Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings
Search is a lot about discovery—the basic human need to learn and broaden your horizons. But searching still requires a lot of hard work by you, the user. So today I'm really excited to launch the K...
Verizon will kill ‘grandfathered’ unlimited data plans, push users to data share
Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ) plans to eliminate the $30 per month unlimited data plan that it still provides to 3G customers who were “grandfathered” into the plan because they were data customers prior...
Pirate Bay Under DDoS Attack From Unknown Enemy
Although Pirate Bay downtime happens a handful of times each month, it rarely persists for more than a few hours. When it goes beyond that the steady flow of reader emails to TorrentFreak quickly tra...
Apple Moves Toward Larger iPhone Screens
HONG KONG—Apple Inc., which is expected to launch …
Microsoft Gives Windows a Clean Sweep
For a long time, some Microsoft officials have privately griped that PC makers don't present Windows in its best light. They clutter desktops with icons that are often little more than ads for third-...
Samsung loses $10 billion market value on Apple order report
(Reuters) - Shares in Samsung Electronics Co slumped more than 6 percent on Wednesday, wiping $10 billion off the electronics giant's market value, on a report that Apple placed huge chip orders with ...
Facebook's latest filing: Insiders are cashing in
Facebook today revealed that it will have more shares than expected available to investors when it goes public on Friday. But the social network won't be the one cashing in on it. — Facebook will n...
Apple Fires Back in Lawsuit over Siri's Performance
Apple Inc. is defending its voice-recognition software Siri — she of the iPhone 4S — against claims that it doesn't perform as advertised. — A cluster of lawsuits seeking class action status in Oakl...
Windows 8 Mail, Calendar, People, Messaging, and other apps updated for Release Preview
Microsoft has started to update a range of its core Windows 8 communications applications ahead of the Release Preview debut next month. The updates, available in the latest internal builds of Window...
Japanese researchers transmit 3Gbps using terahertz frequencies
Researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology have developed a new wireless transmission system that works above all currently regulated spectrum frequencies. The new system works at the range of ...
How the Professor Who Fooled Wikipedia Got Caught by Reddit
T. Mills Kelly encourages his students to deceive thousands of people on the Web. This has angered many, but the experiment helps reveal the shifting nature of the truth on the Internet. — A woman ...
Nielsen: U.S. Consumers Avg App Downloads Up 28% To 41; 4 Of 5 Most Popular Belong To Google
With smartphone penetration now at 50 percent in the U.S., the world of apps is seeing a knock-on effect in their popularity: according to a new report from Nielsen, mobile consumers are downloading …
Bitly readies real-time viral search engine, raises $20 million in new funding
Bitly, a New York company that lets users shorten, share, and track URLs, is raising around $20 million in a new round of funding, we have learned from multiple sources. That's twice the amount the c...
Oracle Drops New Documents In Itanium Trial, and They're Juicy
A new trove of previously redacted emails and other documents submitted as evidence in the Oracle-Hewlett-Packard Itanium trial, and they fill in a lot of the blanks on the state of play between HP, O...
Virgin Atlantic launches in-flight cell use
In-flight cell service will be available on Virgin Atlantic's Airbus A330. — (Credit: Virgin Atlantic) — Virgin Atlantic will soon allow passengers to use their cell phones during flights, but don...
Comcast rolls out Skype on Xfinity in Boston, Seattle today for $9.95/mo and 8 other markets this week
Skype is launching its previously announced partnership with Xfinity today in two markets, Boston and Seattle. The video-calling-via-TV service will also be available to Xfinity subscribers in Detroi...
iSwifter launches full-featured mobile Facebook app — with social games included — on iPad
with social games included — on iPad — The problem with Facebook's mobile app is that it doesn't run games. The web-based site is built with Adobe Flash, but that runs poorly on mobile devices. As ...
Apple asks the ITC to throw out five patents HTC received from Google last year
On the ITC document server, a new document entry just showed up that relates to an extremely interesting motion filed yesterday in the investigation of HTC's second ITC complaint against Apple …
Netflix: Disgruntled customers rejoining service
A third of Netflix's new customers are people who quit the service and signed up again in less than a year, says the company's CFO at an investor conference. A Netflix executive said today the compan...
In the Race to Win Social Video, Is One App Gaming the System Too Much?
There's a popular maxim in Silicon Valley: Find your user base and the revenues will come later. — For a while, it seemed to be the easiest way for a founder to explain his or her way out of a prope...
Viacom Gives Up Fight Against Time Warner Cable, Adds Channels to TWC iPad App
Customers of Time Warner Cable have some reason to rejoice today, as the cable company has gotten the go-ahead to add channels like MTV, VH1, and Comedy Central to its live streaming iPad app.
Mobile Payments Startup Jumio Takes On Card.io With Credit Card Scanning Toolkit For App Developers
Mobile payments and identity verification company Jumio is introducing its Netswipe Mobile SDK today, which allows developers to add credit card scanning functionality to their mobile applications.
In TV Race, Microsoft Has Lead, Forrester Says
When it comes to the underlying technology providers that matter for mobile app developers, there's Google, Apple and everyone else. Microsoft is one of the companies trying to claw its way out of th...
Exclusive: Japan's Rakuten Wins the Heart of Pinterest in $100M Funding Race With $1.5B Valuation
Rakuten, the largest e-commerce site in Japan, is expected to be the lead investor in the much-contested next round of funding for Silicon Valley's hottest start-up, Pinterest.
Facebook increases IPO size (again)
Facebook adds 25% more shares. — FORTUNE — Facebook has significantly increased the size of its initial public offering, just two days before it is expected to begin trading on the NASDAQ. — Accor...
Admitted file-swapper begs Supreme Court for help
Says RIAA sought huge damages to create an “urban legend.” — Supreme Court, debunker of “urban legends”? — Flickr user TexasGOPVote.com — “Joel Tenenbaum is a fine and courageous young man who h...
Did Eduardo Saverin do anything wrong?
ACCORDING to the internet's hilarious headline writers, Eduardo Saverin, a Facebook co-founder, dis-"likes" America's tax rules and has “un-friended” the land of the free in order to dodge a potential...
Netflix launches sexy new web-based video player
Netflix just rolled out a completely revamped video player for browser-based viewing, and I gotta say, it's pretty slick: Not only does it come with lightbox-like text overlays while a video is paused...
China Mobile in Talks With Apple on Iphone Cooperation
China Mobile Ltd. (941), the world's largest phone company by users, and Apple Inc. (AAPL) are in talks to offer the iPhone, the carrier's new chairman said. — China Mobile can't predict if the two ...
For Facebook-boosted video apps, reality checks in
When Facebook made it easy to share what videos you were watching, companies like Socialcam, Metacafe, DailyMotion and Viddy rocketed up the app-charts and saw a sharp increase in the usage and downlo...
Retina MacBook screens: Already here — and pricey
and pricey — A pixelated MacBook screen. — (Credit: CNET) — Apple is said to be on the verge of rolling out new high-resolution displays for its computers that, up until now, have only been avail...
Gartner: Q1 2012 Phone Sales Declined 2%, Dragged Down By Asia-Pacific. Samsung Leads All
Sign of a maturing marketing flattening out, a lack of compelling devices, or a contraction in the economy? Gartner today released figures that note that worldwide sales of mobile phones were actuall...
Google finally adds ability to save home and work locations to Google Maps
Setting up a location for home and work and saving them in your address book is one of the most helpful mapping tips I can give anyone. Google apparently agrees, as it has now added the ability to sa...
Facebook's New R&D Machine
Fewer Half-Baked Products Without User Input; 'We've Gotten More Humble' — Mark Zuckerberg is taking a more measured approach for major features added to Facebook. Above, a stencil of Zuckerberg at...
LG debuts Optimus UI 3.0 to compete with HTC Sense and Samsung TouchWiz
Playing catchup in the Android smartphone market to Samsung and in some respects HTC, Korean electronics giant LG has today launched an updated version of its custom Android user interface — Optimus U...