The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK ISPs, court rules
The Pirate Bay is hosted in Sweden, where it has an active supporter base — File-sharing site The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK internet service providers, the High Court has ruled. — The Swedi...
Java creator James Gosling: “Google totally slimed Sun”
Gosling said that Sun was “wronged” by Google, and that Oracle is right to sue Google for the way it used Java code in Android. — Follow @dbfarber — James Gosling speaks at JavaOne conference in S...
Verizon launches $80 prepaid plan with 1GB of data and unlimited talk / text, plus a prepaid MiFi hotspot
Verizon's looking to put some pressure on the prepaid carriers of the world — the company just announced a new $80 prepaid plan that offers unlimited calling, texting, and 1GB of data.
Microsoft Makes $300M Investment In New Barnes & Noble Subsidiary To Battle With Amazon And Apple In E-books
Barnes & Noble has found a new, major partner in its fight to get an edge over Amazon and Apple in the heating up market for e-books and the devices being used to consume them …
Why you can't trust tech press to teach you about the tech industry
If there were one lesson I'd want to impress upon people who are interested in succeeding in the technology industry, it would be, as I've said before, know your s**t. Know the discipline you're in …
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg Reveal
Zuckerberg Interview to Air on “Good Morning America” and Sandberg Interview to Air on “World News with Diane Sawyer” Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Rumor: Digg to be acquired by The Washington Post
With a history only fitting an Internet business, Digg has seen the highest of the highs and the lowest of the lows, and everywhere in between. — We've received a tips from multiple sources that Dig...
I'm leaving the internet for a year
At midnight tonight I will leave the internet. I'm abandoning one of my “top 5” technological innovations of all time for a little peace and quiet. If I can survive the separation, I'm going to do t...
Skype Reveals Remote and Local IP Address Of All Online Users
If you are a user of the messaging software Skype, you know that you can see the location of your contacts in the Skype interface. What you probably do not know is that there is currently a way to di...
Confirmed: Schultz and Efrusy to Leave Groupon Board; “Accounting Types” Joining
According to sources close to the situation, Starbucks Chairman and CEO Howard Schultz and Accel Partners' Kevin Efrusy will be stepping down from the board of Groupon. — Schultz's departure will be...
George Hotz, Sony, and the Anonymous Hacker Wars
In the summer of 2007, Apple released the iPhone, in an exclusive partnership with A.T. & T. George Hotz, a seventeen-year-old from Glen Rock, New Jersey, was a T-Mobile subscriber. He wanted an iPho...
Rumor: Hulu Will Soon Require Viewers To Have A Cable Subscription [Update: It'll Happen, But Not “Soon"]
If you love watching TV shows on Hulu but don't have a cable subscription, things could get a bit more complicated in the near future. According to the New York Post …
Socialcam Nabs Angel Funding From The A-List: Yuri Milner, Tim Draper, Laurene Powell Jobs, And More
The race to be the “Instagram for video” is hotter than ever, and Socialcam, the app that spun out of video sharing pioneer Justin.tv last year and was part of Y Combinator's winter 2012 class, is hus...
Apple squared, (four)squared
I was down in Soho last week, visiting (of course) the new Manhattan REI store. After the shopping spree, I pulled out my iPhone and found a dinner recommendation on Explore: five of my friends had e...
Exclusive: Violin Memory Boosts Latest Funding Round to $80 Million
Last month AllThingsD reported that Violin Memory, the flash memory technology start-up, had raised $50 million in a Series D round at an implied valuation of more than $800 million. — That funding ...
Groupon Now hits 1.5 million deals, outpacing original Groupon
Groupon Now has gotten off to a good start. — (Credit: Screenshot by Jessica Dolcourt/CNET) — The original Groupon platform might have set the stage, but Groupon Now has gotten off to an even bett...
Apple and Taxes: What the New York Times Missed
I have never seen the exterior of the offices of Braeburn Capital in Reno, Nevada, and so I have the New York Times to thank for the photograph of its offices that accompanied its Sunday front-page st...
Google Sued by Pension Fund Over Proposed Stock Split
Google Inc. (GOOG), the world's largest Web-search provider, was sued by a Massachusetts city's pension fund claiming the company's planned stock split would unfairly create nonvoting shares. — The ...
Apple's Israeli hiring goes into high gear
High-tech workers, update your CVs: In the coming weeks, Apple's Israeli headquarters will be posting dozens of positions to be filled — Sagi Cohen — Preparations for — At the end of March, Appl...
Data Engineer in Google Case Is Identified
At the center of the uproar over a Google project that scooped up personal data from potentially millions of unsuspecting people is the company software engineer who wrote the code. — Google has dec...
Brit Morin Engages $1.25M From Marissa Mayer, Founders Fund And More To Launch Her First App, Weduary
Brit Morin, the Martha Stewart of tech, is today announcing a $1.25 million seed round for her technology and content company Brit. The list of investors is actually pretty sympatico with …
Kickstarter Sets Off $7 Million Stampede for a Watch Not Yet Made
When Eric Migicovsky, an engineer, wanted to develop a line of wristwatches that could display information from an iPhone — like caller ID and text messages — he went the traditional route of asking v...
Theoretical physicist explains why Moore's Law will collapse
Moore's Law has been around since 1965 when Intel co-founder Gordon E. Moore described it in a paper. Since that day, the law has been in full effect, and the number of transistors placed inexpensive...
Simulmedia Raises $6 Million More For Web-Like TV Ads
Web ad pioneer Dave Morgan has rounded up more money for his move into TV: His Simulmedia has closed a $6 million funding round from previous investors Avalon Ventures, Union Square Ventures and Time ...
BladeLogic founder joins VC firm, Greylock Partners
Greylock Partners, seeking more operational experience in the enterprise sector, named Dev Ittycheria, an operations guy who made his name in enterprise software, as its newest partner. — VCs and st...
Angry Birds Space hits 50M downloads in 35 days
Angry Birds Space has been downloaded more than 50 million times in its first 35 days on the market, according to publisher Rovio. — That makes it the fastest-growing mobile game in history. And it...
Turntable.fm: Where Did Our Love Go?
The partners behind a one-time “next big thing” go to South by Southwest to win back the adoration of the tech world—and figure out how to make their partnership work. — Last summer, Turntable.fm se...
TheFind launches Glimpse, a Pinterest rival built on Facebook likes
Pinterest's rise has helped highlight the value of social discovery over traditional search for shopping and the lesson hasn't been lost on competitors. TheFind, a shopping search site with a trove o...
Digg's Tech Team Heads for the Washington Post, and Digg Looks for a Lifeline
Digg isn't done. Yet. — But it's looking pretty close. The Washington Post is in the process of buying/hiring the news aggregator's technology team, but isn't purchasing the business itself …
Mark Zuckerberg joins Viddy - it might really become ‘Instagram for video’ now
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg just signed up to video sharing mobile app Viddy, and he has just posted his first video on the service too. — ‘Zuck’, as his nickname on the service is, posted a vi...
LG Cloud, a streaming service for all three of your screens, launches on May 1st
LG is entering the cloud service race, allowing users to upload their content to the company's servers and stream it to all of their devices. LG Cloud enters beta on May 1st and will let you access …
Google to court: Galaxy Nexus code is closed just like that of the iPhone
Apple and Google routinely have discovery disputes. Apple's second California action against Samsung, which includes a motion for a preliminary injunction against the Galaxy Nexus, is already the eig...
LG To Pull Away From Windows Phone's Loving Embrace, Refocus On Android
Sure, Windows Phone is still but a baby alongside Android and iOS, but the platform shows promise. Woz likes it. And the fact that it's backed by hardware partners like Samsung and Nokia says good t...
Visa digital wallet V.me launching in UK, Spain, and France this fall
Visa has announced that its digital wallet solution V.me will be launching in the UK, France, and Spain starting this fall. The service, which was announced last year, lets users combine their bank a...