AT&T Profit Beats Esitmates on Solid Wireless Growth
AT&T Inc. (T), the largest U.S. phone company, posted first-quarter earnings that beat analysts' estimates after wireless subscribers spent more on browsing the Web, downloading video and sending e-ma...
Apple Predicted to Discontinue 17-Inch MacBook Pro
Research analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who has in the past offered accurate information on Apple's Mac product roadmap, recently took on a new position with KGI Securities and has published a new report today...
Planetary's Riddle Solved: Snaring Close-By Asteroid
The riddle of the space asteroid start-up may be closer to being solved. — On Tuesday, Planetary Resources Inc. will outline in Seattle its plan to convince governments that the technology exists to...
PinDollars Brings Affiliate Links Back to Pinterest — But Gives Money Directly to Pinners
But Gives Money Directly to Pinners — Here's a little hack meant to nudge Pinterest into sharing revenue with its curators. PinDollars is a substitute for Pinterest's bookmarklet that scans pinned i...
Inside YouTube's complex, crazy German court defeat
Google says it's determined to “find a solution” to YouTube's German difficulties, after the country's music rights collection society GEMA won a lawsuit against the web giant. — But understanding w...
Android trojan steals keystrokes using phone movements (Updated)
Computer scientists have devised an attack that logs phone numbers, Social Security IDs, and personal identification numbers entered into smartphones by monitoring the devices' integrated motion senso...
Firefox kills off favicon in URL bar
According to the blog of Mozilla Software Engineer Jared Wein, M.Sc, the Firefox team has just killed off the age-old favicon in yesterday's nightly build. Wein states that the changes are set to arr...
ARM reports revenues up 13 percent, bicep-curling profits up 22 percent
UK-based chip designer ARM just announced another booming quarter, with revenue up by 13 percent to $209.4 million. Pre-tax profits were even stronger, growing 22 percent year-over-year to $100 milli...
Citrus Lane Lands $5.1M Series A Funding For Subscription Baby Goods Delivery Service
Citrus Lane, the Mountain View, California-based e-commerce startup that provides a subscription delivery service of products specifically for families with infants and toddlers, has raised $5.1 milli...
Feature: “The hidden side of your soul”: How the FBI uses the Web as a child porn honeypot
The e-mail arrived in James Charles Cafferty's inbox on July 14, 2011. Unlike most unsolicited e-mail on the Internet, the message did not pitch mortgages, get rich quick scams, or penis pills.
Adobe Pivots to New Target
New Focus on Sales to Marketing Pros Follows Flap With Apple Over Flash — Adobe Systems Inc. lost a high-profile battle with Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs over a video technology last year. Now ...
How far does Google Drive's terms go in ‘owning’ your files?
Summary: Dropbox and Microsoft's SkyDrive allows you to retain your copyright and IP rights to the work you upload to the service. Google Drive, however, takes everything you own. — Within hours of...
Sundar Pichai: Google Drive Is About Context, Where Competitors Are About Files
In advance of the release of Google Drive, I sat down yesterday with Google SVP of Chrome and Apps Sundar Pichai and Google Drive product head Scott Johnston. I asked them to elaborate on how Google ...
Google Launches Update Targeting Webspam In Search Results
Google has announced that it is releasing a new search algorithm that it hopes will better catch people who spam its search results or purposely do things to rank better that are against Google's publ...
Exclusive: Bebo founders, shareholders sue owner for ‘destroying’ site
Bebo, which has hit one rocky patch after another the past few years, now has new troubles. The social network's founders and some other shareholders are suing its current owner, alleging fraud.
Introducing the Google+ Share Button
When your visitors come across something interesting on your site, sometimes you want to encourage a simple endorsement (like +1). Other times, however, you want to help visitors share with their fri...
Chrome for Android to come out of beta ‘in weeks’
Google expects to bring its Chrome browser for Android out of beta testing “in a matter of weeks.” So said Sundar Pichai, senior vice president of Chrome and Apps, in an interview yesterday, shortly ...
The Man Who Makes the Future: Wired Icon Marc Andreessen
He's not a household name like Gates, Jobs, or Zuckerberg. His face isn't known to millions. But during his remarkable 20-year career, no one has done more than Marc Andreessen to change the way we ...