Exclusive: Yahoo Director in Charge of Botched CEO Vetting to Step Down From Board
CSLie has claimed its first victim, although the mystery is still unsolved. — Patti Hart — the Yahoo director in charge of the search that resulted in the hiring of Scott Thompson as its CEO …
Apple and Samsung drop claims against each other but disagree more than ever on key issues
Late on Monday by local time, Apple made a filing in its first California litigation with Samsung that offers a truly impressive narrowing of its infringement claims in that action …
A Detailed Look At Tizen on Samsung's First Prototype Device
Tizen just hit the 1.0 release last week (codenamed Larkspur), and at the Tizen Conference I've had the chance to play with the prototype device that Samsung has been handing out to developers to test...
Skype killing Windows Phone: Nokia responds
Summary: Nokia responds to a recent article about Nokia's partnership with Microsoft and how it is hurting Lumia sales. The transcript and video of CEO Elop's comments are included here. — Nokia ha...
Apple says lack of multi-user support on iPad is a ‘known issue,’ ‘being investigated’
Apple has signaled that it is aware of a desire to support multiple users on one iPad, and that the issue is “currently being investigated” by the company's engineering team.
RIM Names Kristian Tear COO, Frank Boulben CMO
Research In Motion this morning announced two addition to its management team. — The company named Kristian Tear as chief operating officer. Tear has been with Sony Mobile Communications, where he ...
Google: AT&T's CEO doesn't understand how Android phones get updated
In response to last night's report—where AT&T's CEO Randall Stephenson told a questioner that the fault of Android smartphones not receiving updates is Google's. — Stephenson blamed Google, claiming...
AT&T Mobility CEO: Family data plan coming soon (scoop)
AT&T's Ralph de la Vega says he feels good about the plan, a reversal of the uncertainty he expressed just a few months ago. NEW ORLEANS—AT&T's version of the family data plan may be coming sooner th...
Passpoint WiFi tech promises cellphone-like handoff between hotspots
An industry group that aims to make WiFi access from smartphones and other devices as simple as connecting to a cellular network will begin certifying WiFi network equipment and end-user devices for t...
Customer Loyalty And Rewards Platform For Local Businesses Belly Raises $10M From Andreessen Horowitz
Chicago-based Belly, a startup that is a fast-growing contender in the local business customer loyalty and rewards space, has raised $10 million in Series B funding from Andreessen Horowitz.
How Hewlett-Packard lost its way
Léo Apotheker's disastrous tenure as HP's CEO revealed a dysfunctional company struggling for direction after a decade of missteps and scandals. Can his replacement, Meg Whitman, fix the tech giant? ...
The Race: Build the Instagram of Video
Newest App Phenomena Draw Big Money From Investors, Film Stars and Even Laurene Powell Jobs — Facebook Inc.'s $1 billion acquisition of photo-sharing start-up Instagram has shifted the spotlight to ...
FCC Chairman: Rejection of AT&T's T-Mobile Deal Isn't Causing Higher Prices
AT&T has recently made the case that the failure of its effort to buy T-Mobile is behind recent price hikes. — Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski isn't buying it.
On Thneeds and the “Death of Display”
It's all over the news these days: Display advertising is dead. Or put more accurately, the world of “boxes and rectangles” is dead. No one pays attention to banner ads, the reasoning goes, and the ...
Want To Know What Apple Will Do Next In Mobile Commerce? Check Out The Pirq It's Giving To Employees
As device makers like RIM, Samsung and Nokia incorporate NFC technology into their mobile devices, Apple has been radio silent on what its plans will be in mobile commerce and payments.
Wireless charging to get a boost from Samsung, Qualcomm
At CTIA in New Orleans, Samsung and Qualcomm debut an industry group formed to create and promote a new wireless charging standard. — Follow @KentGerman — Wireless charging isn't new, but the tech...
Viddy hits 26M users, consistently registering over 500K a day
On April 16th, I wrote an article about how popular video sharing app Viddy had hit 6.5M users. Less than a month later, the company tells me that it's starting to consistently sign up over 500K new ...
Hulu To Users: Connect Your Facebook Account Or No Social For You
Some angry Hulu users created this logo to protest a push to integrate their accounts with Facebook — Last month, video provider Hulu made changes to its social sharing features. For Facebook users...
Zuckerberg's Hoodie a ‘Mark of Immaturity,’ Analyst Says
Mark Zuckerberg is known for having arrived late for a meeting with prospective investor Sequoia Capital and giving a less-than-serious pitch while wearing pajamas. — Now, as Facebook preps its init...
HP unveils Envy Spectre XT Ultrabook, other thin-and-lights in various sizes
What's that? You're hungry for more HP laptops? Good! Because we're not nearly done yet! The company just expanded its line of Ultrabooks from two to five, and that's not even counting this guy.
Sources Say AOL Seeking Buyers for Engadget and TechCrunch. Arrington “Not In The Least Bit Interested”
We weren't sure about this one at first, but now we have two independent sources confirming that AOL is exploring the sale of its cornerstone technology sites Engadget and TechCrunch.
Smoked by Windows Phone by the numbers (and new ads!)
When I kicked off Smoked by Windows Phone at CES in January, I did it with one thing in mind - show the world that Windows Phone is simply faster at the everyday stuff that people do on their smartpho...
Could an Oracle Win Against Google Blow Up the Cloud?
What will happen to companies that clone Amazon's APIs if APIs can be copyrighted? Photo: U.S. Air Force — A San Francisco court has spent the past few weeks considering a copyright question that c...
Seized Hip-Hop Site Lashes Out At Feds, RIAA
The hip-hop music site the authorities shuttered for more than a year without explanation lashed out Monday at the recording industry and the federal government, likening the taking of the site to a “...
Lumia 900 wins outdoor readability test, Galaxy S and iPhone 4 split second
Nokia's Lumia 900 is the best smartphone in the world — in one important usability aspect, anyhow. The DisplayMate labs have been busy collating viewability data on mobile device displays and the res...
Singtel's Amobee Buys AdJitsu To Take Mobile Ads Into The Third Dimension
Another bit of consolidation in the mobile advertising space — this time with an ad-tech twist: Amobee, the mobile ad company that itself was the subject of a takeover by Singtel only two months ago …
Nokia Adds Apps To The Lumia: Rovio, EA, ESPN, Groupon, Box Among Them; Some Exclusive
Windows Phone is way behind Android and iOS when it comes to apps — only about 80,000 apps compared to 500,000-600,000 each at the other two — too far behind to possibly ever catch up in actual number...