With the debut of Groupon personalization, I have little doubt that the daily deal site will double the number of deals (and double its revenue run rate) in just a few months. According to CEO Andrew...

Despite their clear commitment to the hardware version of the Kindle, Amazon continues to make the Kindle apps that run on the iPad and iPhone better. Today, version 2.2 of the app brings a full dict...

We've just received word from Google confirming that they are not currently blocked in China and that a server issue was most likely the cause of their dashboard misread. One month ago, Google put up...

At Google I/O in May, the search giant indicated that they were about to take their commitment to location to the next level. Sure, Latitude had been around for a while, but everyone knew that Google...

Panasonic announced today that it will buy out two of its subsidiaries, Sanyo and Panasonic Electric Works, for $9.4 billion. Sanyo is the largest lithium-ion rechargeable battery producer and 11th-...

Y Combinator put on a tour de force Thursday in Mountain View, Calif. After five impressive years' worth of molding fresh batches of startups, it packed 150-odd people with money into a room and schoo...

If there is one clear beneficiary of the rise of mobile devices - iPads, Androids and iPhones - it is British chip technology company, ARM Holdings. With its stock rising and profits soaring, the low-...

The power grid is so dumb that a decades-old networking technology, which has disappeared from pretty much all other industries and has 8,000 times less bandwidth of current average networks, is still...

The most interesting thing about WikiLeaks and its release of 90,000 secret Afghan documents earlier this week isn't the details of the U.S.-backed war in Afghanistan -- it's what the incident says ab...

Microsoft should be making its own handsets, says Peter Bright of Ars Technica. There's merit in the argument, but it's far too late for such a change. Doing so would cut off hardware partners that al...

If you’ve ever been snickering over the latest YouTube viral video on your smartphone in the evening and ended up frustrated by slow load times and a congested network, you’re not alone &#...

We’ve been reading reports tonight that the popular European music service Spotify has hit yet another delay in making an entry in the U.S. market.According to Billboard, Spotify’s negotia...

Google has indicated it’s going to be working with developers on checkins for location-based applications through its Places API.This spring, Google announced Places as a revamping of its local...

According to several reports and data from Google, the search engine is fully blocked in mainland China as of today.Also fully blocked are ads and mobile access. Image search is partially blocked, as...

A Day’s Outing, a website dedicated to helping users find nearby day trips, weekend get-aways or quick excursions across the U.S., has just launched its new iPhone app [iTunes link], making it e...

RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) conducted a deep reorganization in the second quarter that led to the elimination of 85 jobs, including 25 percent of the company’s execs. Today, it announced that the chan...

As expected, Forbes is shuttering the True/Slant site this weekend, according to the posts of several contributors. As Fishbowl NY noted, all of the reader farewells penned by T/S contributors say tha...

MTV has reorganized the heads of its Integrated Marketing Group with the return of MySpace (NSDQ: NWS) sales executive Angela Courtin to the Viacom (NYSE: VIA) company. Courtin will serve as SVP, MTV...

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer is taking the stage at Microsoft’s analyst day to talk about the company’s consumer businesses, saying that “a lot of the issues we see in ou...

Interpublic Group’s Mediabrands is building up its hyperlocal unit Geomentum by adding former Forrester analyst Lisa Bradner has its first president. She’ll head up account management and...

Google has begun opening up access to a new Application Programming Interface (API) called the Places API. Developers building apps that include a "check in at this place" feature can use the Places...

Throughout the spring, we covered the financial reform legislation as it wound its way through committee and Congress. The final version - Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act -...

Death threats aimed at Iranian atheist blogger, Fariboz Shamshiri. "One electronic threat was that someone would 'cut his throat.' In another message they wrote 'the death is coming to you soon soon...

In a recent survey by Evans Data, Google gets accolades for its public cloud. IBM gets top marks from developers for its private cloud. But what do developers want the most? They want the cloud to b...

A Google Web site that monitors access in China is reporting that Google Web search, which was fully or mostly accessible yesterday in mainland China is being completely blocked. But the company is no...

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#exclusive Mark Zuckerberg turned strangers' intimate moments into riches. We turned the tables on the Facebook CEO, lurking outside his house, following him...

#startups Chris Poole is looking for hackers for his new startup Canvas Networks, which is pretty strange considering the last website he started, 4chan, is...

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Here's today's roundup of tech news in case you missed 'em: Steve Ballmer soothes investor worries in today's Microsoft presentation. (Hint: tablets!) View the innards of Apple's new Magic Trackpad...

Earlier, we brought you a bunch of new information about Apple's new "iAd for Developers" program, which is essentially a cheap ad program for developers to promote their iPhone apps within other apps...

In April, location-services provider Skyhook Wireless lost one of its biggest, most important partners: Apple, which ditched Skyhook and Google for its own location-based services on its latest mobile...

Update: Google says it is NOT blocked in China, that perhaps its server miscalculated its level of blockage. Carry on... Earlier: Google search ads are getting blocked in China, according to the compa...

In April, Apple dumped location-info providers Skyhook Wireless and Google in favor of its own location databases for its new mobile OSes.Join the conversation about this story »...

For centuries, people have tried to pinpoint what makes humans unique. The most current scientific theory suggests that three main qualities separate Homo sapiens from other animals: the constructio...

Recently released FCC documents reveal that Sprint is set to launch what appears to be a new case for the iPod touch that would enable 3G networking on the WiFi-only device. Manufactured by ZTE and ca...

At a Congressional Internet privacy hearing on Tuesday, a group of middle-aged men had some questions about the 'Net. Why was it such a creepy place? How come replying to spammers doesn't get one imme...

The latest hole in WiFi security is quite serious, but it's unlikely to cause widespread disruption in the corporate and government networks for which it would have the potential to cause the biggest...

Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner revealed today at the company's annual financial analyst meeting that the first beta of the Internet Explorer 9 Web browser is planned for release in Sep...

I had the pleasure of spending all day yesterday, from 9am to 6pm, listening to pitches from the finalists selected out of the mini seedcamps from all over europe this year. Seedcamp is Europe's premi...

I want to let everyone know about an opportunity to showcase your startup at Web 2.0 Expo in NYC in late September. On Sept 29th in the late afternoon/early evening, the Web 2.0 conference will have 3...

Every successful social media system I have ever been involved with has to tackle the problem of spam. It is one of signs that you are successful. When the spammers start targeting you, it is a sign y...

Today on MBA Mondays we are going to talk about another form of costs; Sunk Costs. Sunk Costs are time and money (and other resources) you have already spent on a project, investment, or some other ef...

AVC regular Charlie Crystle asked me this question yesterday in the comments: Fred, it might be helpful to some of your readers to explain when a startup should seek angel vs seed/early stage VC. If I...

We've shown you how to play video games on your iDevice with a Wiimote, and you can do the same on Android, too. Some clever DIY hackers have made this experience even better by creating Wiimote attac...

If you're managing a pile of projects—and you're the only one working on them—the massive feature lists of most business-focused project management applications are overwhelming and unnece...

Street Slide is an experimental Street View killer, libraries quietly beat Netflix in DVD rentals, an Android wallpaper app jacks data from 1 million users, we get a peek at Internet Explorer 9, and G...

Windows only: Popular BitTorrent client uTorrent added a web interface, so you can remotely access your transfers from a web browser. Since then, they've added support for the web interface to the iPh...

Divvy/us is a new, simple web app for quickly creating and sharing task lists with individual task assignments. More »...

Chris Ziegler / Engadget: EVO 4G's Android 2.2 update starts trickling out tomorrow, loads of new features and fixes in store? (update: official for August 3rd!)  —  We're not certain...

MG Siegler / TechCrunch: In April, Apple Ditched Google And Skyhook In Favor Of Its Own Location Databases  —  As you're undoubtedly aware, location is one of the hottest fields out th...

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: Google Confirms: We're Not Currently Blocked In China  —  We've just received word from Google that they are not currently blocked in China and that a serv...

Antony Bruno / Billboard.Biz: Sources: Spotify Reboots U.S. Label Negotiations  —  Spotify's licensing negotiations with the major music labels have reverted back to square one, Billbo...

Ina Fried / CNET News: Ballmer says Microsoft at work to rival iPad  —  REDMOND, Wash.—Acknowledging Apple's early success with the iPad, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer insisted Thu...

Shoes for the fashion conscious geek......

When that fateful day comes where you find yourself suddenly unable to harp on your fantasy league because the Internet has been hijacked, fear not. There's a plan for that.

In the second quarter of 2010, Google posted revenues $5.1 billion with advertising accounting for 96% of its revenues, 66% of its total revenue. Not intending to rely on traditional search advertisin...

Check out 10 of the best Safari 5 extensions, and how to enable them in Apple’s latest release of Safari.

Once thought to be unhackable, the Android phone is anything but, according to researchers presenting at Black Hat 2010.

Google launched a new web-based tool Wednesday that helps you configure, test and easily embed one of the company’s free fonts into your web pages. The Font Previewer lets you pick one of the op...

Font startup Typekit introduced an API Thursday that lets web programmers generate kits from the Typekit library behind the scenes. The company has previously only offered the option of picking fonts...

Want to find out how magically terrible your web code is? Just ask the Unicorn. The web's governing body has launched a new validation tool called Unicorn that checks the quality of your website's cod...

Apple released an update to its Safari web browser Wednesday. Safari 5.0.1 is available from Apple as a free download for Windows and for Mac OS X (Leopard or better). This is an incremental upgrade,...

The second beta release of the next version of Firefox is now available. Download Firefox 4 Beta 2 from Mozilla and test it out. Windows, Mac OS X and Linux builds are available in multiple languages...

Get schooled by CNET editor Jasmine France. This week she gives tips on how you can use technology to do good things for fellow humans. Originally posted at MP3 Insider...

Updates to the Firefox cloud-based syncing tools for iPhone and for the Firefox browser correct three of users' top complaints, according to Mozilla. Originally posted at iPhone Atlas...

But those reports, which said nearly all of the Internet giant's services were blocked Thursday, turned out to be erroneous. Originally posted at Web Crawler...

Planning a barbecue, dinner party, or anything else that means group resource gathering? Divvyus lets you dole out those tasks in an orderly fashion. Originally posted at Web Crawler...

Want to put videos longer than 10 minutes up on YouTube? It's now a reality, with a new 15-minute limit. Originally posted at Web Crawler...

The Internet is changing the way many people learn languages. Books, tapes and CDs are being replaced by e-mail, video chats and social networks.

The apps work best when analyzing bar codes, labels and other inanimate objects that are easily found in images on the Web.

Take the right phone and use the right network. And keep in mind that your smartphone’s apps may rack up huge charges.

Technology offers growing options for keeping an eye (or an ear) on aging parents.

New technologies can help adult children keep track of their aging parents.

Google said it was the first time the site has been blocked since March.

A new tool tracks the speed at which cloud services from Google, Microsoft and Amazon.com run, and then displays their worldwide performance.

The Web site ifixit took apart Apple's Magic Trackpad showing a detailed view of what is under the hood of this new mouse replacement.

YouTube increased the time limit for uploaded videos to 15 minutes from 10 minutes.

A security researcher released a file containing the names, profile addresses and identification numbers of more than 100 million Facebook users.

Interesting investment by Google Ventures in a company called Recorded Future, a wonderful play on verb tenses and words. The company is a "temporal and predictive analysis engine." That just sounds c...

Every day I spend an hour or two curating a set of links that I find provocative, useful, or important, adding a few lines of commentary to boot. It's called Signal, and you can consume it in three wa...

I'm proud of the team that put the CM Summit together, and this reel. Well done folks!...

For all 186K of you loverly RSS readers, here are the past five Signals: Friday Signal: Is Apple Evil? Is the Web Over? Is Privacy Dead? Is This Thing On?! Thursday Signal: Why I Love My Job, Again. W...

I thought it meant to search! Apparently, in this context, it means "to drop Microsoft Office and use our software!" I almost feel like a relic pointing out the obvious, but when I got my latest paper...

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Intel today won a key ruling in an antitrust case when a Delaware court rejected the request to grant the case class action status, according to reports.Intel is accused of wrongfully offering discoun...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gave analysts a glimpse at the software giant’s marketing around Windows Phone 7. The plan: Let Windows Phone 7 ride shotgun with Windows 7. The punchline: “I&#...

Real Networks’ second-quarter loss was narrowed but the company, which is in the midst of a restructuring, still missed Wall Street’s estimates.

A day after Symantec’s earnings bombed, smaller rival McAfee reported a mixed second quarter and acquired a mobile security firm, tenCube.

Coinstar says the DVD business is continuing to grow and, as such, it has raised its financial forecast for the rest of the year and announced the addition of Blu-Ray disks to its Redbox DVD rental ki...

I’ll admit it — I’ve kind of missed Nick Carr, and his dyspeptic blog Rough Type. After he started on his latest book, he went on a blogging hiatus, and I kind of missed reading his...

There were too many highlights from mesh2010 for me to pick a single one, but among the top moments on any list was the taping of a live version of TVO’s The Agenda with the always excellent Ste...

I spent last Friday in a windowless room with a bunch of men wearing a lot of pancake makeup, but it was a lot more fun than it sounds — I was taping an episode of TVO’s great show The Age...

If you’re interested in the future of media, you’re going to want to be at mesh 2010 on May 18 and 19 for our media keynote: Chris Thorpe. Chris comes to us from The Guardian, one of Brita...

Choire Sicha, former editor of Gawker and now co-founder of The Awl, points out that the Gawker offices have a large screen mounted on the wall that shows the top most-read stories on the site in term...

Prof-Media, which owns leading Russian online portal company Rambler Media and entertainment content magazine publisher Afisha, will merge the two companies. The merged company under Rambler shall hav...

Sadly in just a few days Microsoft’s Bing Cashback program will be closed. The doors on this awesome cash back program will be closed and locked and a sign will indicate that the program is no m...

Back in May we reported from the MTA Unconference regarding MTA Chief Jay Walder’s comments around when cell signals would be available in the subway underground. It looks like major progress ha...

Grab a cold bottle of water and check out the latest jobs posted on the CenterNetworks Job Board. Subscribe to the CN Jobs feed and get all of the latest Web industry jobs delivered directly to you. F...

It appears that the microblog service Tumblr is currently semi-down as of earlier this morning. Earlier this month several blogs reported Tumblr’s big growth over the past year pushing the micro...

YouTube decided to increase the video length limit from 10 minutes to 15 minutes. It may seem like a small change, but YouTube is testing the waters before dropping this limitation."Without question,...

I remember that someone asked Matt Cutts if Google could restrict search results to homepages. He answered that it's a good suggestion, but adding [-inurl:html -inurl:htm] to your query works pretty w...

YouTube started to show a persistent bar at the bottom of the page that shows the videos from the active playlist. For example, if you click on a video from your subscriptions, the bar lists other rec...

A new Google paper gives more information about Google's experiments. Google tests many new features on a subset of users and that's the reason why you may see a different Google search interface, a n...

There's a lot of speculation about a new Google service called "Google Me" that is supposed to compete with Facebook. Most likely, the service will expand the already existing profiles and activity st...

As promised, All Things Digital is posting the full videos from our eighth D: All Things Digital conference, held in early June. Here's the interview Kara did at D8 with AOL CEO Tim Armstrong.

Based on the content of one video clip that it said disseminated extreme views, a Russian court has ordered Internet provider Rosnet to block access to YouTube in the city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur. Rosne...

Evidently Google’s Mainland China Service Availability page is not the best indicator of the availability of the company’s mainland China services. Though that page shows Google’s Web search, Yo...

The Orchard, which distributes digital music and video to the likes of Apple's and Amazon's online stores, is going off the public market. The New York-based company is being bought out by its parent,...

The U.S. Department of Justice today said it is indeed suing Oracle for contract fraud, confirming June reports that it had accused the company of defrauding the United States government of hundreds o...

Jorge Lorenzo is on top of the world right now. He’s a 23-year-old motorbike racer from Mallorca in Spain and is atop the standings in the MotoGP circuit (he won yesterday’s race in Laguna...

I’m seeing lots of tweets saying I caused Flipboard to have a bad first day. Why? Because its servers were overwhelmed and it wasn’t letting new users sign up properly and even existing us...

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You’ve seen Twitter clients like TweetDeck or Seesmic, but you’ve never seen one like this. You’ve seen news readers like NewsGator, Google Reader, or, even, newer ones for iPad like...

I hate lock in. It’s one reason why I have used Wordpress for so many years. With it I can move my blog between hosts and, even, can export my blog to a database and import it into another tool.

Earlier this month I reported on bloggers leaving scienceblogs.org because the publisher sold a presence on the site to bloggers from PepsiCo. One of the rationales for bundling all the science b...

Some people don't care for them, but I love Ole and Lena jokes. Here's a good one. Ole was going on a business trip to St Cloud but it was cancelled at the last minute cause the Minnesota Twin...

The iPad with its Kindle app got me interested in reading on a tablet again. But it's summertime, and I'd rather read in the park, or on a bench looking out over the Hudson. The iPad doesn't w...

Xcv comments: "At the large tech company I work at there is an internal micro-blogging tool. The limit was recently increased from 140 to around 500. "People are still writing concise things. It...

In the neighborhood around NYU we have a million places to get coffee, and many of them have free wifi. The ones that don't, like Au Bon Pain, which have better food, can't compete. And most of the fr...

One of the problems with working people in other time zones is figuring out whether it's a good time to call them; scheduling meetings can become positively nightmarish if you have participants in sev...

An increasing number of people are working as freelancers, and employees are switching jobs far more rapidly. How, then, do we migrate the established “rules of work” to this new scenario? And how...

A collaboration tool that doesn't allow you to work on all of these projects separately isn't going to be able to keep up with your company. Glasscubes has solved the division problem by producing a c...

You've come up with your big idea, and now comes the hard part: Getting the word out about your business and, more importantly, hanging in there while you get the word out about your business. The har...

quanp is an online file storage service that's backed by Japanese copier giant Ricoh. The company today announced a new quanp send widget for the service that allows users to easily transfer files --...

Filed under: Microsoft As the video above explains, moving around panoramic views of a street is great if you can go "bubble to bubble" of a panorama, looking for what you want. That is, a panorama wi...

Filed under: Utilities, WindowsLike to spend as little time as possible mousing around your desktop? Windows has a built-in feature called Mouse Keys which lets you move your pointer by using the nume...

Filed under: Fun, Games, Time-Wasters There are plenty of instances where a follow-up isn't as good as the original. This, however, isn't one of them. Crush the Castle 2 is, in fact, every bit as awes...

Filed under: Video, Education If you love data visualization, this one's going to blow your mind: I just found an incredible IBM demo, called World Factbook Dashboard. It basically takes a ton of demo...

Filed under: Security When you're the big dog, evildoers are more likely to target you with their nefarious schemes. That's certainly the case with desktop malware and Windows -- it's the most popular...

Google today announced on its Mobile Ads blog that it has launched location-aware display advertisements for mobile phones. Through Google’s “location extension” feature, advertisers...

The biofuel market is turning into a diverse romp of venture-backed companies auditioning different microbes, catalysts and feedstocks, all with the same goal: to quickly, efficiently and cheaply t...

When SeatGeek launched its ticket search service last fall, it had a compelling hook — users don’t just see tickets from reselling sites like StubHub, they also see SeatGeek’s predic...

Google said access to its search properties is normal and hasn’t been blocked. A spokesperson told us: “Because of the way we measure accessibility in China, it’s possible that our m...

Y Combinator cofounder Paul Graham today offered an overview of how he has seen the angel and startup world evolve in the last year. Among other trends, he argued that the traditionally structured ve...

The world’s most popular online trust mark, the VeriSign seal has helped web sites increase transactions an average of 24%. To maximize incoming traffic, the Trust Seal is displayed next to your...

That’s one of the big questions people are asking after yesterday’s launch of Facebook Questions. While many have assumed the answer would be “yes,” a Facebook spokesperson tel...

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Street Slide: Microsoft’s Next Killer Maps App? At the S...

At the SIGGRAPH 2010 event this week in Los Angeles, Microsoft researchers showed off a next-generation tool for browsing street-level imagery. It’s called Street Slide, and it combines the up c...

Returns for online investments are still so much greater than the offline world that it is easy to think that the money is somehow less real, or that there is greater risk to it. That perhaps we shou...

Hoping to energize the electric car industry and make the Bay Area the electric car capital of the United States, San Jose, Calif., installs the first of hundreds of electric vehicle charging stations...

CNET Car Tech spent some time with the Mitsubishi i-Miev in San Francisco.

Get schooled by CNET editor Jasmine France. This week she gives tips on how you can use technology to do good things for fellow humans.

Las Vegas is the setting this week for two of the most popular annual security events. First comes Black Hat for the professional crowd, followed by the more antic Defcon gathering.

Updates to the Firefox cloud-based syncing tools for iPhone and for the Firefox browser correct three of users' top complaints, according to Mozilla.

The five most endangered words of the realtime internet era are: Let me think about that. Shirley Sherrod, the former rural development director for the Agriculture Department in Georgia found that ou...

I should open by admitting that I’m probably pretty wasted right now. I just took my headphones off after spending the past fifteen minutes listening to some of the droning music that is being h...

My streak of avoiding public school bathroom stalls came to a thunderous and emphatic end in seventh grade. Behind a locked metal door, I sat on a cracked, black toilet seat and let my bell bottom cor...

Happy Birthday to David Galbraith. There, I said it. This seems as good a place as any to share that thought. I’ve been thinking about his birthday for about a week, ever since Facebook told me...

You are strapped to a chair. There is a virtual target on your brain. You hear the words, Ready, Aim, Fire. And boom, thousands of pieces of data are being shot at you from every angle. Every time you...