Apple has made no more than $20-45m in revenue from the app store
About a month ago Apple announced that one billion iphone apps have been downloaded in the first nine months. That's an amazing number. I wondered how much money Apple was making from the app store.
Reports point to widespread Google outages
Many people found Google's search site was extremely slow or inaccessible Thursday, and other reports pointed to troubles with other properties including YouTube, Gmail, Google Analytics, Google Maps,...
Official: Craigslist to replace ‘blatant Internet brothel’
(CNN) — Craigslist will replace its controversial online “erotic services” listings with a section where ads are individually checked by Craigslist employees before they are posted, according to Conne...
Network Use Not the Only Reason For AT&T to Hate 3G iPhone SlingPlayer
Everyone may think that AT&T threw their fat around and made Apple lock down the SlingPlayer iPhone app because of AT&T's lousy network, but a tipster tells us there's a more nefarious reason at play.
Welcome the Samsung Jack™ to Samsung's Smartphone Portfolio
The Samsung Jack™, the successor the award-winning BlackJack™ and BlackJack II™, will hit AT&T shelves on May 19th. — The BlackJack series has been the number one selling franchise in Windows Mobile...
Windows Mobile 6.5: the UI was rushed, more on widgets
A TechEd 2009 video gives more information on widgets, talks about how the UI in Windows Mobile 6.5 was rushed, and that Silverlight won't be coming till a later version. — TechEd 2009 already gave ...
Twitter's Spectacularly Awful 24 Hours
Twitter just went through an awful 24-hour stretch. It included taking away a feature some people loved, probably being misleading about it, getting a huge amount of backlash, halfway bringing the fe...
World's First PC Integrating 512GB SSD
Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502), reinforcing its “dynabook SS RX2 series” of notebook PCs offering light weight, slim lines, and long-lasting battery operation, today announced the introduction of t...
YouTube arrives on Google News after outage
Update at 7:27 a.m. PDT: Outage is confirmed, and further details have been added. — Google News was inaccessible for many on Thursday morning. But when it re-emerged, it sported news videos hosted...
Why isn't Zillow dead?
“Things are very good at Zillow,” Rich Barton, CEO of the online real estate company, was telling me. We're in the thick of the worst economic crisis of a generation and a depressed real estate marke...
Pirated pop keeps stars popular
File-sharing sites help make popular acts more popular, finds a study. — The research, by industry body PRS for Music, showed the most pirated pop songs tend to be those at the top of the music char...
The 10 Sites Benefiting The Most From Twitter's Traffic Explosion
US unique visitors to Twitter grew 83% between March and April, according to ComScore. Since one of the main uses of Twitter is sharing links, we wondered: Who is feeling the Twitter love? We asked ...
These The First Pics Of The PS3 Slim?
While rumors have been swirling that Sony will be announcing a PS3 Slim, the company has stated earlier that it “currently has no plans” for a redesign. That was then, this is now. — Today, picture...
4G wireless makes progress with WiMax, LTE developments
Suddenly, there's a light at the end of the 4G tunnel. We keep hearing about the next generation of wireless communications but thanks to two developments this week, it's finally starting to feel lik...
College Journalists Want To Erase Their Past From Google
While many professional journalists fondly remember the work they did in college — covering townie news for the university paper or radio station — some are trying to erase their past work from the In...
Software Problems with a Breath Alcohol Detector
This is an excellent lesson in the security problems inherent in trusting proprietary software: … Draeger, the manufacturer maintained that the system was perfect, and that revealing the source code w...
What's Holding Back Google Apps?
The search giant aims to compete in business software with Google Apps. But some clients fret over storing data on its servers—and its rivals are big — When Google (GOOG) announced a foray into bus...
Google Toolbelt Tells Which Of Your Pages Were Recently Indexed or Linked
Google's new “show options” feature*, rolled out for everyone this week, lets you restrict results to just pages from the past 24 hours. You can use this feature in combination with Google's “site” a...
Exclusive: First Look at the BlackBerry Storm 2!!
* Update: MORE PHOTOS ADDED! Sooo much Storm 2 goodness it's ridiculous. BOOM. Here it is CrackBerry Nation, your FIRST look at the BlackBerry Storm TWO. I'm not even sure what to say here... othe...
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The Replies Kerfuffle
Twitter evolves and thrives on how folks use it. Some of our best features are invented by users, so listening is extremely valuable. Replies and conversations are awesome and we fully intend to sup...
Congratulations, Google staff: $210k in profit per head in 2008
Google had $209,624 in profit per employee in 2008, which beats all the other large tech companies we looked at, including big hitters like Microsoft, Apple, Intel and IBM. — (As you may know, we ha...
Network Use Not the Only Reason For AT&T to Hate 3G iPhone SlingPlayer
Everyone may think that AT&T threw their fat around and made Apple lock down the SlingPlayer iPhone app because of AT&T's lousy network, but a tipster tells us there's a more nefarious reason at play.
Random House now disabling text-to-speech function of Kindle e-books
The much-touted and extremely controversial story of the text-to-speech function of Amazon's Kindle 2 could fill a very large e-book. The tale continues to get longer still, as at least one major pub...
Twitter Culture Wars at The Times: ‘We Need a Zone of Trust,’ Bill Keller Tells Staff
On Monday, The New York Times Web chiefs held a meeting about the future of nytimes.com. They discussed several proposals being considered for the future of paid content on the Web. It was an intern...
eBuddy, The Swiss Army Knife For Instant Messaging, Is Now Available On Android
The Netherlands-based eBuddy, which markets a comprehensive application that lets users handle multiple instant messaging accounts from the web or their mobile phones, is today releasing an applicatio...
These The First Pics Of The PS3 Slim?
While rumors have been swirling that Sony will be announcing a PS3 Slim, the company has stated earlier that it “currently has no plans” for a redesign. That was then, this is now. — Today, picture...
Microsoft begins working on SP3 for Vista
In the early stages of Windows 7 development, there were those who scoffed that the new OS would essentially become Vista SP3. Joking aside, since we already know that Vista is going to be available ...