Microsoft Xbox Live to add Comcast, HBO Go tomorrow
The next update to Microsoft's XBox Live service is slated for release this Tuesday, and will include long-awaited applications from some heavy-hitting partners. Sources tell me that the update will ...
Nano-SIM war: here's what Apple and Nokia want to put in your next phone
Last week, Apple and Nokia got into a very public dust-up over the future of the SIM card — a staple in phones all around the world — thanks to a Financial Times article pointing out that the two had ...
Apple's Siri Gains Traction-For Some Things
Siri, how popular are you? — New research set to be released this week found that 87% of those who own Apple's iPhone 4S use at least one feature of its Siri virtual assistant monthly. — But most ...
Facebook Releases Emails From Zuckerberg's Harvard Days
For the first time, Facebook released a trove of emails that were sent between its CEO Mark Zuckerberg and entrepreneur Paul Ceglia. … Facebook's motive in releasing the emails: to quash Ceglia's clai...
Exclusive: Microsoft knew Android wouldn't always get ‘Smoked by Windows Phone’
The Verge has learned that Microsoft went into its “Smoked by Windows Phone” campaign with a relatively thorough understanding of the risks involved, specifically telling employees of its retail store...
Google Play bug installs Russian email app on some Samsung Android devices
A strange event today has a lot of Samsung Android owners rightfully worried about malware on the Android Market. We've received a raft of tips from users who have discovered an app titled “МТС …
Facebook Decorates Its Roof With A 42-Foot Wide QR Code
When Mark Zuckerberg called for a “Space Hackathon” to decorate Facebook's massive new headquarters at 1 Hacker Way, he probably didn't expect employees to take him so literally. A few scurried up to...
FTC Calls for “Privacy by Design”
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission today released a set of recommendations for businesses and Congress about the collection and use of consumers' personal data. — This framework (PDF) has been in the...
Google Voice eyeing carrier tie-ups beyond Sprint
(Credit: Screenshot by Jessica Dolcourt/CNET) — Sprint's reign as the only carrier to integrate Google Voice into its cell phone service could be coming to an end. — “We are having discussions wit...
Is It A Condom Or An Android Phone?
With so many Android phones coming out, it was only a matter of time before marketers ran out of names for them. — We came across this genius table that compares actual Android phone names to actual...
Twitter launches Promoted Products for small business advertisers who use American Express
Twitter has today launched its advertising program specifically aimed at small businesses with an American Express card. The program appears to be designed as a test run for rolling …
Apple's Tim Cook Meets With Chinese Officials
BEIJING—Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook met Chinese government officials in Beijing Monday, a company spokeswoman said, as the consumer electronics giant faces a legal challenge in China to the iP...
High-Profile Firings Could Temper Bing Ad Strategy
Hadley, Carver Were Public Faces of Search Engine's Edgy, Envelope-Pushing Marketing — Microsoft's's Bing threw itself into the news this past week when it publicly fired two top consumer-marketing ...
A Year Later, $41 Million Startup Color Has A Pathetic 30,000 Daily Users
About a year ago, serial entrepreneur Bill Nguyen shocked the startup world when he announced his latest effort, a company called Color, had raised $41 million out of the gate in order to build yet-an...
Google Play gets top billing in Google's black navigation bar
Now that the Android Market has been re-branded as “Google Play” the company is wasting no time getting it in front of all of its users the best way it knows how, via the black navigation bar that app...
AT&T to sell Nokia Lumia 900 for $100 on April 8
Nokia's Lumia 900 smartphone will hit AT&T's store shelves on April 8, a move Nokia hopes will usher a return to the U.S. in a big way. The phone will sell for $99.99 with a two-year contract, AT&T t...
Microsoft and Financial Services Industry Leaders Target Cybercriminal Operations from Zeus Botnets
In our most complex effort to disrupt botnets to date, Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit - in collaboration with Financial Services - Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC) …
Apple offers royalty-free license to nano-SIM patents, a proposed standard backed by most European carriers
Last week, the Financial Times reported that Apple is at loggerheads with Motorola Mobility, RIM and Nokia over a proposed standard called “nano-SIM”, a further miniaturization …
Google ordered to suspend autocomplete function over cyber-harassment
The Tokyo District Court approved a petition demanding that Google Inc. suspend its autocomplete search feature for Internet browsers after a man alleged that it breached his privacy and got him fired...
Microsoft apologizes over ‘Smoked by Windows Phone’ controversy, offers winner laptop and phone
Microsoft's working quickly to counter backlash it's receiving after denying a user who won a Windows Phone challenge his just reward. Yesterday, Sahas Katta won a “Smoked by Windows Phone” …
Kim Dotcom: The US Government is Wrong, Here's Why
For a man who's the main defendant in one of the biggest criminal cases ever brought in the US, Kim Dotcom is surprisingly composed. — The Megaupload founder is convinced of his innocence, and inste...
Apple Phlebotomy
The treatment for the blood disease called Polycythemia Vera (the name means “too many red cells") goes back to the Dark Ages: Lance a vein and relieve the patient of a pint of blood. Phlebotomy trea...
Tim Cook does what Jobs didn't: Visit China as Apple's CEO
Tim Cook has been spotted in China, making him the first Apple CEO to visit the world's most populous country, sparking a media frenzy among a nation that is already obsessed by Apple. — The Apple C...
Apple tipped to further distance itself from Google with the inclusion of China's Baidu in iOS
Apple's impending divorce from Google is about to take another step towards a split, according to suggestions in China that iOS may soon get local search support.