Web freedom faces greatest threat ever, warns Google's Sergey Brin
Exclusive: Threats range from governments trying to control citizens to the rise of Facebook and Apple-style ‘walled gardens’ — The principles of openness and universal access that underpinned the c...
FCC Clears Google Over Wifi Eavesdropping But Fines It $25,000 For “Noncompliance” With Requests
The US Federal Communications Commission has cleared Google of any legal wrong-doing over its Street View cars that intercepted wifi transmissions. That's the good news for the company. The bad news...
Steve Jobs movie starring Ashton Kutcher to cover Apple from 1971 to 2000, filming starts next month
We've got a few more details on the recently-revealed Steve Jobs movie starring Ashton Kutcher, thanks to a Neowin interview with the producer, Mark Hulme.
What Amazon's ebook strategy means
It seems to me that a lot of folks in the previous discussion don't really understand quite what makes Amazon so interesting—and threatening, for that matter—to the publishing industry. — So I'm goi...
Netflix CEO calls out Comcast on net neutrality
When most Comcast subscribers complain, it's a blip. When the CEO of Netflix vents to his 120,000 subscribers on Facebook, it's a salvo. Reed Hastings doesn't agree with Comcast's approach to net ne...
How the Tech Parade Passed Sony By
THE lights dimmed. The crowd hushed. The teleprompters flickered. — Kazuo Hirai stepped up and flashed a winning smile: it was show time. The scene was oddly upbeat inside the Sony Corporation la...
How former Microsoft tech chief Nathan Myhrvold could have created the iPhone
Myhrvold's ‘consumer computer’ vision in 1991, as published by Men's Journal. — Nathan Myhrvold is back in the national spotlight again, but in a very different way this time. — Myhrvold in his ch...
The Mobile Paradox
Google's stock declined by over 4% yesterday. Many have put this down to the company's decision to create a non-voting class of stock as part of a control-retention exercise as the founders sell shar...
Hands-on: getting work done with Google's new Aura interface for Chrome OS
Google attempted to introduce a new approach to computing when it first launched Chrome OS in 2010. The operating system consists of little more than a fullscreen Web browser perched atop a rigorousl...
Smartphone Patents: The Never-Ending War
Even Minor Features Figure in Big Battles as Rivalry Heats Up — Customers shopping for Apple Inc.'s iPhone might pay little attention to the gadget's “slide to unlock” feature, but you would never k...