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| Jul 21, 2026 | UK Crypto Debanking: Parliament Investigates as £1B in Transactions Rejected | By William Chan
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| May 15, 2026 | Floci Tops 10,000 GitHub Stars as Free, MIT-Licensed AWS Emulator Fills LocalStack’s $39/Month Paywall Gap | By Adrian Parham
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| Jan 27, 2026 | AI's Hardware Hunger: The Global Tech Price Surge | Artificial intelligence infrastructure demands spark a profound global memory chip crisis. Tech giants prioritize high-bandwidth memory for AI, severely depleting supply for consumer electronics. This shortage directly drives rampant price ... |
| Jan 23, 2026 | Видеокарты, NAND, процессоры, далее — везде. Почему растут цены и что с этим делать | Если оглянуться на последние пару лет, легко заметить: рынок компьютерного железа научился выживать в режиме постоянных встрясок — то майнинг, то пандемия, то еще что-нибудь. Но нынешний кризис оказался каким-то особенно упорным. Все начало... |
| Jan 8, 2026 | Microsoft Is Pulling the Plug in 2026: Windows 11 24H2, Office 2021, and More Are Losing Support | Image: Sunny Hassan/Unsplash
Microsoft is lining up a major round of goodbyes in 2026, and the list touches some of its most widely used software.
From Windows 11 to Office 2021 and key developer tools, the company’s next end-of-support wav... |
| Sep 15, 2025 | Кризис в финансировании НАСА может привести к отказу от части текущих миссий | Сокращение бюджета НАСА грозит закрытием устаревших миссий, таких как «Вояджер» и «Юнона», к 2025 году. Учёные призывают возобновить финансирование для сохранения первенства США в космосе и содействия прорывам.
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| Aug 6, 2025 | AI Contractors at Meta Could See Users' Personal Data, Including Selfies Multiple contractors reported that they could view details, including phone numbers, email addresses, and hobbies. | Meta's AI training may have exposed your personal information to contract workers.
To fine-tune its AI models, Meta hires outside contractors to read conversations between users and its chatbot, which has one billion monthly active users as... |
| Aug 4, 2025 | Elon Musk Weighs In On Consulting Industry’s ‘Existential Transformation’ | Elon Musk during the Grok 4 launch's livestream from xAI headquarters.
McKinsey & Company is undergoing what senior leaders have called an “existential transformation” as artificial intelligence reshapes the consulting industry, accordi... |
| Jun 7, 2025 | Кто такой Майкл Рейнштейн и почему он скупает технологические СМИ по всему миру (в том числе TechCrunch) | Источник фото: https://labusinessjournal.com/
В последние годы имя Майкла Рейнштейна (Michael A. Reinstein) всё чаще мелькает в новостях о сделках по покупке медиаактивов и брендов. Этот малоизвестный широкой публике инвестор за короткий ср... |
| Sep 17, 2024 | The Illusion of Life and the Chaos of Twitter: A Tale of Understanding and Misunderstanding | Life is a puzzle. A riddle wrapped in a mystery. Scientists have wrestled with its definition for centuries. What makes something alive? Is it the spark of consciousness, the ability to grow, or the capacity to reproduce? In a world where e... |
| Sep 17, 2024 | Twitter’s Pre-Musk Plans Mirrored Elon’s Vision—Until He Abandoned, Trashed Or Ignored Them | Today, the new book by NY Times reporters Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter, comes out. If you’re at all interested in what went down, I can’t recommend it enough. It’s a well-written, deeply researc... |
| May 30, 2023 | Jobseekers Use ChatGPT to Create Resumes, but Beware of Eagle-Eyed HR Professionals | Joseph Henry, Tech Times 30 May 2023, 11:05 am
Job seekers often struggle in crafting a well-written resume, especially the new graduates. But with ChatGPT, nothing is impossible because, with just a single click, you can get a nicely-creat... |
| Sep 27, 2022 | Верч, игры, фестиваль: Walmart осваивает метавселенную | Walmart вливается в метавселенную: крупнейшая в мире сеть оптово-розничной торговли создаёт виртуальное представительство и игровую площадку на платформе Roblox, насчитывающей более 52 млн посетителей в день.
Как отмечает WebProNews, многие... |
| Sep 9, 2022 | В Patreon уволена служба безопасности | Patreon распустил свою службу безопасности, мотивировав это стратегическими изменениями в программе безопасности компании.
Компания рассталась с пятью специалистами. Как пишет WebProNews, сначала об увольнении всей команды стало известно из... |
| May 31, 2019 | Four Questions To Help You Maximize SaaS Vendor Value | |
| Nov 14, 2018 | Responding to global backlash, WhatsApp funds research on misinformation | After Facebook and its messenger WhatsApp received heavy criticism for not doing enough to stop false information from spreading on its networks, the company has launched some initiatives to better understand the phenomenon.
One effort is W... |
| Jun 21, 2016 | Apple Granted 33 Patents Today Covering the Apple TV System, Gesture Passwords & Mystery iPad
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Search | The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 33 newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today. In this particular report we cover the Apple TV system, advanced gesture passwords, the original mystery iPad design and mo... |
| Nov 15, 2015 | Why Silicon Valley needs to start internships for high schoolers | As anyone in Silicon Valley knows, engineering jobs are in high demand, but we’re going through a serious skills shortage.
K-12 classroom technology education hasn’t kept up with the demand for qualified engineers, programmers and designers... |
| May 18, 2015 | Twitter’s New Search Results Interface Expands To All Web Users | Twitter is now rolling out a new search results interface to all logged-in users on the web, introducing a cleaner look-and-feel and more filtering options that let you sort results by top tweets, “live” tweets, accounts, photos, videos, ne... |
| Jun 24, 2014 | Apple Granted 52 Patents Today Covering a Dual Connector iPad, a Hybrid iPhone Display, a 3D Remote & Much More
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Search | Apple Granted Patent for a Hybrid iDevice Display
Apple has been granted a patent today for their invention relating to systems and methods for displaying visual content on a hybrid electronic paper and video displays. The design of this is... |
| May 5, 2014 | Amazon and Twitter meet up for social ordering | In the never-ending push to make online shopping more irresistible, Amazon (AMZN) has struck a deal to automate product ordering through Twitter (TWTR). Users can reply when they see an Amazon product link and add a special hashtag -- #Amaz... |
| Mar 12, 2014 | Apple's CarPlay is set to lead the OS Platform War for the Car
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Search | Egil Juliussen, research director for IHS Automotive, said in their latest report that "The market for automotive infotainment operating systems represents a major opportunity for software vendors, with platform sales climbing to nearl... |
| Feb 21, 2014 | If You Do A Search Almost No One Does, Google Might Point You To Unauthorized Version Of House Of Cards | We’ve noted in the past that various copyright maximalists who are hellbent on blaming Google for their own failures to adapt and innovate, like to point to various searches on Google that point to what are likely to be unauthorized sources... |
| Nov 15, 2013 | Worldwide wrap | In this week's wrap, Toyota has developed a car that can read drivers' mood and track their emotions; and commuters can now enjoy a high-tech ride around New York City, thanks to the Car Force One taxi. Get the details on these stories and ... |
| Oct 21, 2013 | Netflix: ‘Orange Is The New Black’ Is Our Most-Watched Original, But Our TV Exclusives Are Even Bigger | Earlier comments from Netflix suggested that its show “Orange Is The New Black” was a hit — specifically, the company said in July that each of its original shows had a better first week than the one before it. It expanded on that point in ... |
| Jul 29, 2013 | The Internet of Things Can Be Hacked, Too | Image via Flickr
In all the excitement over the fast-approaching Internet of Things, there's been surprising little talk about the ginormous security risk that’s inevitable when the physical world becomes part of the network.
I’ve never bee... |
| Jul 25, 2013 | Mindboggling Facts That Will Make You Care About Pinterest | Allow this veteran Pinterest observer to get angry for just a moment: It really grinds my gears when people call Pinterest a “niche” social network.
Sure, it’s old news that Pinterest is used predominantly by women. But since when is 50 per... |
| Jun 26, 2013 | EFF Sues FBI, Wants Access To Records Of The FBI’s Facial Recognition Program | Companies like Facebook have been scrutinized by government regulators over the use of facial recognition technology. Now the Electronic Frontier Foundation is putting a mirror up to the government to demand the same scrutiny back. The orga... |
| Jun 18, 2013 | Google Updates Local Search Results On Desktop With Carousel Design | At the end of last year, Google introduced a new design for some local search results on tablets that put a carousel with the top results at the top of the page. Today, it’s bringing this design to the desktop, too. This new feature can be ... |
| Apr 18, 2013 | Acquired or Acq-hired, Xpenser Adds Expertise to Coupa’s Web Services | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Some startups are born great, some achieve greatness—and some get acquired.
Getting acquired can mean different things, however. In the case of Xpenser, a consumer Web startup... |
| Apr 16, 2013 | Japanese Court Orders Google to Pay Fine for Embarrassing Autocomplete Results | Not our words! (Photo: Google)
Google’s autocomplete function is both humorous and harmless, but as it turns out, it’s getting the company in trouble in Japan. A Tokyo District Court ruled yesterday that the search giant must modify its res... |
| Feb 24, 2013 | Mozilla, AT&T And Ericsson Team Up To Demo Seamless Web-To-Mobile WebRTC Integration At MWC | What if your browser could know when you are getting a call on your mobile phone? Earlier this month, Google and Mozilla demonstrated how their browsers’ WebRTC implementations could interoperate. Today, at the Mobile World Congress in Barc... |
| Feb 6, 2013 | The right of the people to keep and fly drones | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Last week, a Virginia House panel approved a two-year moratorium on drone use within the state. In December, Berkeley’s City Council de... |
| Jan 24, 2013 | Google Fiber is “not a hobby”—so where next? | reader comments 105 with 89 posters participating
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Before the end of 2012, Google announced it was ready to expand its crazy-cheap, crazy-fast gigabit Internet service farth... |
| Dec 12, 2012 | Healthcare’s 2012 on Twitter: @Poop_Strong vs. Aetna, Komen caves under criticism & more | Here’s a great recap of the Twitter exchange, which is definitely worth a read. But in short, the cost of Guta’s cancer treatment surpassed the $300K lifetime cap on his graduate student health plan, run by Aetna. To cover the more than $10... |
| Nov 19, 2012 | Facebook Denies That It’s In Talks For A New Search Partnership With Yahoo (Or Anyone Else) | After lots of speculation and argument yesterday about whether Facebook is discussing a search partnership with Yahoo, Facebook just sent me a brief statement denying that such talks are actually taking place.
Here’s the full statement:
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| Nov 16, 2012 | Feature Friday: Etsy Gift Cards | It might seem strange that a service that is seven years old would just be getting around to gift cards, but Etsy did not have its own payment service until this year. Paypal was the default payment system on Etsy for the first seven years ... |
| Nov 8, 2012 | Google Taps Its Inner J.J. Abrams With The Niantic Project | We have no idea what this is about either, but Google is apparently running some kind of viral marketing campaign right now that involves something called the Niantic Project. The videos and puzzles on the campaign’s website looks like they... |
| Nov 2, 2012 | Feature Friday: Kickstarter Goes International | Lost in the crazy week that we are having in NYC is that fact that Kickstarter went international this past week. On Wednesday, Kickstarter announced that projects in the UK were now live on the site.
Folks from around the world have always... |
| Oct 21, 2012 | Beyond Their 10 Blue Links, Google’s And Bing’s Search Strategies Diverge | Not too long ago, Google and Bing seemed fully focused on adding as many social features to their search engines as possible. For Google, that meant adding lots of Google+ features and for Bing it meant making the best out of its exclusive ... |
| Oct 8, 2012 | Twitter introduces a new user profiles directory | Twitter has introduced a new profile directory allowing users to search through Twitter accounts in alphabetical order.
The new page is similar to existing directories available on other social media websites including LinkedIn and Facebook... |
| Sep 29, 2012 | Consumer Reports: Actually, Apple’s Maps app doesn’t suck | Everyone in the tech echo chamber knows that Apple Maps is the worst mapping service in the history of mapping services. Apparently, someone forgot to give Consumer Reports the memo.
The convention wisdom is that Apple Maps lacks data and s... |
| Sep 29, 2012 | Consumer Reports: Actually, Apple’s Maps app doesn’t suck | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Everyone in the tech echo chamber knows that Apple Maps is the worst mapping service in the history of mapping services. Apparently, so... |
| Sep 26, 2012 | Email: The Original Cloud | Email is one of those parts of the internet that have been around for quite some time, and is considered a (if not, the) core piece of how many people communicate. But, if you actually look at the history of email, it’s quite amazing how mu... |
| Sep 10, 2012 | Новости и события за неделю: 3–9 сентября | Anonymous 10 сентября 2012, 18:31 Новости и события за неделю: 3–9 сентября
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| Sep 3, 2012 | How Obama Stole Romney’s RNC Thunder With Clever Social Media | President Barack Obama managed to steal an impressive amount of Gov. Mitt Romney’s press coverage with a few, cheap social media tricks, including the most retweeted post of the convention. In comparison to the Republican National Conventio... |
| Sep 2, 2012 | Do Women Love Ann Romney? Only Facebook Knows | For all the millions spent on the Republican National Convention, the entire operation could only speculate whether their keynote speeches had any meaningful impact. Until Facebook achieved near universal adoption among the voting class, br... |
| Aug 31, 2012 | President Obama’s Ask Me Anything on Reddit needed 60 dedicated servers (!) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Apparently, POTUS is popular. 60 extra servers po... |
| Aug 23, 2012 | Hobbyists turn 3D printers into gun-making machines | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
For gadget lovers, 3D printing can design life-sa... |
| Aug 23, 2012 | Hobbyists turn 3D printers into gun-making machines | For gadget lovers, 3D printing can design life-saving medical equipment, spare parts, even planes. But, as with all new technology, some folk push limits, polarize political opinion, and can even endanger public safety.
This summer, an Amer... |
| Aug 6, 2012 | Новости и события за неделю: 30 июля — 5 августа | Anonymous 6 августа 2012, 17:43 Новости и события за неделю: 30 июля — 5 августа
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| Jul 27, 2012 | Google intros cloud partner platform | Google intros cloud partner platform
Google's collection of cloud services is now known as the Google Cloud Platform, and to get everyone used to the idea, the search giant has kicked off a partner programme for companies that can help cust... |
| Jul 1, 2012 | Facebook’s Mobile Future Rests On Today’s Feature Phone Users | Editor’s Note: The following guest post by Thomas Clayton, the Chief Executive Officer of voice blogging startup Bubble Motion. Prior to Bubble Motion, Clayton was GM of the Worldwide Telecom Business at BEA Systems, an infrastructure softw... |
| Jun 26, 2012 | Google Plus: Ghost Town or Company Town in the Making? | The Google Plus social network is often slammed as a virtual ghost town, bereft of people and meaningful interactiions. But what if Google Plus is starting its life a ghost town… only on purpose?
There’s a big difference between a community... |
| Jun 22, 2012 | Facebook, 1997 called and they want their photo uploading tech back | Photos are a massive part of the Facebook experience. Every day, users upload 250 million photos to Facebook. And photo status updates typically get far more engagement than any other type of post.
So why does the Facebook photo posting exp... |
| Jun 22, 2012 | Facebook, 1997 called and they want their photo uploading tech back | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Photos are a massive part of the Facebook experie... |
| Jun 21, 2012 | Mobile Meetup App Uberlife Redesigns To Make Planning Events And Meeting Friends Easier | Uberlife is a mobile app that was created to help users join meetups with and get to know new, like-minded individuals. We first covered Uberlife in January when the app was still in alpha. It officially launched in March, just ahead of SXS... |
| Jun 1, 2012 | Dell cloud boosts paediatric cancer research | Dell cloud boosts paediatric cancer research
Dell says it has completed work on a high-performance computing cluster that will fuel a clinical trial for children with cancer, reports Information Week.
The high-performance computer cluster, ... |
| May 30, 2012 | Instamed raises $14 million, plus rounds from Virtual Piggy, konciergeMD, HigherNext and more [Startup Roundup] | Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along... |
| May 24, 2012 | No, The RIAA Is Not Asking For $72 Trillion From Limewire (Bad Reporters, Bad) | In the last day or so we keep seeing people send over variations on this story claiming that the RIAA claims it is owed $72 trillion dollars from Limewire. Many of the reports appear to originate from the NME post I just linked to, though I... |
| May 18, 2012 | Study: Twitter Sentiment Mirrored Facebook’s Stock Price Today | Facebook’s IPO was obviously the single most discussed topic on Twitter today. The good folks over at social media data platform DataSift monitored what Twitter users were saying about the IPO throughout the day and came up with some intere... |
| May 17, 2012 | Kayak to ride Facebook coattails to IPO | Online travel site looking to raise $150 million
With Facebook’s record-breaking $104 billion IPO Friday, which could wind up netting the company $16 billion, it appears other online companies are going to cash in on public investor enthusi... |
| May 1, 2012 | Google Sued Because Some People Wonder If Jon Hamm Is Jewish | We’ve written about a bunch of court cases around the globe, in which Google was sued (and often found liable) for the results of its autocomplete feature, which suggests popular searches based on what users have typed. For reasons that sti... |
| Apr 30, 2012 | More than one in ten Google UK searches now includes new author images and bio info in top 100 results study shows | New study reveals UK publishers, journalists and bloggers losing out to US in battle to generate more Google traffic
London – 30 April, 2012 – A new study suggests that in 13 per cent[1] of Google UK searches at least one of the top 100 res... |
| Apr 14, 2012 | Google Finally Gets Right To Gmail Trademark In Germany | When Google launched Gmail in Germany in 2005, it was quickly barred from using the Gmail name for its email product there. German entrepreneur Daniel Giersch, after all, had registered the ‘G-mail’ trademark (short for Giersch mail) for hi... |
| Mar 29, 2012 | Apple Invents a Killer 3D Imaging Camera for iOS Devices
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Search | Today's Cameras with Limited 3D Capabilities
Existing three-dimensional image capture devices, such as digital cameras and video recorders, can derive limited three-dimensional visual information for objects located within a captured area. ... |
| Mar 12, 2012 | Facebook, Google facing censorship trial in India | Executives of the Internet sites could face jail time if convicted
Facebook and Google are facing what seem to be some very serious charges in India, and the outcome of the case might have broad implications for the future of social media i... |
| Mar 6, 2012 | Apple Wins Patent for iWallet: The one that will rule the World
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Search | Apple Wins Major iWallet Patent
Apple has received a major Granted Patent that generally relates to establishing financial transaction rules for controlling a subsidiary financial account and, more particularly, to various systems, methods,... |
| Feb 20, 2012 | Google Developing Siri-Like User Interface for Google TV
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Search | Google's Invention is About Bringing a Siri-Like UI to Google TV
Google's engineers begin their overview by stating that people are interacting more and more with computers, and more specifically, more and more with different kinds of compu... |
| Feb 16, 2012 | Google Patent Reveals Future Unlock Features for Android Devices
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Search | Google's Patent Background
Computing devices, such as smartphones or desktop computers, often have a security measure that prevents accidental and/or unauthorized access. The locking of a device may simply be aimed at preventing casual cont... |
| Feb 2, 2012 | New Virtual Controls from Apple Point to a Future iMac Touch
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Search | The Problem with Traditional Desktop Knob Controls
Modern computer operating systems often provide a desktop graphical user interface ("GUI") for displaying various graphical objects. Some examples of graphical objects include win... |
| Jan 19, 2012 | SOPA Scorecard: Internet 1, Lobbyists 0 | Editor’s Note: David Binetti is the CEO and co-founder of Votizen, a consumer technology company based in Mountain View, CA, focused on giving voters a greater voice. You can follow Binetti on Twitter @dbinetti.
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| Jan 19, 2012 | Apple introduces us to Siri, the Killer Patent
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Search | Before Siri, There was Apple's 1987 Knowledge Navigator Concept
According to Wikipedia, Apple's Knowledge Navigator Concept of 1987 described "a device that could access a large networked database of hypertext information, and use soft... |
| Jan 17, 2012 | Steve Jobs Credited with an Apple TV Patent for Episodic TV
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Search | Apple Wins an Apple TV Patent Relating to Organizing Episodic TV
Apple has received a Granted Patent relating to a method of organizing episodic content such as TV shows on Apple TV.
Apple's patent FIG. 5 shown below, illustrates a block di... |
| Dec 29, 2011 | Blip.tv pockets another $6 million for video blogging | The online video distributor, Blip, brings its total funding to $24 million
Blip.tv has raised another $6 million in a Series D round of funding for the video blogging service, according to an SEC filing. The filing goes on to say that that... |
| Nov 25, 2011 | Give Up, Facebook: You’re Not a Mall | Even though Facebook suffered social commerce fails with the Delta ticket window and the now-shuttered Facebook Deals, Facebook social shopping applications for Facebook still keep popping up.
A new study from Sociable Labs shows that 50% o... |
| Oct 12, 2011 | What is internet sales tax, and will it cripple e-commerce? | The first thing to know about the so-called “Internet Sales Tax” is that it is not a tax. Despite all the posturing the proposal, most recently embodied in the hotly-contested Main Street Fairness Act of 2010, is simply a plan to require in... |
| Oct 11, 2011 | Twitter wraps all links to t.co | Starting this week, t.co URL wrapper automatically wraps all links submitted to Twitter
In an effort to guard its community from rogue websites, Twitter is reformating all its links to its t.co URL shortener.
The giant social-microblogging ... |
| Sep 24, 2011 | Instagram-Powered Art Show to Open in London | Instagram, the free iPhone photography app that’s grown like a weed, has a lot of both fans and critics. Some critics allege that the app’s photo filters ruin perfectly good images and will be looked back at later in the photographer’s life... |
| Aug 25, 2011 | It was time for Steve Jobs to go | In my six-plus years covering Cupertino here and elsewhere I can tell you I did not expect to write a story like this for quite a few more years yet. Apple is Steve Jobs, and Steve Jobs is Apple.
But let's talk turkey here: Jobs' health has... |
| Aug 6, 2011 | Apple Sued over Fast Booting in OS X with a Patent linked to LG Electronics
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Search | The Alleged Patent Infringement In-Part
The court's document on Count 1 states that "Apple sells or offers to sell within this district, computer systems, including but not limited to the MacBook Pro, that utilize the Mac OSX operating... |
| May 12, 2011 | Apple to Advance iPhone with both Text-to-Speech & Speech-to-Text Converters
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Search | Problem One: Communicating in Noisy Environments
A smartphone user may sometimes have to make or answer a phone call in a noisy environment. Noise could interfere with a phone conversation to a degree that the conversation is no longer inte... |
| May 10, 2011 | MSFT buys Skype for $8.5B; good-bye Skype IPO | Microsoft pays cash for Skype after Skype just updated its S-1 form
Skype has a new home. As of Tuesday morning, the globally renowned VolP service has nestled safely in the warm, protective bosom of Microsoft. For $8.5 billion in cash.
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| Feb 22, 2011 | You have zero friends, Google — but one secret social weapon | [Peter Yared is the vice president of apps at Webtrends, which acquired Transpond, a social-apps developer he founded. He submitted this column to VentureBeat.]
One of the charms of Google’s once and future CEO, cofounder Larry Page, is tha... |
| Dec 20, 2010 | Amazon offers free one-day shipping for holiday shoppers | Procrastinators rejoice! Amazon announced today that it will offer free one-day shipping for thousands of products, including electronics, video games and jewelry, until the end of the day on Wednesday, December 22. (Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos p... |
| Dec 20, 2010 | A New Year’s resolution for Google: Buy MySpace, stat! | [Peter Yared is the vice president of apps at Webtrends, which acquired Transpond, a social-apps developer he founded.]
For all the money Google has thrown at MySpace over the years, the search giant of Mountain View might as well have boug... |
| Oct 4, 2010 | Comparison Shopping Site TheFind Gets Into Social Commerce With Facebook Integration | Comparison shopping site TheFind, which recently passed Yahoo to become the second most popular shopping site behind Google (according to comScore), is pushing its social commerce strategy today with an in-depth Facebook integration.
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| Aug 27, 2010 | Google and Microsoft Fight for Search Future -- Whatever It May Be | Just last year, it seemed as though everyone knew where search was headed. Google (GOOG) dominated, Microsoft (MSFT) would do anything to get ahead, and Yahoo (YHOO), ever high tech's Rodney Dangerfield, just wanted some respect. But the su... |
| Aug 15, 2010 | MySpace Planning “BIG Stealth Project” | MySpace is hiring for a “BIG ‘Stealth Project,'” according to job listings that have popped up over the last few days.
MySpace is in for a “major overhaul” in the next few months, owner Rupert Murdoch, CEO of News Corp., said recently (MySp... |
| Jun 16, 2010 | Travelocity Cements Its Position As Default Travel Booking Service On Yahoo | Travelocity has signed a contract to renew its partnership with Yahoo. Under the terms of the agreement, Travelocity will remain the exclusive booking provider for all air, car and hotel packaging options, and the new exclusive provider for... |
| May 12, 2010 | Roundup: Facebook takes privacy seriously, Sprint Evo includes two-way video chat | Here’s the latest action:
Facebook calls all-hands meeting about privacy — Tomorrow afternoon the entire company will converge to talk about its privacy strategy going forward. Clearly, the leadership has decided that bold moves need to be ... |
| Apr 21, 2010 | Facebook is now Mafia Don of the Web | Social kingpin makes an offer sites can't refuse: use Facebook plugins or become irrelevant.
Wednesday morning, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took to the stage at the company's f8 conference to make a series of announcements.
The most powerf... |
| Mar 26, 2010 | Are You Ready for the New, Easier Wikipedia? | Wikipedia, the online user-created encyclopedia and the number six website on the Internet today, is about to get a makeover. And it’s a big one. According to a blog post from the Wikimedia Foundation User Experience team detailing the chan... |
| Feb 15, 2010 | Google Confirms Trending Topics Test | While none of us here at ReadWriteWeb have yet to see it in our Google News, a tip this morning from blogger Joe Hobot tells us that trending topics may be coming to the search engine’s news aggregator.
We got in touch with Google this morn... |
| Dec 31, 2009 | $7.5 Million: Wikipedia Reaches Fundraising Goal | In what has become a Christmas tradition, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales posted a personal appeal for donations to the Wikimedia Foundation earlier this month. On the first day alone, the nonprofit raised $430,000 from 13,000 people. Today, ... |
| Dec 25, 2009 | Apple's New Tablet To Be Baptized iSlate? Let's Dig A Little Deeper | Nice scoop by MacRumors, which reportedly retrieved historical evidence that Apple has acquired the domain name islate.com back in 2007. Apparently, the Cupertino company registered the domain through brand protection firm Mark Monitor to c... |
| Dec 8, 2009 | Perfect 10 Still Not Giving Up In Lawsuit Against Google | Back in May, when a court shot down yet another of porn publisher Perfect 10’s lawsuits against web search engines, we wondered if the publisher would finally realize that Google is not liable for what its image search engine finds. Yet, th... |
| Nov 25, 2009 | Elevation snaps up eBay exec | Rajiv Dutta, former president of PayPal and Skype at eBay, joins Bono's (other) band
On Tuesday, former executive VP of eBay Rajiv Dutta joined private equity firm Elevation Partners as a managing director.
Elevation Partners focuses on lar... |
| Nov 13, 2009 | Slowpokes to get penalized in Google search rankings? | WebProNews dug up a pretty interesting nugget in an interview with Google’s Matt Cutts over the weekend at PubCon — there’s a faction of Googlers who are lobbying for site speed to be a factor in search rankings.
That’s not taken into accou... |
