Making personal cloud storage for Windows available anywhere, with the new SkyDrive
Microsoft, Facebook Announce Patent Agreement
Microsoft Corp. and Facebook announced today a definitive agreement under which Microsoft will assign to Facebook the right to purchase a portion of the patent portfolio it recently agreed to acquire ...
Netflix has 26 million streaming customers worldwide, prepared to do battle with HBO
Calling itself the “world's leading Internet TV network,” Netflix has announced $870 million in revenue for its fiscal Q1 2012. The company also added almost 3 million subscribers to its streaming se...
Facebook's Amended S-1: 901 Million Users, 500M Mobile, Paid $300M Cash + 23M Shares For Instagram
Facebook has just filed a fourth amendment to its S-1 to IPO that notes that it now has 500 million mobile users, 901 million monthly active users, and that it paid 23 million shares at $30.89 …
Share your stuff with a link!
We're super excited to announce a whole new way to share: now you can send a link to the files or folders in your Dropbox! — Sharing with friends and family is easy! Once you've saved that video of...
Near-Final Version of Windows 8 Due in Early June
A near-final “release preview” version of Windows 8 is due in the first week of June, Microsoft confirmed late Monday. — Windows unit President Steven Sinofsky made the announcement at a Windows Dev...
Android chief Andy Rubin said java.lang APIs are copyrighted in 2006 email
Andy Rubin, Google's senior vice president of mobile — As the second week of the Oracle-Google trial got underway Monday, Andy Rubin, the man behind the Android platform, took his turn on the witnes...
U.S.'s first smartphone rail ticketing service headed for Boston
Boston rail commuters will soon have a mobile alternative to traditional paper tickets, allowing them to use their smartphones to buy and display their train tickets. The Massachusetts Bay Transporta...
The Intel Ivy Bridge (Core i7 3770K) Review
The times, they are changing. In fact, the times have already changed, we're just waiting for the results. I remember the first time Intel brought me into a hotel room to show me their answer to AMD...
Hurt Locker Makers Return to Sue 2,514 BitTorrent Users
After being honored with an Oscar for Best Motion Picture in 2010, the makers of The Hurt Locker went on to sue thousands of people who allegedly shared the film online. — Movie studio Voltage Pictu...
Current status of the “Browser Wars”
In this report we will examine the current status of what is often referred to as the “Browser Wars.” How popular are the various web browsers around the world right now? As you'll see, there are si...
Microsoft's Mobile Comeback Is Looking Terrible
Microsoft ruled the PC market for decades with utter dominance. But today, as the future shifts toward mobile devices, things are not looking good for Microsoft. It's not that it's not trying: Micro...
Quora: We're Not Just About Tech and Silicon Valley Anymore (Chart)
Quora today released a breakdown of its users' answers from the past three months that was designed to prove that the site is no longer just about the inside stories and ruminations about technology s...
The Two-Horse Smartphone Race
Apple, Samsung Use Different Playbooks in Battle for Supremacy; For Rivals, It's Specialty vs. Scale — Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. should make it abundantly clear this week that the smart...
Facebook Paying Microsoft $550 Million To Get its Hands on Hundreds of Former AOL Patents
Microsoft and Facebook are about to announce a deal with the social networking giant paying Redmond $550 million for access to more than 600 patents, AllThingsD has learned.
Intel's Ivy Bridge chips launch using ‘3D transistors’
Intel's new Ivy Bridge processors use a new tri-gate transistor technology to boost processing power while reducing the amount of energy needed — Intel is launching its Ivy Bridge family of processo...
Share your stuff with a link!
We're super excited to announce a whole new way to share: now you can send a link to the files or folders in your Dropbox! — Sharing with friends and family is easy! Once you've saved that video of...
Frustration, Disappointment And Apathy: My Years At Microsoft
Editor's Note: This Guest post is written by Max Zachariades, who spent the last five years at Microsoft in various roles. He blogs under the name Max Zografos. — I first used Windows on a TULIP po...
The Flight From Conversation
WE live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection. — At home, families sit together, texting and reading e-mail. ...
Obama to target foreign nationals' use of new technologies in human rights abuses
President Obama will issue an executive order Monday that will allow U.S. officials for the first time to impose sanctions against foreign nationals found to have used new technologies …
Justice Department Bites Apple
The 30% revenue-share model is the company's standard practice, not the product of a conspiracy. — 'I don't think you understand. We can't treat newspapers or magazines any differently than we trea...
NimbleTV Aims to Stream TV on Devices
In a move that could hasten the slow pace of so-called TV Everywhere, a technology start-up is introducing a way to move a whole subscription's worth of TV onto the Web, with or without the subscripti...
Adobe Officially Unveils CS6 And Its $49/Month All-Inclusive Creative Cloud Subscription Service
Today is a big day for Adobe. Not only is the company officially unveiling the next versions of virtually all of the applications in its Creative Suite, but Adobe is also launching its Creative Cloud...
In its 3rd year, Kickstarter successfully raises over $119 million, taking home $6 million in commission
It's easy to root for Kickstarter. The company has made it possible to bring new, innovative products to market and finance projects that would never get off the ground before the popularization of c...
Will Stanford and Silicon Valley Transform Education?
Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant and sunny, it's as if you could eat from the trees and live happily forever. Students ride their bikes through manicured quads, past bloo...
China Internet firms face venture capital funding squeeze
(Reuters) - China's hot Internet sector is facing a problem it is unaccustomed to: a lack of money. — The world's largest Internet market, with nearly half a billion users, gave birth to some of the...
Google and Facebook Grow Comfortable and Complacent
Google and Facebook, young and successful companies that they are, risk being left behind as technology shifts from PCs and Web browsers to mobile devices. — Earlier this month, when Google showcase...
Read Offline: News.me Automatically Downloads Your News Whenever You Leave Home
News.me, the newsreader app hatched in The New York Times' R&D lab and incubated at betaworks, today added a nifty feature to its new iPhone app, which gives readers instant access to their news offli...