A New Google App Gives You Local Information — Before You Ask for It
Before You Ask for It — Google has created a new mobile app that gives people facts about the places around them — unprompted, without the need to even ask for the information. — The app, Field Tri...
Say Hello to Gifts, Facebook's New Mobile Revenue Stream
Facebook on Thursday unveiled Gifts, the company's major initiative into the world of social gift giving and e-commerce. — It's exactly what it sounds like. Users can choose, mail and pay for real-...
RIM won't show off BlackBerry 10 phones this year
Chief Marketing Officer Frank Boulben tells CNET that Research In Motion will show off more of BlackBerry 10's capabilities, but there will be no big reveal until closer to the launch date. — BlackB...
Google's “iLost” Motorola ad faked an address to “lose” iOS 6 Maps
Google's Motorola Mobility subsidiary went looking for an address that didn't actually exist in an effort to artificially portray Apple's new iOS 6 Maps as deficient. — In a marketing ploy not unlik...
Dish Said to Be in Talks With Viacom About Internet TV
Dish Network Corp. (DISH) is talking to networks such as Viacom (VIAB) Inc.'s MTV about offering their channels over the Internet, a service that could shift the economics of the pay-TV industry, five...
Nokia Lumia 920 and 820 officially priced in Europe, available in November
Nokia unveiled its Lumia 920 and 820 Windows Phone 8 devices earlier this month, but the company refused to mention pricing, pre-orders, and availability dates. Despite this, Nokia's Russian subsidia...
Instagram Beats Twitter in Daily Mobile Users for the First Time, Data Says
Pictures beat words: In August, U.S. smartphone owners visited Instagram from their smartphones more frequently and for longer periods of time than they visited Twitter. — That data comes from comSc...
No, Facebook does not have 63.5 million active users in China.
A new report published this week has suggested that China is Twitter's largest global market and Facebook has 63.5 million users there — despite both being blocked by the country's Internet censorship...
Bad Piggies Is A Hit, Taking Just 3 Hours To Hit The Top Spot In The U.S. App Store
And just like that, Rovio is back to number 1. The Finnish gaming company today launched Bad Piggies, an entirely new game that features some of the same characters from the smash hit, Angry Birds.
Growing Its Influence, Klout Gets Strategic Investment From Microsoft — And Serious Bing Integration
And Serious Bing Integration — Klout hasn't just defied influential tech pundits, its social reputation scorecard has won them over. Now the sometimes-controversial startup is aiming at search.
Calif. law passed to halt employer snooping on social media
Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown signs a privacy bill making it illegal for employers to demand employee usernames and passwords for social media accounts. — Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown took to social media toda...
New Justice Department Documents Show Huge Increase in Warrantless Electronic Surveillance
Justice Department documents released today by the ACLU reveal that federal law enforcement agencies are increasingly monitoring Americans' electronic communications, and doing so without warrants …
Here's Yahoo's 2011 3-Year Strategy Plan That Could Be New Roadmap
As most readers know, I love a good internal memo from Yahoo — and now I have landed a really meaty one. — It's the “Yahoo! Three-Year Product Strategy” plan, a 21-page report that was completed in ...
Camera+, a Top-Selling iPhone App, Expands to iPad
Camera+, an iPhone camera app that has been a top seller in the App Store for years, expanded to the iPad on Thursday. Not many people shoot photos with an iPad, but the core features of the app are ...
Apple iPhone 5 to launch on regional U.S. carriers on Friday, some offering discounts
One week after the iPhone 5 released on Sept. 21, regional wireless operators in the U.S. will begin selling Apple's latest smartphone, with some carriers offering special incentives like $50 price cu...
Announcing the App.net Developer Incentive Program
Two important properties of a successful software platform are: — A financially sustainable business model that can support both the platform and 3rd-party developers. — Aligned financial incentives...
Mozilla's Persona Login System Is Now In Beta, Takes On OpenID And OAuth
Mozilla's Persona, the organization's experimental distributed login system that's an alternative to OpenID and OAuth, is now officially in public beta. Mozilla bills Persona as a “login system that ...
Google obeys Brazilian court order, blocks YouTube political video
(Reuters) - The Brazilian unit of Google, the world's No. 1 Internet search engine, said on Thursday it had obeyed a court order to remove a video attacking a candidate in Brazilian municipal election...
Pew study: News consumption increasing via mobile, social media
Social-networking sites grew from 9 percent to 19 percent as a source for news in the last two years, but only 3 percent of respondents say they regularly get news from Twitter. — The Internet is co...
Apple seeks patent for Siri automated assistant
Apple is seeking ownership of the technology and features that drive its voice-controlled Siri personal assistant found on iOS devices. — The company's extensive 51-page application with the U.S. Pa...
Amazon Could Be Working On A Square Competitor
Rumors have been coming in that Amazon is readying a mobile payments product that could compete with Square, Intuit GoPayment and PayPal Here. A tipster and an industry source both tell us that Amazo...
Schmidt raps Apple for patent trolling
Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt made it clear Thursday that he is against patent wars in the mobile phone industry, expressing his frustration with Apple's recent move to file a myriad of legal...
EU regulators set to charge Microsoft over breached deal
(Reuters) - EU regulators are preparing to charge Microsoft Corp for failing to comply with a 2009 ruling ordering it to offer users a choice of web browsers, the EU's antitrust chief said on Thursday...
New Zealand Prime Minister Apologizes To Kim Dotcom
“Of course I apologize to Mr Dotcom, and I apologize to New Zealanders.” — These were the humbling words of New Zealand Prime Minister John Key today after a report from Inspector-General of Intelli...
Will TV will be Apple's Undoing?
The Wall St. Journal columnist who foresaw the “Microsofting of Apple” has a new theory — FORTUNE — Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. published a provocative theory Wednesday in the opinion section of the Wall...
The iPhone 5 Display: Thoroughly Analyzed
When Apple rolled out the iPhone 5, they announced that it had a full sRGB gamut, which the new iPad almost achieves and would be a substantial improvement over the 4 and 4S displays. The slight incr...
FCC chair grants AT&T's wish for a nationwide 4G band
AT&T asked, and the Federal Communications Commission most definitely listened. Three months after AT&T submitted a complex proposal to turn a very cellular-unfriendly band into pristine 4G airwaves,...
“iCloud Backup”
Last year, I bought my 87-year-old grandfather an iPad 2 to replace the who-knows-what PC that was frustrating him constantly. He only used the PC for email and playing music, so it was a no-brainer....
LG Display Files Patent Suit Against Samsung
SEOUL—LG Display Co. said it filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against its biggest rival, Samsung Electronics Co., in a South Korea civil court over the use of advanced OLED displays in smartphones ...
Disrupt Battlefield Finalist Zumper Reveals
Zumper, the San Francisco-based startup that's assisting apartment hunters in finding the most ideal abode, announced today that it closed a $1 million seed round.
The Primetimeness of Apple's Passbook
I'm not really in the habit of breaking down other writer's posts, but in this case I'll make an exception. Erica Ogg wrote the article linked above at GigaOm, entitled Apple's New Passbook Isn't Qui...
Infamous AOL Squatter Launches Education Startup
A few months ago, an ambitious 20-year-old tech entrepreneur named Eric Simons made headlines when it was discovered he was secretly living at AOL's Palo Alto campus, posing as an employee. He gained...
Qualcomm reveals quad-core Snapdragon S4 Play processors, ramps up entry smartphone speeds
Don't think Qualcomm is limiting its quad-core processors to superstar phones. The Snapdragon S4 Play line is growing to include the MSM8225Q and MSM8625Q, parallels to the existing two Play chips …
AMD's new combo chips deliver PC graphics that burn Intel's Ivy Bridge
Advanced Micro Devices is taking a shot at Intel today with a new family of combination graphics-microprocessor chips to drive cheaper and faster mid-range PCs. — The chips, code-named Trinity, are ...