New MSN Homepage Exits Beta, Set to Be Released to All of U.S.
MSN, which launched a beta version of a radical new homepage design in November, is releasing it to all its 100 million monthly U.S. customers within the next two weeks. The wide rollout by the...
View ArticleApple Now Accepting iPad App Submissions
The next app gold rush is on. Moments ago, Apple invited developers writing applications for its forthcoming iPad tablet to begin submitting them to the App Store for approval. “iPad will begin...
View ArticleAlibaba, Microsoft Team Up on Chinese Search Site
Big Chinese electronic-commerce company Alibaba Group has joined with Microsoft Corp. to create a new Web-search site—a move that could challenge Baidu Inc.’s (BIDU) dominance of China’s search market....
View ArticleIntel Cuts Ribbon on Billion-Dollar Plant in Vietnam
In Ho Chi Minh City today, Intel officially opened what CEO Paul Otellini called “the largest and most sophisticated assembly test facility in Intel’s global manufacturing network.” The $1 billion...
View ArticleAT&T Races to Tout Speed-Test Results
AT&T has some new ammunition to fire at anyone who casts aspersions on the speed and reliability of its wireless network. Nationwide testing by Global Wireless Solutions, covering more than 400...
View ArticleGoogle Goes To the Cloud For New Idea In PC System
In the personal-computer industry, where things change fast, one fact has been a constant for years: There are two major, mainstream operating systems for consumers. One, Microsoft Windows, runs on...
View ArticleTwitter: Nope, We're Not Testing a Self-Serve Ad Platform (Yet)
Twitter does indeed plan to roll out a self-serve ad platform, a la Facebook and Google, this year. But it hasn’t done so yet, isn’t testing one and has yet to build the thing. So says Twitter, which...
View ArticleEarly Adopter: Is the Future of User Experience Design Made of Paper and Polish?
What has Poland done for you lately? Not much for me either. But thanks to Marcin Treder, Kamil Zieba and Wictor Mazur, Poland can now add user experience (UX) design tools to its list of exports. The...
View ArticleApp Developers Skirt Apple's Limits With Work-Arounds
The cat-and-mouse game between the Bay Area’s legion of mobile developers and app kingmaker Apple Inc. is heating up. Mobile-software developers have long complained about Apple’s limits on them. Chief...
View ArticleAn Exclusive Look Inside Nokia's Smartphone Torture Chamber
Teijo Makinen grabs an unreleased Nokia smartphone, a product that engineers have been working on for five years to make a reality. He gives it a quick glance, then straps it to a machine and lets it...
View ArticleExclusive: BermanBraun Buys Most of Shelby Bonnie's Whiskey Media
In a deal that was just signed, longtime Silicon Valley exec Shelby Bonnie has sold his social publishing start-up, Whiskey Media, to Santa Monica-based entertainment and interactive production...
View ArticleeBay Quietly Tests Local Same-Day Shipping Service in San Francisco
E-commerce giant eBay began testing a same-day delivery service on Sunday, quietly sending out invitations to San Francisco residents. Dubbed “eBay Now,” the mobile app-based service allows city...
View ArticleTwitter Open-Sources Mobile Testing Software Clutch.io
Attention, mobile wonks: Twitter is making it easier for you to test your homegrown iOS apps. The company announced Thursday that it will open-source Clutch.io, the recently acquired code library that...
View ArticleYou Say Potato, I Say Wi-Fi
Boeing has found an interesting way to avoid dealing with unruly Words With Friends players while it’s testing advanced in-flight Wi-Fi systems on commercial planes. According to the Los Angeles Times,...
View ArticleTwitter Releases Mobile App Testing Tools for Android Phones
Twitter on Thursday released Crashlytics for Android, a toolset that helps mobile developers test their software on mobile devices to improve apps before they are released to consumers. Twitter...
View ArticleFacebook's New Android Beta Program Could Help Spruce Up Home
After Facebook launched its version of an Android-based mobile OS earlier this year, the initial reaction was lukewarm at best. Even now, the app has more than 10,000 one-star reviews on Google Play;...
View ArticleSecurity Startup Synack Raises $1.5 Million
Synack, a startup that allows users to crowdsource security testing of their software systems in virtual private environments, announced Thursday that it raised $1.5 million in a seed round of venture...
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