Watch this: Microsoft's Surface event video now live
Microsoft announced one of its more significant hardware products today, a Surface tablet running on Windows 8 or Windows RT. Although the company did not release pricing or availability information, ...
Spotify Finally Launches Web Radio, For Real. And That's a Problem For Pandora
A lot of people confuse Spotify's streaming music service with Pandora's streaming music service. — Now they're going to be a lot more confused. In a way that's good for Spotify and a problem for P...
Why Microsoft's Surface Tablet Should Shame the PC Industry
On June 18, Microsoft (MSFT) beckoned 200 or so members of the media to an industrial, grimy part of Hollywood for what it described as a can't miss affair. The dutiful reporters met at the appointed...
A new way to experience profiles: with or without replies
When you visit a Twitter user's profile, you may want to see his or her original Tweets rather than their conversations. Then again, you may enjoy seeing the back-and-forth exchanges they have with o...
MacBook Pro 15" Retina Display Teardown
In case you missed it, we tore apart the new MacBook Pro with Retina display last week. Inside, we found a whole mess of pretty, yet difficult to access components. In fact, the MacBook Pro with Ret...
Google Threatens To Sue Huge YouTube MP3 Conversion Site
YouTube is without doubt the biggest free resource of videos and music available online today. It can be enjoyed on the site itself, embedded in any webpage, or accessed via YouTube's Application Pro...
LG To Sideline Tablet Development To Focus On Smaller Devices
LG Electronics Inc. (066570), the world's No. 4 mobile-phone maker, will sideline tablet computer development to focus more on smaller devices rather than compete head-on with Apple Inc.'s iPad.
U.S., Israel developed Flame computer virus to slow Iranian nuclear efforts, officials say
View Photo Gallery — Stuxnet and other big worms and viruses: The computer virus is growing in popularity as the weapon-of-choice in the Middle East. Here's a look at some of the more notable viruses...
Google Offers app now available on iPhone
Today we're announcing the new Google Offers app for iPhone. Now, iPhone users can discover, buy and redeem Google Offers, as well as deals from our partners, on-the-go. Some of the features of the ...
Google partners with Flipboard, adding Google+ streams to the app
Speaking at Le Web '12 in London, Google's Vice President of Product Management Bradley Horowitz announced that it has partnered with Flipboard, adding Google+ streams in the app. The streams will la...
WWDC 2012 session videos go live for developers
As promised, Apple has quickly posted videos of many of the WWDC 2012 developer sessions. There are currently 113 videos of sessions live on Apple's developer website. Sessions for both iOS and OS X...
Kodak sues Apple, claiming interference in patent sales
(Reuters) - Photography pioneer Eastman Kodak Co sued Apple Inc to stop it from interfering with plans to sell a large patent portfolio, a significant part of its bankruptcy restructuring. — In a la...
Ex-Googlers Launch MightyText, An iMessage For Android Users
During their lengthy careers at Google in both senior technical and product management roles, Maneesh Arora and Amit Sangani were able to geek out on products like AdSense, AdWords, and the now-defunc...
Now at 5 million members, Fab buys design store LLUSTRE and launches in the UK on its first birthday
Fab, the fast-growing online design sales site, has acquired fellow design store LLUSTRE.COM, which will be henceforth be known as Fab UK. — The news was due to be announced by Fab later today …
Schumer: Google, Apple Moves To 3D Maps A Dimension Too Far!
Noted consumer technology alarmist Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY), is turning his intense scrutiny back on Google and Apple, this time over the two companies' competing plans to provide the most accurate...
Facebook Adds Subscription Billing For App Developers, Backs Away From Credits As Primary Currency
Facebook is adding subscription billing for app developers, in what should help gaming and media companies earn more revenue from their most loyal users. Starting next month …
A Redesigned, Slicker PayPal Is Coming Tomorrow; Some Seeing New Look Today
PayPal, the eBay-owned online payments service that is making significant inroads into mobile, is giving its website an overhaul to make it easier for its 100 million+ users to pay and get paid, find ...
Royalties From Digital Radio Start to Add Up
After more than a decade, the royalties for Internet radio and other digital music streams are finally starting to add up. — On Monday, SoundExchange, a nonprofit group that processes payments for o...
Prominent Investors Miss Web IPO Payoff
For venture capitalists and other prominent investors in young companies, an initial public offering is supposed to be the big payoff for years of patience. It's not working out that way for some bac...
NVIDIA PR Responds To Torvalds' Harsh Words
NVIDIA's PR department has issued a statement following the harsh comments by Linus Torvalds last week where he referred to the graphics company as the single worst company they have ever dealt with, ...
AT&T and Sirius work to make spectrum available
AT&T is looking to put some of its unused spectrum to work in a move that could reshuffle the wireless spectrum deck. — On Friday, the carrier filed a joint proposal to the Federal Communications Co...
They Work! Facebook Mobile Ads Are Clicked 13X More, Earn 11X More Money Than Its Desktop Ads
How will Facebook monetize mobile? Its organic-seeming Sponsored Stories ad format may be the answer. Mobile Sponsored Stories are getting over 13 times the click-through rates and earn 11.2 times …
NSA: It Would Violate Your Privacy to Say if We Spied on You
Gen. Keith Alexander, center, the head of the National Security Agency, visits Afghanistan, 2010. Photo: ISAF — The surveillance experts at the National Security Agency won't tell two powerful Unit...
New Gmail custom themes let you set your own background image
For those of us still staying true to Gmail's web interface and resisting the lure of dedicated clients like Sparrow, Google is today rolling out a pair of custom theme options. Using the basic Light...
Box Expands to Europe, Hires Infrastructure VP Away from LinkedIn
There's always something interesting going on at Box. Last I looked in on it, the fast-growing enterprise cloud service startup had just moved into new headquarters in Los Altos, Calif. though employ...
People have spent 10 million nights in strangers' beds, thanks to Airbnb
Four years after inventing a crafty marketplace for spaces — couches, castles et al. — San Francisco-based startup Airbnb has helped travelers book more than 10 million nights (likely to the chagrin ...
Shapeways, Having Printed 1 Million Objects, Secures More Financing
People sure do like printing things in 3-D. — Shapeways, a company that enables people to print 3-D objects, announced on Tuesday that it had completed a $6.2 million series B round of financing fro...
B&N earnings: Nook Simple Touch drags revenues down, though digital content sales are up
Barnes & Noble reported Q4 revenues of $1.4 billion for the period ended April 28, on losses of $1.08 per share. Following Microsoft's $300 million investment during the quarter …
Amazon adds all 7 Harry Potter books to its Kindle Owners' Lending Library
Amazon said they would be coming, and it delivered. From today, all seven of JK Rowling's Harry Potter books will be available to download via Amazon's Kindle Owner's Lending Library (KOLL) …
Facebook reveals guide for dealing with spam, explicit content reports
Summary: Facebook users shouldn't be too casual about what they report as spam or worse because evidently those claims are taken very seriously and go through a stream of channels to be addressed.
LinkedIn sued over hacking incident that exposed six million passwords
LinkedIn will get to connect with a federal judge after an embarrassing security breach in early June. The social network for professionals has been hit with a class action seeking at least $5 millio...
Russia's Oleg Tinkoff plots a new $20m ad venture
Here's one to watch: serial entrepreneur Oleg Tinkoff — best known for starting a groundbreaking online bank in his home country of Russia — is putting together a new business, with substantial backin...
From Russia with likes: Kremlin to launch Facebook-style social network
With the internet genie fully out of the bottle in Russia, Chinese-style attempts at top-down control are doomed. So officials have come up with a plan — The Kremlin is planning to create its own F...
Formspring Relaunches As An Interest-Based Social Network
Q&A site Formspring is today announcing what the company says is its biggest news since its original launch back in 2009. Yes, Formspring has been overhauled. The company is shifting its focus from ...
Chinese Operators Hope to Standardize a Segmented Internet
A technology draft written by employees at China Mobile and China Telecom and submitted to the Internet Engineering Task Force describes how the Internet could be split into several parts using the Do...
Readability by the Numbers
Last week, Readability CEO Richard Ziade announced that Readability's acceptance of reader fees and their publisher payment system is ending. In that announcement Ziade shares a few statistics about ...
Google now offers support to developers during office hours with “Developers Live”
If you're wondering about how serious Google is when it comes to strengthening its developer ecosystem, today's announcement should answer that. — The company has launched “Google Developers Live” …
BlackBerry 10 hands-on (video)
Like any good show pony, BlackBerry 10's been trotting around the world, strutting the fairly limited elements of its known UI in an effort to court developers. The platform, without question the nai...
China's ‘Twitter’ introduces fees
Sina Weibo may not be afraid of domestic competition said one analyst — Sina Weibo, China's biggest Twitter-like microblogging platform, has introduced a membership charge for premium features. — ...
Microsoft's Phone Efforts Move Into the Spotlight Wednesday
While Monday was a huge day for Microsoft, thanks to the Surface tablet, Wednesday is also shaping up as a pretty important milestone. — The company is set to meet with developers to talk about the ...
VHX Raises $1.25 Million From Lerer Ventures And Angels To Democratize Video Distribution Online
For years, independent video producers have waited for the time when it would finally make economic sense for them to cut out the middle man and distribute their content directly to their fans.
First look at the curved tabs in Firefox's new Australis design
A Mozilla developer published a Firefox build that shows the new tab style. — A screenshot of the custom Firefox build with the Australis tab style. — Earlier this year, we reported on Mozilla's e...