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Max Levchin (left) and Peter Thiel (right) push their upcoming book today at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference. (Credit: Rafe Needleman/CNET) SAN FRANCISCO–Peter Thiel and Max Levchin’s upcoming book, “The Blueprint,” is going to annoy or charge up (or both) entrepreneurs here in the U.S. Thiel and Levchin, two of the PayPal co-founders, maintained in an [...]
A new analyst report making the rounds this morning asserts that Apple’s putting the finishing touches on iOS 5, and plans to send it to its device assemblers as soon as next week. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of Concord Securities told AppleInsider and MacRumors today that Apple should be delivering the golden master version of iOS 5 between September 23 [...]
To: HTC Chairman Cher Wang Re: Your interest in potentially acquiring a mobile operating system I imagine after your comments about HTC’s internal discussions over potentially buying a mobile operating system, you’re getting a lot of calls and advice. If I may be so bold, I’d like to offer my two cents as well. DON’T DO [...]
Following this week’s management change at the very top of Apple, the company’s board has awarded new Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook with a hefty bonus. In an SEC filing that was posted to Apple’s investor site this afternoon, the company notes that Cook has been given 1 million restricted shares of Apple stock, half of which will be [...]
A Dutch company appears to have issued a digital certificate for Google.com to someone other than Google, who may be using it to try to re-direct traffic of users based in Iran. Yesterday, someone reported on a Google support site that when attempting to log in to Gmail the browser issued a warning for the [...]
Mozilla is expanding development of Firefox for Android with new efforts to improve its performance, lower its power consumption, adapt it for tablets–and keep the browser maker relevant in the hottest area of computing. Firefox is the second-most widely used browser on computers, but things are different in the mobile arena. There, Firefox is at a serious disadvantage compared to [...]
Windows 8 will usher in yet another revision to the file management system used by millions of people. Some of the top commands used in Windows Explorer. Click to enlarge. (Credit: Microsoft) A blog post today by Microsoft Director of Program Management Alex Simons details at great length the future of the new Explorer interface, and lessons [...]
The big question in Web video this week is how many Netflix customers will stick with the service in the face of an upcoming price increase. Click on photo to see stories on Netflix’s rate hike. (Credit: Greg Sandoval/CNET) But even those planning to continue with the service might want to make some decisions before [...]
Apple has started giving developers a chance to kick the tires its upcoming iTunes Match service, which will allow both streaming and downloading. As noted by 9to5mac this afternoon, Apple is giving developers a chance to try out iTunes Match on their own music libraries ahead of the release this fall. iTunes Match is the service that [...]
Hewlett-Packard told CNET on Monday that it will deliver future updates to boost the TouchPad’s functionality. HP also said it has seen “huge spikes” in TouchPad activation in the wake of the decision to discount the tablet. (Credit: Hewlett-Packard) On August 19, HP slashed the price of the 16GB TouchPad to $100, setting off a buying frenzy at [...]