Why We Need Steve Jobs
Love him or hate him, Apple needs its CEO back. Now. … I just spent an hour waiting in a line at an Apple store to buy a product I do not need. It's the new top-of-the-line iPhone 3GS, and it costs ...
And then there was porn
Today the iTunes app store became a man, having finally seen its first adult app. Meaning nudity. Meaning boobies. — The app responsible for taking iTunes' virginity is called “Hottest Girls” ($1....
Targeted Attack Designed to Infect Both Macs and PCs.
UPDATE (25th June): Guy Kawasaki has stated that his Twitter account was not compromised, the malicious tweet came from a feed that Guy's account is subscribed to automatically post. The feed comes f...
Google Takes On Tourism With City Tours Experiment
City Tours is a new addition to Google Labs that puts Google squarely in the tourism business: Give it a city name, and Google not only suggests sites to see, but it also maps out a multi-day itinerar...
‘Simpsons’ Draws Higher Rates on Internet than TV as Ads Target Loyal Fans
Television programs such as “The Simpsons” and “CSI” are for the first time commanding higher advertising rates at Web sites including Hulu.com and TV.com than on prime-time TV. — The premium rates ...
Google Profiles has XFN now
Google Profiles just launched a new feature that's too dorky and obscure to warrant an official “Google blog” blog post, so the product manager on it said, “Brad, you're dorky... you should post it. …...
Apple TV to Take Sporting Events to a Whole New Level
The US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of four newly granted patents for Apple Inc. yesterday and one of them was covered earlier this morning in our other report titled Appl...
Wikinvest Hopes Redesign Will Attract The Yahoo Finance Crowd
Finance sites like Yahoo Finance and Google Finance haven't changed much in the past ten years. The fonts are different. Maybe there's some more real-time quotes and fancier, interactive charts.
The Web Collapses Under The Weight Of Michael Jackson's Death
In terms of well-known celebrities, few are bigger than Michael Jackson. Love him or hate him, pretty much everyone on the planet knows him. And that caused big problems for a lot of huge websites t...
Mobile Uploads to YouTube Increase Exponentially
In the last six months, we've seen uploads from mobile phones to YouTube jump 1700%; just since last Friday, when the iPhone 3GS came out, uploads increased by 400% a day. — This growth represents t...
Apple Exec Joins Venture-Capital Firm
Not everyone is leaving venture capital amid the recession. Bob Borchers, who left his position at Apple last week as senior director of worldwide product marketing for the iPhone, has joined venture...
Web filters to censor video games
The Federal Government has now set its sights on gamers, promising to use its internet censorship regime to block websites hosting and selling video games that are not suitable for 15 year olds. — S...
Google Voice invites on their way
A couple of months ago we announced Google Voice, a service that gives you one phone number to link all your phones and makes voicemail as easy as email. We are happy to share that Google Voice is be...
Who is attacking Solid Oak, whose code was stolen for Green Dam?
Check out this document from Solid Oak Software, makers of CyberSitter. It's a comparison of CyberSitter with Green Dam-Youth Escort, the software China is insisting PC makers start installing on Jul...