iPhoto for iPad, iPhone hits 1 million users in less than 10 days
iPhoto for iPad, iPhone hits 1 million users in less than 10 days — Apple told me today that its newest iOS app, iPhoto, hit 1 million users in less than 10 days after its release. It's important t...
MPAA Wants Megaupload User Data Retained for Lawsuits — Updated
Updated — Hollywood studios want a federal judge to preserve data on all the 66.6 million users of Megaupload, the file-sharing service that shuttered in January in the wake of federal indictments ta...
OMG, Zynga Welcomes a New Member to the Family
Put down your smartphones and iPads for just a sec. I've got some big news. Today I'm excited to tell you about a new addition to the Zynga family, OMGPOP. This New York-based developer of social mo...
Google Said to Rethink Wallet Strategy Amid Slow Adoption
Google Inc. (GOOG) is weighing changes aimed at improving its Google Wallet mobile-payment system following slow adoption and the departure of two key managers, according to people with knowledge of t...
China Now Leads the World in New iOS and Android Device Activations
Flurry recently quantified China's meteoric adoption of iOS and Android applications. While China ranked 10th in application sessions at the beginning of 2011, it finished the year in 2nd place, only...
Spell checking powered by the web
One of my early projects at Google was to improve the suggestions that are made when a query is misspelled in Google Search. The neat thing about that system is that it's adaptive: our suggestions ge...
Nokia patents a tattoo that vibrates when you get a call
Nokia is taking steps to make sure you never miss another phone call, text or email alert again: The company has filed a patent for a tattoo that would send “a perceivable impulse” to your skin whenev...
Windows 8 Is Retina-Ready
All the talk these days is of the new iPad and its magical screen. Apple isn't the only one who can do that, you know. In fact, most display makers are looking forward to post-HD resolutions as one ...
Current Google Wallet customers given $5 on pre-paid cards for all the provisioning hassles
If you opened up Google Wallet today, you may have noticed there's an extra $5 sitting on your pre-paid card. It turns out it's not a glitch, it's compensation from Google Wallet in exchange …
Spotify announces 12 ‘next generation’ apps like TweetVine, Def Jam, Matador, and Domino
When Spotify launched its first wave of “apps” in November 2011, it made clear its goal to become “the OS of music,” a place to find, browse, and listen to million of songs.
Sprint CEO defends company's decision to bet it all on Apple's iPhone
Sprint chief executive Dan Hesse is being watched closely by the company's board of directors, but the CEO has to answer to investors and subscribers as well. Last year in October, Hesse revealed tha...
Visit the Amazon on World Forest Day with Street View
Last August, a few members of our Brazil and U.S. Street View and Google Earth Outreach teams were invited to the Amazon Basin to collect ground-level images of the rivers, forest and communities in t...
Amazon's Gift Card Promotion Nets $5 Million and Lots of New Subscribers
In just 17 hours yesterday, AmazonLocal sold one million Amazon gift cards for $5 million, making it the company's most successful promotion in the daily deals space to date. — That's not a big surp...
The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs
His saga is the entrepreneurial creation myth writ large: Steve Jobs cofounded Apple in his parents' garage in 1976, was ousted in 1985, returned to rescue it from near bankruptcy in 1997, and by the ...
Meet The Hackers Who Sell Spies The Tools To Crack Your PC (And Get Paid Six-Figure Fees)
At a Google-run competition in Vancouver last month, the search giant's famously secure Chrome Web browser fell to hackers twice. Both of the new methods used a rigged website …
Exclusive: Hipstamatic, Instagram To Unveil Photo-Sharing Partnership
Last week, Instagram hit 27 million users, solidifying it not only as one of the most popular photo-sharing services on the market, but as one of the world's fastest-growing social networks.
Linus Torvalds: The King of Geeks (And Dad of 3)
The license plate on Linus Torvalds' Mercedes SLK convertible says it all. The frame running around the outside of the plate reads “Mr. Linux. King of Geeks.” But the plate itself says “Dad of 3.” ...
Siri Gets A Slight Update, Expanded Yelp Functionality.
Back when Siri was first introduced to us, we were informed that she would constantly be receiving updates. More recently, the few noticeable updates have included how she dictates our voice searches...
YouTube launches “one click fix” to improve the quality of your videos
When we're trying to capture something really funny, awesome, or downright amusing with our camera, the video quality is the last thing we're thinking about. Capture the moment is the goal, and if yo...
Fragmentation bomb wounds Android in developer war
Devs losing interest in the li'l green guy — A new study conducted by IDC and mobile-developer platform and services company Appcelerator has determined that as Google's open source Android operatin...
DirecTV iPad app update adds video streaming on the go
In October, the “DirecTV” app added the ability to stream video over home networks. Today, an update to the app adds the ability to stream shows and movies over 3G and Wi-Fi anywhere. The new featur...
How One Response to a Reddit Query Became a Big Budget Flick
James Erwin, 37, works for a financial services firm in Des Moines, Iowa, writing software manuals. He's been doing that for a couple of years, and he enjoys it. It's a pretty low-stress job for a p...
In-Stat: Apple to be top mobile processor company
Apple could overtake Intel as the world's top mobile processor company by the end of the year — Apple is an iconic consumer electronics company with a string of massively successful products, but it...
New iPad Uses Retina Graphics When Running iPhone Apps
When the iPad was first introduced there weren't many iPad-specific apps yet available. As a solution, Apple allowed apps designed for the iPhone's smaller screen to run on the iPad in a form of emul...
Tablet game revenue to hit $3.1B by 2014
The tablet game market is expected to grow to $3.1 billion worldwide, according to a new report from analyst firm Juniper Research. — The spending on tablet games is expected to account for a third ...
Microsoft Says Windows Phone Will Pass Apple in China
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), the world's largest software maker, said its Windows Phone operating system will propel it past Apple Inc. (AAPL) in China's smartphone market as its partners release devices c...
NSA Chief Denies Wired's Domestic Spying Story (Fourteen Times) In Congressional Hearing
In his recent bombshell story for Wired magazine, National Security Agency chronicler James Bamford writes that the joke that the agency's acronym stands for “never say anything” applies now more than...
Recipe search engine Yummly grabs $6M to find mouth-watering recipes
Yummly, a recipe search engine that would make any recipe hoarder and home chef happy, announced Wednesday it has raised $6 million is its first round of funding. The site compiles recipes from sever...
Nokia Drive, Transport, and Maps updated; feature offline navigation and transit directions
Owners of Nokia's Lumia line of Windows Phones received a a trio of updates today that should all help bring the company's Windows Phone offerings to par with Google's map and navigation services on A...
Republic Wireless to open next beta of hybrid VOIP service this summer
The $19 all-you-can-eat smartphone service that seemed great, then not-so-great, then great again is about to re-open public beta testing. We're told that the first phase of the beta is “going very w...
Apple: suppliers actually averaged shorter work weeks during peak iPad production
Hot on the heels of This American Life's Mike Daisey takedown, Apple has revised its Supplier Responsibility homepage to reflect its latest monthly update (as promised) about working conditions at its...
Video Speed Trap Lurks in New iPad
Users Find the Superfast 4G Link Carries a Big Cost: Churning Through Data Limits in Mere Hours — Brandon Wells got the new iPad last Friday, started wirelessly streaming March Madness games the nex...
FreedomPop's New iPhone Case Promises Users Free Wireless Data
Skype founder Niklas Zennstrom's new FreedomPop project was initially shrouded in secrecy, but they've recently become a bit more talkative about how the company plans to offer “free wireless broadban...
Silicon Valley's Hottest VC Is a Rug Dealer
It's a balmy February evening in Palo Alto, and Pejman Nozad is sipping tea on the deck of the Rosewood Hotel, the hot spot of venture capital's capital, Sand Hill Road. He's chosen a table situated ...
LED backlight a likely culprit in iPad heat issue, says expert
Reported heat issues with new iPad are most likely due to a combination of more backlights and more power needed to drive the backlights, an expert told CNET. This follows a CNET report attributing e...
HP combines printer, PC units; Analysts question synergy
Summary: HP said in a statement that the combination will help the company's go-to-market strategy, branding, supply chain and customer support. — HP on Wednesday made it official: It is merging its...
Ten things Oracle v. Google tells us about the judge presiding over Yahoo v. Facebook
On Google+ I recently said that I don't consider Yahoo v. Facebook, however interesting it may be for the Internet community at large, to be sufficiently wireless-related for the FOSS Patents blog to ...
Comcast, Verizon Say They're Itching to Fight Google, Apple
Late last year, Comcast and Verizon unveiled a whopper of a deal: Verizon would buy a big chunk of wireless spectrum that Comcast wasn't using. And the cable company and the telco would agree to mark...
Adobe Expands Its Social Analytics Lineup With Adobe Social
Must be something in the air. Less than a day after Google announced that it's adding social media reports to Google Analytics, Adobe is unveiling its own social analytics tools. — Even though the ...
Walmart steps up with Angry Birds Space promotion
Angry Birds Space, Rovio's next big game in the phenomenal mobile game series, launches on Thursday with some major promotions from Walmart. — Angry Birds Space will debut in a variety of app stores...
Virgin Mobile USA restores service, apologizes for the inconvenience
A dozen or so hours after the carrier came clean with its most recent outage, Virgin Mobile USA service has been restored. Data, texts and calls should be flowing normally now, and the company has st...
Facebook Investor DST Seeks $1 Billion for New Tech Fund
Digital Sky Technologies, a Russian firm that invested in Facebook Inc. (FB), is seeking $1 billion for a new late-stage technology fund less than a year after raising its last pool, promising investo...
BSkyB announces Now TV, offering pay-as-you-go Internet TV to the masses
The Next Web is at the Guardian Changing Media Summit this week, a conference promising to deliver insights from the organisations and individuals capitalising on disruption within the digital content...