and setting out for less familiar territory. — In the seven years since it was intr...
Without ads, Android apps could be more than twice as power-efficient
A team of researchers from Purdue University and Microsoft has discovered that up to 75 percent of app-related battery drain in Android can be caused by ad-serving processes. Led by Abhinav Pathak …
Google Defends Hotfile (and Megaupload) in Court
Google has filed a brief at a federal court in Florida defending the file-hosting site Hotfile in its case against the MPAA. The search giant accuses the movie companies of misleading the court and a...
In Sweden, cash is king no more
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden was the first European country to introduce bank notes in 1661. Now it's come farther than most on the path toward getting rid of them. — “I can't see why we should be print...
Exclusive: 6waves Lolapps cuts development staff, focuses exclusively on publishing
6waves Lolapps — the developer sometimes known as 6L — laid off all of its development staff today, Inside Social Games can confirm. The company is now focused entirely on games publishing.
Groupon Scheduler Rolls Out in Beta as Part of Larger Tech Ambitions
Groupon doesn't want to be known as just a deals company. — As many others have proven (Google, Amazon, LivingSocial, etc.), that business is easy to replicate. Instead, the Chicago-based company w...
Mozilla loses Web technology guru Chris Blizzard
Chris Blizzard, a high-profile figure in the Firefox world, has left his job as Mozilla's director of Web platform to join a startup. — “I'm trying something new and starting in the next week or so ...
Now you can share your Dropbox folders with your Facebook friends
Dropbox announced Monday morning on Twitter that you can now share your Dropbox folders with friends on Facebook. — The integration isn't huge, but it's perhaps a sign of what Dropbox has been worki...
Op-ed: Imminent “six strikes” Copyright Alert System needs antitrust scrutiny
With the “Copyright Alert System” going into operation over the next few months, major American ISPs will start sending out “strikes” to users accused of infringing copyrights online.
Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz And Khosla Back Big Data Startup ClearStory
There's more money from big-name investors for big data. ClearStory Data, a newly launched startup focused on bringing big data technology to the masses, has raised an undisclosed amount of seed fund...
Plancast Founder Mark Hendrickson Joins Obvious-Incubated Lift As Head Of Product
Last June, Biz Stone and Evan Williams teamed up with long-time collaborator (and early Twitter employee) Jason Goldman to dust off and re-start The Obvious Corporation — the very idea incubator that ...
Tablet Chip Showdown: Nvidia Tegra 3 vs. the New iPad's A5X
When Apple announced the new iPad earlier this month, CEO Tim Cook claimed that the new iPad's new A5X chip offers four times the performance of Nvidia's quad-core Tegra 3 CPU. Now that the new iPad ...
The Way We Read Now
The case against electronic books has been made, and elegantly, by many people, including Nicholson Baker in The New Yorker a few years ago. Mr. Baker called Amazon's Kindle, in a memorable put-down,...
Facebook Mimics Apple by Spending Less on R&D Than Rivals
Facebook Inc. (FB) spends a smaller percentage of revenue on engineering than other Internet companies, mimicking Apple (AAPL) Inc.'s strategy of keeping costs low by relying on outside developers for...
Apple should make the iPad user-serviceable
The new iPad and the iPad 2 are very simliar in form factor. They're actually almost impossible to tell apart from a the outside with the exception of a slight difference in thickness. That's disapp...
Linux kernel 3.3 released with merged Android code and more
The latest refresh of the Linux kernel, 3.3, is now available, and the second release of 2012 brings with it the long-awaited merging of code from Google's little side project. While that is particul...