Google Sets The Record Straight After Being Accused Of Killing A Donkey With...
Google addressed the allegations that it killed a donkey head-on today.In a statement to Jalopnik, a Google representative said, "I'm pleased to confirm the donkey is alive and well."On Reddit...
View ArticleDo Police Really Think John McAfee Is A Murderer? Dateline Investigates
On Friday, NBC's news show Dateline will air a two-hour special about the weird tale of John McAfee and his links to the murder of Greg Faull.What more could there be to tell? For a man who went into...
View ArticleAT&T Came To Its Senses And Enabled FaceTime Over 3G/4G For All iOS Devices...
AT&T stirred up some controversy when it decided to block on Apple's FaceTime video chat over its cellular data network.Then it backtracked, saying the iPhone 5 wouldn't be subject to such a...
View ArticleBII MOBILE INSIGHTS: Is Mobile Finally Closing The Gap On Desktop Ad Rates?
Mobile Insights is a daily newsletter from BI Intelligence delivered first thing every morning exclusively to BI Intelligence subscribers. Sign up for a free trial of BI Intelligence today.Mobile Ad...
View ArticleYahoo Says Its Legal Costs In The Mexico Lawsuit Are More Than $300 Million...
Yahoo is embroiled in a lawsuit with a former Mexican partner, Worldwide Directories, with which it ran a telephone-directory project for years.A Mexican court awarded Worldwide Directories $2.7...
View ArticleNow The Guy Who Won $2.7 Billion From Yahoo Is In Hiding And Fears For His...
Carlos Bazan-Canabal may seem like a lucky guy.The cofounder of Worldwide Directories, got a $2.7 billion judgment in his favor in a lawsuit with Yahoo in Mexico.But the money isn't his yet. Yahoo is...
View ArticleCHART OF THE DAY: The Case Against Apple In One Chart (AAPL)
Pacific Crestdowngraded Apple today citing market saturation for the iPhone.Basically, it believes that the market for expensive smartphones is just about tapped out and therefore Apple's growth is...
View ArticleInternet Mercenary Gives A Peek Into His Shadowy World
He's unassuming, even a little dweebish, but nonetheless Adriel Desautels represents a new breed of Internet mercenary that wields terrifying power across the world.Desautels is a hacker, and he trades...
View ArticleGoogle's Tablet Outsold The iPad In Japan During The Holidays (GOOG, AAPL)
Google's Nexus 7 tablet was the top-selling tablet in Japan during the holidays, according to Nikkei, citing a survey from BCN.The survey says the Nexus 7 made up 44.4% of tablet sales in December,...
View ArticleNow You Can Make Free Phone Calls Through Facebook's Messenger App (FB, MSFT)
Facebook has begun rolling out a feature to its Messenger app letting users call each other over WiFi or cellular data.The Verge was the first to notice the update and confirm with Facebook.It had...
View ArticleHow To Use Facebook's New Graph Search (FB)
The next big thing for Facebook is Graph Search, which is a huge improvement in the social network's search feature. Graph Search is currently in beta and will only be available for a few thousand...
View ArticleMeg Whitman Admits That HP 'Paid Too Much' For Autonomy
"We paid too much. No question about it," CEO Meg Whitman said about HP's $11 billion acquisition for Autonomy that has turned into a giant mess, complete with an investigation by the Department of...
View ArticleThis Baby Photo Of Sheryl Sandberg Is The Kind Of Thing That Might Make...
So what will Graph Search actually do to the way we use Facebook?One of the funnier moments during Facebook's demonstration yesterday of Graph Search, its new search tool, was when the engineers behind...
View ArticleMeg Whitman: HP Will Show Revenue Growth This Year
HP CEO Meg Whitman says that by the end of this year, or maybe the beginning of next, the company's decline in sales will reverse itself.That's one of the milestones she says HP will hit in her...
View ArticleManti Te'o's Fake Dead Girlfriend Inspires Hilarious Tweets
So, Notre Dame's star quarterback Manti Te'o had a girlfriend. And she died. Sort of.It turns out the the girl wasn't real, so neither was her tragic death. Plus, Te'o claims he didn't even know that...
View ArticleAD OF THE DAY: A Great Samsung Spot That Isn't For a Phone
Samsung has done it again. After a fantastic advertising year in 2012, the company has started 2013 on another high note. This time, their winning spot is not for a phone, but for a washing machine.The...
View ArticleThe Ultimate Social Network Is Twice The Size Of Facebook
What's the best way to connect to every single person on the Internet?If you said, "Facebook," you're wrong.According to Pingdom, a website-monitoring firm, there are 2.2 billion email users on the...
View ArticleSamsung Is Going To Announce A Smaller, Cheaper Tablet Next Month To Take On...
Samsung will announce a new 8-inch version of its Galaxy Note tablet at the Mobile World Congress next month, according to SamMobile.SamMobile is often accurate with Samsung-related leaks, so we're...
View ArticleTHE TRUTH ABOUT MANTI TE'O: He Had A Real Girlfriend -- She Just Lied To Him...
Everyone's still going nuts about Manti Te'o's "fake" girlfriend—the one practically every media outlet in the country was obsessed with, the one he tweeted with, the one he talked on the phone with...
View ArticleFacebook Fires 'Killing Blow' Into A $55 Billion Market (FB)
Facebook made serious progress this week in its plan to revolutionize the $55 billion server industry.It announced some amazing new features for its Open Compute Project, which changes the way computer...
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