Tailored Trends bring you closer
Trends help you discover the emerging topics people are talking about on Twitter. You can see these topics as a worldwide list, or select one of more than 150 locations. In order to show emerging to...
MacBook Pro Retina Display Analysis
I'm in San Francisco until tomorrow morning, but aside from dinner I've been spending as much time with the next-gen MacBook Pro as possible. Apple, as always, has done an excellent job of giving use...
Verizon Intros Share Everything Plans: Unlimited Talk/Text And Shared Data For Up To 10 Devices
Verizon Wireless today announced the addition of Share Everything plans. They're essentially family plans, allowing you, mom, dad, and big or little brother or sister to share from a pool …
Apple's Ping to End With a Thud in Next Release of iTunes
Apple has finally acknowledged what the market has been telling it since it first debuted Ping, its social network for music, in September of 2010. The service is a failure. — And rather than conti...
Big Tech: Twilight of the Trucks: WWDC Was All About Apple's Big Bet on Mobile
Just as the farm truck has faded, so will the PC in Apple's world. Photo: Puuikibeach — Almost exactly 2 years ago, Steve Jobs outlined his view of personal computing. We used to be an agrarian na...
Apple Pulls Messages For Mac Beta Ahead Of Mountain Lion Launch Next Month
If you haven't already installed the Messages application on your Mac, you will now have to wait until OS X Mountain Lion is released next month to get your hands on it. The Messages for Mac beta …
Lawyer demands $20,000, so webcomic raises $100,000 from the Internet
Lawyer demands $20,000, so webcomic raises $100,000 from the Internet — The saga of FunnyJunk vs. The Oatmeal takes an unexpected turn. — There's an excellent chance Mr. Carreon's mother does not ...
Facebook Integration for WordPress
Starting today WordPress publishers can easily integrate Facebook features, such as social publishing and mentions, through the new Facebook for WordPress plugin. — The plugin was built by Facebook ...
Exclusive: Sprint Touch Wallet slides show carrier is serious about NFC wallet app
Last week we heard that Sprint was developing their own NFC-based mobile wallet application, and today an insider has passed along to us a couple presentation slides to let us know that it's real.
Habbo exposed as paedophile haven
Balderton Capital will return its 13 per cent stake in social gaming company Sulake at zero value after learning that one of the company's products, Habbo, is to be engulfed in a child sex scandal by ...
The Antivirus Era Is Over
Conventional security software is powerless against sophisticated attacks like Flame, but alternative approaches are only just getting started. Two weeks ago today, computer security labs in Iran, Ru...
Go to school, get a Lumia 900: all incoming Seton Hall University freshmen to receive a Windows Phone
Granted, this'll be just one more way for upperclassmen to quickly identify the newbies, but all incoming freshmen to New Jersey's Seton Hall University will be given a Nokia Lumia 900 upon orientatio...
Here comes the greatest Internet landgrab in history
Frank Schilling is betting big on new domain extensions. — (Credit: Frank Schilling) — Frank Schilling made his fortune in the aftermath of the dot-com bust, buying up thousands of domain names ot...
Zynga Shares Plunge Below $5; Circuit Breaker Triggered
Zynga shares are getting pummeled today as broad worries about the company's user base have triggered yet another selloff. — Zynga dropped as much as 13%, tripped a short-sale circuit breaker and fe...
Facebook's Camera app gets a new name: Camera •. Yes, “•”
When Facebook launched its Camera app, many of us noticed that when it was displayed on your home screen, it simply said “Camera.” How could Apple let them get away with that, as its the same name as...
Maps in iOS 6 will require A5 processor for 3D “flyover,” navigation
iPhone 3GS in particular will get a reduced feature set in iOS 6. — iOS 6 promises to bring lots of new features to iPhone and iPad users—more than 200, according to Apple's count.
Hipmunk Plans to Take Off Internationally With $15 Million in New Capital
Hipmunk, the offbeat travel site that has made “taking the agony out of travel planning” its tagline, tells AllThingsD that it has raised $15 million in a second round of funding. — The financing wi...
MacBook Air 13" Mid 2012 Teardown
Apple announced the updated MacBook Air yesterday at WWDC, so, naturally, we're taking one apart. Join us as we dig into the new 13" MacBook Air, equipped with USB 3.0 and MagSafe 2. You like what y...
Google's Tim Bray drafts new HTTP status code for censorship
XML co-inventor and Android Developer Advocate Tim Bray is submitting a draft for a new HTTP Status Code to be used when resources aren't available because of legal restrictions. The code, 451 Unavai...
Facebook Says the Facebook Ads It Didn't Sell Work Great
Here's Facebook's retort to people who say Facebook ads don't work: A study that says people who see brand messages on the site spend more money on those brands, right away. — The catch: The study f...
Microsoft offers glimpse of Office 2013 on Windows RT tablet
Summary: Office 2013 RT seems to be the final branding for the Office 15 apps that will run on Windows RT tablets, based on a demo during a Microsoft TechEd presentation. — The June 12 Microsoft Tec...
Google Updates “Hot Searches” With Images & Stories
Google has announced an update to Hot Searches, formerly known as Google Hot Trends. The update gives the page a more magazine look with images from news papers, news stories, related searches, and m...
Mobile Money Management App Lemon Launches Digital Wallet, Closes $8 Million Series A
Lemon.com, the company behind the handy cloud-based receipt organizer and spending tracker mobile app, has now expanded its platform to include digital wallet functionality. And it has just landed an...
HTC confirms One S with the S3 processor being sold in select Asian, European markets
We recently saw that the HTC One S was being sold in Taiwan with a different processor than what's included in other regions, utilizing Qualcomm's previous-generation S3 Snapdragon instead of the late...
LulzSec Reborn Leaks 10,000 Twitter Accounts
LulzSec Reborn, the so-called redux of disbanded hacker group LulzSec, leaked around 10,000 Twitter usernames and passwords of members who used TweetGif, an animated Gif-sharing application. — The f...
Spotify App Soundrop Tunes Into First Investment: $3M From Spotify Lead Backer Northzone
Spotify's move last year to open its platform to other apps has created more stickiness for its streamed music services. Now, one of the startups based around that idea has found some traction of its...
Yext lands $27M to perfect local business listings
New York City-based Yext, a company that offers a simple way to control your business data across more than 50 local search publishers, announced today that it has landed an additional $27 million in ...
Twitter Has Moved Into Its New Office, And It's Gorgeous
It's a beautiful day in San Francisco: sunny but not too hot, a nice breeze but not too windy. — So a lot of Twitter employees had lunch out on the rooftop garden of their office. — Their brand-ne...
Kytephone Officially Launches App To Turn Android Phones Into Kid-Safe Devices
Kytephone, the mobile app that transforms Android smartphones into kid-safe devices, is officially making its public debut today. The startup had previously been in beta, following its reveal …
Siri's Nemesis Evi Relaunches, Recruits Berkowitz From Wolfram Alpha, Opens US Office
We saw what happened yesterday with the Siri announcements from Apple. Clearly they see it as core to their strategy and its deep integration inside iOS reflects its increasing importance.
Apple Spokesperson Confirms New Mac Pro Designs Likely Coming in 2013 [Update: Not iMac]
Yesterday, David Pogue of The New York Times vaguely stated in reference to Apple's desktop Mac lines that an unnamed Apple executive had informed him that “new models and new designs are under way, p...
UK regulator reopens investigation into Google Street View
It looks as though Google Street View is about to get into more hot water with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). — The Register has noted that Steve Eckersley, the ICO's head of enforceme...
Twitter, Facebook, and Airtime Are Waging War Against The Internet's Stupidity
The Web is overrun with dumb hashtags, chart-topping fart apps, and guys just waiting to show you their d*cks. But with this week's launch of Twitter's Tailored Trends, Facebook's App Center, and Air...
Microsoft charges Tablet OEMs a whopping $85 for Windows RT
U.S. Probes Cable for Limits on Net Video
WASHINGTON—The Justice Department is conducting a wide-ranging antitrust investigation into whether cable companies are acting improperly to quash nascent competition from online video, according to p...
Facebook Integration for WordPress
Starting today WordPress publishers can easily integrate Facebook features, such as social publishing and mentions, through the new Facebook for WordPress plugin. — The plugin was built by Facebook ...
After Rapes Involving Children, Skout, a Flirting App, Bans Minors
A popular social networking app that has been used by adults to prey on minors in three rape cases is the latest cautionary tale of the potential risks of using technology to connect with people you d...
New Ebook Player? UK Supermarket Giant Sainsbury's Buys HMV's 64% Stake In Anobii For £1
A sudden, but perhaps unsurprising, bit of e-book M&A today in the UK: the music and entertainment company HMV is selling its 64 percent stake in e-book retailer Anobii to the supermarket chain Sainsb...
Aging Microsoft lures young tech idealists
(Reuters) - The young interns, some of the nation's best and brightest in technology, business and design, had plenty of enthusiastic words to describe their summer employer. — Fun. Cool. Special....
Qwiki Partners With Bing, Nabbing Prime-Time Search Real Estate
Qwiki, the interactive online story-creation tool, is announcing a new partnership with Bing today. Now, Qwiki's will be prominently displayed directly in search results for select Wikipedia entries,...