Sharing Tweets just got easier
If you're like me, you probably come across Tweets every day that you'd like to share. They might be funny or include a striking photo. They might be breaking news or feature old news. Of course, y...
SkyDrive usage has doubled in the last 6 months, now you can select what to sync
About 6 months ago, we released the first sync apps for SkyDrive making it easy to view and manage your personal SkyDrive from the File Explorer in Windows and Finder in OS X. We're excited to announ...
Google Launches Ingress, a Worldwide Mobile Alternate Reality Game
What's the wackiest thing you can imagine Google launching? How about a game to fight for control of the minds of everyone on earth? — Or maybe that's not so wacky. — Meet Ingress, a new free mob...
Google Preps Maps App for Apple Devices
The head-to-head battle between Apple Inc. and Google Inc. in mobile maps is drawing nearer. — Google has distributed a test version of its new mapping app that will work on Apple's iPhones and iPad...
Crooks steal $1.5M in iPads from JFK
Like ‘GoodFellas’ job — It beats waiting in line at an Apple Store. — A pair of brazen crooks punched another hole in the lax JFK security when they stole a trove of new Apple iPad minis — worth $...
Google, Dish Held Talks to Launch Wireless Service
Google Inc. has held talks with satellite-TV provider Dish Network Corp. in recent weeks to partner on a new wireless service that would rival the networks of wireless carriers such as AT&T Inc. and V...
U.S. consumers hesitant to make switch to Windows 8
Most Windows users in the U.S. know about Windows 8 but few have immediate plans to upgrade to Microsoft's newest operating system. — Customers get a look at products at Microsoft's pop-up store in ...
Behind Mark Pincus's Bid to Save Zynga
Tears nearly welled up in Zynga Inc. chief executive Mark Pincus's eyes at a meeting in September with Apple Inc. director Bill Campbell. — Mr. Campbell, a technology veteran who has coached Silicon...
Pay Another Way: Bitcoin
At WordPress.com, our mission is making publishing democratic — accessible and easy for anyone, anywhere. And while anyone can start a free blog here, not everyone can access upgrades (like going ad-...
Facebook expands Gifts program by rolling out to millions more users, adding new partners
Facebook has announced at an event in NYC that it is rolling out the ability for ‘tens of millions’ of its users to gift someone right from their profile page as of tonight.
Sinofsky speaks, denies he tried to take over Windows Phone division at Microsoft
Former chief of Windows, Steven Sinofsky, departed Microsoft earlier this week in a shock announcement following the release of Windows 8 and Surface RT. While sources have claimed his departure was r...
E-commerce 2.0
We at a16z could not possibly be more bullish on the prospects for e-commerce, and we believe growth is poised to accelerate. — Part of the reason for this is due to competitive market dynamics. As...
Twitter Makes Search Results More Visual With Top Photos, Videos & Instant Previews
Twitter is rolling out an update to its search results that will put a new “Top Photos” section above matching tweets. “Top Videos” may also appear. Twitter will also begin automatically showing twe...
HP's Todd Bradley: Surface is no competition to us
Todd Bradley, the head of HP's PC business, does not view Microsoft's Surface tablet as a challenge. — “I'd hardly call Surface competition,” Bradley said in an interview with IDG Enterprise. He li...
Lytro to get Perspective Shift and Living Filters for more focus-shifting fun (video)
Lytro has just announced a software update that expands upon the multidimensional elements of the little light-field point-and-shoot. The Lytro Desktop software will get two new features …
U.S. Cable Companies Reportedly Assessing Potential Infrastructure Impact of ‘Imminent’ Apple TV Product
Barron's reports on a new research note from Jefferies & Co. analyst James Kisner noting that he believes the launch of an unspecified Apple television product (presumably either …
Dell Results Fall Short of Expectations, but Shares Rally Anyway
Dell's quarterly results just crossed the wires, and, as was expected, sales were light. — The results compare with a consensus view of analysts, which called for a per-share profit of 40 cents on s...
Sorkin: Steve Jobs biopic to be 3 real-time scenes from backstage at Mac, NeXT, iPod launches
Today at the Hero Summit, an invitation-only “theatrical-journalism event' being covered by The Daily Beast, screenwriter Aaron Sorkin made some comments about the upcoming Steve Jobs movie based …
Meet Dropbox Chooser, The Improved Upload Or Attach Button For The Cloud-Based Set
Dropbox introduced a new feature today, called Chooser, which is aimed at developers and allows them to build in an “attach from from Dropbox feature” for their web-based products.
iPhone, iPad sales to surge over next two quarters, says analyst
Sales of the iPhone and iPads will be higher than expected this quarter and on into the next quarter, according to a Morgan Stanley analyst. — The iPhone 5 and new iPads will trigger a surge in sale...
Verizon Will Reduce Speeds of Repeated BitTorrent Pirates
Last year the MPAA and RIAA teamed up with five major Internet providers in the United States to launch the Center for Copyright Information (CCI). — The parties agreed on a system through which sub...
Apple, Samsung Allowed to Add Products to Patent Lawsuit
Apple Inc. (AAPL) can add patent- infringement claims against the Samsung Galaxy Note, the U.S. version of the Galaxy S III and the Jelly Bean operating system, and Samsung Electronics Co. can add the...
Google modifies Android SDK to battle platform fragmentation
New terms for developers specifically prohibits them from any action that could contribute to further fragmentation of the mobile platform. — Recognizing that fragmentation of the Android platform f...
Cities Move to Rein In Smartphone Taxi Services
Taxi and limousine regulators from 15 U.S. and Canadian cities plan to release proposed guidelines Friday aimed at reining in some of the smartphone applications and online services that are radically...
Drawbridge exits closed beta, unveils cross-screen mobile marketing solutions
Drawbridge, the mobile ad startup founded by former Google and AdMob scientist Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan is out of closed beta and has taken the wraps of its first two products, Drawbridge for App Mar...
Apple Takes Over Former Nortel Patents
Apple is stocking up on patents. — The company has quietly snapped up more than a thousand patents in the past six months from Rockstar Consortium, a move that helps bolster it as it battles Google,...
Google's lawyers under siege
Predatory pricing and using its listings to advance its own products are two of the legal issues dogging the search giant — Google is threatened by a “perfect storm” of litigation with the US Federa...
Microsoft CEO Ballmer suggests more hardware coming
Microsoft Corp's chief executive said his company would look at more opportunities to build its own devices, after the launch of its Surface tablet last month, potentially bringing the software giant ...
Exclusive: Spotify to begin rolling out browser-based music app in beta today
Spotify today plans to begin the roll out of its first ever browser-based music player, The Verge has learned from sources close to the company. The web player looks a lot like its desktop counterpar...
YouTube Blocks Israeli Hamas Assassination Video - And Puts It Back Up Again
Israel has gone to war with Hamas in Gaza, and it is using the Internet as weapon, employing services like Twitter, Facebook and Flickr on its behalf. — The idea is familiar to anyone who has a mess...
New WiFi protocol boosts congested wireless network throughput by 700%
Engineers at NC State University (NCSU) have discovered a way of boosting the throughput of busy WiFi networks by up to 700%. Perhaps most importantly, the breakthrough is purely software-based …
Android crushes the competition in China as it passes 90% smartphone market share: Report
Android has established a clear monopoly in China after achieving more than 90 percent market share there, up from 58.2 percent a year ago, according to a new report from Analysys International (via T...
One Simple Trick Could Disable a City's 4G Phone Network
High-speed LTE networks could be felled by a $650 piece of gear, says a new study. — Why It Matters — LTE networks can have 10 times the bandwidth of 3G, and are eyed as the basis for a new wave o...
Kindle Fire HD 8.9 ships today, 4G version to follow next week
Did you skip the iPad mini and Nexus 10? Were you looking for something a little more content focused with a form factor in between the standard sizes? Well folks, it your lucky day, because the Kin...
Fab goes to free shipping. Permanently.
We can't bear to say it, but the holidays are sort of upon us, and design-centric flash sales site Fab.com is getting into the swing of things early with free shipping. — There's no special code, an...
Is Siri really Apple's future?
Siri is a promise. A promise of a new computing environment, enormously empowering to the ordinary user, a new paradigm in our evolving relationship with machines. Siri could change Apple's fortunes...
Flipboard teams up with Apple to launch new iBookstore-powered “Books” section in its iOS apps
Expanding upon what is now surely one of the most important roles of Flipboard, commerce, the magazine-like app has partnered with Apple (yes, Apple) to launch a slightly surprising new section: “Book...
Cisco to Acquire Cloud Software Firm Cloupia for $125 Million
Networking giant Cisco Systems just said it has closed a deal to acquire Cloupia, a privately held software company for $125 million. — Based in Santa Clara, Calif. Cloupia's software is aimed at ma...
Evernote 5 launches with revised interface, new search and collaboration features
Evernote for Mac, the much-lauded productivity app that lets users collect pictures, text, and more to document their lives and their research, received a major new update Thursday with changes to the...
Mozilla Releases Annual Report For 2011: Revenue Up 33% To $163M, Majority From Google
Mozilla just released its annual financial report for 2011, as well as the annual “State of Mozilla” report by the organization's Chair Mitchell Baker. According to this report (they traditionally ar...
Google vs. Samsung
Samsung's recent success in mobile phones has been spectacular. It overtook Nokia for the top spot in overall unit sales. It went from having almost no smartphone sales to selling over 50 million un...
With 3 million users, Banjo updates its app, taking you anywhere you want to see things in real-time
Banjo is back and just updated its mobile app to help take you where you want to go in real-time while connecting you with people. This location-based service that shares information …
Google's Nexus 7 Tablet With Cellular Data Has Already Sold Out
Google's new Nexus 7 tablet with mobile data is now sold out in the company's online Play store. — The tablet is an updated version of the one that launched this summer. It offers 32 GB of storage ...
Apple to distribute another $2.5 billion to shareholders via Thursday dividend
Apple will pay shareholders its second dividend in 17 years tomorrow, distributing roughly $2.5 billion in $2.65 per share across the company's 935 million outstanding shares.
First Pre-Orders of LTE iPad Mini and Fourth-Generation iPad Models Arriving in U.S.
In line with tracking information, a number of U.S. customers who pre-ordered LTE models of the iPad mini and fourth-generation iPad have either already received their shipments this morning or are se...