Facebook e-mail mess: Address books altered; e-mail lost
An alarming number of people are reporting that the new e-mail address Facebook forced on users this week is changing their address books while intercepting and losing unknown amounts of e-mail. — F...
Twitter Transparency Report
Wednesday marks Independence Day here in the United States. Beyond the fireworks and barbecue, July 4th serves as an important reminder of the need to hold governments accountable, especially on beha...
RIM's tailspin
The number of BlackBerry phones sold fell 41% year-on-year in the last RIM fiscal quarter. Sequentially the fall was 30%. Though surprisingly poor, I note that Nokia's smartphone business fell even ...
Upgrade to Windows 8 Pro for $39.99
We set out to make it as easy as possible for everyone to upgrade to Windows 8. Starting at general availability, if your PC is running Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7 you will qualify to dow...
A Solution to the Twitter API Problem
I am writing this article because I love Twitter, and I've built a business around making sense of Twitter data. — I am concerned by the recent “ominous” signs that Twitter may be heading down a pat...
Judge rejects Samsung's request to allow U.S. tablet sales
(Reuters) - A U.S. judge rejected on Monday Samsung Electronics Co. request to lift an injunction against U.S. sales of its Galaxy Tab 10.1, a tablet computer than runs on Google Inc's Android and com...
Dell acquires Quest Software for $2.4 billion to expand its security and data solutions
Strengthening its systems management, security and data protection services, Dell has agreed to acquire enterprise software specialists Quest Software for $2.4 billion, at $28.00 per share.
Google's Nexus 7 tablet infringes Nokia patents
THE GOOGLE NEXUS 7 is already in hot water, as Nokia claims that the tablet infringes some of its patents. — Announced last week, the Asus built Nexus 7 is Google's first own-brand tablet and boasts...
HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE gets July 5 release date, available on Verizon for $149.99
Launched at this year's CTIA Wireless 2012 event, HTC's Droid Incredible 4G LTE has finally received a release date, coming to Verizon stores and its website on July 5 for a price of $149.99 (after re...
Google sees advantage in making new gadget in USA
(Reuters) - When Google Inc decided to build its Nexus Q home entertainment device in Silicon Valley rather than in China, it was not fretting about the bottom line. It was fretting about speed. — ...
The other Windows 8 hits some snags
Microsoft Surface tablet packing an Nvidia ARM chip. — (Credit: Microsoft) — Don't be surprised if the other version of Windows 8 — you know, the one that doesn't run on Intel chips — stumbles out...
Apple Loses Bid for Emergency Ban on HTC Phone Imports
HTC Corp. (2498) can continue to bring its newest smartphones into the U.S. while a trade agency investigates whether the phones violate an order that the Taiwanese company stop infringing an Apple In...
MasterCard Ties Up With T-Mobile For NFC Mobile Payments In Europe
Another strong step ahead of mobile payments today: MasterCard and Deutsche Telekom have announced that they will work together to roll out services across DT's footprint in Europe, starting with an N...
iCloud Beta Previews Web Versions of Notes and Reminders
Leaks first appeared in May that Apple was planning to add web versions of the Reminders and Notes iOS apps to iCloud.com for access from desktop Macs and PCs. — The iCloud Beta portal has since bee...
Mozilla's Boot To Gecko Becomes Firefox OS, Scores Support From Sprint, Deutsche Telekom, ZTE, And More
Mozilla's Boot to Gecko project has come a long way in just under a year — what began with the idea of building a mobile operating system based on open web standards like HTML5 has led …
QR Code Fatigue
When 29-year-old manufacturing worker Michael Hellesen sees a Quick Response code around his hometown of Racine, Wis., he sometimes scans it using an application he downloaded to his Google (GOOG) And...
VLC 2.0.2 adds Retina display support, kills font cache, and more
VLC 2.0.2 has just been released for Windows and OS X, and while the update further tweaks video playback on both platforms, the major changes come to the version for Apple's desktop OS. For those wh...
Facebook clarifies email address confusion, contact sync is a bug that will be fixed
We just got off the phone with Andrew Bosworth, Facebook's Director of Engineering, who sought to clear up some of the confusion recently about the company's decision to hide all email addresses besid...
Beats Electronics acquires MOG music service
Beats Electronics, the company best known for its Beats By Dr. Dre headphones, is acquiring the online music service MOG. — The parties did not disclose the terms of the acquisition, the first for t...
Sony buys Gaikai game streaming service for $380M
Sony announced tonight that it will acquire Gaikai, the streaming game service for $380 million. The deal officially closed on June 30, and Sony is purchasing the Aliso Viejo-based company as part of...
Announcing The Declaration Of Internet Freedom
A whole bunch of organizations and individuals are getting together today to launch the beginning of a process, the creation of an Internet Declaration of Freedom. We've seen how the internet has bee...