Apple Sells Three Million iPads in Three Days
Wi-Fi Only Models of New iPad mini & Fourth Generation iPad Double Previous First Weekend Sales — Apple® today announced it has sold three million iPads in just three days since the launch of its ne...
Announcing Instagram Profiles on the Web!
You've asked for Instagram on the web and we've listened. Over the next few days, we'll be rolling out Instagram profiles on the web! Your web profile features a selection of your recently shared ph...
Microsoft to retire Windows Live Messenger in favor of Skype
Microsoft is working towards retiring its Windows Live Messenger client in favor of Skype. The Verge has learned through several sources that Microsoft's Windows Live Messenger service will be retire...
Apple Said to Be Exploring Switch From Intel Chips for the Mac
Apple Inc. (AAPL) is exploring ways to replace Intel Corp. (INTC) processors in its Mac personal computers with a version of the chip technology it uses in the iPhone and iPad, according to people fam...
Apple drops to 50.4% tablet market share in Q3, as Samsung grabs 18.4% and Amazon takes 9.0%
Apple's iPad managed to grab 50.4 percent market share in the third quarter of 2012, which saw a total of 27.8 million total units shipped worldwide. Rounding out the top three tablet manufacturers …
Verizon to Shutter Its App Store in January
Verizon Wireless said on Monday that it plans to shut down its own branded app store as of January. — Verizon set up the marketplace as Vcast Apps in March 2010, aiming to serve as an alternative sp...
Yes, Apple will approve Google Maps for iOS
What a much-discussed story in the Guardian misunderstands about developers — and about Apple. — The tech blogosphere went into a mild panic today over a report in the Guardian saying that a native ...
Judge cancels trial, tosses Apple's FRAND lawsuit against Google's Motorola Mobility
Following a hearing in the morning, a federal judge in the Western District of Wisconsin has canceled an Apple v. Motorola Mobility trial that was scheduled to start today at 1 PM Central Time and has...
Foursquare Explore now has ratings powered by where people actually like to go, not just star ratings
With today's iOS update, we've made finding the best place on-the-go even easier. Now when you search for somewhere to go in Explore, you'll see a score from 1 to 10 next to the name of a place.
Microsoft's new tune: Only 16GB open on a 32GB Surface, not “more than 20GB,” as promised
When the Surface's pricing and storage options were announced, it received praise coming with, at minimum, 32 gigabytes of internal storage. That's twice what the low-cost, full-size, and current-mod...
CBS Finally Does A Deal With Hulu, But Only For Older Shows That Are Off The Air
After years of speculation, Hulu has finally done a deal with CBS, bringing shows from the one broadcast holdout into its content library. Beginning in January, CBS content will become available thro...
Coke Hacked And Doesn't Tell
FBI officials quietly approached executives at Coca-Cola Co. (KO) on March 15, 2009, with some startling news. — Hackers had broken into the company's computer systems and were pilfering sensitive f...
Netflix Announces Stockholder Rights Plan To Prevent Hostile Takeover
Well, that didn't take long. Following activist shareholder Carl Icahn's purchase of nearly 10% of Netflix stock, the company has revealed a plan which will prevent a hostile takeover of its company.
Belkin Announces First Official Third-Party Lightning Accessories
While a number of vendors have been launching unofficial Lightning accessories while Apple works to bring official partners up to speed on the new standard, Belkin today became the first official vend...
Facebook updates its iOS app with Gifts, new Messages interface, and multi-photo uploads
Facebook has released an update to its mobile app for iOS devices. Version 5.1 of its app now features new messaging and photo features that allows you to better connect with your friends and loved o...
Jive Software acquires Meetings.io and Producteev for its social business platform
Producteev's Ilan Abehassera has announced via blog post that the company has been acquired by social business software firm Jive. Producteev's apps will live on and, of course, get more Jive integra...
Windows Phone sales to “ramp quickly”: Microsoft CEO
(Reuters) - Microsoft expects its newly launched Windows Phone to become a strong challenger in the smartphone market, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Monday. — Google's Android and Apple's iP...
iPad mini Display Technology Shoot-Out
The iPad mini has finally arrived - Apple's much anticipated response to the incredibly successful 7 inch Tablets pioneered by Amazon and Barnes & Noble, and more recently by Google with its Nexus 7. ...
Zillow posts record revenue of $32M, buys mortgage software firm Mortech
Another day, another acquisition for Zillow. — The fast-growing online real estate company today announced that it has entered into an agreement to purchase Mortech, a 25-year-old Lincoln, Nebraska ...
Facebook For iOS Gets Photo Filters And Multi-Shot Sharing, Beating Twitter To The Punch
Don't trust the release notes. Facebook has just added photo filters to its iOS app, though the feature wasn't announced in the version 5.1 “What's New” that highlights multi-photo uploads, slide-out...
Microsoft Surface tested as balloting device in Virginia
Here's an interesting milestone for Microsoft Surface: One of the tablets is being tested in Virginia this week as a balloting device for state and national elections there. — The test is being cond...
Xbox team's ‘consumer detector’ would dis-Kinect freeloading TV viewers
A newly surfaced patent filing from Microsoft's Xbox Incubation team details one of the new innovations they've been thinking about. This one could be very popular among major movie and television st...
Google sources think maps app might struggle for Apple approval
Google is working on a downloadable maps app but insiders don't have high hopes that it will be approved by Apple — Those hoping to see Google Maps return to the iPhone might not want to hold their ...
For The First Time Ever, iPhone Owner Loyalty Declines
Loyalty of iPhone owners in both the United States and Europe experiences first ever decline. — For the first time since the iPhone's inception, the percentage of the smartphone's owners who say the...
The press, Google, its algorithm, their scale
In their fight against Google, traditional media firmly believe the search engine needs them to refine (and monetize) its algorithm. Let's explore the facts. — The European press got itself in a bi...
Google and Microsoft rumored to be eyeing up UK white space for ubiquitous mobile broadband
Both Google and Microsoft have expressed an “extreme interest” in currently unused white space spectrum in the UK, according to The Telegraph. A senior government source speaking to the publication …
Microsoft posts Build 2012 session videos for eager Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 coders
Not every developer had the luxury of putting a flight to Redmond on the corporate tab so that they could attend Microsoft's Build 2012 conference in person. Much to their delight, they won't have to...
Is Facebook “broken on purpose” to sell promoted posts?
The Dangerous Minds blog uses this image for its anti-Facebook campaign. — Dangerous Minds and Dimitri Drujchin — In recent months, some Facebook page owners have noticed that their accounts are d...
Gigabytes
From a Virtual Pants post refuting my experiences with the Surface: … Mr. Pants reminded me of a pricing trick I've wanted to point out for a while. — Flash-memory upgrades on tablets are much cheap...