Samsung Galaxy S III review
Everyone promises a better camera, Samsung actually delivers — The Galaxy S II set a high bar for smartphone camera performance, but the Galaxy S III has beaten it. Image quality on this phone is s...
Exclusive: HP's webOS Enyo team is going to Google
The HP team responsible for Enyo — webOS's HTML5-based application framework that debuted on the TouchPad — will be leaving the company and starting at Google shortly, The Verge has learned. What thi...
Apple introduces ‘editors’ choice' and free ‘app of the week’ on the Mac App Store and iTunes
Apparently we weren't the only ones excited about the release of Cobook, as today Apple began promoting the intelligent contact manager on the Mac App Store with its new “editors' choice” branding.
First video sample from Google's Project Glass
Although we're still not sure exactly how Google's Project Glass wearable glasses work, the company has been testing them in very public ways over the past couple of months. Google co-founder Sergey ...
Odd That Microsoft Demands Google Take Down Links That Remain In Bing
We just wrote about Google's very cool, new copyright transparency tool, which lets you dig into the details of all the search takedowns that Google gets. As people start to play around with the site...
More on Apple's Removal of Airfoil Speakers Touch From the App Store
After some interesting back-and-forth with a few informed sources, I think Apple's removal of Airfoil Speakers Touch from the iOS App Store is not as mysterious or capricious as I first thought. The ...
Facebook to acquire browser maker Opera? Maybe. Here's what we know.
Juicy rumor coming from Pocket-lint this morning: Facebook is reportedly eyeing a takeover of desktop, tablet and smartphone browser maker Opera Software. — Citing an unnamed source, Pocket-lint …
Apple says DoJ “sides with monopoly, rather than competition”
Apple takes credit for breaking Amazon's “nearly absolute” control over e-books. — Image via HarshLight on Flickr — Apple has accused the US government of siding “with monopoly, rather than compet...
No-cost desktop software development is dead on Windows 8
You won't be able to use the free Visual Studio Express to develop desktop apps. — Photo illustration by Aurich Lawson — Microsoft wants Windows developers to write Windows 8-specific, Metro-style...
Apple to sell Nest Learning Thermostat
iLounge has learned that Apple will soon offer the Nest Learning Thermostat for sale through the Apple Store, an interesting development given both Nest's history and the types of products commonly so...
Microsoft to offer 80-inch Windows 8 tablets for offices
“Steve Ballmer has an 80-inch Windows 8 tablet in his office. He's got rid of his phone, he's got rid of his note paper. It's touch-enabled and it's hung on his wall.” — This description of the Mi...
Facebook Camera Could Backfire and Get All Of FB's Apps Buried In A Folder
Not everyone loves Facebook enough to give it three, four, or five spots on their homescreen. So yesterday's launch of Facebook's third consumer iOS app Facebook Camera, could actually end up reducin...
Reddit's Alexis Ohanian And Activists Aim To Build A ‘Bat-Signal For The Internet’
Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian protesting the Stop Online Piracy Act in January. (Credit: Alec Perkins) — The “blackout” of Web sites to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in January …
Nokia brings live traffic advice and geocoding to Bing
As you all know, our partnership with Microsoft goes beyond Windows Phone on our Nokia Lumia smartphones. We're also teaming up with Bing to offer the best location-based services and apps. — One o...
Why Facebook Needs Two Photo Apps
Facebook released Camera today, an iPhone app that lets you take photos, add filters to them, and share them on Facebook. — Hey, wait a second. Isn't that what Instagram does, which Facebook just s...
Absinthe 2.0 Brings Untethered Jailbreak to iOS 5.1.1 Devices Including New iPad
Chronic Dev Team today announced the release of Absinthe 2.0, which offers users the ability to jailbreak numerous iOS devices running iOS 5.1.1, including the third-generation iPad, without having to...
The inside story: How Facebook panicked and botched its IPO
There's been a ton of coverage about the Facebook IPO disaster, but very little of it looks at the crucial point two weeks ago where things went terribly wrong. It's becoming increasingly clear that ...
Groupon is testing a payments offering to compete with Square and PayPal
Groupon is testing out an offering of its own in the increasingly crowded payments space, according to an email I was forwarded by a business that was solicited for the service. (Disclosure: I have v...
HP's Enyo team clarifies that the project will go on, though some ‘key members’ have left
An update was just posted up on the Enyo blog clarifying some of the rumors about the team leaving to go to Google. The statement mentions that some of the ‘key members’ of the team have left the com...
Tumblr Debuts In ComScore's Top 50 Web Properties
Here's another sign of Tumblr's growth: The blogging network/platform has cracked comScore's chart of the Top 50 U.S. web properties for the first time. — ComScore's April 2012 report credits Tumblr...
Three Things That Should Trouble Apple
I believe that many Apple observers have been too invested in picking off the low hanging fruit of obviously out-of-touch commentators, columnists, and analysts. Apple is winning. It's fun to pick o...
Gigabit Squared raises $200M to bring super fast internet to 6 communities
The dream of bringing a gigabit-per-second high-speed broadband internet connection is becoming a reality for at least six university communities in the U.S. — a country that's known for the speed of ...
Meth Labs and Dead Dogs: How the Founder of McAfee Antivirus Went on the Run in Belize
It's been a while since I've posted anything. “I've been busy” is everyone's excuse for laziness, but I can't come up with a better one. For those of you who follow the news in Central America …
Flickr adds much needed features for Groups: upload options, Justified View and more
Flickr has just announced new Groups features on its blog, including a Justified View, the ability to submit photos directly to Groups via the Uploadr and brand new API methods for developers.
Facebook testing new “star your close friends” feature
Facebook users who logged in last night may have caught a glimpse of a new feature on Facebook. The largest social network in the world is testing “Star Your Close Friends,” an experimental feature t...
Dell Said To Weigh Buying Quest To Add Computer-Management Tools
Dell Inc. (DELL) is in discussions to acquire Quest Software Inc. (QSFT), a maker of tools that help companies manage their computer systems, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
Google prepping ‘Events’ and ‘Local’ features for Google+?
Google rolled out version 2.6 of the Google+ app for Android today, updating its UI and adding several new features, but it appears to have left something hidden under the hood as well. A source info...
Silicon Valley's In Crowd Just Lost BetterWorks, A $10 Million Startup
BetterWorks, a Santa Monica, Calif.-based startup with a who's-who of Silicon Valley behind it, just announced it's shutting down at the end of the month. — The company had raised $10 million from R...
How Google Can Beat Facebook Without Google Plus
Look, Google, we've got a plan to help you win on social. There's only one catch: you have to give up the notion that animates Google Plus. — Out in the Mojave Desert, there's a place called Califo...
Broadband In Crisis: Does The US Need Regulation To Force Meaningful Competition?
Susan Crawford believes telecommunications in America are going through the biggest crisis ever, and this is just as bad as the banking crisis was. Monday, at the Freedom 2 Connect conference …
Meddik Grabs $750K From Chris Dixon, Founder Collective & More To Build A Better WebMD
Entrepreneurs, please start paying more attention to healthtech. Rather than trying to build the next billion-dollar mobile photo app, go lean and deep into bigger problems.