Facebook Connect for iPhone Now Live - First Apps Released (Updated)
Last summer, Facebook originally announced that it was bringing Facebook Connect to the iPhone. This morning it's launching, and several popular iPhone apps are live with Facebook Connect integration...
AT&T Fails The SXSW iPhone Test
South by Southwest is one of the biggest annual geek shows, so naturally there are thousands (tens of thousands?) of iPhones roaming around downtown Austin. Good luck making calls or receiving text m...
Hit iPhone Developer: Not Making Any More Mac Games
Pangea Software has been making software for Apple's (AAPL) computer platforms since 1987. No more. — Why not? Because the iPhone app store has been such a huge success, the company is only going ...
At SXSW, attendees confront Twitter saturation
AUSTIN, Texas—By now, the story of how Twitter exploded onto the scene at the 2007 South by Southwest festival is legend in technology circles. — But here at SXSW 2009, the notion of the perfect mat...
New York Times Mulls Online Subscription Fee
The New York Times (NYT) is considering charging $55/year for online access, a source tells us (no additional details). — Arthur Sulzberger told an audience at Stony Brook yesterday that the paper i...
Kevin Rose creates Twitter directory
WeFollow is a simple site that lists top Twitter users by tags. — Simple tweet @wefollow with the top three tags you'd like to be associated with. — Categories listed on the front page include new...
Scoble's New Thing: Building 43
A week ago we reported that blogger Robert Scoble is leaving his current job running FastCompany TV. Now he's going to start talking about his new project - a new content and social networking commun...
Rumor: iPhone to Get a Premium App Store
As Apple gets ready to preview its new software developers' kit and an updated iPhone operating system next week, there could be some changes to the company's App Store too. — We're hearing rumors t...
Seesmic Launches its Facebook Desktop Client Available Today
We're proud to announce the launch of the “Seesmic for Facebook” desktop application, which is available from today as a free download. — Based on the technology behind Twhirl, Seesmic for Facebook ...
Nobody Can Hear You Scream If Your RSS Feed Is Dead
I didn't make any blog posts on Thursday, after a full Wednesday which included a visit to Google headquarters to meet with the Google Reader team. And even though I made a few posts on Friday, the f...
Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable
Back in 1993, the Knight-Ridder newspaper chain began investigating piracy of Dave Barry's popular column, which was published by the Miami Herald and syndicated widely. In the course of tracking dow...
Apple sued over exploding iPod touch, iMac display issues
Apple's build quality has been called into question as fresh lawsuits blame the company for an iPod touch that caught on fire as well as the widely-known vertical line defect on iMac displays. — App...
3G Phones Exposing Networks' Last-Gen Technology
SAN FRANCISCO — Oh, the things modern mobile phones can do. They are music-playing, video-taking, direction-providing multimedia powerhouses. But many people have trouble getting them to perform the...
Apple Adds Still More DRM to iPod Shuffle
Even as it attacks DRM on music, Apple is continuing to add more DRM to its own hardware (we recently documented all of Apple's various hardware DRM restrictions). The latest example is the new iPod ...
News has a bright future, author says
AUSTIN, Texas—The future of news is not breadlines for journalists, a lack of reporting on politicians' scandals, and a dearth of coverage of what's really going on behind the lines of wars around the...
Exclusive: New Live BlackBerry Niagara 9630 Photos!
* Update: One more picture posted by Matt_25 in the forums. Thanks Matt!! w00t! Good way to start the weekend. Following up on the first real photos of the BlackBerry Niagara 9630 we recently drop...
Weary of Looking for Work, Some Create Their Own
SAN FRANCISCO — Alex Andon, 24, a graduate of Duke University in biology, was laid off from a biotech company last May. For months he sought new work. Then, frustrated with the hunt, he turned to je...
Attacked from Within
Traditional methods for protecting community from the effects of scale and poor behavior are now manifestly unfeasible. Raising barriers to entry, relying on the assumption that users will maintain o...