AT&T Will Unlock Off-Contract iPhones Starting Sunday, April 8
AT&T has announced it will begin unlocking customers' iPhones once their 2-year contracts have expired. The move will free up the currently-locked devices to use a micro-SIM from any carrier offering...
What's This? A Mac Virus? No, Actually It's a Weakness in Java.
When a computer incident happens on Apple's Mac OS X, it's a headline-making event. When it happens on Windows, it's just another day. — That remains the reality, even after a bunch of media report...
Google Glasses Face Serious Hurdles, Augmented-Reality Experts Say
When Google officially unveiled Project Glass — the company's bid to develop Terminator-style augmented-reality glasses — we saw a provocative glimpse of the future. The video Google released yesterd...
Why Is AT&T Releasing Nokia's Big Phone on Easter?
AT&T has said that the release of the Nokia Lumia 900 will be its biggest product introduction ever. But the phone is coming out on Easter Sunday, when some AT&T stores won't even be open. — Meliss...
More HTC handsets with Beats headphones? Probably not
The Rezound will likely be the last HTC phone for a while to come bundled with Beats headphones. — (Credit: Josh Miller/CNET) — Don't expect HTC to pack Beats headphones or earbuds with the Evo 4G...
Next Generation Of E-Ink Kindle To Sport New Front-Lit Screen
Living in Seattle, you tend to find yourself in the company of tech people all the time. With Microsoft, Amazon, Adobe, Google, and a dozen other major companies established in the area, it's never a...
Microsoft subsidizes developers up to $600,000 per Windows Phone app
How desperate is Microsoft to get developers to write apps for Windows Phone? The company is willing to subsidize them up to $600,000 per app. — With an estimated 70,000 apps available for Windows ...
Ex-Intel employee pleads guilty to theft charges
(Reuters) - A former Intel Corp employee who allegedly stole from the chipmaker documents worth hundreds of millions of dollars pleaded guilty on Friday to five counts of wire fraud. — Federal prose...
First Google tablet now expected in July due to price cutting effort
Google's first foray into the tablet market with a co-branded Android device won't be with us until July at the earliest. The current design was ready to go for May, but Google pushed back the planne...
Sequoia Set to Lead $500M Valuation Round for Instagram
The fact is, if you make a consumer Internet app that people actually use, you're probably raising venture capital right now. So we try not to write about every funding round that's in the works. Bu...
Security hole in Facebook iOS app doesn't require jailbreak or theft, and Dropbox has it too [Updated]
Earlier today, security researcher Gareth Wright revealed the discovery of a security hole in the Facebook app for mobile devices running Android and iOS.
Don't Be Evil: How Google Screwed a Startup
After trying to go through the “proper channels” for almost a year now it's time to share this story of how Google screwed over our startup with the world. … In a nutshell: Google bid on, displayed, a...
Pinterest now the third most popular social network after Facebook & Twitter
As if there was ever any doubt that the “pin” is winning, a new report from Experian says Pinterest is now the third most popular social network in the U.S. behind Facebook and Twitter.
We got hacked for SEO, as did other major technology sites
Last week we discovered that the owner of SEOnix.org hacked in to our backend and threw himself a sweet SEO party. The only invitee was obviously his own website, but he still managed to have a good ...
HTC Profit Declines 70% After ‘Dropping the Ball’ on Phones
HTC Corp. (2498), Asia's second-largest smartphone maker, posted its biggest drop in profit since listing a decade ago after sales declined amid competition from Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co.
More on the Google Project Glass including the first spotting on Sergey Brin
. — Besides the Scobelizer spotting Google Glasses on co-founder Sergey Brin (above), we are hearing some additional information about the project. First, the brand was changed from “Project Wingfr...
Apple interested in wireless power to charge devices on store shelves
Apple has shown interest in wirelessly powering and charging its portable devices, allowing products like the iPhone and iPad to be powered up while sealed in packaging and on display at a retail stor...
Amazon S3 - 905 Billion Objects and 650,000 Requests/Second
At the end of the first quarter of 2012, there were 905 billion objects in Amazon S3. We routinely handle 650,000 requests per second for those objects with occasional peaks substantially above that ...
Viacom v. YouTube ruling is a bummer for Google and the UGC community
After five years in the courts, the Viacom International, Inc., v. YouTube, Inc. litigation has finally produced an appellate opinion. The result is a loss for Google/YouTube and the UGC community ge...
SEC watch: Dave McClure is raising a $50 million fund for 500 Startups
Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned investor Dave McClure just penned a blog post on building a scalable venture capital firm. Check it out - some interesting thoughts in there (including that most VC...
Samsung estimates Q1 2012 sales of $39 billion, $5.1 billion profit
As it did in the fourth quarter, Samsung has released guidance for what it expects will be its Q1 2012 revenue and profit. The company estimates that it will earn between 44 and 46 trillion Korean wo...
Exclusive: a behind-the-scenes look at Facebook release engineering
Facebook is headquartered in Menlo Park, California at a site that used belong to Sun Microsystems. A large sign with Facebook's distinctive “like” symbol—a hand making the thumbs-up gesture—marks th...
Four Types of Advertising Are Emerging in Social Games, EA Says
As it turns out, Electronic Arts' most popular game on Facebook, The Sims Social, is a perfect candidate for in-game advertising. — “It lends itself well with brands,” said Dave Madden, EA's SVP of ...
With the Lumia 900, a Windows Phone is finally worthy of gdgt recommendation. Here's why.
We've been debating for months: at what point will there be a gdgt recommended Windows Phone? Well, today we finally have an answer to that question: the Lumia 900 is a worthy competitor …