In an interview published by China Daily today, Terry Gou, chairman of Foxconn, confirms the massive manufacturing company is making preparations for an Apple television set called iTV. Gou also states that neither development nor manufacturing has begun. Apparently, per China Daily at least,… Read full post »

The jury in the long-running infringement case between Google and Oracle has ruled that certain pieces of Android APIs were too similar to code used in Oracle’s Java programming tools. But the jury was split on whether or not Google could claim fair use in its defense, which could lead t… Read full post »

Five years ago, if you’d told a fellow book lover that eBooks were poised to surge in popularity and overtake traditional books, you probably would have been met with a scoff and a dismissal about reading too much sci-fi. And yet here we are: Amazon has just announced that it is now… Read full post »

It’s not news that the New York Times payfence isn’t much of a fence. We’ve already written about the Facebook and Twitter loophole, but it turns out that the loophole is more like a loop chasm.

NYT head Martin Nisenholtz told AllThingsD’s Peter Kafka on Friday that al… Read full post »

Three short years ago, almost to the day, I arrived in San Francisco and instantly fell in love.

As a former technology columnist for the Guardian (and, unbeknownst to me, about to become one again), I had more than a passing familiarity with the goings on in Silicon… Read full post »

Remember when there were so many tweets during a Steve Jobs’ Apple keynote that it used to cripple Twitter? Then remember when Michael Jackson’s death took things to a whole new level and did the same? Well apparently, neither of those events have anything on New Year’s in Ja… Read full post »

Google really did just change the game in search today with the introduction of Google Instant. While Google execs at today’s event emphasized how much faster it makes search, Google Instant is really about showing you more search results. And this will have very interesting implications for… Read full post »

NBC is driving people on the Internet crazy by tape-delaying coverage of the Olympics until primetime. Okay, maybe it’s only driving Henry Blodget crazy, and everyone on Twitter.

Well, not everyone on Twitter—68 percent, according to a recent reading I took on Twitter Sentiment. Roughly/… Read full post »