iTunes Concept Shows How iPhone App Management Should Have Worked From the Start
Add, delete, rate, and move—these are your app options on the iPhone. This interface concept, though, puts full app management within iTunes, and makes us wonder why it wasn't there in the first plac...
AOL Socializes Even More With New Lifestream
As part of its ongoing rejiggering of its social networking offerings, AOL is formally rolling out its expected Lifestream platform today, with a new “timeline,” depicting a user's online life in a st...
Surprise: America is No. 1 in Broadband
There is a constant refrain that the United States is falling behind in broadband, as if the speed of Internet service in Seoul represents a new Sputnik that is a challenge to national security. — I...
The day iTunes died? Spotify is working on a killer iPhone app
Ever since hot streaming music startup Spotify hired a director of “portable solutions” you just knew they were going to do something cool in mobile. And frankly there is no cooler place to do it rig...
Apple wireless keyboard used with an iPhone
Here is a short video showing the interacting devices (Apple wireless keyboard, iPhone, communicating over Bluetooth) in operation. — Feels like getting closer to the “mainstreaming” goal - it uses ...
iPhone apps for Lady Gaga, Pussycat Dolls and other UMG artists
Interscope Geffen A&M is launching iPhone applications for five of its key artists, through a partnership with mobile firm Kyte. The five are Lady Gaga, the Pussycat Dolls, Soulja Boy Tell 'Em, the A...
Why Kindle Should Be An Open Book
Unless Amazon embraces open standards, the Kindle's lead will become a very short story. — SEBASTOPOL, Calif. — The Amazon Kindle has sparked huge media interest in e-books and has seemingly jump-st...
Huawei Android devices hitting T-Mobile in Q3 2009?
Huawei's “look but don't touch” Android handset at Mobile World Congress last week was quite the disappointment: if it wasn't for the display around it, you'd not know what OS the device was meant to ...
The Social Network Twitter Is Becoming Something of a Hangout for High-Profile TV Anchors
The sun was not yet up when David Gregory checked in with his followers: — “646 am. Just got to NBC. Almost showtime. Betsy just sent me Frank Rich piece. Actually read during night.
Apple Takes a (Small) Bite Off Its High China Prices
By Loretta Chao and Mei Fong — After opening its first (and still only) China store last year, Apple Inc. has started extending its offering of refurbished products to the world's second largest PC ...
Samsung outs a pair of point and shoots ahead of PMA, again
Unfortunately for Samsung, we've all known about the TL320 for the last week thanks to Amazon, but the HZ15W is brand spankin' new. — The TL320 is the first digital camera with a 3-inch HVGA AMOLED ...
Why Web radio faces another crisis
Few people know this but for a little while last year, the music-royalty rates that Web radio stations have complained about for years appeared to be behind them. — In a midtown Manhattan law office...
Internet taking piece of cable TV business
(02-22) 16:17 PST — Hyun Gu Lee, a 26-year-old software engineer from Belmont, discontinued his cable TV service after doing a little math and exploring his options. — He kept his $60 a month cable ...
Review: Clarion Mind - Media, Internet, and Directions All-In-One? Not Quite.
For some time now, there has been a gap between PDA/phones and notebook computers, various form factors have been introduced to fill this void, but until the ASUS eeepc, none have been particularly su...
Rejected! 10 iPhone Apps That Didn't Make Apple's App Store
A ‘throw shoes at Bush’ app, a breast-jiggler, a naughty entry from the South Park guys—these are some of the iPhone apps that Apple unceremoniously denied shelf space — JR Raphael, PC World
Yahoo CEO Plans Overhaul
Not yet six weeks into the job, Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Carol Bartz is preparing a company-wide reorganization that underscores the new CEO's belief in a more top-down managerial approach. — The ...
Startups in a Downturn
Entrepreneurs who helped build their startups into tech stalwarts—companies like Cisco, Oracle, and Google—share lessons on how to thrive during tough times — December 1987 was no time to be raising...
MSI unveils new X-Slim models ahead of CeBIT
We certainly aren't tired of the X-Slim 320 laptop from MSI, with its Air-like form-factor in less expensive and slightly more practical packaging — it's still many moons away from release, after all....