A Yahoo Search Calls Up a Chief From Google
Updated — Marissa Mayer, one of the top executives at Google, will be the next chief of Yahoo, making her one of the most prominent women in Silicon Valley and corporate America. — The appointment...
Apple May Meet Tablet Competition With a Smaller iPad
The tech companies are at it again — trying to catch the blockbuster iPad in a race to win the tablet market. — Google on Friday began shipping its Nexus 7, which is smaller and less expensive than ...
Apple Store overnights happening July 24. Mountain Lion launch the next day?
We've heard a few whispers (3 and counting) that Apple Stores both in the United States and overseas have planned overnights for Tuesday, July 24th. With OS X Mountain Lion launching “in July”, accor...
AT&T appears set to control and charge for FaceTime over Cellular in iOS 6
Like it does with the iOS Personal Hotspot feature, U.S. carrier AT&T appears set to control and charge for the iOS 6 FaceTime over Cellular feature. This iOS 6 enhancement brings the formally WiFi …
Microsoft unveils the new Office
Delivers Office as a cloud service while harnessing innovations enabled by Windows 8 — Today, Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled the customer preview of the new Microsoft Office, available a...
Paul Maritz Out As VMware CEO And Mentioned As Candidate For Top Spot At EMC Or Cloud Foundry Spin Off
Paul Maritz is out as the CEO of VMware and will be replaced by EMC COO Pat Gelsinger. — Maritz spent four years at VMware. It's uncertain what he will do but rumors have swirled all day about abou...
Sky's pay-as-you-go online Now TV service launches tomorrow on PC, Mac and Android
We knew that BSkyB was launching its pay-as-you-go Internet TV service this summer, but the exact details around the launch, including the date, weren't known until now. — At a launch event in Londo...
An iPad Lover's Take On The Nexus 7
Trolls, feel free to skip to the bottom of this column and post your comments immediately without reading a word. Actually, who are we kidding — you didn't make it this far. — Everyone else, brace ...
Steam store search shows categories for non-gaming apps
The Steam app for Android shows a number of new categories that have little to do with gaming, which could be a shred of evidence that Valve is considering different kinds of apps for its popular game...
Here is why Facebook bought Spool
Over the weekend, news reports emerged that Facebook was buying Spool, a mobile-oriented social bookmarking service started by Avichal Garg and Curtis Spencer. At the surface, this seems like yet ano...
Apple Rolling Out iCloud.com Email Addresses with iOS 6 Beta 3
With today's release of iOS 6 Beta 3 to developers, Apple has revealed in the update's change log that it is beginning the first stages of transitioning users from the me.com email addresses and Apple...
Tax Break Nears End For Online Shoppers
Republican Governors, in Need of Revenue, Drop Opposition — Republican governors, eager for new revenue to ease budget strains, are dropping their longtime opposition to imposing sales taxes on onli...
China's Lenovo inches closer to a global tech title
Lenovo Group Ltd is on track to overtake Hewlett-Packard Co as the world's biggest PC maker by sales as soon as this year, making it the first Chinese company to grab the top spot globally in a techno...
Microsoft Hits Back as Google Muscles In
Microsoft Corp. has publicly dismissed Web-based Google Apps as a competitor to its Office software suite. But, behind the scenes, Microsoft is stepping up its efforts to halt Google Inc.'s encroachm...
The Most Important Tech Company You've Never Heard Of
Information about every cell phone in the country is in a Neustar database. Which is why it's kind of weird that 400 or so companies trust them to deal with law enforcement surveillance requests. — ...
Microsoft Virus Fighter: Spam May Be More Difficult To Stop Than HIV
Microsoft researcher David Heckerman helped stop junk mail headaches. Now, he's using some of the same techniques he helped pioneer to fight HIV. — David Heckerman has been studying HIV for the pas...
Linux developers working on Windows UEFI secure boot problem
Summary: With Windows 8 PCs with UEFI secure boot locked PCs on its way, Linux developers are working on addressing its problems. — Follow @sjvn — We all know that Windows 8 PCs will come locked u...
Creamery is deal central for SF techies
Miguel Raimilla (l to r), executive director Telecentre.org, and Rebecca Masisal, co-CEO Techsoup Global, who both work for community technology companies discuss work over lunch at The Creamery on Fr...
Evernote Wants To Be The Automatic, Trusted Place To Store Your Life [Interview]
Evernote, the multi-platform app that lets you capture notes, audio and images when you are on the go, and then access those mementos wherever you want to next, has carved out a position as one of the...
The State Of Mobile App Privacy Policies
The Washington, D.C.-based think tank Future of Privacy Forum ("FPF") released a study this week detailing the current state of mobile app privacy policies as of this past month, June 2012. The repor...
New Yahoo CEO Mayer is pregnant
Marissa Mayer, the Google (GOOG) executive who today was named Yahoo's (YHOO) new chief executive, is pregnant. — Mayer told Fortune exclusively that her first child is due October 7. It's a boy! ...
Microsoft Hits Back as Google Muscles In
Microsoft Corp. has publicly dismissed Web-based Google Apps as a competitor to its Office software suite. But, behind the scenes, Microsoft is stepping up its efforts to halt Google Inc.'s encroachm...
From Airbnb to TaskRabbit to Zimride, sharing is becoming big business
The nation is in a sharing mood — and start-ups are capitalizing on it. — Americans with heaps of stuff, skills and time are connecting online with tech-savvy and early adopters eager to share and r...
U.S. Venture Capital Has Its Biggest Quarter Since Dot-Com Days
U.S. venture capitalists put $8.1 billion into 812 deals in the second quarter of 2012, their single largest quarter in more than a decade, according to CB Insights. — It's clear factors like the gr...
Anonymous hackers target oil industry giants, more than 1,000 email credentials exposed
More than 1,000 email credentials from five multinational oil industry companies, including Shell and Exxon and BP, has been dumped online by hackers associated with the Anonymous movement.