Jonathan Ive interview: Apple's design genius is British to the core
Apple's design guru Jonathan Ive, who receives a knighthood today for creating products such as the iPad, tells Shane Richmond why this country's industrial heritage lies behind his success.
Here comes Yahoo's own Web browser — Axis
Axis — Yahoo is announcing tonight that it's getting into the browser business with its new Axis browser. There are versions for iPad and iPhone, and plug-ins for the desktop browsers Chrome, Firefo...
Facebook, Zuckerberg, banks sued over IPO
(Reuters) - Facebook Inc, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, and several banks led by Morgan Stanley were sued by shareholders, who claimed the defendants hid the social networking leader's weakened gro...
Oracle v. Google jury foreman reveals: Oracle wasn't even close
Some jurors felt Oracle's IP claims might not be in the public's best interest. — A few minutes after the Oracle v. Google verdict, the ten jurors filed out to the elevator. A group of several repo...
IBM Outlaws Siri, Worried She Has Loose Lips
Siri doesn't work on IBM's internal networks. (Image: Flickr/Photo Giddy) — If you work for IBM, you can bring your iPhone to work, but forget about using the phone's voice-activated digital assist...
Windows 8 Secrets: Internet Explorer 10 will Ship with Adobe Flash
With tech enthusiast web sites from around the world starting to leak Windows 8 Release Preview screenshots, your intrepid “Windows 8 Secrets” co-authors offer a bit of color commentary about what you...
Social Media Marketer Vitrue Has Been Bought By Oracle For $300 Million
Breaking news: TechCrunch has discovered that software giant Oracle has made a big investment in social media today. The company has bought Vitrue, the social media marketing company that is a close ...
Google to Warn 500,000+ of DNS Changer Infections
Google plans today to begin warning Internet users if their computers show telltale signs of being infected with the DNSChanger Trojan. The company estimates that more than 500,000 systems remain inf...
Apple Maintains Top Mobile PC Share in Q1'12 on Strong iPad Shipment Growth
HP, Acer, Lenovo, and Dell Round Out Top Five Spots; China Market Posts Sequential Growth Santa Clara, Calif., May 22, 2012—Apple shipped nearly 17.2 million mobile PCs in Q1'12, accounting for 118% Y...
Nvidia reveals Kai: a platform for building quad-core Android tablets priced at $199
When Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said we might see $199 Tegra 3 tablets this summer, he wasn't speculating idly. Nvidia has revealed that it's working on just such a tablet: Kai.
Windows 8 boots ‘too quickly’ to be interrupted, Microsoft adding a new ‘boot options’ menu
Did you know that an SSD-equipped Windows 8 PC can boot up in under seven seconds? Watch the video below if you don't believe it, Microsoft has really optimized the hell out of the startup operations...
F.C.C. Weighs Treating Video Sites Like Cable Companies
BOSTON — Most consumers have no idea what an M.V.P.D. is, but they mail a check to one every month. What they call Comcast or Time Warner Cable or DirecTV, the government calls a “multichannel video ...
FBI quietly forms secretive Net-surveillance unit
The FBI has recently formed a secretive surveillance unit with an ambitious goal: to invent technology that will let police more readily eavesdrop on Internet and wireless communications. — The esta...
ITC Judge: Xbox Should Be Banned From U.S. Over Motorola Patent Violation
An ITC judge has called for a sales and import ban on Microsoft's Xbox 360 gaming console. Photo: Chris Kohler/Wired — A judge at the U.S. International Trade Commission has ruled that Microsoft's ...
Bing's Visual Search Is Gone (Has Been For A While, Actually)
The fact that almost no one noticed might be one reason why Bing has dropped its Visual Search feature ... something that apparently happened months ago. — To be clear, this isn't traditional image ...
Apple expected to spend $27 billion on semiconductors in 2012
A new analysis expects Apple to remain the the world's biggest chip buyer this year, projecting $27 billion worth of semiconductor purchases from the company in 2012. — Dale Ford, IHS iSuppli's head...
Google Privacy Inquiries Get Little Cooperation
Secrets spilled across the computer screen. — After months of negotiation, Johannes Caspar, a German data protection official, forced Google to show him exactly what its Street View cars had been co...
Google strikes back at rules, antitrust, critics
Google has spent the past year trying to dodge trustbusters who snared its archrival Microsoft. — The company has built an army of 22 lobbying firms, donated to political campaigns, hired a former G...
HP's Whitman to Shed More Light on the Future, Including Job Cuts, Today
Hewlett-Packard will report its quarterly earnings today after the close of regular trading in New York, and there's a lot riding on what its senior executives, especially CEO Meg Whitman, will have t...
Seagate To Buy Storage Products Maker LaCie For At Least $186M
Seagate this morning announced plans to acquire LaCie, a Paris-based producer of consumer data storage devices, for at least $186 million. — Seagate said it has agreed to buy a 64.5% stake in LaCie ...
Pirate Bay Simplifies Circumvention of ISP Blockades
Within a few days, five of the largest UK Internet providers will all have to censor The Pirate Bay. Virgin and Orange have already implemented the block and the rest must follow before the end of Ma...