Microsoft Admits Risk in Tablet Plans
Sometimes the only way to get a straight answer from a company on a thorny topic is through its government filings. — In an annual report that it submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission ...
Simplifying printing in Windows 8
The iPad that never was: kickstands, curves, and ‘highly confidential’ Apple prototypes revealed
We already got a look at some early iPhone designs inspired by Sony and the iPod, but court documents have revealed an assortment of different looks that were considered for Apple's various iOS produc...
Roku Becomes Pay TV's Streaming Box Of Choice, Raises $45 Million From News Corp, BSkyB, And Others
When Roku first entered the streaming video market, it was seen as a boon for cord cutters, who could watch streaming content from online distributors like Netflix and Hulu Plus on TV.
Sprint Q2 2012 Earnings: Net Loss Widens To $1.4B, 1.5M iPhones Sold
U.S. wireless carrier Sprint Nextel has just posted its results for Q2, and while it continues to prepare for a brighter future ahead, it reported widening losses. The loss was $1.4 billion, with neg...
Google Talk Goes Down, Suffers Outage Across the World
Google's GTalk users across the world are facing downtime at the moment. People using the popular messaging client are having variety of issues, ranging from inability to access their contacts to mes...
Facebook Reports Second Quarter 2012 Results
Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) today reported financial results for the second quarter, which ended June 30, 2012. — “Our goal is to help every person stay connected and every product they use be a gre...
The economics of Google Fiber and what it means for U.S. broadband
Google launched its fiber-to-the-home gigabit network Thursday in Kansas City, Mo. and it wants everyone to know that this network isn't a charity case. Several Google executives at the event were ve...
Researcher uses NFC to attack Android, Nokia smartphones
Expert finds flaws in NFC implementations in Android and Nokia that could be used to compromise smartphones. — Follow @elinormills — Charlie Miller demonstrates at Black Hat 2012 how an ostensibly...
Apple-Amazon War Heats Up
Tech Giants Scramble to Take Rival Ground in Phones, Tablets and Apps — The long-simmering war between Amazon.com Inc. and Apple Inc. is starting to boil over. — The two technology giants are goin...
Amazon CFO 'doesn't see a way to do same-day delivery'
A few weeks ago, it seemed like Amazon might have cracked a solution to offering some customers same-day delivery, a service that could potentially devastate smaller competitors. However, Amazon's CF...
Ex-Googlers Relaunch Their Startup Stamped And Get Ryan Seacrest, Justin Bieber And Ellen DeGeneres To Invest
Last Spring, Robby Stein and Bart Stein (not related) left their jobs at Google to start a company, Stamped. — Stamped received funding from Google Ventures and others to become …
BlackBerry 10 Instagram-like Picture Editor Photos, Video
We were waiting to publish these, but since the cat is already out of the bag with how the native Picture Editor app for BlackBerry 10 will be like, we thought we'd share. RIM will be introducing a n...
Google shows off Creator Space in London, hopes to foster more professional YouTube videos
Google confirmed a few months back that it was looking to build some studios in at least a few cities to give YouTube video makers a more professional workspace, and we now have our first good look at...
Maily Launches iPad App to Help Kids Email, Even Before They Can Read and Write
Belgian startup Maily unveiled its iPad app today, which is designed to make it easy for kids to communicate with parents, grandparents and friends via email. The app is designed specifically for kid...
Entrepreneurs Have Control When Things Work, VCs Have Control When They Don't
I did an interview yesterday in Buffalo, NY where I was the past couple days for the launch of the Z80 incubator. Grove Potter, the Business Editor for the Buffalo News, interviewed me for something ...
Online Fitness Provider Wello Uses Two-Way Video Chat To Bring Personal Trainers To You
If you're anything like me, you're already kind of fat and lazy and likely to just get fatter and lazier with time. You blame an intense work schedule, high cost of gym memberships, and lack of time ...
EBay To Target Under-18 Set
EBay Inc. is exploring ways to harness an untapped class of buyers: Kids. — The Internet company may allow consumers who are under 18 years old to set up accounts and access the eBay.com website to ...
Kevin Rose reflects on Digg, the dangers of outside investors, and his legacy
By the time Digg was portioned off for sale this year, company founder Kevin Rose wasn't visiting the site anymore. He had already left Digg for other projects, including his own startup and a role a...
Simple Is Now Available To The Public, Cofounder Alex Payne Moves On
There is nothing more broken than the payments/banking system, which makes me and everybody else root for payments (and more!) startup Simple (formerly BankSimple). We all hate our banks and, especia...
FundersClub Wants To Bypass VC And Let YOU Invest In Startups
FundersClub is going to change how companies get funded. Today it launches a website designed to let anyone with as little as $1000 make equity investments in startups and earn money if they succeed.
The Mac App Store's future of irrelevance
Postbox's exit from the Mac App Store should sound very familiar to anyone who buys Mac software. If you read between the lines a bit, I think the real story there is one we've seen a lot since June ...
Meet the Man Engineering Facebook's Revenues
Gokul Rajaram is a patient man. Which is fortunate, because the Facebook advertising product director has a lot of teaching to do. — Outsiders can't seem to wrap their heads around how Rajaram's te...
Come on Down, Mark Zuckerberg! How to Read Facebook's First Earnings Report.
OK, Mark. Sheryl. David. You're up. Have fun! — After a string of unpleasant tech earnings reports this week, Facebook gets its shot this afternoon. The big picture is easy: To perform well …
Twitter currently ‘experiencing issues,’ engineers working on a fix
Just as Google was able to restore service to Google Talk, Twitter has gone down for many users. The company acknowledged the issue on its site status page, saying that engineers were working hard on...
Bump launches Flock so you never have to ask “Can you send me that photo?” again
I'm a big fan of photosharing apps, and I mean fanatical. I shared my thoughts a while back in a piece called “What are we going to do with all of these photos?” and popular app and company Bump has ...
Here Are The Zynga Insiders Who Cashed Out Just Before The Stock Crashed...
Yesterday, four months later, Zynga reported a horrible quarter, and the stock plunged to $3.
3D imagery now available on iPad and iPhone
Today, we're happy to announce the availability of 3D imagery for Google Earth on the new iPad, iPad 2 and iPhone 4S. — A map must be comprehensive and accurate no matter where you are or what devic...
Samsung: universal search removal was ‘inadvertent’ on UK Galaxy S3
Exclusive Will be restoring soon — We didn't mean it, honest guv. — Samsung has confirmed to TechRadar that it accidentally removed Google's universal search function on its flagship handset.
No, Microsoft's Entry-Level Surface Will Not Cost $1000
Microsoft's announcement last month that they're making their own tablet hardware — and directly competing with the very OEMs and partners that they license their software to — was huge in revealing a...
Female-only VC firm Forerunner Ventures raises $40M fund
Amid sweeping accusations that Silicon Valley venture capital firms have failed to attract female talent, one women-only firm has been quietly raising millions for its first institutionally-backed fun...
Sony Xperia ‘Mint’ leaked and reviewed: 4.3-inch (?) HD screen, 13MP camera, 1.5GHz S4 processor
While we've been fussing over the Xperia GX (aka the LT29i), it seems Sony's been working on something one integer higher. Mobile-review has published a run-down of a device it claims is called the L...
Dragon PC software now lets your voice control Gmail and Hotmail
Dragon PC software now lets your voice control Gmail and Hotmail — New Android app, improved accuracy featured in Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12. — Ahoy, ye landlubbers and typists. — Nuance