Loeb Demands Yahoo Board Fire CEO by Monday Over False Resume
Now that activist shareholder Dan Loeb has discredited Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson's educational credentials and credibility, he's going full bore after the company's directors. — In a new letter to Ya...
AT&T Chief Regrets Offering Unlimited Data for iPhone
When Randall Stephenson, AT&T's chief executive, spoke about the state of the wireless industry at a conference this week, he shared some surprisingly frank comments about the iPhone. In particular, ...
The iPad 2,4 Review: 32nm Brings Better Battery Life
When Apple launched the 3rd generation iPad (as the new iPad), it also dropped the price of the entry-level 16GB WiFi iPad 2 to $399. Apple's products tend to hold their values exceptionally well, so...
Resume Trips Up New Yahoo Chief
Hedge fund Third Point LLC continued its attack against Yahoo Inc.'s management, calling for the immediate termination of Chief Executive Scott Thompson amid admitted inaccuracies in his academic cred...
Windows 8 drops DVD playback, only available with paid Media Center upgrade
You might have heard that Windows 8 won't come with Media Center, but that's not the only missing multimedia piece of the puzzle. This week, Microsoft revealed that the new operating system won't hav...
Facebook's numbers
I like to look at raw numbers every once in a while, without external influence, to recalibrate my ability to judge the magnitude of things. Here are some of the numbers from Facebook's most recent S...
Facebook Buys Location-Based Discovery App Glancee
A little under one month after its acquisition of Instagram, Facebook has acquired Highlight competitor and ambient location app Glancee. — The social network has already shut down the developer's p...
Jury in Oracle v. Google Has Reached a Verdict on All Questions but One - Will Try Again Monday
The jury in Oracle v. Google is reentering the courtroom, according to the tweeting journalists at the courtroom, asking what to do. They have reached a unanimous verdict on all the questions except ...
Nokia and execs hit with lawsuit alleging fraud over meager Lumia sales, failed turnaround
Troubled Finnish phone giant Nokia is increasingly troubled, unicorns be damned. — The latest bad news for the phone maker: along with high-ranking executives Stephen Elop (CEO) and Timo Ihamuotila ...
Google Said to Face Fine by U.S. Over Apple Safari Breach
Google Inc. (GOOG) is negotiating with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission over how big a fine it will have to pay for its breach of Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s Safari Internet browser, a person familiar with t...
How OpenStreetMap Got Apple To Give It Due Credit
Apple has finally given credit where credit was due: To OpenStreetMap, a crowdsourced world map that Apple recently began using in its iPhoto app without proper attribution. — “Apple attributes OSM ...
Emergency Flash update fixes security bug being used to hijack PCs
Adobe has released an emergency update for its Flash Player that fixes a security bug that's being actively exploited to hijack Windows computers running the ubiquitous software. — The “object confu...
John McAfee arrested in Belize
John McAfee, who founded McAfee Antivirus, is in trouble with a country which he has given millions of dollars to help out. — McAfee lives in Belize and has even given the country's Coastguard a pat...
Judge says Google's Android lost money in 2010
Google Inc's Android mobile platform resulted in a net loss for the company in every quarter of 2010, despite generating roughly $97.7 million in revenue for the first quarter of that year, a U.S. jud...
Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 up for preorder now, in stores May 13
There aren't any big upgrades to the Galaxy Tab 2 10.1, but the price has taken a big drop. — (Credit: Samsung) — The follow-up to the big boy of Android tablets, the 16GB Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10....
Facebook Messenger Apps Get More Life-Like, Now Show If Someone's Read Your Message
Facebook thinks mobile messaging should feel like you're having a face-to-face conversation, so today it updates its Messenger for iOS and Android apps with the ability to see if someone's read your m...
FBI: We need wiretap-ready Web sites — now
now — The FBI is asking Internet companies not to oppose a controversial proposal that would require firms, including Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, and Google, to build in backdoors for government surv...
Study: Apple iPad Accounts for 94.64% of all Tablet Web Traffic
What do you think of when you hear the word “tablet”? For most it would be Apple or more specifically the iPad. When the iPad was released in 2010 it quickly gained popularity amongst the masses.
Foursquare Adds Another Search Feature: Check-In History
Still not convinced that Foursquare wants to be more than a check-in game with points and badges? — Today the company launched the latest of several search features that continue to position Foursqu...
Feds Seized Hip-Hop Site for a Year, Waiting for Proof of Infringement
Federal authorities who seized a popular hip-hop music site based on the assertions from the Recording Industry Association of America that it was linking to four “pre-release” music tracks gave it ba...
Cameron to consider ‘opt in’ porn plan
Government to consult with internet service providers on blocking adult material on the internet in the UK — The government is to consider introducing new filters for online pornography, in a move l...
Verizon reps push 4G Android over iPhone
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Want to buy an iPhone? Verizon would really, really like you to consider an alternative. — Anecdotal evidence is stacking up on chat forums and other outlets from people who s...
Verizon moves toward 911 texting
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski praised Verizon Wireless on Friday for selecting a vendor to help deploy its first-in-the-nation implementation of its “text-to-911” servi...
How text editing on the iPad should be
If you've ever spent any kind of time editing text on the iPad, you know that there has to be a better solution. Placing your cursor in a certain spot in a sentence or paragraph can be difficult. An...
Expanding Google Analytics Social Reports: Tracking Links To Your Site Content
Have you ever wondered which other pages on the web link to your own? Wouldn't it be nice to know which sites are talking about your content, and in which context? Well, a problem no more …
A Relevant Tale: How Google Killed Inktomi
On March 20th, 2000 Inktomi had a market capitalization of 25 billion dollars. As a relatively early employee, I was a multimillionaire on paper. Life was good. In the next year and a half the stoc...
Heads up, Intel: TSMC cranks up ARM chip to 3GHz
ARM Cortex A9. — (Credit: ARM) — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has ripped a page right out of the Intel playbook. — TSMC announced today that a chip rolling off its advanced 28-nano...
Buying an iPad 2? Here's the rarer, more efficient specimen you need to (somehow) track down
Not all iPads are made equal, even if they're all packaged and branded identically. There's a major new mutation within the 2nd generation tablet and it brings significantly better battery life.
Kickstarter of Doom: Hoax Site ‘Funds’ Torture Bus, Death Drones
Crowdsourcing a next-gen drone or a rolling torture center? Uh, yeah, Kickstriker is a hoax. — Inspired by the Kony 2012 fad, a group of New York University grad students has set up the wartime ver...
iOS app success is a “lottery”: 60% (or more) of developers don't break even
There is no shortage of stories about lone developers who made an app for the iPhone or iPad and had runaway success. But in the real world, the majority of app makers struggle to break even, accordi...
SquareTrade's warranty now covers jailbroken iPhones
The third-party warranty service says it now covers iPhones that have been jailbroken, something that voids typical warranties. Third-party gadget warranty service SquareTrade today expanded its cove...
Huffington's Role Shrinks at AOL
Executive Says Shift Will Free Her to Focus on Her Namesake News Site as It Gears Up to Expand Abroad — Arianna Huffington acknowledged Thursday that her portfolio at AOL Inc. is being scaled back t...
Google's April Updates: Bigger & Tiered Index, Document Ranking, Sitelink Changes & More
If it's the first Friday of the month, it must be time for Google to share its latest list of search quality updates. And, like clockwork, Google didn't disappoint today — the company has posted …
Microsoft to Botmasters: Abandon Your Inboxes
If the miscreants behind the ZeuS botnets that Microsoft sought to destroy with a civil lawsuit last month didn't already know that the software giant also wished to unmask them, they almost certainly...
Google's Fiber Makes MPAA Skittish. Why Does Hollywood See All Technology In Terms Of Piracy?
One of the points we're always trying to make about piracy is that it has less to do with people just wanting everything for free and more to do with people rushing to embrace the possibilities of new...
In a Samsung Galaxy far, far away ... will Android still rule?
(Reuters) - Samsung Electronics is the world's largest smartphone manufacturer and biggest user of Google's Android operating system. — And, for some, that's the problem. — Samsung's meteoric rise...
EBay, Wal-Mart search for revved-up search engines
(Reuters) - EBay Inc and Wal-Mart Stores Inc are developing new Web search engines to better compete against Amazon.com Inc in the fast-growing e-commerce market. — As more people shop online, they ...