Introducing a new YouTube app for your iPhone and iPod touch
For all you diehard YouTube fans out there who can't get enough YouTube on your mobile, we've got some great news: starting today, you can download the official YouTube app for iPhone and iPod touch f...
Zuckerberg: Facebook Stock Drop Is Disappointing; Mobile Strategy Is Misunderstood
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says it is “disappointing” that the stock has dropped as much as it has but said that the company's mobile strategy that will guide its growth is “misunderstood.”
Mark Zuckerberg promises a native Android app, says betting on HTML5 for mobile was a ‘mistake’
Speaking with Michael Arrington at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted that “we've had a bunch of missteps on [mobile],” specifically referring to its mobile app s...
Amazon Kindle Fire HD review (7-inch)
Amazon brings the fight to Apple's iPad and the Nexus 7, but is the beauty more than skin deep? — To put a review of the Kindle Fire HD in perspective, you have to peer just a tiny bit into the past...
Windows Store now open to all developers in 120 markets
Apple Said to Lose Cheyer, Co-Creator of Siri Voice Unit
Adam Cheyer, an engineer who helped build the Siri voice-recognition software that was acquired by Apple Inc. (AAPL), is no longer working for the iPhone maker, according to three people familiar with...
GoDaddy Says Our Crash Wasn't Anonymous, It Wasn't A Hack, It Wasn't A DDoS. It Was Internal Network Issues
GoDaddy has confirmed that its DNS problems yesterday, which caused thousands of websites to go down for most of the day, are now over. And while an alleged member …
Samsung Galaxy S3 Jelly Bean update confirmed for October
As Nokia waits, Microsoft fights to keep Windows Phone 8 on schedule
It's all hands on deck at Microsoft right now: with a variety of high-visibility phone launches from partners scheduled before the end of the year, the company has not yet finished the Windows Phone 8...
Will Apple's Tacky Software-Design Philosophy Cause A Revolt?
By now it's almost inevitable given the company's track record: No matter what Apple unveils tomorrow at the Yerba Buena Center (an iPad Mini? iPhone 5?), pundits will herald the company for its innov...
Cosmo, the Hacker ‘God’ Who Fell to Earth
Cosmo is huge — 6 foot 7 and 220 pounds the last time he was weighed, at a detention facility in Long Beach, California on June 26. And yet he's getting bigger, because Cosmo — also known as Cosmo th...
Google makes 4,000 Boingo Wi-Fi hotspots free across the US in September, excludes iOS and Windows Phone
Boingo is offering consumers free Wi-Fi at more than 4,000 hotspots across America as part of a collaboration with Google Play. However, it looks like iOS, Windows Phone and Blackberry users aren't i...
How Many iPhone 5s Can Apple Sell in a Weekend?
On Wednesday morning, Apple will officially unveil its next-generation iPhone, setting the stage for what some observers say will be one of the biggest upgrade cycles in consumer electronics history. ...
Appeals court sides with RIAA, Jammie Thomas owes $222,000
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit vacates a lower court's decision and rules that Thomas-Rasset, an admitted music pirate, must pay the top four labels $222,000. — The top four record...
Screw the Black Swans: Ichiro is our role model, not Barry Bonds.
There are probably better things for me to do today, however i feel compelled to respond to the Black Swan Farming post by Paul Graham, founding partner of Y Combinator. — Maybe you can call this po...
GOOGLE: We Didn't Know You Could Patent Round Corners
Google appears to have been blindsided by the fact that Apple won its lawsuit against Samsung. — In an interview with Bloomberg TV, David Lawee, VP of corporate development, says, “We didn't believe...
RIM's BlackBerrys Losing Shelf Space, Mindshare Among Carriers
With Apple's next generation iPhone in the offing and new Windows Phone 8 and Android handsets headed to market in the weeks ahead, Research In Motion's forthcoming BlackBerry 10 devices are no longer...
Founder Collective II
In late 2008, in the midst of the financial crisis, a small band of founders got together and started imagining the fund that we all wished existed when we started our own companies. We felt that the...
“Six strikes” Internet warning system will come to US this year
“Barry, don't think of it as a strike. Think of it as strike zone education.” — Rudi Riet — Even as France looks set to scrap its three-strikes antipiracy scheme known as HADOPI, US Internet prov...
Quora Co-Founder Charlie Cheever Steps Back From Day-To-Day Role At The Company
Quora co-founder and early Facebook engineer Charlie Cheever is stepping back from a day-to-day role at the company after starting the site in 2009. — He'll be taking time off after a very long stre...
Hype and Hope: Test Driving Google's New Glasses
Device Puts Data Into Field of Vision but Software Is Balky — Google's glasses are escaping from the laboratory. But they aren't ready for the real world yet. — I had the opportunity to test-driv...
Nipplegate: Why the New Yorker Cartoon Department Is About to Be Banned from Facebook
The New Yorker has a Facebook page for our cartoons, which a lot of you like, or maybe it's just one person with a lot of time on their hands, liking the page over and over again. But in any case, it...
YouTube links already opening in new standalone app on iOS, which is huge for Google's ad dollars
Back when the news that the YouTube app would be pulled from iOS 6, I conjectured that Google would be using the built-in hooks in Apple's OS to send video links directly to its own standalone app.
Nokia Siemens in talks to sell business support unit: CEO
(Reuters) - Mobile network equipment maker Nokia Siemens Networks NOKI.UL is in talks with various companies to sell its business support systems (BSS) unit, its chief executive said, as it looks to d...
Microsoft to deliver Flash update to Windows 8 users ‘shortly’
Summary: Microsoft has reversed course on a decision it announced last week. According to an official statement, Windows 8 users will receive critical security updates for Flash Player “shortly.” Bu...
A.pl vs. Apple: Polish Grocery Store Finds Itself In Tech Giant's Legal Crosshairs
Apple, fresh from a patent victory against South Korean rival Samsung, has turned its sights on a smaller target - Polish online grocery website A.pl. The Polish patent office said on Tuesday the U.S...
Apple is already fighting Amazon in the ebook price wars
Apple would prefer agency pricing on ebooks — that, we know. In fact, Apple is likely to appeal the DOJ's ebook pricing settlement with HarperCollins, Hachette and Simon & Schuster, which was approve...
Acer Smartphone to Use Alibaba Operating System
HONG KONG—Taiwanese personal computer maker Acer Inc. said Tuesday it will release a new smartphone in China that is powered by Aliyun, a mobile operating system developed by Chinese e-commerce giant ...
Introducing a new YouTube app for your iPhone and iPod touch
For all you diehard YouTube fans out there who can't get enough YouTube on your mobile, we've got some great news: starting today, you can download the official YouTube app for iPhone and iPod touch f...
The Beginning of the Instapaper Copyright Wars?
In the first instance in which the copyright dispute between publishers and Instapaper is visible to users, the read-it-later app has blocked tech blog 9to5Mac from its service because Instapaper does...
Integrity and bullies with blogs
I wanted to make this brief, because I have more important things to do with my time than respond to bullies who like to play-pretend that they know things they don't. But, just as I felt compelled t...
Apple's iPhone 5: A New Cash Cow for Wireless Carriers?
Apple Inc. is expected to introduce the next iPhone model on Wednesday, setting the stage for a critical test of wireless carriers' efforts to bend the economics of the popular device to their advanta...
Pirate Bay Co-Founder Lands In Sweden, Immediately Charged By Police
After a stormy and somewhat confusing twelve days, Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm was finally deported from Cambodia last night. — “We deported him out of the country in accordance with th...
Evernote is bringing Skitch into its core service, Skitch.com will be archived
Evernote is moving to integrate its annotation and sketching product Skitch into its core note-taking product,which it says will strengthen the service by bringing syncing, searching and sharing featu...
Microsoft: This is how Windows RT, Windows Phone 8 devices will be managed
Summary: The early 2013 of Microsoft's Windows Intune, plus System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Service Pack 1, are keys to the ARM-based device management kingdom. — Ever since it revealed …
Intuit Opens Up APIs To Financial Data Service That Powers Quicken, QuickBooks And Mint
Intuit is announcing today the availability of a new API that will give third-party developers access to the financial data service that powers Quicken, QuickBooks, Mint.com, and FinanceWorks.
Everything Everywhere announce the UK's first major 4G service, EE: combines Orange and T-Mobile networks
Finally, after gaining approval from UK regulator Ofcom, Everything Everywhere announced today that its calling its incoming 4g service EE. It's a new company, new network and a new brand.
Free Apps Account For 89% Of All Downloads; Most Of The Rest Under $3; iOS Store Biggest Of Them All
The mobile app market, currently still led by app trailblazer Apple, is continuing to grow at a rapid pace: according to new research from Gartner there will be nearly 46 billion mobile app downloads ...
Google Wins Major Antitrust Victory In Brazil, Does It Foreshadow Broader EU & US Wins?
In addition to the various government antitrust investigations against Google going on around the world, there is a parallel world of private lawsuits by Google rivals and critics …