Ovi Store goes live
GLOBAL - Today is one of those monolithic milestones for Nokia and the advancement of mobiles, as Ovi Store has officially gone live. It's a moment that many believe (including all of us here on Conv...
Microsoft confirms Zune HD coming this fall
Microsoft on Tuesday confirmed its plans to take on the iPod Touch with a new, touch-screen Zune that will be able to surf the Web, play high-definition movies, and tune in to digital radio. — The Z...
Da! Facebook Takes $200 Million From Russian Investors At $10 Billion Valuation
Facebook is indeed taking money from Russian investors Digital Sky Technologies. As previously reported, the social network is selling $200 million of preferred stock at, a $10 billion valuation …
Twitter Guys: We'll Still Be Running This Company in 5 Years
Meet the Internet's It Boys: Twitter co-founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone. A year ago their “micromessaging” platform was unknown outside of a small circle of digerati. Now the service has broken...
EU pushes music industry to open up online rights
BRUSSELS - — EU antitrust regulators told the music industry Tuesday to move quickly and change licenses that currently restrict online music stores such as iTunes from offering the same songs for s...
Topsy Search Launches: ReTweets Are The New Currency Of The Web
New search engine Topsy, which has been in stealth development for three years, launches, well, now. — Before Google, search engines like AltaVista determined relevance based on how well a web page ...
iPod nano 5G, Next-Gen iPhone Design Changes Revealed?
You know that we don't run future iPod stories without having a lot of faith in the information. Thus far, our source has a perfect track record for accuracy. Based on the information we've received...
Kutcher threatens to stop Twittering
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) — Ashton Kutcher — Twitter's top tweeter — warned he may pull the plug on his tweeting if the micro-blogging service partners on a reality TV show. — “It's all fun and ...
Psystar Files Bankruptcy, Stalls Apple's Case
Unauthorized Mac clone maker Psystar has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Florida, temporarily slowing down Apple's legal case against it. The filing may be an indication that the compan...
Microsoft's Ballmer whoops it up as Ford CEO delivers his new car
Too bad Ford doesn't have more customers as loyal and enthusiastic as Steve Ballmer. Then again, the Microsoft CEO is an easy sell, as a Detroit native whose father worked for the automaker.
OpenX Keeps On Growing, Raises $10 Million More
We've talked about online ad server OpenX quite a bit in the past, and for good reason. The company, formerly known as Openads, is led by former AOL CEO Jonathan Miller (Chairman) and ex-Yahoo exec T...
Report: Spam now 90 percent of all e-mail
Spam now accounts for 90.4 percent of all e-mail, according to a report released Monday from security vendor Symantec. This means that 1 out of every 1.1 e-mails is junk. The report also notes that ...
iPhone 3.0 betaphiles upset the Apple cart
Tom Yager asseses version 3.0 of the iPhone OS — At least I have an excuse. Running pre-release operating systems and firmware in production settings is part of my job description. I accept that “...
Hints of a Tech Gold Mine in the Stimulus Package
The headline technology winners in the government's economic stimulus package have been electronic health records and smart grids, where computing is front and center. Many billions have been pledged...
Microsoft and Intel looking to limit netbook sizes to 10.2-inch for Windows 7
Microsoft and Intel have reached a consensus to decrease the upper screen-size limit for netbook PCs equipped with Windows 7 from 12.1 inches to 10.2 inches, according to sources at Taiwan-based ODM n...
Canonical developers aim to make Android apps run on Ubuntu
At the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Barcelona, Canonical has unveiled a prototype Android execution environment that will allow Android applications to run on the Ubuntu Linux distribution. — Android ...
Palm fights back (against Apple)
The beleaguered handset maker says its new smartphone, the Pre, is an iPhone killer. Apple isn't laughing. — (Fortune Magazine) — Not much rattles Apple. Disciplined and focused, the company lavis...
Texting May Be Taking a Toll
They do it late at night when their parents are asleep. They do it in restaurants and while crossing busy streets. They do it in the classroom with their hands behind their back. They do it so much...
Obama Set to Create A Cybersecurity Czar With Broad Mandate
Shielding Public, Private Networks Is Goal — President Obama is expected to announce late this week that he will create a “cyber czar,” a senior White House official who will have broad authority to...
Amazon's next revolution
CEO Jeff Bezos used the web to shake up book retailing. Now he's using the Internet to sell electronic books on his Kindle e-reader. A look at Amazon's latest effort to transform the book business, ...
Beware Social Media Marketing Myths
MySpace, Twitter, and Facebook are all the rage, but for most business owners there are better ways to stay close to customers — Comedian Jim Gaffigan has a suggestion for preparing a Hot Pockets fr...
Windows Vista SP2 ready for download (and Windows Server 2008)
Have you been waiting patiently for Vista Service Pack 2 to be available? Your wait is over! — Here are the downloads - Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008: — Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 ...
How Long Did It Take for the World to Identify Google as an AltaVista Killer?
Earlier this week, I mused about the fact that folks keep identifying new Web services as Google killers, and keep being dead wrong. Which got me to wondering: How quickly did the world realize that ...
Twollars: An Innovative Approach to Fundraising on Twitter
Twollars is a really interesting service; both because it has a genius idea behind it, but also because it raises some questions about the economy of micropayments through microblogging in general.
Why I Won't Be Syncing Facebook with My Palm Pre
I'm looking forward to finally get my hands on the Palm Pre. But according to the PreCentral forums, the way it handles contacts may make the platform unusable. — Just like on the Android-wielding ...
Newspapers' future
With each month, newspapers look less like a business and more like a lost cause. The crisis is acute in the US, where some newspaper groups are in Chapter 11 bankruptcy and there are questions over ...
When 1.3 Billion People Are Too Many
There's one big Web 2.0 question we'll never know the answer to: Could YouTube have survived on its own? — There are a handful of industry-changing Web 2.0 names including MySpace, Facebook, YouTube...
Guardrails for the Internet: Preserving Creativity Online
In March, an unfinished copy of 20th Century Fox's film X-Men Origins: Wolverine was stolen from a film lab and uploaded to the Internet, more than a month before its theatrical release. The studio i...
On the Web, Growth Costs Real Money
Twitter, the San Francisco-based micro-messaging startup, has been growing like a weed, thanks to generous plugs on mainstream media. Data collected by comScore shows that the number of unique visito...