Microsoft Surface Pro Review
There's clearly interest in a device that converges the tablet and notebook. ASUS saw some of the earliest success in this department with its Transformer line of Android tablets. Once the first Win...
Microsoft Attacks Gmail Over Privacy In Latest “Scroogled” Campaign
If at first you don't succeed, get negative once again, seems to be the game plan at Microsoft. Having attacked Google Shopping with a “Scroogled” campaign last November, Microsoft is back again.
Dell's downward spiral: 10 years of failed consumer devices
Things haven't gone so well since the Dell Dude split — It's no secret why Dell's struggling so badly it just took a $2b loan from Microsoft and bought itself back from shareholders to become a priv...
Ubuntu Smartphone Shipping in October
Smartphones running the open source Ubuntu operating system will be available to customers beginning in October 2013, according to Mark Shuttleworth, founder and CEO of Canonical Ltd. Canonical provid...
Google Said in Talks to Invest $50 Million in Vevo Site
Google Inc.'s YouTube is negotiating a $50 million equity investment in music video service Vevo LLC, according to two people with knowledge of the situation. — Google would own less than 10 percent...
iPads (Thanks To The Mini) Were 1 In 6 ‘PCs’ Shipped, Tablets One-Third, And Windows RT Didn't Even Break 1M: Canalys
The PC market is fast shifting into a touchscreen world, and Apple is leading the charge. Some new numbers from the analysts at Canalys note that in Q4 of 2012 …
Google Spends $125 Million On Channel Intelligence To Improve Google Shopping
Google has acquired Channel Intelligence for $125 million in cash. — According to its blog, Channel Intelligence (CI) tracks online retail sales for a number of categories ranging from computing to ...
Coming Soon to Yahoo: Ads From Google
Remember when Google and Yahoo were talking about an ad alliance last year? — Maybe they worked something out, after all: Sources say Google is set to begin running some of its AdSense display ads o...
Apple announces new iTunes Store record with 25 billion songs sold
Apple today issued a press released announcing the iTunes Store has a hit a new record with 25 billion songs sold. Apple's senior vice president of Internet Software and Services noted that Apple ave...
Hands on with Google's new Chrome message center
The tech world's been a-buzzin' this week with word of a new Chrome-based message center from Google. Signs of the system first showed up in a Chrome OS screenshot captured by developer François Beau...
Vine gets 17+ age rating, option to report users; finally enables social sharing after videos are posted
Users of Vine finally have the option to share their videos after they are posted after the newly-released short video app from Twitter got an update that also adds an age rating, following issues wit...
Judge Sides With Wi-Fi Patent Troll Over Cisco
Purveyors of public Wi-Fi networks beware. The federal case that was supposed to bring a halt to patent troll Innovatio IP Ventures LLC's ongoing shakedown of hotels, restaurants, coffee shops and th...
Salesforce.com has acquired French startup EntropySoft
Salesforce.com has acquired EntropySoft, a French startup that offers content integration solutions. — A spokesperson confirmed that the deal recently closed, but the company won't be making a forma...
Exclusive: Google and Twitter execs form VC fund
Google and Twitter product pros form venture capital firm. — FORTUNE — A pair of product managers from Google and Twitter are forming a new venture capital firm, Fortune has learned. — One of the ...
New Blackberry with keyboard won't hit US market until May
TORONTO (AP) — A modern BlackBerry with a physical keyboard might not arrive in the U.S. until May or June, a month or two behind other parts of the world, the chief executive of the smartphone maker ...
Social Commenting Platform Livefyre Raises $15M To Scale Mobile Experiences, Moderating Features And More
Social commenting platform Livefyre has raised $15 million in funding led by U.S. Venture Partners (USVP) and included existing investors Greycroft Partners, Cue Ball, HillsVen Group, and ff Venture C...
More Change At AOL: Photosharing App Hipster.com Is Shutting Down February 16
Another change afoot at AOL today: Hipster.com, a hyperlocal photosharing app AOL acquired in March 2012, is shutting down as of February 16. Registered users are being sent emails (a copy, sent to u...
FedEx's file-transfer capacity versus the Internet
Today on XKCD's “What If...?”, Randall Munroe runs the numbers of when and whether the Internet's throughput will ever exceed FedEx's sneakernet file-transfer capacity (one interesting note here: why ...
Liberty buys Virgin, creating largest broadband company outside China
The cable giant Liberty Global has bought UK-based Virgin Media in a cash-and-stock deal worth $23.3 billion, creating what they claim is “the world's leading broadband communications company” with 25...
Twitter on Route to Maturity—Maybe IPO
Maybe IPO — Since taking the helm in 2010, Dick Costolo has steered seven-year-old Twitter Inc. through frequent service outages, slow ad sales, executive turnover and into position as Silicon Valley...