Flashback trojan reportedly controls half a million Macs and counting
Variations of the Flashback trojan have reportedly infected more than half a million Macs around the globe, according to Russian antivirus company Dr. Web. The company made an announcement on Wednesd...
HTC Evo 4G LTE is Sprint's first handset with HD voice, pre-orders start May 7th for $199.99
The internals are not entirely dissimilar to the One X: a dual-core 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 processor with 1GB RAM and 16GB ROM — not Tegra 3 since it lacks LTE support (not yet, at least).
Exclusive: HP Labs Head Prith Banerjee Leaving
Prith Banerjee, a Hewlett-Packard senior vice president — and for five years the head of its research and development organization, HP Labs — is leaving the company effective April 15, according to an...
Apple preparing overhaul of its online store
Apple has begun signaling to education shoppers that it plans to relaunch and overhaul its online store in the near future, making it easier to do business. — AppleInsider was alerted on Wednesday t...
Google to build its first thermal storage for a data center
Google has been more than creative when it comes to making its data centers more energy efficient and greener (seawater cooling and water recycling), and this week says it plans to implement a new ene...
Apple subsidiary FileMaker releases new version of its flagship product, makes iOS version free
Apple subsidiary FileMaker has announced a new version of their flagship software product, FileMaker 12, with new database creation tools and themes. The Mac version of FileMaker 12 gain …
How Facebook's Winning The War Against Yahoo, Patent By Patent
Facebook has executed a masterful response to Yahoo's patent trolling that protects it legally but still makes it look like the victim. Here I examine how for almost every patent Yahoo claims Faceboo...
HTC wins patent for Face Unlock
HTC has basically been granted a patent on Face Unlock. This is interesting, because that feature was first added to Android by Google, in its 4.0 release. It has subsequently made its way onto the ...
Creativity tools: The next wave of iOS apps?
When Snapguide debuted last week it received pretty good reviews in the press. But more importantly, it got a “very warm response,” as founder Daniel Raffel put it, from new users. He's barely been ...
Yahoo Cuts 14 Percent Of Workforce; 2,000 Given Pink Slips; Will Save $375M
Yahoo has made its massive round of layoffs official. The company just released a statement saying that 2,000 jobs have been cut, or 14 percent of it total workforce (which was previously around 14,0...
As Wall Street Points Fingers at Groupon, Three Fingers Point Back
Now I know how Goldilocks felt. — About the time Groupon was raising its $1 billion growth round and getting the big endorsement from some of the Valley's biggest names, I was bringing up all the pr...
Instagram for Android hits 1m downloads in under 24 hours
Instagram's Android launch has been a successful one, with the company hitting the 1 million downloads mark in less than 24 hours since it became available on the Google Play marketplace. — It app h...
Google's Page: Apple's Android Pique ‘For Show’
Excerpts: — When you took over as CEO, one of your goals was to take the clear accountability and decision-making of a division like Android and move that out to the rest of the company. How have y...
Paramount, Google Link Up For Movie Rentals, Despite YouTube Lawsuit
Viacom and Google are locked in a copyright lawsuit that is nearly five years old. But that doesn't mean the companies can't do business together. — This morning, for example, Google's YouTube is a...
Dropbox doubles referral rewards, offers up to 32GB for those dripping in charisma
That whole ‘refer a friend’ thing must be working. Or maybe it isn't. Either way, Dropbox has felt the need to double the extra capacity you get as a reward for persuading your buddies that cloud st...
Researcher: Over 1 Million U.S. Cable Subscribers Cut Cord In 2011
Cable and satellite TV subscription growth slowed down more than had been previously reported, and cord-cutting was a primary factor. But don't worry about it — a revolution that will re-create the c...
Swedish researchers uncover key to China's Tor-blocking system
Swedish researchers have discovered that Chinese officials have updated the country's ‘Great Firewall’ to make it harder for citizens to use the Tor network that provides a means of surfing the web an...
Samsung delays Galaxy Tab 2 family launch until end of April
More work on Android 4.0 is needed before the products can ship, according to Samsung — Samsung's low-cost tablets, the Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0) and Galaxy Tab 2 (10.1), have been delayed, and will now st...
Exclusive: Sprint quietly CONFIRMS that their 4G LTE network will be “unlimited”
Update: We just got a response from Sprint's PR person Nichole Cappitelli, who confirmed that Sprint WILL in fact offer unlimited data with their new 4G LTE network when it goes live.
Surprise: Microsoft makes list of top 20 Linux kernel contributors — first time ever
first time ever — Has Microsoft figured out a cure for cancer? — The company, whose CEO Steve Ballmer once famously compared Linux to that disease, is now one of the top 20 contributors of code to ...
Silicon Valley has Facebook's back in Yahoo knife fight
This much is clear about the patent showdown between Yahoo and Facebook: Yahoo is losing friends left and right. — Last month, Yahoo sued Facebook, claiming the world's largest social-networking com...
Phonedeck puts your Android phone in the cloud
There are cross-platform contact management services. There are remote mobile device management tools. And then there's Phonedeck, a scarily comprehensive platform that offers much of the same funct...
Teen survey: 34% own an iPhone, 40% want one
Apple is the favorite — once again — in Piper Jaffray's 23rd semi-annual teen survey — “The bottom line,” writes Gene Munster in a note summarizing the results of Piper Jaffray's latest survey of th...
Can new CEOs fix H-P, RIM and Yahoo?
Commentary: H-P has best hopes, future grimmer for RIM and Yahoo … SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Over the last few weeks, new chiefs at three once pioneering tech companies — Hewlett-Packard Co., Rese...
NEA Leads $33M Round In CRM Developer And Salesforce Competitor SugarCRM
SugarCRM, a provider of commercial open source CRM software, has completed a $33 million equity and debt financing round. We're told around $14 million of the round was equity financing.