Apple Seeds Golden Master of OS X Mountain Lion to Developers
“200 New Features” Mountain Lion slide shown at WWDC — Apple released the Golden Master (GM) version of OS X Mountain Lion to developers today. The “golden master” designation indicates that this v...
Microsoft shows off USB stick capable of bringing Windows 8 to older machines
Call it “Windows 8 on a stick.” During Microsoft's Digital Worldwide Partner Conference on Monday, Microsoft showed off a USB stick that doesn't just help users bring their personal data to different...
RIM CEO on What Went Wrong and the Future of BlackBerry
In an exclusive Q&A, CIO.com's Al Sacco chats with RIM CEO Thorsten Heins on the current state of BlackBerry and how it fell from grace, what the company is doing to ensure things in Waterloo don't ge...
GitHub finally raises funding: $100M from Andreessen Horowitz
GitHub is ready to take a huge step forward. After successfully bootstrapping its operation since 2008, the open-source code hosting site is set to announce Monday that it has accepted $100 million i...
Kim Dotcom's Extradition Hearing Postponed Until March 2013
In this Feb. 22, 2012 file photo, Kim Dotcom, the founder of the file-sharing website Megaupload, comments after he was granted bail and released in Auckland, New Zealand. The U.S. wants to extradite...
Why GitHub abandoned the bootstrapper's ship for a $100M Series A
After half a decade of preaching about the virtues of bootstrapping, the GitHub founders are finally getting in bed with a major VC firm to the tune of $100 million — that's $1 million per employee at...
Verizon confirms locked bootloader on Samsung Galaxy S III
Over the weekend we heard reports that Verizon's version of the Samsung Galaxy S III had a locked bootloader, which makes rooting and otherwise hacking the device much more difficult. We reached out ...
Bringing Craigslist Back
I've been wrestling with whether to bring back Craigslist listings in the search results. I've found a way to include them that I'm told is legally kosher since it doesn't touch their servers at all,...
Google Nexus 7 Tablet on Sale: Staples Takes Pre-Orders
Staples says it will carry the Google Nexus 7 tablet in its brick-and-mortar stores later this month, and that Google's 7-inch Android tablet is now available for pre-sale on its website. — The offi...
Software Inventory
Imagine, for a moment, that you came upon a bread factory for the first time. At first it just looks like a jumble of incomprehensible machinery with a few people buzzing around. As your eyes adjust...
Salesforce.com to Buy GoInstant
Salesforce.com is expected to buy start-up GoInstant for more than $70 million, people familiar with the matter said, as the big provider of online business software beefs up its customer-service offe...
AT&T Exclusive: Lumia 900 is pretty in pink
The Nokia Lumia 900 stands apart in the smartphone market with solid polycarbonate construction, a beautiful ClearBlack Display, stunning design, and with the simple and beautiful Windows Phone opera...
Here's How Often AT&T, Sprint, And Verizon Each Hand Over Users' Data To The Government
When it comes to modern law enforcement surveillance, no one watches the wiretappers. — The vast majority of law enforcement's demands that phone carriers and Internet services hand over users' priv...
Google Chrome 21 beta can interact with cameras, mics, and game controllers
The latest beta version of Google Chrome adds two new APIs that allow web developers to do a few interesting things. They can write web apps that will use your computer's mic or camera without a plug...
AT&T adds more LTE markets, but still struggles to catch Verizon
AT&T has expanded its 4G LTE wireless service to six more markets, the company said in a note to reporters. The company now offers the service in 47 markets around the U.S. — (Credit: CNET/Margueri...
Lady Gaga's social network “Little Monsters” opens its doors to everyone
We told you about Lady Gaga and her jump into social networking with the site “Little Monsters.” The site has been in private beta, but users all over the globe can now sign up. — Invites had been ...
Samsung Wins U.K. Apple Ruling Over ‘Not As Cool’ Galaxy Tablet
Samsung Electronics Co. won an intellectual property ruling against Apple Inc. (AAPL) as a U.K. judge said the Galaxy tablet isn't “cool” enough to be confused with the design for the iPad. — The Ga...
Kleiner bid for arbitration in sexism suit rebuffed
(Reuters) - A California judge on Monday tentatively rejected venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers LLC's bid to move a gender discrimination lawsuit brought by one of its own partners...
Speech recognition anyone? AT&T opens up Watson API
Look out Nuance Communications, there's a new speech recognition player in town. Nuance can't simply buy up this potential competitor as it has in the past since this company happens to be AT&T. Ma B...
Twitter follows Facebook down the walled garden path
Twitter set off alarm bells across the web in recent weeks when it ended its partnership with LinkedIn and reiterated its warning that it would be cracking down on the terms of its API. The company d...
It's Official: Pinterest, SF Mayor Ed Lee Confirm Move To San Francisco, Lee Opens Pinterest Acct In Celebration
Pinterest is pinning its name on a new office door: the company today officially announced that it is moving its offices from Palo Alto to San Francisco, confirming our reports …
Microsoft adds two more Android tablet makers to its patent-licensing list
Summary: Add Aluratek and Colby Electronics to the list of Android and Chrome OS tablet/PC makers who are paying MIcrosoft patent royalties. — Follow @maryjofoley — Microsoft has added yet two mor...
Analysis: Microsoft loss reflects Web display ad world's woes
(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp shelled out a record $6.3 billion for aQuantive in 2007 at the height of a race with Google Inc and Yahoo Inc to clinch the top spot in Internet display advertising, betting...
Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S.
We've seen a flurry of activity in recent weeks among Seattle area venture capital firms, led by Madrona Venture Group which raised $300 million last month and Divergent Ventures which pulled in $6.9 ...
Sexy Payments Startup Stripe Swipes $20M From General Catalyst, Sequoia, Thiel And More
White-hot payments startup Stripe has closed a $20 million Series B round of financing, led by General Catalyst with existing A-list investors Sequoia, Peter Thiel (personally) and angels Chris Dixon,...
About the future of Thunderbird
Jb Piacentino — Today I have the pleasure of welcoming Jb Piacentino, the managing Director of Thunderbird, following the recent Thunderbird announcement. — TN : Hi Jb, I read on the Web that Thun...
Reddit lifts its ban on “The Atlantic”
The Atlantic has returned to Reddit. — A month after the social news site kicked out the news magazine and dozens of other sites —including Bloomberg BusinessWeek, and Discovery News—for spam, Reddi...
Microsoft buys multitouch display maker Perceptive Pixel
Summary: Microsoft buys multi-touch large-display vendor, emphasizing collaboration in office work as one of the main potential uses of the technology. — Follow @maryjofoley — Microsoft announced ...
Windows 8 launching late October, RTM ‘on track’ for August
Microsoft's Tami Reller has announced that Windows 8 will Release to Manufacturing (RTM) in the first week on August, with a release in late October to retail stores. Speaking at the company's Worldw...
New Galaxy S III Commercials Show That The iPhone Can't Do Everything
Samsung released a new batch of commercials this weekend for its Galaxy S III flagship Android phone. — The ads don't waste time bashing the iPhone. Instead, they focus on what the Galaxy S III can...
The death of cash
Tech giants - and startups like Square - want you to use your phone to pay for everything from gum to train rides. Here's how they plan to achieve cash-free nirvana. — FORTUNE — Café Grumpy is the ...
Kayak Prices Long-Delayed $100 Million IPO at $25 A Share
It's been a long time in coming, but today Kayak, the hotel and flight search provider, announced that it has priced its shares and will begin trading at a range of $22 to $25 on NASDAQ Exchange under...
A Phone that Knows Where You're Going
An algorithm can better predict your future movements by getting a little help from your friends. — Beyond merely tracking where you've been and where you are, your smartphone might soon actually kn...
Malware Threat to Internet Corralled
Service Providers Are Set to Aid Customers, but Little Disruption Is Expected — WASHINGTON—The malware threat to the Internet likely has been tamed. — Leading Internet-service providers said Sunda...
Dailymotion is in Pact with Yahoo for Video Syndication
LONDON — Video-sharing site DailyMotion has pacted with Yahoo on a syndication deal for video, says Daniel Adams, VP International Content at Dailymotion, during the recent Beet.TV Global Video Summit...
Social citizenship: CNN and Facebook to partner on “I'm Voting” app in 2012 election
Two years ago, I wondered whether “social voting” on Foursquare would increase voter participation. — That experiment is about to be writ much larger. In a release today, first reported …
New Android virus ‘MMarketPay.A’ found on 100,000 Chinese smartphones and in 9 app stores
A new mobile virus capable of racking up large bills on Android-based phones has reared its ugly head in China, where it has already affected more 100,000 devices and nine app stores in the country.
AlienVault Grabs $22M From Kleiner, Sigma To Bring Open Source Security To Government, Higher Ed & More
Over the last few years, we've seen an increase in the number of high profile hacks and cyber attacks and, as a result, both government and enterprise finally began making security a priority and addr...
Facebook's App Center Goes International: Open To All English-Speaking Countries; Developer Translation Tool Added
Last week we got a little clue that Facebook was gearing up to take its App Center to markets outside the U.S., when it began to appear in the UK.
As Rivals Outsource, Lenovo Keeps Production In-House
Chinese PC maker Lenovo is trying to reposition itself as an innovator. But the company lacks name recognition in the coveted Western marketplace, something it hopes to fix with a range of new produc...
Freelancer.com buys Canada's ScriptLance, a marketplace for designers and coders
Job outsourcing and crowd-sourcing marketplace Freelancer.com just announced on its blog that it has acquired Canada's largest freelance marketplace, ScriptLance, which has over 360,000 enterprise and...