Guardian Media Group Buys paidContent for $30 Million
In what will be seen as a new media coup, sources tell BoomTown that Britain's Guardian Media Group is set to announce this morning that it will buy the company that runs the high-profile digital medi...
How the iPhone App Store Will Kill iPhone Web Apps
Now that the App store is up and running and the millions across the globe that have waited for chat applications and games finally have a service available to them to get most of what they need on th...
Before the App Store “Opens”, it has already made Apple $55,000
Tucked away on the iPhone 2.0 version of Apple's Application Store is a counter for the number of times that each application has been purchased . When this information is combined with an applicatio...
Mother sues over tale of ‘drunken party’ lifted from Bebo
It read like the teenage party from hell: a riot of sex and wanton damage fuelled by under-age drinking that only ended when the police arrived. According to media reports, the mother of the teenage ...
An Imminent Victory for ‘Net Neutrality’ Advocates
When Comcast admitted last fall that it was blocking — or slowing down, as the company preferred to call it — certain file transfers by customers, a lot of people complained that the company was unfai...
iPhone 3G Review
There are simple reasons why the new iPhone 3G is better than the last. — Apple has eliminated so many annoying little hang ups that you might run into when using the old one. The GPS pinpoints to ...
I Can't Find MobileMe
At $99 a year, I expect my online service to function all the time. So perhaps that is why I am a little upset that Apple hasn't been able to launch their MobileMe service properly and are experienci...
Upgrading from Unofficial iPhone 2.0 Firmware to Official 2.0 Firmware
Yesterday, we published a link to what appeared to be the release version of the iPhone 2.0 Firmware. This version of the firmware was successfully installed on a number of original iPhones and reade...
YouTube Adding Geosearch (with Screenshot)
YouTube will soon add geosearch — giving viewers the ability to find videos tagged to a certain location — disclosed product manager Brian Glick at a developer talk at YouTube's San Bruno, Calif., cam...
FCC Chairman Recommends No Fine for Comcast
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin Friday said he would not seek to fine cable giant Comcast Corp. (CMCSA, CMCSK) for slowing some Internet traffic. — I...
Obama bloats Vista by 11MB
56MB update adds five words to dictionary — We're very much obliged today to readers Hawkeye and Duncan Lilly for providing evidence that the Beast of Redmond's Vista is not the lean, mean fighting ...
Female CEOs at top Silicon Valley tech firms down to zero
OUSTER AT VMWARE RIPPLES IN VALLEY — The number of women chief executives at Silicon Valley's biggest technology companies dropped to zero this week, with the abrupt departure of VMware's Diane Gree...
A victim of its own success: troubled times ahead for VMware
VMware shareholders received a double-whammy of bad news earlier this week. A combination of reduced growth forecasts for 2008 and the surprise announcement that CEO and cofounder Diane Greene was be...
New iPhone 3G goes on sale
Apple's new iPhone 3G went on sale this morning, as the Californian company's latest attempt to capture the public imagination. — The first UK iPhone 3G was sold at 8.02am, in a stunt designed to pr...