Nokia sends $70m mobile payment to Obopay
There are signs the mobile payments market is really taking off at last with Nokia announcing a substantial investment in service provider Obopay today. — The amount, understood to be in the region ...
Apple's iPhone App Refund Policies Could Bankrupt Developers
We reported yesterday about Apple's alleged delay in payments to iPhone app developers, but there is more alarming news from iPhone developers about Apple's refund policies. Apparently, if iPhone use...
Blockbuster unveils on-demand deal to transmit movies to TiVo users
NEW YORK — Blockbuster's effort to establish itself in the fast-growing Internet video-on-demand business will get a boost today when the No. 1 video rental chain unveils a deal to transmit movies and...
Suggested Users
About a month or so ago we noticed a certain percentage of new users were signing up and then not following anyone. When you don't follow any other accounts on Twitter the product is not as relevant ...
Police raid home of Wikileaks.de domain owner over censorship lists
Shortly after 9pm on Tuesday the 24th of March 2009, seven police officers in Dresden and four in Jena searched the homes of Theodor Reppe, who holds the domain registration for “wikileaks.de”, the Ge...
Number of US Facebook Users Over 35 Nearly Doubles in Last 60 Days
Don't look now, but the number of Americans over 35, 45, and 55 on Facebook is growing fast. In the last 60 days alone, the number of people over 35 has nearly doubled. Developers and marketers may ...
Spark Capital To Offer Seed Funding For Digital-Media Companies
VC fund Spark Capital today announced a new program called Start@Spark that will provide entrepreneurs with up to $250,000 in seed financing to get their companies through the development stage.
Guy Kawasaki Can Handle Being Called a Spammer
To kick off his keynote speech at SES, a marketing conference in New York, Guy Kawasaki asked how many people in the audience were on Twitter at that moment. Hands shot up across the packed ballroom....
AT&T first to test RIAA antipiracy plan
AT&T, one of the nation's largest Internet service providers, confirmed on Tuesday the company is working with the recording industry to combat illegal file sharing. — At a digital music conference ...
Open for Questions: President Obama to Answer Your Questions on Thursday
Today, the President invited everyone to use a new feature on WhiteHouse.gov called “Open for Questions” to ask a question about the economy and rate other questions up or down. Then, on Thursday mor...
Criminals love the BlackBerry's wiretap-proof ways: police
MP wants wireless devices to be intercept-ready — Wireless messages sent on a BlackBerry are so hard to intercept that the smartphones have become the device of choice for both criminals and law enf...
Canon EOS Digital Rebel T1i now official
Yep, Canon just went live with that Rebel T1i DSLR that leaked a bit earlier, and it's looking like a hell of a response to the Nikon D90: an XSi body jacked with a sensor matching the 50Ds 15.1 megap...
Sprint Highlights ‘4G’ Launch Plans - Launch will largely mirror Clearwire deployment...
Pixazza “Product in the Picture” Service: AdSense for Images
Pixazza is looking to turn Web photos into money. It might just work. — The startup, staffed by Netscape veterans with a $5.75 million — Series A venture capital round, on Wednesday is unveiling ...
Yahoo Shuttering Travel Bargains Site FareChase Today
Yahoo is cutting more fat today by closing its travel bargains website FareChase, which it originally acquired back in July 2004 and re-launched two years later. The company will be announcing the sh...
OnLive video games on demand service shakes loose a competitor
OnLive's announcement of a ground-breaking video on demand service has become the buzz of the game industry this week at GamesBeat 09 and at the Game Developers Conference. — But it has also shaken ...
New worm can infect home modem/routers
Microsoft: SMBs Moving to Virtualization, SaaS in 2009
Microsoft's global survey of small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) find security, virtualization and IT consolidation are among the top priorities for midmarket companies in 2009. — A study of the ...
Last.fm Silences Third-Party Mobile Apps
Hot off an announcement that they'd be charging for radio access outside the US, UK and Germany, Last.fm has said that all non-official mobile clients will be banned. This isn't going over well. — ...
A Win For Project Playlist: EMI Drops Suit, Signs On
EMI Music Group, which sued Web music startup Project Playlist nearly a year ago, has dropped its suit and will start providing its catalog to the startup, which offers free streaming music. — No te...
“Lancing the f***ing boil”: how digital killed Big Music
Steve Knopper takes a close look at the music business in his new book, Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age. Ars digs into the book, which a...
Spare Change On Track To Process $30 Million In Micropayments On Social Apps This Year
While advertising revenues have been disappointingly low for most applications on Facebook and other social networks, another option app developers are increasingly turning towards is micropayments fo...
Orange Android blitz: Sony Ericsson, Motorola Android phones, HTC Hero, Cupcake updates and more
While vendor enthusiasm (at least verbal) for Android platform is very high, it's adoption from mobile operators has yet to be confirmed. — Yes, many of them already launched HTC G1/Dream …
Life After Google
Entrepreneurs and venture capitalists are looking for the next “small hit” in search. — BURLINGAME, Calif.—There is life after Google—though the increasing number of search alternatives popping up a...
Wacom Intuos4
RATINGS — Pen tablets aren't just for commercial artists anymore. For proof, look no further than the just-released Wacom Intuos4 ($230 and up, street, depending on size), a worthy addition to the ...
EU agrees on caps for international voice, data, and SMS roaming charges
News by Michael Oryl on Tuesday March 24, 2009. — Today the EU announced that the members of the European parliment (MEPs) have reached a compromise on the proposed regulation of mobile voice, SMS …
Firms Seek Profit in Twitter's Chatter
In the three years since its launch, the messaging service Twitter has attracted millions of users, but its fast growth hasn't translated into significant revenue. — Now, other companies are trying ...
In Google We Trust
This is a guest post from Fixer Dave, a Google user who's disappointed about the latest developments in the Google land. — I chuckle when people tell me that they never use online services. “Read t...