Today's turbulence explained
Not how we wanted today to go. At approximately 9:00am PDT, we discovered that Twitter was inaccessible for all web users, and mobile clients were not showing new Tweets. We immediately began to inv...
HTC's Windows Phone 8 roadmap: ‘Zenith’ flagship, ‘Accord’ midrange, and ‘Rio’ entry-level models
After yesterday's official look at Windows Phone 8 from Microsoft, we've received some details from a knowledgeable source on exactly what HTC — arguably the most important Windows Phone 8 licensee ri...
Larry Page Is Speechless, Literally — And Won't Be Onstage at I/O Next Week
And Won't Be Onstage at I/O Next Week — Google CEO Larry Page has lost his voice, said Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt today. — Page, who is already well known for his reluctance to speak publicly,...
Surface: Between a Rock and a Hardware Place
Watching the Microsoft Surface event video, I sensed uneasiness. Not panic, but discomfort. Some will argue that I'm simply spoiled by Apple's on-stage polish, but Monday's Microsoft event struck me...
Microsoft's Surface Tablet Said To Be Wi-Fi Only In First Models
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s Surface tablet computer, unveiled this week to compete with Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s iPad, will initially go on sale without a connection to mobile-phone networks, according to two...
Today's outage is due to a cascaded bug in one of our infrastructure components. We'll provide updated information soon.
Microsoft sends takedown notice to sites hosting Xbox 720 doc, including Dropbox
A massive 56-page document on Microsoft's “Xbox 720” plans surfaced on the internet over the weekend, revealing some potential ideas around Kinect Glasses and more. The document itself was hosted on ...
Facebook is now rolling out the ability to edit your comments
There's nothing worse than making a typo when you've just left the “perfect” comment on someone's Facebook status update. Turns out, Facebook feels the same way. — The company told TNW that it has ...
Galaxy Nexus Listing in Play Store Outs Jelly Bean as Android 4.1, Arriving “Soon”
And I'd say this about settles it. Jelly Bean will be Android 4.1, according to the Google Play listing for the Galaxy Nexus. We had all sort of assumed that 4.1 would be next, but now the question ...
Problems For Monetization: Lawsuit Forces Facebook To Let You Opt Out Of Sponsored Story Ads
Facebook's business model just hit a stumbling block, as the social network is being forced to let users opt out of having their likenesses repurposed as endorsements in Sponsored Stories ads.
Microsoft Is the Most Exciting Company in Tech, Hands Down
I never thought I'd ever hear myself utter such words post-1995. But after Monday's reveal of the Surface tablet—complete with an ultra-thin, pressure-sensitive keyboard cover and the most discrete i...
Sneak peek: This is Kim Dotcom's new Megabox service
MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom may have had most of his assets seized as part of his indictment for criminal copyright infringement in January, but that apparently hasn't stopped him from working on hi...
Motorola Mobility to Microsoft: We Demand a Royalty Recount
Here's a big surprise: Google and Microsoft beg to differ. — For months now, the software giant has been saying that Google's Motorola Mobility unit has refused to license standards-essential patent...
Microsoft: First Branded Tablets; Next, Their Own Smartphone?
Microsoft's move into the tablet hardware business may be just the first step in a radical repositioning of the company's approach to the device market. — As you know by now, Microsoft on Monday hel...
Apps Rule! Wooga No Longer Distributing HTML5 Games on Facebook.
Wooga, a German-based social game developer, said it will no longer use Facebook to distribute its mobile games, after conducting a six-month long experiment on its HTML5 platform. — The decision is...
RIM says first BlackBerry 10 device will not have a physical keyboard
TORONTO — The first BlackBerry device running Research In Motion Ltd.'s new operating software will not have a physical keyboard, only a touch-screen one. — The BlackBerry 10 software will be offere...
Google Launches Coordinate: A New Service For Managing Mobile Workforces
Location-based apps and services like Foursquare have made significant inroads among consumers in the last few years, but most of the recent developments around location-based apps have bypassed the b...
Apple starts $500 off Macs, $250 off iPads employee discount program
In late January, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced to employees that a new major Mac and iPad discount program for employees would kickoff at some point in late June of this year. Keeping that promise, Ap...
Exclusive: Gaming company Gaikai seeks buyer
Orange County start-up could be worth well over $500 million. — FORTUNE — Gaikai, a popular provider of cloud-based streaming services for PC and console games, in on the block. Sources tell me it ...
New La. law: Sex offenders must list status on Facebook, other social media
(CNN) — A new Louisiana law requires sex offenders and child predators to state their criminal status on their Facebook or other social networking page, with the law's author saying the bill is the fi...
Android Developers can now respond directly to user reviews on Google Play
Google Play developers can now write replies to user reviews of their apps, Google announced today in a blog post. — As of today, developers with a Top Developer Badge — a designation awarded to dev...
Tumblr releases revamped iOS app with new layout, offline mode, support for high-res images and Spotify
Tumblr has introduced version 3.0.0 of its iOS app which features a raft of changes included a revamped dashboard, support for high-resolution images and Spotify, a new image viewer and offline suppor...
Endangered Languages Project: Google Wants To Save 3,000 Languages Under Threat (Thanks Partly To Google)
Google, along with other major forces of our dot-com times, has played a huge part in making English the lingua franca of the Internet, but today brings news of an effort it's making to counterbalance...
Twitter to expand advertising rollout
Latin America and western Europe to be the first to get promoted tweets as network ramps up efforts to generate revenue — Twitter has unveiled an aggressive expansion of its advertising products, wi...
Review: The 2012 MacBook Air soars with Ivy Bridge
New Air may look the same, but performance has surged ahead in just one year. — Another year, another MacBook Air. Apple's lightweight machine has come a long way since it was first released in 200...
Foxconn rumored to begin receiving Apple television LCDs in Q3 2012
A new rumor claims Sharp is set to begin delivering LCD TV panels to assembler Foxconn in order to begin building Apple television sets. — The details were reported Thursday morning on Chinese news ...
The art of important work, of making a ruckus and of inventing the future
Entrepreneurs teach VCs, not the other way around. And I was lucky early in my career to back Seth Godin, who taught me a lot. When I met Seth, he was writing books and building a web company.
Bing Rolls Out New Image Search With Better Search Suggestions, Filters And Bigger Thumbnails
Just a few weeks after completely redesigning its regular search results pages, Bing rolled out a nice update to its image search feature today. With this update, Microsoft is improving …
Enterprise Apps Worth $120 Billion This Year, Gartner Reckons
Spending by companies on enterprise software applications will amount to more than $120 billion, according to a forecast by the market research firm Gartner, which amounts to growth of about 4 percent...
T-Mobile selling 16GB Samsung Galaxy S3 for $279 after rebate
(Credit: Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET) — T-Mobile users hankering for Samsung's Galaxy S3 will have to pay more than their counterparts on AT&T and Sprint. — The latest Galaxy S smartphone is ...
Former Microsoft And Amazon Employees Launch Livestar, An App For “Trusted” Recommendations
After a year or so of stealth preparation, Livestar today launches an iOS app where you can view “trusted” recommendations. In an effort to become the one-stop-shop for everyone's recommendation need...
Opinion: EFF should call for the elimination of software patents
The group's patent reform ideas are a good start, but don't go far enough. — As recently as 2010, Justice Kennedy seemed unaware that software patents were controversial. — The Electronic Frontier...
Facebook will change ad service to settle lawsuit
(Reuters) - Facebook Inc has agreed to allow users more control over how their personal information is used in its “Sponsored Stories” ad feature, part of a deal to resolve litigation against the soci...
TaskRabbit Launches On-Demand Courier Service ‘Deliver Now’ In San Francisco
San Francisco is a relatively tiny place — famously just 49 square miles — but now its residents will have the whole city at their fingertips even more so than ever. — TaskRabbit, the online marketp...
Texas Presses Google Probe
The Texas attorney general's office, as part of its two-year-old antitrust probe of Google Inc., earlier this week filed a civil action in state court that demands the Internet company hand over an un...
Adobe Fixes Flash Player Crashes in Firefox, after Two Weeks
Adobe has updated its latest Flash Player plugin to finally fix the crashes that have been plaguing some Firefox users. Flash 11.3, released a couple of weeks ago introduced the sandbox to Firefox.
Startup Accelerator Fail: Most Graduates Go Nowhere
Startup accelerators continue to grow in popularity. There are now more than 200 around the world attracting twice as many applicants as they did just two years ago. But there's a dirty little secet...
Like Netflix, Facebook is boosting its edge network
(c)2012 Pinar Ozger pinar@pinarozger.com — Updated: Facebook is building out its own edge network to help speed up the delivery of its photos according to Frank Frankovsky, a VP at the social networ...