Twitter Loses Ability to Properly Display Instagram Photos
Welcome to the Photo Wars. — Instagram on Wednesday disabled the ability for Twitter to properly display Instagram photos on its Web site and in its applications. The move escalates tensions betwee...
Software guru John McAfee arrested in Guatemala: interior minister
(Reuters) - Anti-virus software guru John McAfee was arrested by Guatemalan police on Wednesday, for illegally entering the country, interior minister Mauricio Lopez Bonilla said. — McAfee crossed i...
House approves resolution to keep Internet control out of UN hands
The House on Wednesday unanimously passed a Senate resolution introduced by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) that calls on the U.S. government to oppose government control of the Internet. — The 397- vote ...
U.N. summit votes to support Internet eavesdropping
Deep packet inspection standard adopted despite Germany's warning that it will “empower” censorship. Other uses: detecting BitTorrent transfers and identifying “copyright protected audio content.” —...
Lack of Distribution Is “Killing” Surface
If Microsoft is being coy about revealing Surface sales data, it may be for good reason. Early demand for the company's first tablet is lousy. How lousy? Put it this way: If Microsoft really did ma...
Apple loses $34.9 billion in market cap in its worst trading day in 4 years, but why?
Gene Munster has a target of $900 for Apple's stock, which is a touch awkward today as the company shed 6.43% of its value, to settle at a valuation of a mere $508 billion.
Google Now adds travel destination weather, local events, song ID by voice, and more
On Wednesday, Google updated Google Now with a myriad of new features that will be especially useful for those who like to, or at least need to, travel. You can download the latest update of Google S...
Why First Round Capital funded a lawsuit
You can imagine the scene in the board room. — The CEO of our portfolio company, Techforward, is discussing a “make the company opportunity” — Best Buy wants us to to power their nation-wide buyback...
Blockbuster Is Said to Begin Selling Phones
Dish Network Corp. (DISH)'s Blockbuster will begin selling mobile phones in its movie-rental stores as a test for Dish's planned entry into the wireless business, according to two people with knowledg...
See Trends for 100 more cities
Today, we're bringing Trends to 100 more cities around the world including Istanbul, Frankfurt, Guadalajara and Incheon. With this update, we now surface the ‘most breaking’ news in more than 200 loc...
Building a better map of Europe
More than a billion people use Google Maps each month to find their way around town and around the world. To help these people get exactly the information they need, the Google Maps team works consta...
AT&T: We've sold 6.4M smartphones in Q4 already
Mobility chief Ralph de la Vega says AT&T is on a record pace for the quarter, and is on track to exceed its expectations for full-year smartphone sales. — AT&T is hoping for a happy holiday when it...
Facebook snubs ‘Subscribe’ button in favor of Twitter-esque ‘Follow’ on all profile pages
Facebook today announced that on every user's Timeline profile page, it's changing “Subscribe,” to “Folllow,” evidently a term it hopes will resonate more with users.
Zynga Takes Gambling Step in Nevada
Zynga Inc. has taken its first official step toward offering real-money gambling games in the U.S. by filing preparatory paperwork in Nevada, as the embattled firm maneuvers to take advantage of a shi...
Twitterrific 5 review: terrific new interface, some old flaws
Back in the summer of 2008, when I first joined Twitter, there weren't very many good Twitter apps around. I had a Mac and an iPod touch, and I wanted a way to keep up with the few people I was follo...
Time Spent In Mobile Apps Is Starting To Challenge Television, Flurry Says
Now that usage of mobile apps has overtaken browsing on the desktop web, it's starting to challenge television, Flurry says. The San Francisco-based mobile analytics startup says that consumers are s...
Skype confirms video messaging feature with legal change
The service will allow short video messages to be sent between subscribers — Skype hasn't officially confirmed rumors of a video messaging service that's supposed to be coming to its platform, but a...
Sophisticated botnet steals more than $47M by infecting PCs and phones
Behold—the Eurograbber, visualized. — Aurich Lawson / Thinkstock — A new version of the Zeus trojan—a longtime favorite of criminals conducting online financial fraud—has been used in attacks …
IDC Raises Tablet Forecast For 2012 And Onward: 122.3M By Year-End, 172.4M By 2013; Android Gains, eReaders Lose
Analysts at IDC have today upped their tablet forecast for 2012 and onward, now predicting 122.3 million units for 2012, up from the firm's previous forecast of 117.1 million units.
Citrix acquisition of Zenprise shines spotlight on mobile app management
In a sign that the focus of mobile management is shifting from device to app management, Citrix today said it agreed to buy Zenprise. — The combination of technologies from both companies means that...
Times of London offers $80 Nexus 7 to new digital subscribers
News readers in the UK now have the chance to sign up for one heck of a good deal on a tablet bundle. The Times of London is offering a 32GB Nexus 7 for around $80 with an 18-month commitment to its ...
FTC Supports Apple, Decries Motorola Attempts To Ban iPhone, iPad
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Wednesday rushed to the aid of Apple, Inc., filing an amicus brief in the U.S. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals arguing that Google-owned Motorola's attempts...
Time Warner Cable to expand usage-based broadband billing option nationwide
Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) will offer a usage-based billing option to cable modem customers in every state it offers service except Hawaii by the end of December, CEO Glenn Britt said Monday.
ShopKeep, The ‘East Coast Square,’ Raises $10 Million
ShopKeep, a New York-based startup that builds a point-of-sales app for the iPad, has raised $10 million in its second round of funding. — The comparison to Square is easy to make, given that both p...
Rethinking Mobile First
I wrote the Mobile First Web Second blog post a few years ago. In that post, I talked about apps that were designed to be used on mobile primarily with the web as a companion. — There have been a n...
Ignition mobile app lets you access your PC from anywhere - for a price
For business owners and mobile professionals, apps might be the order of the day, but chances are you're still using a desktop or laptop computer for many business activities. And if you've got sensi...
iTunes Gets an Upgrade Without Missing a Beat
Apple's iTunes is the world's most popular computer program for playing, managing and buying music, movies and TV shows. The company estimates the number of copies in active use to be in the high hun...
Half of all app store revenue goes to just 25 developers
Top app earners carve up $60m pie — Apple's App Store and the Google Play store each claim to offer over 700,000 apps to choose from, but only a tiny fraction of them bring in significant revenue fo...
Nokia Unveils Latest Windows Phone 8 Device: Lumia 620 Packs 3.8 Inch ClearBlack Display, NFC, Costs $249 (Before Taxes)
Marko Ahtisaari, Executive VP of Design, Nokia, has unveiled its latest Windows Phone 8 device: the Nokia Lumia 620. The product design chief was speaking at the LeWeb conference taking place this we...
Amazon brings one of its flagship Kindle features, X-Ray for books, to its iOS app
One of Amazon's flagship features, X-Ray for Books, has finally arrived in its iOS version. Thsi is enormous as it's one of the main reasons I love reading books on my Kindle and the Kindle Fire so ...
HP announces the EliteBook Revolve, a Windows 8 convertible for the business crowd (video)
See that laptop up there? Basically, HP has announced something like that every year for we don't even know how long. It's always a convertible PC of the traditional sort, one with a fixed screen …
Verizon to start targeted advertising this week, will be optional
If you're a customer of Verizon's, you'll want to keep your eyes peeled for an email, text message, or notification mentioning the carrier's new “Verizon Selects” program. In exchange for sharing you...
Nokia Maps digitises streets to battle Google's threat
Nokia is combining data gathered by lasers and cameras to make interactive 3D images of cities — Nokia smells an opportunity. Maps have become one of the most closely-watched battlegrounds in tech ...
Google adds horizontal carousel for web based iPad searches about local places
Google updated its web experience for U.S. iPad users who search for local places, such as bars and restaurants, on Google Search. The Mountain View-based company called the new feature a “horizontal...
Your AT&T Bill Will Soon Be a Video
Deciphering wireless bills requires a degree of patience only slightly lower than interpreting the Constitution, so we're very happy to see AT&T making theirs a lot more human-friendly. Starting toda...
Philips, LG Electronics, 4 others fined $1.92 billion for EU cartel
(Reuters) - Philips, LG Electronics, Samsung SDI and three other firms were fined a record 1.47 billion euros ($1.92 billion) by EU antitrust regulators on Wednesday for fixing prices of TV cathode-ra...
NSFW: Apple's Russian iTunes launch plagued with bug displaying escort/pornography sites
“In Soviet Russia, Porn blocks Apple.” — It appears Apple's launch of iTunes music and movies in Russia is running into a bit of controversy with several Russian users noticing advertising …
Verizon Using Sandy Repairs to Upgrade Wireline Network
Verizon Communications Inc. is replacing copper wire damaged by superstorm Sandy with fiber-optic cable, a move that allows the company to sell more services to customers. — The accelerated installa...
Kindle FreeTime Unlimited Offers Restricted Access To Content For Kids From Disney, Nickelodeon, DC Comics, And More
Amazon today launched FreeTime Unlimited, a subscription service that offers movies, games, and books for the kids. The launch follows the recent software update to Kindle Fire …
Nokia announces the Lumia 920T with China Mobile, available for $739 before end of 2012
Nokia has announced that its Lumia 920T smartphone is coming to China Mobile, the country's largest carrier, and it will launch before the end of the year for 4599 RMB ($739 - off contract) with a cho...
PeopleBrowsr Claims “Twitter Changed Position On Eve Of Discovery” Over Federal Jurisdiction Request
Tonight, PeopleBrowsr, the company that filed a restraining order against Twitter to keep a hold of its firehose of data after Twitter decided to end the deal it had in place with them, came out to di...
Samsung promotes son and heir closer to top job
(Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co pushed the anointed heir of the company Chairman closer to the top job on Wednesday as the it cemented a global lead in smartphones with a stock price that is close ...
Karma Launches Its $79 4G Mobile Hotspot And Pay-As-You-Go Data Plan That Reward Users For Sharing Their Bandwidth
The founders behind Karma (no, not that Karma) think that there's something fundamentally broken in the market for mobile providers. And they're hardly alone.