Introducing the Innovator's Patent Agreement
One of the great things about Twitter is working with so many talented folks who dream up and build incredible products day in and day out. Like many companies, we apply for patents on a bunch of the...
Apple and Samsung CEOs and chief lawyers agree to meet
Apple and Samsung, the number one and number two in the mobile devices industry, are embroiled in litigation against each other in nine countries …
Larry Page on the stand in Oracle trial: 'We didn't do anything wrong'
Oracle and Google's legal fight has finally made its way to the courtroom, with Oracle CEO Larry Ellison taking the stand earlier this morning. The other big name to appear was Google co-founder and ...
CEO Scott Thompson To Cut 50 Properties: “Yahoo Has Been Doing Way Too Much”
CEO Scott Thompson outlined his vision today for how Yahoo can start growing again. His big theme: Focus, focus, focus. — “Yahoo has been doing way too much for too long and was only doing a few th...
3G and 4G Wireless Speed Showdown: Which Networks Are Fastest?
We tested 3G and 4G wireless data transfer speeds—indoors and out—for AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon, at multiple locations in 13 major cities. Here's what we found. — It's been a year since w...
New “Listen” Button On Facebook Musician Pages Instantly Plays Their Songs In Your Favorite Streaming App
Today Facebook co-opts the best thing about Myspace pages — rapid music discovery — by prominently adding a “Listen” button to musician Pages right next to the Like button.
Apple: Greenpeace's Cloud Math is Busted
A view of the huge roof of the Apple data center in Maiden, North Carolina. Apple said today that the facility will use 20 megawatts of power, far less than an estimate by Greenepace. (Image: Apple)...
Sources: current Windows Phone devices will not get ‘Apollo’ upgrade
Earlier today, a developer evangelist for Microsoft was quoted as saying that all Windows Phone devices would get an upgrade to the “next major version” of the operating system. Now, a trusted source...
Watch Out, Best Buy, Ikea Will Soon Sell Their Own HDTV System And It's Awesome
Ikea is entering a brave new world: home entertainment systems. The company unveiled its UPPLEVA line today with a smart YouTube ad (embedded after the jump). The video spot quickly explains that th...
Oakley Tests Technology That Would Rival Google's Project Glass
Oakley Inc. is developing technology that can project information directly onto lenses, putting the sunglass maker into potential competition with Google Inc. (GOOG) — The technology would let Oakle...
Intel CEO: Our first smartphone launches this week
Summary: Intel's smartphone strategy is being closely watched since it represents future growth for the company. — Intel's long-awaited smartphone strategy is ready for lift-off, said CEO Paul Otell...
Going With the Flow: Google's Secret Switch to the Next Wave of Networking
In early 1999, an associate computer science professor at UC Santa Barbara climbed the steps to the second floor headquarters of a small startup in Palo Alto, and wound up surprising himself by accept...
Rejected By VCs, Pebble Watch Raises $3.8M on Kickstarter
When it comes to the road to success in Silicon Valley, Eric Migicovsky was definitely on the right path. — His idea for creating a watch that can display messages from your smartphone was embraced ...
Microsoft names Windows Server 2012, commits to launch this year
Microsoft today gave its newest server software a name — Windows Server 2012 — and said it would release the operating system this year. During the opening keynote at the Microsoft Management Summit ...
Chrome For Android Gets Desktop View, Home Screen Bookmarks, File Downloads
Chrome for Android is becoming somewhat of a flagship mobile app for Google, but given that it's only available on phones and tablets running Ice Cream Sandwich, its reach is pretty limited.
The Lost Steve Jobs Tapes
A treasure trove of unearthed interviews, conducted by the writer who knew him best, reveals how Jobs's ultimate success at Apple can be traced directly to his so-called wilderness years. — If Steve...
Satellite imagery and Hadoop mean $70M for Skybox
Skybox Imaging, a startup that wants to capture and analyze high-resolution photos and videos of the Earth from microsatellites, has raised $70 million in Series C funding led by Canaan Partners and N...
Microsoft Makes Venue Maps More Visible On Bing
Microsoft has introduced a number of improvements to Bing Maps, chief among which is making “venue maps” more obvious. Microsoft says there are roughly 900 venue/interior maps on Bing focused primari...
Appcelerator aims to become a complete mobile platform with new cloud services
Mobile app development platform Appcelerator today unveiled its new offerings, Appcelerator Cloud Services and the latest version of its development platform, Titanium 2.0. — With Titanium 2.0 …
European carriers: Lumia phones are ‘not good enough’ to compete with iPhone and Android
They say everyone's a critic these days, but here's a group whose critique matters: European carriers. Reuters has been asking questions at four major European telecom operators and reports that they...
Hulu, the Online TV Site, Adds Original Programming
Five years ago, some of the most powerful players in television banded together to introduce Hulu, a streaming service intended to revolutionize the TV industry. — This week, Hulu will look more lik...
Ellison Takes The Stand Against Google Today in Java Trial
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison will take to the witness stand in his company's lawsuit against the search giant Google. In what's been described as the world series of intellectual property lawsuits, Ellis...
Read It Later rebrands as “Pocket”, goes free. Lets its 4.5m users save articles, videos, images & more.
I recently met up with the team behind Read It Later over a drink in San Francisco. The product lets you quickly bookmark any page of text on the web, quite often articles, to read later.
Zynga Flashes $1.8 Billion Searching for the New FarmVille: Tech
Zynga Inc. (ZNGA) merger chief Barry Cottle plans to step up the pace of acquisitions, spending hundreds of millions of dollars in search of a new social-gaming blockbuster on par with hits “FarmVille...
Pebble smartwatch breaks Kickstarter's $3.3 million record...with a full month still to go
Not content with hitting $1 million of funding in just over one day, Kickstarter project Pebble has broken the record for funding on the crowdsourced site with a whole month still to go.
Samuel L. Jackson and Siri Star in New iPhone 4S Commercial (Update: Zooey Deschanel Too)
As noted by The Next Web, U.S. carrier Verizon Wireless aired a new iPhone 4S commercial featuring actor Samuel L. Jackson and Siri, the company's virtual assistant for the iPhone 4S.
At London Olympics, NBC Says, 'If Cameras Are on It, We'll Stream It'
All 32 sports at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London will be streamed live at nbcolympics.com. — “The hot topic is always, 'Why don't you show all your sports live?'” said Rick Cordella, vice preside...
Megaupload Worked on a Multi-Billion Dollar IPO
According to a US indictment, Kim Dotcom and the rest of the “Mega Conspiracy” were running a criminal operation. — They are accused of engaging in a racketeering conspiracy, conspiring to commit co...
Mavericks Invent Future Internet Where Cisco Is Meaningless
PALO ALTO, California — Martin Casado stands up, reaches across the table, and tears a sheet of paper from a notebook. The notebook belongs to Alan Cohen, who works alongside Casado at Nicira, the mo...
HTC's shares tumble; CFO change, Samsung launch weigh
(Reuters) - Shares of HTC Corp fell as much as 6 percent on Tuesday after a change in its chief financial officer and the imminent launch of a new phone by arch rival Samsung Electronics raised concer...
United Continental CFO Now an Apple VP of Sales
Zane Rowe, executive VP and Chief Financial Officer for United Continental, the holding company that owns United Airlines, has a new job — at Apple. Rowe, who has served as United's CFO since October...
Facebook's Instagram Buy Won't Alter Twitter Strategy
Twitter last year looked into buying Instagram, the hot photo-sharing app snapped up last week by Facebook for $1 billion. But Twitter's chief executive said during a Tokyo visit Monday that Facebook...
Toshiba to buy IBM point-of-sale business for $850 million
Summary: Toshiba TEC is set to buy IBM's point-of-sale business for $850 million, in a move that would make the half-owned Toshiba subsidiary the world's largest vendor of retail machines. — A Toshi...
Supreme Court to Revisit ‘First-Sale’ Copyright Doctrine
The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide the global reach of U.S. copyright law, in a case testing whether an overseas purchaser of a copyrighted work may resell it in the United States without the c...
Microsoft delivers preview of its Windows Azure-hosted media services platform
Summary: Microsoft is taking the wraps off the latest iteration of its Media Platform, which is now hosted on Windows Azure and includes third-party integrations, at the NAB show.