People Behind Uber Want to Do the Same Thing for Private Planes With BlackJet
BlackJet launches today a way to book seats on other people's private jets. — If it sounds like the black-car service Uber for planes, that's exactly what it is. The company comes from Uber co-foun...
3.6 million social security numbers exposed in unprecedented South Carolina cyber attack
“This is not a good day for South Carolina.” That was Governor Nikki Haley's public reaction to news that a foreign hacker had infiltrated South Carolina's Department of Revenue and made off …
Google Nexus 10 leaks: Android 4.2, Exynos 5250 (1.7GHz), 2,560 x 1,600 resolution
Unless we're looking at one of the most elaborately photographed fakes in the world, this is the Nexus 10. With the Nexus 7 apparently going over quite well at just $199, it was only ever a matter …
Google Is Testing Same-Day Delivery for Shoppers
Google is now in the same-day delivery business. In San Francisco, some people affiliated with Google can buy a product, using their phones or computers, and have it delivered to their homes in a mat...
Windows 8 Day One: Steady, Not Spectacular, Store Traffic
Microsoft and its allies need to generate excitement for the Surface tablets and other computers running the company's dramatically revamped Windows 8 operating system. Nothing builds buzz like long ...
Apple's Phil Schiller on the State of the Mac
Phil Schiller walks through Apple's Mac portable lineup at the company's press event in San Jose, California on October 23, 2012 — With Tuesday's unveiling of the iPad Mini and a fourth-generation f...
Mac Mini Late 2012 Teardown
Apple is shrinking! No, not in the AAPL stock way (that's high as ever), but in the 'Let's name everything Mini' way. Along with the announcement of the iPad Mini on October 23rd (teardown coming so...
iPhone 5 Launching in India and Other Countries on November 2
The Economic Times reports that Apple will be launching the iPhone 5 in India on November 2, one week from today. The launch had previously been rumored for today, but the new report claims that ship...
Citigroup's Star Tech Analyst Mark Mahaney Fired After Leaks To TechCrunch
Mark Mahaney, a star tech analyst at Citigroup, was just fired. — He got canned because one of Mahaney's junior associates leaked information about the bank's views on the Facebook IPO to TechCrunch...
New Megaupload To Launch On Police Raid Anniversary
With 50 million visitors per day at its peak, Megaupload was one of the largest websites on the Internet. — This abruptly ended January this year when the U.S. Government took down the file-hosting ...
New Google Maps Basemap Now Shows Terrain, Vegetation By Default
The Google Maps basemap is getting a visual overhaul today. Unlike most updates, though, this one is for the actual maps and not just the interface. Starting today, Google Maps will show you informa...
Yahoo Dings “Do Not Track” Default (And Search Partner Microsoft)
In a post today on its policy blog, Yahoo took aim at Microsoft's controversial “Do Not Track” default in its Internet Explorer 10 browser. — Said Yahoo in a post titled “In Support of Personal Expe...
Tim Cook: ‘we would not make’ 7-inch tablet, iPad mini in ‘a whole different league’
Apple CEO addresses Steve Jobs' criticism of 7-inch tablets — Those who have been paying attention to Apple over the years remembered one thing when the company revealed the iPad mini earlier this w...
Gentlemen, start your benches: Measuring Windows 8's performance
For a couple of decades, it seemed like every time a new version of Windows was released, its hardware requirements would keep pace with hardware advancement, necessitating sometimes-costly hardware u...
Samsung shipped a stunning 57M smartphones in Q3 — twice as many as Apple
twice as many as Apple — Samsung shipped 56.9 million of the 162 million smartphones sold globally in the third quarter of 2012, according to the latest research from Strategy Analytics. That adds u...
Apple's iPad Mini, 4th Gen iPad Now Available For Pre-Order - Wi-Fi Only Versions Deliver November 2
If you're looking to get your hands on an iPad mini after the big reveal this past Tuesday, now's the time to pre-order, as Apple has launched pre-orders via its mobile app and online retail store …
Google's Vic Gundotra is posting pics with the Nexus 10 tablet
It's not unusual to see top-level Googlers vacationing in some really cool places. It's also not unusual to see them taking pictures with unannounced devices. — So here's Google senior VP of engine...
Eric Schmidt is headed to Paris to head off French proposal to charge Google for linking
France's new government has been making noises about forcing Google to pay for the privilege of linking to French news sites. Google responded by threatening to remove all French news sites from its ...
Apple Posts Notice to UK Site Acknowledging
As instructed by a UK court, Apple has posted a small link in the footer of Apple.com/uk. The notice acknowledges the judgement that Samsung had not infringed on the iPad design with their Galaxy Tab...
HTC made just $133m in Q3, down 79 percent from last year
HTC has just announced its Q3 2012 earnings, revealing a net profit of NT$3.9 billion (roughly $133 million) from NT$70.2 billion ($2.4 billion) in revenue. In contrast, over the same period last yea...
Tumblr suffering extended downtime, now out of action for almost 2 hours
UPDATE: As of 9.50am EDT Tumblr has been down for almost two hours. We've approached the company for comment. — Tumblr is currently in the midst of downtime which has lasted at least 20 minutes at ...
Apple's no internal client syndrome
There exists a common problem for Apple frameworks, technologies and services. — Once upon a time apple proceeded this way: They worked on frameworks and services internally, made them private, gave...
VIDEO: First look at Blackberry 10 phone
Research in Motion chief executive Thorsten Heins took up his post in January, with many analysts thinking he had been given an impossible task - to revive the fortunes of the Blackberry mobile phone....
Citi Analyst Fired After Facebook Disclosure
Paul Ceglia Arrested By FBI
CNBC is reporting Paul Ceglia has been arrested by federal agents. — Ceglia, who claims he owns at least half of Facebook, was also arrested in 2009 on four charges of grand larceny after authoritie...
Microsoft exec says rampant cyber crime made his company fall behind on smartphones
Microsoft (MSFT) development director Craig Mundie knows that his company has fallen way behind on smartphones but he insists that it's not the company's fault. In an interview with Spiegel …
Bad day for the cloud: Dropbox and Google App Engine experiencing outages
Dropbox and Google App Engine are both experiencing outages today. At the time of writing it's unclear how the two downtimes are related. — Dropbox is giving the following error: