Google Announces First Quarter 2012 Results and Proposal for New Class of Stock
Proposal Would Effectively Implement 2-for-1 Stock Split While Preserving Long-Term Governance Structure — Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31...
Apple Fires Back at the Feds, Amazon
Nearly two days after the Department of Justice filed antitrust charges against Apple and major book publishers, Apple is responding. Here's comment from Apple spokesman Tom Neumayr: … Apple's respon...
Microsoft roadmap leaks for Office 15, IE 10 and more key products
Summary: Screen shots of a Microsoft product roadmap for partners have leaked to the Web. Here are the key take-aways. — Microsoft has provided some of its partners with a roadmap for next versions...
Nest officially answers patent lawsuit: ‘Honeywell is worse than a troll’
Upstart smart thermostat maker Nest has received almost-universally glowing praise for its Learning Thermostat since it launched last year — and it also received a major patent complaint from Honeywel...
Stuxnet Loaded by Iran Double Agents
By Richard Sale — The Stuxnet virus that damaged Iran's nuclear program was implanted by an Israeli proxy — an Iranian, who used a corrupt “memory stick.32,” former and serving U.S. intelligence off...
Apple Releases Java Update to Remove Flashback Malware
Apple just released Java for OS X 2012-003, an update to the Java implementation in OS X. The update removes “the most common variants of the Flashback malware.” Interestingly the update disables the...
DOJ is likely to lose e-book antitrust suit targeting Apple
Attorney General Eric Holder yesterday said the lawsuit against Apple was necessary to protect Americans from “anticompetitive harm.” What he didn't say is that it's likely to fail. — (Credit: CBS ...
The Instagram Deal: A Mark Zuckerberg Production
Mark Zuckerberg, the 27-year-old chief executive and co-founder of Facebook, does not usually play the role of deal maker. — But the social network's $1 billion purchase of Instagram, the popular ph...
Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight coming early May for $139 (hands-on pictures and video)
It was almost a complete surprise, barring some leaked early promotional material yesterday. Today, Barnes & Noble has officially announced the Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight …
Expanding the Cloud - Introducing Amazon CloudSearch
Today Amazon Web Services is introducing Amazon CloudSearch, a new web service that brings the power of the Amazon.com's search technology to every developer. Amazon CloudSearch provides a fully-feat...
Apple is allowed (at long last) to intervene in Lodsys lawsuit against app developers
On June 9, 2011, Apple filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit instigated by non-practicing entity Lodsys against various app developers. Apple argued that it has a license to the patents Lodsys is ...
Did Boxee only sell 200,000 boxes?
The total number of Boxee Box users is around 200,000, according to a tweet sent out by the company Wednesday. The tweet also revealed that Boxee now has a total of 2 million users, if you include us...
If Google's Really Proud Of Google+, It Should Share Some Real User Figures
Google+ now has 170 million users. Well, 170 million who have “upgraded” to Google+, whatever that means. It's the latest in crazy numbers from Google. The people who actually do use Google+ as a s...
First Intel Ivy Bridge launch expected on April 23
Though the first announcement is just around the corner, rollouts from Apple, HP, Dell, Sony, Toshiba, and others are expected to be staggered Though the first announcement is just around the corner, ...
How Samsung beat Nokia
We don't have the total number of Samsung shipments, however estimates exist. They range between 41 and 44 million smartphones and 44 and 47 million feature phones.
Microsoft forms new subsidiary for open source, standards
Jean Paoli, president of the new Microsoft Open Technologies Inc. — Microsoft is taking the unusual step of forming a new subsidiary that will work with open-source projects, open-standards groups a...
Sony SmartWatch launches, delivers ‘Android power’ to wrist
Sony's SmartWatch works with Android smartphones. — (Credit: Sony) — Have you ever wanted a watch that can communicate with your Android phone? Sony sure hopes so. — Sony today launched its Sma...
Prime: Amazon's New Research Lab
Amazon Prime has helped transform anonymous à la carte purchases at the biggest web retail outlet into a loyalty-driven multimedia member experience. Prime members are Amazon's avant-garde, coming to...
Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?
Social media—from Facebook to Twitter—have made us more densely networked than ever. Yet for all this connectivity, new research suggests that we have never been lonelier (or more narcissistic)—and t...
How to Fail: Mark Pincus
I'm sometimes called a serial entrepreneur, but that's only because, before Zynga (ZNGA), I failed to create a sustainable company. After starting two companies in the '90s, I had a social networking...
Hewlett-Packard has best day on Wall Street in more than three years
Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) had its best day on Wall Street in more than three years Thursday, after reports showed that the Palo Alto tech giant's core personal-computer business increased its market share...
Apple Reveals New Whiz-Bang No-Code Content Authoring Tool
On April 12, 2012, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that reveals a new electronic content authoring tool in the works that's configured to optimize authored c...
A Boeing phone: Aerospace giant making Android device
Boeing is jumping into the smartphone business, developing a new mobile device - but we probably won't be buying this one at our local wireless store. — The company is working on a secure communica...
Kindle Touch 5.1.0 update adds international language support, landscape mode, and more
The Kindle Touch will be available for purchase in several European countries starting April 27th, and Amazon has rolled out a software update in support of the expansion that includes some notable fe...
Facebook moves Seattle office, continues growing
From left, Rep. Jim McDermott and Sen. Maria Cantwell chat with Facebook Seattle software engineer Ari Steinberg and Facebook's Vice President of Engineering Mike Schroepfer during the opening of Face...
Everyme for iPhone review: what happens when you blend Path and Google+?
Everyme is a beautiful app, but it isn't at all original in the way it presents itself (besides its sea foam header). The app is essentially a list of Circles, where each contains updates from the pe...
Japanese ATMs to use palm readers in place of cash cards
A Japanese bank will introduce ATMs that use palm scanners in place of cash cards, it said Wednesday. Design students craft safer ATMs Ogaki Kyoristu Bank said the new machines will allow customers t...
Tumblr Tests New Tools for Users and Brands
Can the Company Be a Business Without Traditional Advertising? Founder David Karp Explains — This may be Instagram's week, but it has been Tumblr's year. On Wednesday, the social platform announce...
Intel: super-dense notebook, desktop displays common by 2013
Intel braces for very high resolution computers — Intel's Developer Forum in Beijing has seen the company make predictions as to the long-term future of computer displays. A presentation caught by ...
What controversy? Verizon, Time Warner begin cross-selling services
Verizon's joint marketing pact with the cable providers may be facing some serious scrutiny, but Verizon and its partners don't seem to have noticed. On Thursday, Time Warner Cable blithely announced...
Microsoft Will Soon Start Charging $40/Month And Up For Its Bing Search API
Ever since Microsoft launched the Bing API a few years ago, this service was available for free to developers who wanted to use data from the company's search engine in their own products.
LogMeIn Prepares To Take On Dropbox & Box With Launch Of Cloud Storage Service Cubby
LogMeIn, the company known best for its remote access tools, is today launching its own cloud storage service, as an alternative to those from Dropbox or Box, for example.
Cellphone Unit Sales in First Quarter Were “Weakest in Years”
With no new iPhone model to boost sales, major U.S. carriers saw little if any gain in traditional contract customers during the first quarter, according to a new report. — Indeed, Jefferies & Co. s...
Nest Fires Back in Honeywell Suit, Brings Apple Chief Legal Counsel on Board
The fight over a thermostat just heated up. — Palo Alto, Calif.-based Nest, maker of a “smart” thermostat and target of a patent-infringement lawsuit filed by industrial giant Honeywell, has submitt...
Tracking everything, Placeme is the smartphone assistant of the future
Placeme for iOS and Android may be both the scariest and amazingly futuristic smartphone app I've seen yet. The free software uses every sensor in your handset to track your activities, location and ...
Farewell, App Store? Netizine Turns Magazines Into Social Networks, Runs On HTML5
As e-book publishers and Apple face an antitrust lawsuit over pricing, magazine publishers are now looking into an alternative solution to the digital pricing dilemma: being able to extricate themselv...
Android gives ‘no permissions’ apps access to sensitive info
Thanks in large part to Android's history of lax app policing, Google's mobile operating system has been criticized as insecure. — But now it appears that apps with no permissions pose a new threat,...
New Livestream Broadcaster Will Let You Stream From Almost Any Camera
Livestream, the premium live video streaming service, is announcing an interesting new product today: a $495 hardware encoder that can be connected to virtually any camera and that can stream HD video...
Sony aims to become ‘One’, will fire 10,000 workers and spend $926m on restructuring
Struggling Japanese electronics giant Sony's new management team has laid out its plans to reinvigorate the company's businesses and look for growth in other and new markets.
Facebook now lets you download more of your data, including previous names, friend requests and IP addresses
Coming under fire over its access to private information and its advertising services, Facebook today announced that it has expanded the breadth of its ‘Download Your Information’ tool …
With CS6, Adobe tidies up Premiere Pro, speeds up After Effects
Premiere Pro CS6 strips away much of the widgetry that cluttered its predecessor's user interface. (Click to enlarge.) — (Credit: Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET) — Quick access to software ...