Apple's Ability to Deactivate Malicious App Store Apps
When Apple launched the App Store, they suggested that the use of DRM'd and signed applications could allow them to protect the iPhone from malicious applications and suggested that they could deactiv...
Announcing Google Insights for Search
In June, we updated Google Trends with numbers and the ability to download results to a spreadsheet. We received a lot of great feedback from agencies and advertisers on how they're using the new ver...
Introducing Snowl
An Experiment with Messaging in the Browser — Conversing (a.k.a. messaging) is a common online activity, and a number of desktop and web applications enable it. But with an increasing variety of pr...
Bewkes confirms AOL split
Time Warner will indeed split its AOL access and media units starting next year, CEO Jeff Bewkes confirmed in a release announcing the company's second-quarter earnings. — It's the first time the ex...
Should You Pay Twice as Much for a Mac?
[Editor's Note: This is companion to another post at Microsoft Watch telling a different story from the same NPD data.] — On Saturday, I got to wondering about Mac versus Windows PC pricing after se...
Yahoo Confirms Vote Error, Yang and Bostock Not Liked So Much After All
Yahoo has confirmed that a ‘tabulation error’ occurred in the shareholder vote count conducted by Broadridge Financial Solutions, the independent firm hired to do the job. Turns out, just over half o...
Which Facebook Applications Really Are the Most Engaging? A Look at MAU & MAU%.
Given that yesterday was the last day that total active installs and daily active users were published for the directory, Inside Facebook has combined that data with Facebook's newly released monthly ...
Debunking Common Windows Performance Tweaking Myths
As a tech writer, one of my biggest pet peeves is the plethora of bad advice littered across almost every web site dedicated to system tweaking. Besides the tweaks that simply don't work, some of the...
EXCLUSIVE: BlackBerry 8220 - Pictures of Red Kickstart
While these are images from the upcoming BlackBerry 8220 device simulator, these images show what the red-colored BlackBerry flip-phone will look like. This device is starting to look better and bett...
Romania, Philippines, Hungary on tap for Aug 22 iPhone 3G launch
The iPhone will make its way to Romania, the Philippines, and Hungary during the second phase of Apple's international iPhone 3G rollout later this month, local carriers announced on Wednesday. — Ro...
Google Finally Launches MP3 Search in China
So finally, the much talked about Google MP3 Search service is here at www.google.cn/music — And it's certainly game on as they take on Baidu's very illegal mp3 search with legal links from its sear...
iTunes Still Number 1 Music Vendor; Amazon? Gaining Some Ground
The latest NPD figures on music sales are out for the first half of 2008, and as you might expect, Apple's iTunes is still in the top spot, but what's interesting is who's in fourth place: Amazon. He...
Google Search Appliance gets bigger, better, stores 10M docs in a box
The Google Search Appliance, which can make all of a company's data accessible through through a simple Google search interface, is getting an upgrade. There are a bunch of improvements being announc...
Venture capital investing: What's next?
For the past two years, venture capitalists have been betting on social media start-ups with an enthusiasm reminiscent of the dot-com heyday. — Now that the economic downturn has somewhat cooled ear...
Sprint Nextel Reports Second Quarter 2008 Results
Stable post-paid ARPU, driven by the success of Simply Everything(TM) with high value customers, and lower operating expense drive $87 million sequential improvement to Consolidated Adjusted OIBDA* of...