Motorola is demonstrating how it expects TVs of the future will work with its DreamGallery concept. Powered by the company’s Medios cloud-service, the display is designed to let you browse content as if it was the internet — with bookmarks, personalized recommendations and interactive search tools…

With the next iPhone on the horizon, all signs point to an imminent demise for the iPhone 3GS. Apple, however, has other plans. Apple’s aging third generation smartphone will live on as the company targets emerging markets not dominated by the iPhone 4S, AppleInsider reports, based on a note from according to Jefferies Analyst Peter Misek…

Now it’s easier than ever to nosh while you’re posting a status update. Ordr.in, a Google Ventures-backed startup, offers a Facebook app that turns ordering food for delivery into a social experience. “Food is inherently social,” David Bloom, CEO of the five-employee New York City shop, said in an interview…

TechCrunch contributor Andrew Keen took to the Disrupt stage with our own Alexia Tsotsis earlier this morning to do two things — promote his new book Digital Vertigo, and tackle the problem of sharing too much…

Former Rutgers student Dharun Ravi, whose webcam set up to spy on his gay roommate Tyler Clementi may well have contributed to Clementi’s suicide, was sentenced in a New Jersey courtroom Monday — to 30 days in jail…

Book publishing industry newsletter and website Publishers Lunch is previewing hot fall titles in a free e-book, “BEA Buzz Books,” ahead of major publishing fair BookExpo America in June in New York…

Ah, YouTube. It wasn’t long ago that that it was pumping out around 60 hours of content every 60 seconds, but nothing can stop the video juggernaut. Celebrating its seven years of existence with a video charting its rise, rise and rise, YouTube’s official blog has also announced that it’s now dealing with an eye-bleeding 72 hours of video every minute…

European Union’s antitrust chief has given Google a final chance to settle matter related to anti competitiveness with its main search engine, according to a Reuters report. The EU first opened up an investigation about the matter in November 2010 after rival companies like Microsoft accused Google of abusing its dominant position in the search market to boost up its own advertising services…

This is Part Two of a two-part series on Disassembling Android. “Android is open for disruption.” That’s what Stewart Putney, CEO of the mobile gaming company Moblyng, said last August. He was talking about the potential for HTML5 Web apps to disrupt the Android Market (now Google Play), but he may have been oddly prophetic…

In very sad news, Michael Moritz, who has helped lead top-tier venture firm Sequoia Capital through the very beginnings of the web until now, is stepping back because of an incurable disease. His firm has backed many of the homeruns of the last two decades including Google, Yahoo and Paypal…

Google’s Chrome web browser just passed Microsoft’s Internet Explorer to become the most-used browser in the world, says the latest data from a digital analytics service. Although Chrome has edged out IE before for short periods, the last week marks the first time Chrome was the No…

Here are some of the stories people are talking about this morning: The FT predicts more digital subscribers than it sells print copies by end of year (The Next Web) Waterstones will sell Amazon Kindle (sorry, Nook) (paidContent) Microsoft Launches Socl Social Nework: A Look Inside (Marketing Land) The Darwinian Evolution of Startup Hubs (A VC) The Atavist: Maturing as Publisher and Platform (David Carr, NYT) Facebook buys Karma app (GigaOM) comScore: 1 In 5 Videos Viewed Online Last Month Was An Ad (TechCrunch) The Undoing of Scott Thompson at Yahoo (New York Times)

The Apple Investor is a daily report from SAI. Sign up here to receive it by email. AAPL On Fire Despite the negative headlines, Apple stock is ripping, up ~3%. Upcoming events include Tim Cook’s keynote next week at the D10 Conference on May 29 and Apple’s developer conference (WWDC) is slated to start June 11 and the company is expected to make a slew of announcements…

Microsoft is busting out version 1.5 of its Kinect for Windows runtime and SDK that includes a raft of new features for the Xbox-lacking hoi polli. The update includes 10-joint skeletal tracking that’ll work even when seated, face following capabilities and joint orientation — the latter enabling it to predict how your body will move for greater accuracy…

Brenda Garno Brathwaite and John Romero, two well-known game designers, never made a secret of their passion for Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon games. They played for hundreds of hours and tweeted about their victories…

When your job is to be open to everyone’s ideas, sometimes the hardest part for you is to just go with the right one. In Part 2 of ReadWriteWeb’s interview with Internet Society (ISOC) senior public policy manager Sally Wentworth (Part 1 of which was published on Thursday), we discuss how difficult it can be to navigate the routes of change in Internet architecture, especially when everyone out there – ICANN, Comcast, Russia, etc…

Fab.com CEO Jason Goldberg took the stage today at Disrupt, he laid out a grand vision for the site. Backing up that vision, he noted that Fab launched less than a year ago, and it already has 4.5 million members…

The European Commission is giving Google a “matter of weeks” to settle an ongoing antitrust case by changing several of its business practices which some say have given the company an unfair monopolistic advantage on the web…

It’s been a decade now that online publishers have wrestled with the same wretched dilemma: give content away for free and lose money or put up a paywall and lose audience. Now, finally, the logjam is beginning to break…

Now that TiVo has delivered updated software for its Premiere boxes its focus is turning to some new hardware accessories, including the TiVoToGo-style transcoder we saw at CES, now dubbed Stream (top), and the IP extender set-top box mentioned earlier this year (bottom)…

It’s rarely a good thing when the country’s biggest cable providers partner up, but subscribers might be okay with today’s news. Customers of Bright House, Cablevision, Comcast, Cox Communications, and Time Warner will soon be able to connect to each other’s Wi-Fi networks…

The idea behind Amazon’s Mechanical Turk is pretty simple – break programming work down into bite-sized chunks, and put it in front of a large workforce that can do the work quickly and cheaply. Part of the challenge of that is making it easy for requesters to create the bites that workers are chewing on…

“I’ve never seen angels being lazy” says Union Square Ventures founder and prolific blogger Fred Wilson, refuting Ben Horowitz’s claim that angel investors make too much money for too little work…

In what may become a signifier of the true beginning of the season, Nike has ushered in the Euro Cup with an epic commercial featuring the biggest names in soccer. Franck Ribéry, Wesley Sneijder, Neymar, Andres Iniesta, Mario Gotze, Gerard Pique, Mesut Ozil and Cristiano Ronaldo appear in the 3-minute ad, called “My Time is Now,” which has gotten more than 9 million views since it posted on Friday…

The European Commission today announced it had found four possible “abuses of dominance” by Google, and suggested the search giant propose a package of “remedies” in coming weeks…

Thank goodness that’s over. The Facebook IPO could have been a major disaster for millions of individual investors. If the stock had “popped” to a truly ludicrous level on IPO day, millions of investors would likely have piled into it, hoping for further gains…

China Daily is claiming that Foxconn will pump $210 million into building a production line in China’s Jiangsu province. Local authorities have stated that the plant in Huai’an city will produce components for Apple, no doubt heralding a raft of rampant speculation as to Cupertino’s intentions…

Microsoft’s new social network So.cl has arrived. So.cl (pronounced “social”) is an experimental research project, developed by Microsoft’s FUSE Labs, focused on exploring the possibilities of social search for the purpose of learning…

Google Chrome isn’t just for uber geeks anymore. Google’s minimalist web browser is now the most popular web browser in the world, according to the latest figures from StatCounter. For the week of May 14th to May 20th, Chrome edged out Internet Explorer — which has been losing market share precipitously — for the first time ever…

Why does founding a startup sometimes feel like the loneliest journey on the planet? Yes, you may be surrounded by family and friends who want to support you emotionally, but do they really understand what you’re going through? The answer: Find yourself a mentor…