Delivering the Windows 8 Release Preview
Today, Windows 8 Release Preview is available for download in 14 languages. This is our final pre-release, and includes Windows 8, Internet Explorer 10, new Windows 8 apps for connecting to Hotmail, ...
Judge: Oracle Java API elements not covered by copyright law, related claims against Google dismissed
Things weren't looking good for Oracle after the jury found that Google hadn't infringed upon the company's patents in the second phase of the trial, but the issue of infringement of the structure …
Google Applies for More than 50 New Domains Including .LOL and .YouTube
Web Giant Spends Millions in Aim to Aquire .Google, .Docs and Many Others — Last month, Google told Ad Age that it was poised to go on a web-domain buying spree. Today, the company announced in a b...
Google Points Antitrust Finger at Microsoft, Nokia
Google Inc. said it filed an antitrust complaint Thursday in Europe arguing that Microsoft Corp. and Nokia Corp. are using proxy companies to brandish patents and hurt the prospects of Google's Androi...
In Ad Network Nightmare, Microsoft Making ‘Do Not Track’ Default for IE 10
Microsoft announced Thursday that the next version of its browser, IE 10, will ship with the controversial “Do Not Track” feature turned on by default, a first among major browsers, creating a potenti...
Kleiner Perkins Adds Megan Quinn, Former Products Director At Square, As Newest Investment Partner
Megan Quinn, the web exec who most recently served as the Director of Products at credit card processing tech firm Square, has joined Sand Hill Road venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Bye...
Cricket first pre-paid US carrier to offer iPhone; on $55/month unlimited plan, starting June 22
Cricket Communications, a Leap Wireless company, is the latest carrier to offer new Apple iPhone models (the iPhone 4 and 4S to be more specific) in the United States.
Facebook makes a comeback, options volume soars
(Reuters) - Facebook Inc bounced back from record lows in frenetic trading on Thursday to finish in positive territory for the first time in four days, lifted in late trade by a U.S. market rebound an...
Facebook Drops Google Chrome Recommendation, Replaces It With Opera
More fuel to the rumor's fire. — It looks like Facebook management decided not to bother with the Google Chrome anymore as their latest “unsupported web browsers” page has since then removed the sea...
The Rumored iPhone 5′s Four Inch Front Panel Can Nearly Swallow An Old iPhone Whole
Another day, another iPhone 5 leak. This time we're looking at a four-inch long front panel of what appears to be a new iPhone. This panel suggests a longer, 16:9 style body and screen and lines …
U.N. takeover of the Internet must be stopped, U.S. warns
FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell warns a House committee that Google, iTunes, Facebook, and Netflix could face new international taxes. — (Credit: U.S. House of Representatives) — Democratic and R...
Intel formally launches Ivy Bridge laptop chips, slightly revises ultrabook requirements
Intel's third-generation Core processors launched over a month ago, but only the most powerful ones: today, Chipzilla's dual-core and ultra-low voltage (ULV) chips are official, meaning we'll soon sta...
Collected Videos of Late Apple Co-Founder Steve Jobs at D, Now Free on iTunes
There's lots of video of the late Steve Jobs, primarily from his famous introductions of Apple products over the years and from his oft-quoted Stanford commencement address. — But by far the largest...
Google Product Search To Become Google Shopping, Use Pay-To-Play Model
Google Product Search is getting a new name, Google Shopping, and a new business model where only merchants that pay will be listed. It's the first time Google will decommission a search product that...
Inside Nokia's Struggle Against Apple's iPhone
Nokia Corp.'s new top-of-the-line smartphone sells for $200 less than Apple Inc.'s cheapest iPhone 4S. But under the hood, Nokia actually pays more for the phone's components, according to an analysi...
Spotted in the wild: Google+ Events feature on its way, with tie-in to Google Calendar
Google is putting a lot of effort into making its Google+ social network thing more robust to turn it into a viable competitor to market leader Facebook. One major feature Google+ was missing so far ...
Looks Like Pinterest, Takes On Evernote: Clipboard Launches Its Web Clipping Service To All
At first glance, you might mistake Clipboard, the impressively-backed web clipping service, for yet another Pinterest clone. But any similarities are only skin deep.
How a trio of hackers brought Google's reCAPTCHA to its knees
Hackers exploit weaknesses in Google's bot-detection system with 99% accuracy. — The background noise added to the audio version of Google's reCAPTCHA didn't include high frequencies, making it easy...
Rebtel expands the VoIP calling assault with iPad app
Rebtel, which bills itself as the biggest mobile VoIP company after Skype, is expanding its emphasis on mobile with the launch of its first iPad app. The company is looking to ride the wave of iPad g...
Google, Facebook vie for stake in Vevo
It's a battle of the tech brands. — Both Google CEO Larry Page and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg are exploring an investment in Vevo as part of a broader partnership with the music-video service, The P...
All Things D is Haunted by the Man Who Isn't Here
This year, as with the last ten, several hundred top digerati have flocked to Southern California for the All Things D tech conference. As in previous years, the roster of speakers, interviewed by co...
25 years of HyperCard—the missing link to the Web
the missing link to the Web — Before the World Wide Web did anything, HyperCard did everything. — The Computer Lab's Beyond Cyberpunk Hypercard stack — Cyberculture.hu — Sometime around 1988, m...
Ari Emanuel Wants You to Shut Up and Pay Up
The D10 conference kicked off yesterday with a gospel choir and a marching band. Tonight, we got a pro wrestling match. — In one corner: Ari Emanuel, playing the role of “Hollywood guy who thinks H...
How Alexis Ohanian Built a Front Page of the Internet
Reddit, created by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian, was one of the first start-ups out of the Y Combinator program to be acquired, making Ohanian a 23-year-old multimillionaire. Here's how he did it...
Google Translate now allows website owners and visitors to edit translations
Google Translate is an incredibly useful tool, particularly for any of us that live outside of our home country but lack full-on fluency, however in spite of its value, it can also be extremely frustr...
So Why Is LinkedIn An IPO Standout?
Earlier this morning at D10 KPCB analyst Mary Meeker showed a pretty definitive slide about the current state of the public markets with regards to tech companies. “The private market is in a bubble,...
Oracle Loses (Yet) Another Battle in War on Google
Despite countless setbacks, Oracle continues to argue that Google ripped off its intellectual property Image: MartinBowling/Flickr — In the waning Java war between Oracle and Google, Oracle has lost...
Why we need to blow the article up in order to save it
Many media outlets — and not just traditional players like newspapers or magazines, but even some newer and more digital-savvy ones — still think of the article or the story as the bedrock foundation ...
Gigabyte makes 975g X11 official, claims 'world's lightest' 11.6-inch notebook (update: hands-on video)
Well hello there again, Gigabyte X11. Hot on the heels of yesterday's leak, Gigabyte's just made its 11.6-inch X11 laptop (or is that an Ultrabook?) official.
Grubwithus Raises $5M to Expand Communal Dining Platform
Looking to go out to eat with friends, but short on the friends? Startup Grubwithus was among the first to offer an option for organizing dinners among like-minded individuals who might not know each...
Diffbot Raises $2M to Power Its Learning, Web Browsing Robot
The first startup out of Stanford's StartX student accelerator program, website form and content recognition engine Diffbot, is today announcing a $2 million round of funding from a select group of in...
RIAA Accuses Google Of Not Doing Enough To Fight Piracy, But May Be Guilty Of Not Doing Enough Itself
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has once again come out swinging at Google, saying the company isn't doing enough to fight copyright infringement online.
Broadcasters Dispute Aereo in Court Over TV Technology
A lawyer representing TV startup Aereo Inc. on Wednesday argued that the company's new television-streaming service doesn't violate copyright law because it records show content before transmitting it...
Netflix iOS app update adds new video player, controls, Facebook sharing toggle and more
Recognising that its users are watching more and more of its content from a mobile device, Netflix has today pushed live an update to its iOS app, improving its video player and adding more controls a...
Pew: 8% Of U.S. Online Adults Now Use Twitter Daily
According to the latest data from the Pew Internet & American Life project, 15% of online adults in the U.S. now say that they have used Twitter in the past and 8% told Pew that they do so on a typica...
YC-Backed GoCardless Launches PayLinks, A Bitly For Payments
GoCardless, the Y Combinator-backed startup founded in 2010 by Oxford graduates Hiroki Takeuchi, Tom Blomfield and Matt Robinson, is today launching a new product called PayLinks which aims to be some...
Researchers Link Flame Virus to Stuxnet and Duqu
SAN FRANCISCO — Security experts have only begun examining the thousands of lines of code that make up Flame, an extensive, data-mining computer virus that has been designed to steal information from ...
Congress to look at future of Internet control
(Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers will delve on Thursday into an international debate on whether to hand more control of the Internet to the United Nations, a move many fear would turn it into a political ba...
Quip: A New iPad Twitter App With A Focus On Conversations
I have often written about the need for developers of third-party Twitter clients to focus on different, fresh experiences aimed at providing a new take on mobile tweeting. On iOS, as I have previous...
Orange San Diego revealed: Intel-powered phone to reach UK on June 6th for £200
Orange took its time to decide, but now it's settled. The first European Intel-equipped smartphone is the San Diego, replacing the Santa Clara codename assigned to it since February's Mobile World Co...