Reveal Day 13 June 2012 - New gTLD Applied-For Strings
ICANN developed the New generic Top-Level Domain Program to increase competition and choice by introducing new gTLDs into the Internet's addressing system. What is a gTLD? It is an Internet domain n...
MacBook Pro with Retina Display Teardown
This is it: The Chosen One of MacBook Pros. While other MBPs were gifted only the standard annual updates, this particular model was bestowed with a Retina display, a thinner profile, two Thunderbolt...
Experience more with expanded Tweets
Starting today, you can discover more interactive experiences inside any Tweet on twitter.com and mobile.twitter.com. When you expand Tweets containing links to partner websites, you can now see cont...
Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and others scramble for new top-level domains like .app, .xbox, and .book
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has revealed the names of the 1,930 applications for new generic top-level domain names (gTLDS).
Linus Torvalds: Linux succeeded thanks to selfishness and trust
Linus Torvalds developed Linux in 1991 while at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He became a US citizen in 2010. — Linux creator Linus Torvalds will find out later if he has won the Millennium ...
Kleiner Perkins ‘Vigorously Denies’ Ellen Pao's Gender Discrimination Claims
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers has filed a response to partner Ellen Pao's allegations of gender discrimination and boy howdy, they did not hold back. We've obtained a copy, and here's the meat and...
MacBook Pro with Retina display review
Apple's new flagship is powerful, thin, and has an industry-leading high-res screen — does it live up to great expectations? Though Apple quietly discontinued the 17-inch MacBook Pro this week, hardl...
Analysis: Apple's big enemy in smartphone wars: delay
(Reuters) - Apple Inc has spent nearly three years fighting its rivals in a global smartphone patent war. Now, setbacks in two key U.S. court cases are laying bare why a drawn-out battle could be bad...
Obama to streamline approval of Internet networks
President Obama will sign an executive order on Thursday to streamline the approval process for broadband Internet networks built on federal property and roads. — Currently, the process for approvin...
HTC Resists Push Toward Low-End Phones
TAIPEI—Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC Corp. will stick to its strategy of selling medium- to high-priced phones, even though it has been struggling to compete in that price range where Apple Inc. and ...
How Facebook keeps 100 petabytes of Hadoop data online
It's no secret that Facebook stores a lot of data — 100 petabytes, in fact — in Hadoop, but how it keeps that data available whenever it needs it isn't necessarily common knowledge. Today at the Hado...
Building The Next Internet, 250 Times Faster
Developers in 25 cities are getting a playdate with GENI, an ultra-fast broadband sandbox, with the goal of building apps that push beyond the limits of today's Net. — The series of tubes that make ...
Apple hands off transit directions to third-party apps in iOS 6 Maps
Rather than include transit and walking directions natively in the new Maps application in iOS 6, Apple will instead highlight third-party options available on the iOS App Store. — The ability of th...
Confirmed: Waze And Others Contributing To Apple's iOS 6 Maps' Crowd Sourced Traffic Data
Shortly after yesterday's Apple WWDC keynote there was plenty of chatter amongst the pundits, journalists and developers about which apps Apple had screwed over with iOS 6.
Developer gets iOS apps running on BlackBerry, for real (we asked for more evidence and got it)
This past Saturday a thread popped up in the CrackBerry Forums by new member businesscat2000, titled iOS Apps running on PlayBook! The thread linked to this video on youtube …
The high-school blogger who's been cracking Apple's secrets
In the walk-up to this week's big keynote, nobody had more scoops than Mark Gurman FORTUNE — Trying to scope out Apple's (AAPL) product plans in advance is serious business for a small army of tech jo...
The Social Network That Cried “Wolf!”
If you're reading this blog, then you're probably aware that last week 6.5 million Linkedin passwords were compromised. On Friday the Cloudmark Research team saw a huge increase in user spam reports ...
My Xbox Live update for iPhone brings direct remote control, Android users join the party too
As much as we liked the My Xbox Live app on iOS, it left out any practical control of a real, live Xbox 360 — and left Android users in the cold. The 1.5 update to the app puts those issues largely …
Reddit bans “The Atlantic,” “Businessweek,” others in major anti-spam move
Reddit just dropped the banhammer. — As of today, more than a half-dozen prominent websites have been banned from the massively popular link-sharing site, including digital publishing heavyweights T...
Skype For Windows Now Features “Conversation Ads”
Skype just announced that it will now begin to show some of its users ads during 1:1 audio calls. These so-called “conversation ads” will only appear for users who don't have Skype credit or a subscr...
Facebook Exchange: A New Way For Advertisers To Target Specific Users With Real-Time Bid Ads
Facebook is testing and will soon launch Facebook Exchange, a real-time bidding ad system where visitors to third-party websites are marked with a cookie, and can then be shown real-time bid ads relat...
Apple fails to fend off mobile tracking lawsuit
(Reuters) - Apple Inc must defend against a lawsuit accusing it of letting advertisers secretly track the activity of millions of mobile device users, a federal judge ruled, but Google Inc and several...
Aviary launches photo editing application on iOS, turns Android plugin into an app
Last we heard, Aviary was being chosen to replace the deceased Picnik as the main photo editor on Flickr, and now the startup is getting ready to launch its first iOS app and give its previous Android...
Why Zynga is Shedding Users
Social gaming company Zynga had an outstanding 2011, leading to a well-hyped IPO in December. But Zynga's biggest risk was always an over-reliance on Facebook, with most of its revenue and users comi...
Kleiner Perkins Files Legal Response To Gender Discrimination Suit, Denies “Each And Every Material Allegation”
Kleiner Perkins today filed its official legal response to the gender discrimination and retaliation lawsuit that one of its partners, Ellen Pao, filed against the storied Silicon Valley venture capit...
Samsung aiming for complete mobile domination with rumored Facebook competitor
Samsung's made no secret of its ambitions to commandeer all aspects of mobile tech — from devices themselves to processors and software like ChatON and the recently announced Siri competitor S Voice.
Amazon getting cloud-music rights, may match iCloud (scoop)
Amazon executives are close to striking license deals with music studios to cover the company's cloud music service, numerous music industry sources told CNET. — Amazon already has reached agreement...
Tin Pan Valley: The Coming Shakeout for App Makers
Like the Early Music Industry, Today's Apps Are ‘Made’ By Marketing, Sales — They were 20-somethings emboldened by new technology. If they were shrewd, they just might get rich. — These inventors...
Supposed leaked screenshots of Windows Phone 8 Apollo appear, show off Skype and Lenses
With less than week before Microsoft is expected to show off Windows Phone 8 in San Francisco, some leaked (and terrible looking) screenshots have appeared on the site Nokia Innovation.
Amazon inks MGM deal to bring classic movies and TV shows to Prime Instant Video
Amazon has today announced a licensing agreement with MGM which will see hundreds of classic movies and TV shows added to its Prime Instant Video catalog throughout 2012. — Amazon Instant Video …
With A Beautiful New Redesign, Unroll.me Comes Out Of Beta To Roll Up All Your Junk Email Subscriptions
Unroll.me launched in private beta a few months ago to help end email fatigue — specifically that which is linked to all the email subscriptions that users sign up for and forget about.
DreamWorks Incubates a Mobile Video Editing App Called PTCH
A team spun off from the studio behind “Shrek” and “Madagascar” wants to make the next Instagram. — DreamWorks Animation is incubating a new social photo and video app called PTCH, which is being in...
Apple Steps Into Patent Fight To Unnecessarily Silence A Little Girl
We've covered plenty of stories concerning Apple's ridiculously arbitrary nature as the gatekeeper for iOS apps, approving or pulling them with little reason. And, of course, we've discussed a variet...
Apple's Siri Buttons On Mercedes, BMW, Jaguar Steering Wheels? Automakers Think Different
Siri is coming to Mercedes, GM, BMW, Jaguar, and others, but the connectivity the auto brands describe is a far cry from an iCar. — We know Steve Jobs dreamt of designing an iCar …
‘jOBS’ actors seen on set at Steve Jobs' old Los Altos home
New photos show that the upcoming jOBS biopic is well underway with actors already populating their roles on-set at Steve Jobs' old Los Altos home where the first Apple computer was built. A bearded ...
Nokia in talks with EQT to sell Vertu: sources
(Reuters) - Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is in talks with private equity group EQT to sell its luxury handset subsidiary Vertu for around 200 million euros ($249 million), sources familiar with th...
State Department speaks out on Amazon Kindle deal
On Monday, I reported that the U.S. State Department was signing a $16.5 million agreement with Amazon to provide Kindles, content and service for overseas English language programs. Yesterday I was ...
Acer unveils $450 Iconia Tab A700: 1920 x 1200 display and Tegra 3 under the hood
With new laptop announcements coming practically every other day as of late, a tablet unveiling is a nice change of pace. We have Acer to thank for that, as it's lifting the curtain on the 10-inch Ic...
Judge says bank can't use Facebook to reach defendant — try local paper instead
try local paper instead — In the latest example of courts' unease with social media, a federal judge has refused a request by Chase Bank to serve legal papers on an identity thief via Facebook. — I...
Dell Seeks $2 Billion In Cost Cuts Over Next Three Years
Dell Inc. (DELL), the world's third-largest maker of personal computers, will focus on data-center gear as well as computing software and services while seeking to cut costs by more than $2 billion ov...
REVEALED! Here's Who Owns How Much Of Square
Jack Dorsey's payments startup, Square, has just hired a CFO and it's in the hunt for a reported $250 million round of fresh financing that would value it at anywhere between $2.5 billion and $4 billi...
Chrome update for MacBook Pro's Retina display coming soon, developer version available now
One of the (few) disadvantages to the new MacBook Pro's stunning Retina display is that apps need to be updated to take advantage of it, otherwise they can look fuzzy, out of focus, and generally bad.
US lawmakers create website to crowd-source a ‘digital bill of rights’
Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Representative Darrell Issa (R-CA) have started drafting a crowd-sourced digital bill of rights in hopes of preventing piecemeal laws like SOPA and CISPA from over-regulat...
Another Big Exit For NY Startups: SinglePlatform Gets Acquired For $100 Million By Constant Contact
SinglePlatform has been acquired for $100 million by small business marketing tools company, Constant Contact. — Constant Contact has over 500,000 paying small business customers and 1,060 employees...
Mark Cuban puts $500,000 investment into immersive video startup, Condition One
Danfung Dennis spent the last decade working as a photo-journalist and filmaker in some of the world's most dangerous places, shooting war footage that appeared in Newsweek and The New York Times and ...
Why Game Center for Mountain Lion is a big deal
Why Game Center for Mountain Lion is a big deal — Game Center is coming to Mountain Lion when it debuts next month (you can get a bit more info on Apple's “What's New” Web page). This is a really b...
Disney launches streaming apps for the iPhone and iPad, Comcast gets them first
Disney is launching three apps for the iPhone and iPad that give users to access programming previously only available on cable: Watch Disney Channel, Watch Disney XD, and Watch Disney Junior.
Cvent Acquires Seed Labs for $4.2M to Bolster Consumer and Mobile Event Apps
Today cloud-based event management company Cvent announced that it has acquired Seed Labs, a startup that specializes in mobile apps for consumer and social events including concerts, festivals and sp...
Developers: Retina-optimized Mac apps will take time
While Apple is already updating its own apps for Retina display, officials with third-party developers Adobe and Autodesk on Tuesday said they'll need time to ship Retina-optimized apps to the public....
Twitter Turns Its Tweet Firehose On For Saleforce's Radian6 In New Enterprise Deal
As enterprise companies like Salesforce and Oracle continue to sharpen their social media services for enterprises, Twitter is locking arms with one of them in a strategic alliance.
DepositFiles Settles Multi Million Dollar Piracy Lawsuit
As one of the largest files-sharing sites on the Internet, DepositFiles is visited by millions of users per day. — After the Megaupload shutdown the cyberlocker appeared to be one of the top alterna...
Samsung Wants To Automate Your Phone With NFC-Equipped TecTiles
Samsung has a handful of NFC-equipped phones, like the Galaxy S II and III, and the Galaxy Nexus, but little has been done to put the technology to use. Sure, there's Google Wallet and other mobile p...
Amazon's cloud music service will soon be licensed (scoop)
Amazon executives are close to striking license deals with music studios to cover the company's cloud music service, numerous music industry sources told CNET. — Amazon already has reached agreement...
iOS 6 Hands-On: iTunes Match Now Streams Music
One of the new additions to iCloud and iTunes was iTunes Match, which is a service that lets you store your iTunes library in iCloud. It costs $24.99/year, and the system works by matching any of you...
Denials Over Google Street View
Google has long prided itself on not being a conventional company. But there is one characteristic it apparently shares with the most sclerotic bureaucracy: the willingness of its employees to say, “...
Owning Your Content In Search: Google Now Makes It Easier To Link Your Website To G+
Last year, Google announced an initiative to give authors on the Web greater ownership over their content and more visibility in search. Google Authorship, as its known, has changed consistently sinc...
Google Blockly Is a Visual, Drag-and-Drop Tool for Building Apps and Learning to Code
Curious about programming and want to build your own app, but feel a bit intimidated? Google Blockly is a visual programming language that can help you get started quickly.The webapp lets …
Exclusive: China's Hudong.com raising $50 million
Chinese encyclopedia wiki returns to VC market. — FORTUNE — Hudong.com, a Chinese-language encyclopedia wiki, is raising up to $50 million in Series C funding, Fortune has learned. — The money is ...
Constant Contact Acquires Business Listings Startup SinglePlatform, Deal Worth Up To $100M
Email marketing company Constant Contact has acquired SinglePlatform, a startup that helps local businesses manage their online presence. — The deal is for $65 million cash …