What Disney-Hulu Means for Apple
The growing popularity of free video-viewing site Hulu could test the viability of Apple's pay-as-you-go iTunes download business — When Walt Disney (DIS) said it would start streaming shows via onl...
70 percent of Kindle owners over 40?
Back in March, I did a post titled, “What's the average age of Kindle owners?” I cited a thread in Amazon.com's forums discussing Kindle owners' ages. — Well, I have a little follow-up on the whole...
Quicken Online strikes back at upstarts with iPhone app
There's been a lot of buzz around personal finance websites like Mint and Wesabe, but finance software maker Intuit has joined the online fray too- and no, not just by sending threatening letters to M...
Microsoft Shows Off The Power Of Facebook's New APIs
Earlier this week Facebook made the landmark (and long-awaited) announcement that it was going to enable the “Open Stream”, granting developers far more access and flexibility to Facebook data than th...
Want To Avoid Swine Flu? There's An App For That Too.
Yesterday, we talked a bit about how some companies are clearly trying to capitalize on the Swine Flu craze that is sweeping the nation. Naturally, someone just had to make an iPhone app. — And the...
Inside Facebook's Photo Factory
Ever since I got BlackBerry 8900 with a 3.2 Megapixel camera, I've been busy taking photos — randomly at times — and uploading them to my Facebook account to share with 2,000 or so of my closest frien...
Iranians and Others Outwit Net Censors
The Iranian government, more than almost any other, censors what citizens can read online, using elaborate technology to block millions of Web sites offering news, commentary, videos, music and, until...
Impressive: The Wolfram Alpha “Fact Engine”
Much attention has been focused on the forthcoming Wolfram Alpha search service. Will it be as important as Google has become? Perhaps! A new search paradigm? Yes! Or at least a new way of gather...
Fixya Adds Product Recommendations, And Why VC's Are Hot For It
Ask your average Israeli venture capitalist to name a few companies they're keeping tabs on and Fixya usually makes the short list—so do Benchmark's Conduit and Sequoia's Kenshoo. If you haven't hear...
Microsoft's Ozzie On His Company's Web Strategy
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie, who famously zinged his company back in 2006 for not moving aggressively enough to the Web, was much kinder to the company during the annual ...
President Obama's New Twitter Feed
Since the day Barack Obama took office as President, I've urged him to keep up his eager use of Twitter. The fast-growing micro-blogging site had helped drive his campaign, both as a fundraising tool...
First Live Photos of the Gemini - BlackBerry Curve 8520!
If you saw this forum post the other week or listened to our last podcast, you'll know that we've been starting to get a better idea of what the “Gemini” is all about. And thanks to these first live ...
Chips: March Sales Up 3.3% From Feb.; Q1 Off 29.9%
Worldwide chip sales in March rose 3.3% from February, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association. — The new data confirms what many chip makers have said in their Q1 earnings reports: that...
First-Mover Advantage Is About Compound Interest, Not Market Share
“It is the greatest mathematical discovery of all time.” - Albert Einstein on compound interest. — There is a fallacy that startups need to be super-secretive and then, when they launch, move very ...
Want the biggest iPod in the world?
Ask this small gadget shop, which specializes in going where Apple won't. — (Fortune Small Business) — Like many consumers, John Mayberry was looking to upgrade his iPod. The IT technician had 50,0...
Attention NoScript users
Recently I wrote about how not giving extension developers a good way to earn money might lead to very undesirable effects. The recent events give an impression of the kind of effects we should expec...
Xobni Coming To The Blackberry (Leaked Pic)
It's been just one month since email startup Xobni got an investment from the Blackberry Partners Fund, which brought its total B round up to $10 million, and already it has a working prototype for an...
Next iPhone to Easily Record, Edit and Share Movies?
Considering all the leaked evidence of video recording and editing in the iPhone 3.0 beta, it's not really a stretch to predict that the next iPhone will offer long-requested video features. Still, B...
Google Giving Away 250,000 Google Profile Business Cards
Google has teamed up with iPrint.com to offer free Google Profile business cards to the first 10,000 people who claim them. Each person can get a set of 25 cards that shows the Google.com home page w...
AP's Curley Has Fightin' Words For Google
Associated Press Chief Tom Curley threatens a news blackout. Will Google flinch? — If Associated Press Chief Executive Tom Curley's remarks this week about Google reflect the tenor of the talks bet...
PHOTOS: Acer Aspire One 751 11.6 netbook
Two new netbook models were on display, the Aspire One 751 and D250, the former taking a slight departure with some interesting design details.
Coldplay giving away free live album as MP3s
Coldplay has announced plans to give away a free nine-track live album, LeftRightLeftRightLeft, at every gig this year. That'll be in CD form, but the album will also be made available as a free down...
Canada joins China, Russia in US list of top IP scofflaws
The usual suspects have shown up once again on the US Trade Representative's annual Special 301 report on nations that need to step up their game when it comes to enforcing intellectual property right...
Sony's motion sensing controller for PS3 to be unveiled at E3
Sony's much rumored motion sensing controller for the Playstation 3 is real and it will likely be unveiled at E3. — That's what I've been hearing from several sources, one of whom has seen the devic...
Online Ad Spending To Follow Video and Social Networking
According to a new report on the Global Online Media Landscape by The Nielsen Company Online, engagement by Internet users is deepening, in part a result of a shift toward video content and social net...
LimeWire Chairman Assures Congress: Privacy Safeguards Are in Place
Peer-to-peer software company LimeWire is gently telling Congress to calm down, reassuring anxious lawmakers that the company's software prevents users from putting the nation's top secrets or their t...
GoDaddy Advises Against Buying a Domain Name from a Disappearing Island
If you want to buy a .tv domain name, Bob Parsons's GoDaddy registrar will sell it to you. But not without a tsk-tsk lecture about how the island of Tuvalu, which owns .tv, is sinking.
update on Warner Music
As you may have read me tweet, the organization that hosted me for this talk: — Received a notice that Warner Music had objected to its being posted on copyright grounds. Apparently, YouTube's cont...
iPhone App Developers Threaten To Sue Apple Over Late Payments
We've reported in the past on how Apple has not only been late on payments to iPhone app developers, but has also neglected to pay some developers for their app sales at the store entirely. We though...
New consumer confidence seen as boon to Apple
Bolstered by renewed optimism about the U.S. economy, consumers this spring are putting money aside to buy netbooks and Mac laptops, according to a report released Thursday by ChangeWave Research. — ...
Judge Shuts Down NewWest.Net Twitter Feed from Yellowstone Club Trial
Federal Bankruptcy Judge Ralph B. Kirscher shut down the use of Twitter in a Missoula courtroom today during a trial that has pit the members of the ritzy Yellowstone Club against former owner Tim Bli...