First Video Clip of Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs
Following yesterday's news that the independent film JOBS starring Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs will open in theaters on April 19, ETonline.com has released the first video clip from the film. The br...
Twitter introduces Vine for iOS, an app for sharing six second looping videos on the service
Twitter has today introduced Vine, an app that allows you to share six second looping videos on the service and in embedded tweets. The app is simple, allowing you to tap the screen to record video a...
Nokia CEO Stephen Elop: Google is making its open ecosystem ‘more closed’
Speaking at a press conference to discuss Nokia's Q4 earnings, company CEO Stephen Elop said that Google is trying to close its “open ecosystem.” — Despite name-checking Android, it seems likely tha...
French court says Twitter must identify racist tweeters
PARIS — A French court ruled Thursday that Twitter, which has steadfastly refused calls to police its millions of users, must hand over data to help identify the authors of racist or anti-Semitic twee...
Facebook Blocks Yandex's New Social Search App From Accessing Its Data Just Three Hours After Launch
Yandex begged Facebook not to shut down its social search app Wonder that launched this morning. But the explanation Yandex's lawyers sent us for why it's compliant with Facebook's policies …
Mark Zuckerberg Will Hold Fundraiser For Chris Christie
The tech mogul and his wife “admire [Christie's] leadership on education reform and other issues and look forward to continuing their important work together on behalf of Newark's schoolchildren,” a s...
Nokia Laser: a flagship Lumia Windows Phone for Verizon
Verizon is planning to stock a high-end Nokia Lumia phone this year. Sources familiar with Verizon's plans have revealed to The Verge that the US carrier will offer a device that has similar specific...
Microsoft's Q2: Enterprise shines, Surface details scant
Summary: The software giant's enterprise products—System Center, SQL Server and Lync do well. Details about Surface's reception are few and far between. — Microsoft's second quarter results were a ...
Lenovo Mulls RIM Deal as a Way to Boost Mobile Business
Lenovo Group Ltd. (992) is assessing potential acquisition targets and strategic alliances, including a deal with BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM), as the second-largest producer of per...
AT&T's Q4 2012 Beats Street With $32.6B In Revenue, Misses With EPS Of $0.44, Smartphone Subscriber Base Jumps To 47.1M
AT&T shared its Q4 2012 earnings results today, reporting overall quarterly revenues of $32.6 billion (an increase of 0.2% year over year), and earnings per share of $0.44 …
Belkin helps Cisco exit consumer space by acquiring its Home Networking division, including Linksys
Belkin on Thursday announced plans to acquire Cisco's Home Networking Business Unit, including its products, technology, employees, and even the well-known Linksys brand.
Google's “confidential” test might be a super-dense LTE network using Clearwire's spectrum
Google filed an application at the FCC last week seeking permission to conduct testing of an experimental radio system. Portions of the application and accompanying exhibits have been designated conf...
Automattic Buys Simperium, Maker of Simplenote
Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, has bought the small synchronization startup Simperium, which makes a syncing platform for developers and a well-loved synced note-taking app for iOS call...
Samsung reports Q4 2012 financials: $8.27 billion in operating profit on $52.45 billion in revenue
Samsung set lofty expectations when it announced its earnings estimates earlier this month, and today the company delivered. It announced consolidated operating profit of 8.84 trillion won …
Amazon Gets Into Voice Recognition, Buys Ivona Software To Compete Against Apple's Siri
Amazon today announced that it is acquiring Ivona Software, a Polish-based specialist in voice technologies that competes with Nuance and is already used in the Kindle Fire for services covering text-...
The Apple paradox
Lots to mull over in Apple's results - not least rebuilding my model to reflect the changes in reporting, which is always a joy. — However, these charts illustrate what I think is the paradox in the...
Exclusive: Big changes for Ignition Partners
Seattle VC firm tries to reignite. — FORTUNE — Ignition Partners, a Seattle-area venture capital firm formed in 2000 by a group of ex-Microsoft (MSFT) executives, is reorganizing into a much smaller...
A Free Database of the Entire Web May Spawn the Next Google
Common Crawl supplies a database of over five billion Web pages in the hope that it will inspire new research or online services. — Why It Matters — A freely available copy of billions of Web page...
Nokia's Q4 2012: $584 million operating profit, $10.7 billion in net sales, 4.4 million Lumia phones sold
Beleaguered phone maker Nokia this morning published its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2012, reporting a $584 million (439 million euros) operating profit on $10.7 billion in net sales (...
Woz Says Kutcher's Steve Jobs Movie Scene Is “Totally Wrong”
The first scene from iJOBS—the biopic on Steve Jobs starring Ashton Kutcher—may be pretty decent, but it never happened. Not even close, according to Steve Wozniak, who says they “never had such inte...
Ashton Kutcher's ‘jOBS’ to Hit Theaters on Apple's 37th Anniversary
The film makes its worldwide premiere at the Sundance Film Festival this week ahead of its April release in theaters. — The Steve Jobs biopic jOBS, starring Ashton Kutcher, will open in theaters Apr...
German court rules internet “essential”
(Reuters) - A German court ruled on Thursday that people have the right to claim compensation from service providers if their Internet access is disrupted, because the Internet is an “essential” part ...
Imagining a 5-inch iPhone
Never mind rumors of an awkwardly named 4.8-inch “iPhone Math”, the concept of a much larger iPhone has been floating about ever since the realities of early LTE chipsets — and the batteries that came...
Microsoft Earnings Big on Windows 8 and SuperBowl Strategy
On the eve of Microsoft's possibly most significant earnings reports in recent history, eyes are fixed are on the Redmond giant. The recent announcement of pricing and availability of their tablet pr...
Samsung Gets Review of Apple Victory in U.S. Trade Fight
Samsung Electronics Co. (005930), the world's largest smartphone producer, persuaded a U.S. trade agency to review a preliminary ruling that more than a dozen models of its mobile phones copied Apple ...
Can A Messaging App Beat Standalone Social Networking?
Just.me, the new project from Keith Teare, co-founder of TechCrunch and partner at incubator Archimedes Labs, has launched in beta as an app for iOS.
Unauthorized Unlocking of New Mobile Phones Set to Become Illegal in U.S.
As noted by Tech News Daily, a new federal policy in the United States is set to go into effect this Saturday that will make it illegal for certain mobile phone owners to unlock their devices for use ...
Sony Fined Nearly $400,000 By U.K. Data Protection Watchdog For 2011 PlayStation Network Hack, Plans To Appeal (Updated)
Sony has been fined by the U.K.'s data protection watchdog for the April 2011 data breach of the PlayStation Network which compromised the personal details of millions of users.
Tumblr streamlines post creation with revamped inline compose windows
Tumblr today began rolling out new inline forms for posting text, photos, quotes, videos, and more. The new forms are incredibly sparse and modern, relegating all but the most important functionality...
Letter From Forty-Four Digital Rights Groups Demands Skype Detail Its Surveillance Practices
Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer with Skype president Tony Bates at the announcement of Skype's $8.5 billion acquisition. — Skype has long been a stubborn whipping boy for the privacy communi...