Google+ Hangouts On Air: broadcast your conversation to the world
Last year we introduced Hangouts On Air to a limited number of broadcasters, enabling them to go live with friends and fans, for all the world to see. Since then, this small community has grown the f...
Apple reportedly to release US$799 MacBook Air in 3Q12
Apple is reportedly considering responding to the upcoming second-generation ultrabooks by launching a US$799 MacBook Air in the third quarter of 2012, according to sources from the upstream supply ch...
Our Source Has Seen The Apple HDTV, Here's What It Looks Like
We have a source who claims to have seen a prototype Apple high-definition television set in action, indicating that Apple is readying the long-awaited device for market. — According to our source, ...
Loeb Lobs Lawsuit, As Expected, at Yahoo's Borked Bio Mess
Botched CEO bio. Activist shareholder. Screwy board of directors. Mix it all together and what do you get? — More legal filings, natch! — This — as I reported this weekend would happen today — ...
Google infringed on Oracle copyrights, jury finds
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal jury on Monday found that Google's (GOOG) popular Android mobile software infringes on copyrights held by tech rival Oracle (ORCL), in a closely watched case that may have br...
Facebook Social Readers Are All Collapsing
Are you annoyed by all those automatic Facebook news apps? Apparently you're not alone. They're falling off a cliff right now. — The Washington Post was the first publication to experiment with a ...
A new standard for the mobile web
Today we're updating Twitter for mobile web (mobile.Twitter.com) in an effort to give every person on the planet a consistent Twitter experience. People who access Twitter from feature phones, low-ba...
Apple improves AirPlay playback, iPad network switching, HDR with iOS 5.1.1
Apple has released an update to iOS that fixes a number of minor (but annoying) bugs within the operating system. The update was just released on Monday afternoon (at least for those of us on the eas...
T-Mobile: iPhone network compatibility coming this year
T-Mobile's network will be compatible with the iPhone later this year — even if it isn't selling it, the company said today. The wireless carrier added that it had tapped Ericsson and Nokia-Siemens f...
Amtrak to Use iPhones to Streamline Service
Old-school train conductors are finally ready to give up their hole punchers to try something new: the iPhone. — Amtrak, the government-owned corporation that oversees the nation's railroad train se...
Desperate To Reverse Negative Momentum, Andrew Mason Explains His ‘Multi-Trillion-Dollar’ Vision For Groupon
Groupon CEO and cofounder Andrew Mason just released a letter to shareholders outlining a long-term vision for the company that goes well beyond the daily emails it is known for.
Google Gets Deeper Into the Content Business, by Putting Money Into Machinima
Google has been handing out money to video makers so they'll make more stuff for YouTube. Now it's putting money into a video maker itself. — The search giant is set to invest in Machinima …
Google gets license to test drive autonomous cars on Nevada roads
On Monday, the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles approved Google's license application to test autonomous vehicles on the state's roads. The state had approved such laws back in February, and has n...
Why Publishers Don't Like Apps
The future of media on mobile devices isn't with applications but with the Web. — By the time Apple released the iPad in April of 2010, just four months after Steve Jobs first announced his “magical...
Exclusive: Publisher sues Tumblr over porn pics
Updated: It's finally happened. In a case with big implications for the booming market in photo-sharing, a publisher is suing popular blogging site Tumblr for copyright infringement. — In a complai...
Disruptions: Indiscreet Photos, Glimpsed Then Gone
People once took photographs so they could capture a moment for themselves and keep it forever. Then digital cameras and cellphones turned photos into something more ephemeral and more easily shared....
LG Electronics to launch Google TV in U.S. in late May: executive
(Reuters) - LG Electronics Inc, the world's No.2 TV maker, plans to launch Internet-enabled TV based on Google's platform in the United States in the week of May 21, as the South Korean firm seeks to ...
Gumroad Gets $7 Million Series A From Kleiner Perkins For Indie E-Payment Platform
Gumroad, the startup that lets individuals receive e-payments through a simple URL link, has received $7 million in new funding led by Silicon Valley venture capital stalwart Kleiner Perkins Caulfield...
Facebook's Zuckerberg kicks off investor show in NY
(Reuters) - Facebook Inc kicked off its IPO roadshow in New York on Monday, attracting hundreds of investors who formed a snaking line around the block keen on hearing CEO Mark Zuckerberg tout Silicon...
Payment Processing Giant Verifone Strikes Back Against Square
Tomorrow, Verifone will introduce a mobile credit card reader, the SAIL, that plugs into the iPhone and iPad to let very small businesses and sole proprietors take credit card payments. — If that so...
Evernote acquires iPad app Penultimate to boost its handwriting recognition capabilities
Fresh from its $70m funding round last week, note-taking service Evernote is looking to expand its handwriting recognition capabilities with the announcement today that it has acquired San Francisco …
Amazon Leaps Into High End of the Fashion Pool
SEATTLE — Amazon is so serious about its next big thing that it hired three women to do nothing but try on size 8 shoes for its Web reviews. Full time. — The online retailer is shooting 3,000 fashi...
TwitPic, now with 35M users, releases app for iPhone
Holding steady with 35 million users, four year-old TwitPic today forges ahead on Twitter photo-sharing with the release of its first mobile application. — TwitPic for iPhone, released Monday, gives...
Nielsen: Smartphones Used By 50.4% Of U.S. Consumers, Android 48.5% Of Them
Nielsen today became the latest analyst house to call it for smartphones outnumbering more basic devices in the U.S. The company says that in March 2012 smartphones were in use by 50.4 percent of cons...
Google makes plans to move Motorola Mobility to Chicago
(Crain's) — Google Inc. is shopping for more than 500,000 square feet of office space downtown for Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. once it completes its $12.5 billion takeover of the mobile phone make...
India Launches Antitrust Probe of Google
NEW DELHI—India has launched an antitrust probe of Google Inc.'s online advertising business to investigate potential anti-competitive practices, according to government officials familiar with the ma...
CEO Says Sorry to Yahoos for Borked Bio “Distraction”
But Will Mea Culpa Work Without an Apology and Explanation for Actual Error? (Memo) — He's sorry. Deeply regrets. Apologizes. Take full responsibility for the unfortunate distraction to the peop...
As Yahoo CEO Reaches Out to Top Staff, Board Meets to Weigh “Options”
Even as Yahoo's board was kibitzing all weekend about how to handle the continuing resume-padding controversy around its recently hired CEO Scott Thompson …
Microsoft Stores offering $99 Xbox 360 with contract now
The rumored $99 Xbox 360 with two-year $15 a month contract is official. It includes a Kinect, Xbox Live Gold service and a two-year warranty. The offer is now available on the Microsoft Store site.
The venture capital model is broken, and this damning report explains why
Industry watchers have been talking for a long while now about how the venture capital industry is broken, highlighted by poor returns that in many cases don't even exceed that of the major stock indi...
Color's Plan C (Or Is It B.5?): Becoming Verizon's Live Mobile Video Partner
Color, the famously overfunded social app shop, is still looking for its first big hit. But the company has found a way to get some help, with a deal with Verizon Wireless to pre-install Color on som...
AT&T Introduces Digital Life: IP-Based Home Automation And Security System With 24/7 Monitoring Centers
AT&T has just announced a new security and home-automation system called Digital Life, which will be an IP-based platform that allows users to monitor and detect activity throughout …
Pirate island attracts more than 100 startup tenants
Green-card-free startup ship off closer to international waters — Over 100 international tech companies have registered their interest in the floating geek city, Blueseed, which will be launched nex...
Paul Ceglia sanctioned in Facebook lawsuit, has two weeks to pay
Summary: Paul Ceglia has so far been fined $97,617.70: $5,000 to the court and $92,617.70 to Facebook's lawyers. He now has two weeks to pay the amount, or show that he does not have the means.