Apple CEO Tim Cook in the Hot Seat at D
While he has presided over a number of events since taking over as Apple CEO last year, Tuesday night promises to offer a new look inside the mind of Tim Cook. — Cook, as Steve Jobs did several time...
Photos: Black and white next-gen metal iPhone backs, mini-dock, taller screen, moved earphone jack present
Earlier today, we posted the first image of the back plate for the next-generation iPhone, and now we have received several more images that are very high-resolution.
RIM Expects Operating Loss as Bankers Help Company Explore Options
Research In Motion, the troubled Canadian company that makes the BlackBerry line of smartphones, just announced that it expects an operating loss in the quarter ending June 2. — The company also sai...
Salesforce Set to Snap Up Facebook Friend Buddy Media for More Than $800 Million
Enterprise, meet social: Cloud-computing pioneer Salesforce.com is close to a deal to acquire Buddy Media, the five-year-old company that helps brands manage their Facebook presence.
Google launches Chromebook, Chromebox & gets it right
We often joke Google is like the old Microsoft — getting things wrong, bumbling its way into new markets, and getting things right on the third try. This seems to be quite true of Google's efforts to...
Xbox Beyond the Box
Next week, the Xbox team heads to Los Angeles for E3. Having recently joined the team, I have the benefit of fresh perspective, and one of the things that has struck me is the amount of opportunities...
HTC says One X and Evo 4G LTE have cleared US customs, are in compliance with ITC rulings
HTC says that it has completed the review process with US customs, and that “HTC devices have been released, as they are in compliance with the ITC's ruling.” The company's One X and Evo 4G LTE phone...
Facebook Has Lost About $35 Billion In Value Since IPO As Shares Dip Below $29
Pain, pain, and more pain for Facebook's stock. Facebook sunk into the $20s for the first time today, declining about 9 percent as options trading started. The decline also came a day after a third ...
Improving performance on twitter.com
To connect you to information in real time, it's important for Twitter to be fast. That's why we've been reviewing our entire technology stack to optimize for speed. — When we shipped #NewTwitter i...
Sergey Brin Finally Lets Someone Else Wear Google Glass
Google's co-founder manipulates the Google Glass touch pad. Image Capture: Current TV — Sergey Brin has once again hit the town with Project Glass — but this time he let someone else wear Google's ...
Apple's Crystal Prison and the Future of Open Platforms
Two weeks ago, Steve Wozniak made a public call for Apple to open its platforms for those who wish to tinker, tweak and innovate with their internals. — EFF supports Wozniak's position: while Apple'...
Bitly Goes Beyond Link Shortening, But Its Users Are Not Amused
Bitly launched a major update and redesign of its link shortening service today that, in the eyes of many of its users, de-emphasizes some of its core feature. Instead of being able to just copy and ...
6.4 percent of most popular Windows Phone apps are incompatible with Tango devices
We've already seen several instances where low-memory Windows Phone devices like the Lumia 610, which has just 256MB of RAM, simply can't run certain high-profile apps. But just how bad is the proble...
Big Spenders Push Ad Line, But Facebook Holds Ground
Can Newly Public Company Withstand Demands for Ads That Interrupt User Experience? — GM wanted to brand Facebook. And Facebook wasn't selling. — In a now-notorious meeting between General Motors ...
Face.com Is Definitely Being Acquired By Facebook Say Sources
The purchase of Face.com by Facebook is happening and is a done deal, say multiple TechCrunch sources. — Those familiar with the matter have confirmed the price will be $100m, as per the media specu...
Technicolor Dissects IPhones In Hunt For Patent Payoff
When Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s next iPhone hits store shelves, Technicolor SA (TCH)'s engineers will rush to get the handset — not to make calls or play games, but to rip it apart. — Technicolor, an unpro...
Google: Search Activity Rising Following Revamp
Google said it has seen a noticeable increase in activity on its vaunted Web-search in the two weeks since the company began one of the biggest search transformations in its history. — People doing ...
Facebook shares fall below $30 as US authorities begin investigation into IPO
Shares continue to slump on Wall Street as lawsuits against founder Mark Zuckerberg allege company misled investors — Facebook's shares dipped below $30 Tuesday as the company's shares hit new lows ...
Microsoft at Work on Meshing Its Products With Skype
PALO ALTO, Calif. — By some measures, Tony Bates has accomplished a lot at Skype since Microsoft paid $8.5 billion for the Internet calling service. — The statistics tell the story. In seven months...
Is Yandex behind Facebook's rumored Face.com deal?
Facebook's apparent interest in Israeli image recognition startup Face.com could rely on an unexpected partner — the Russian search engine Yandex, according to reports. — Rumors that Mark Zuckerberg...
Samsung Galaxy S III launches in 28 countries, to be available in 145 by July
Although some retailers are saying they don't expect to have inventory right away, Samsung is officially claiming that it has launched the Galaxy S III in 28 countries today. That's a massive launch ...
RIM Writedown Risked With $1 Billion Inventory: Corporate Canada
Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM)'s stockpiles of BlackBerry smartphones and PlayBook tablets have swollen by two-thirds in the past year because of slumping sales, raising the chances of the company's t...
Amazon Instant Video Now Available on Xbox 360, with Access to ‘Your Video Library’ and Prime Instant Video
Customers can now watch the latest movies and TV episodes on the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and use Kinect for Xbox 360 to find and play videos with the wave of a hand...
Sprint Plans to Shut Nextel Network as Early as June 2013
Sprint said Tuesday that it would shut down its Nextel network as soon as June of next year, as the company aims to free up space for its next-generation LTE network. — The carrier has been working ...
Fear and Loathing and Windows 8
I was very excited when I saw the first demos of Windows 8. After years of settling for mediocre incremental improvements in its core products, Microsoft finally was ready to make bold changes to Win...
Bitly Launches New Bookmarking Features, Profiles, Search & iPhone App
Link shortener Bitly today launched a major redesign and number of new features that all add up to what the company itself calls “a new Bitly.” Among these new features are ‘bitmarks,’ Bitly's name f...
The Case for Facebook
Let's not let 10 days of share price fluctuation blind us to Facebook's unprecedented accomplishments. Consider this a skeptic's guide to the bull case for the social network. — Facebook just had m...
Sweet irony: EU imposes cookie law, ignores own rules
On all European Union institution websites, you will be lucky to find a single page that asks the visitor for permission to set cookies. But they're using them all the same. — The ‘cookie law’ requ...
MongoDB database creator 10gen grabs a whopping $42M from NEA, Sequoia, others
10gen, the startup that created the popular MongoDB open-source data application, has raised a new $42 million round of funding to improve its data-harnessing technology and build out its team.
Pirate Bay Ready For Perpetual IP-Address Whac-A-Mole
The Pirate Bay is arguably the most censored website on the Internet. — Courts all around the world have ordered Internet providers to block subscriber access to the torrent site, and the end is sti...
Google Wallet: one year later
The rumors and leaks go back a bit further, but it was a year ago today that Google officially revealed its Google Wallet mobile payment service — a platform that the company is still betting big on, ...