Apple's App Store Downloads Top 1.5 Billion in First Year
More Than 65,000 Apps; Over 100,000 Developers — Apple® today announced that customers have downloaded more than 1.5 billion applications in just one year from its revolutionary App Store, the large...
iPhone OS 3.1 beta 2 lets developers work over WiFi (Updated)
Apple released an update to the iPhone OS 3.1 beta tonight, making the new version of the software available to registered developers. According to several developers speaking to Ars, beta 2 enables ...
Google Loses Engineering Director Who Once Caused Steve Ballmer To Melt Down
After nearly 5 years with the company, Engineering Director Mark Lucovsky is leaving Google for a role with VMware, we've learned. Lucovsky has been an integral part of Google's APIs, including the a...
Behind the scenes at Twitter
Twitter is the hottest internet startup on the planet. Over the last few months, the messaging service it provides has morphed from a social networking tool into an instrument of revolution. So what...
Survey Confirms: Bing Will Bomb
Analysts are positively gushing about Microsoft's Bing. Initial Comscore numbers showed a pop in Bing traffic! Some observers (the New York Times, for example) have gone so far as to suggest that Bi...
Microsoft announces Azure pricing, details
Microsoft's Bob Muglia announces Microsoft's Windows Azure plans at last year's professional developer conference. On Tuesday, Microsoft announced how it will charge for the service and what level of...
YouTube Will Be Next To Kiss IE6 Support Goodbye
Judging by this screenshot taken by an IE6 user who was watching some videos on YouTube, it appears the Google company will be phasing out support for the browser shortly. I don't have Internet Explo...
Amazon Buys Netflix? Microsoft Is a Much Better Guess as a Potential Acquirer.
Yesterday, shares of Netflix got their semiregular rocket boost-with its stock up more than five percent to close at just over $42-from rumors that Amazon was interested in buying Netflix.
Get Ready; Windows Marketplace for Mobile Offers Millions of Potential New Customers
My name is Todd Brix and I am the Senior Director for Mobile Platform Services Product Management at Microsoft. I am on site at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans to talk …
U.K., not North Korea, source of DDOS attacks, researcher says
Security analysts had been skeptical of the claims about North Korea — IDG News Service - The U.K. was the likely source of a series of attacks last week that took down popular Web sites in the U.S....
Pandora now pushing radio to pay for music, too
The campaign to get radio stations to pay up for the music they play marches on. With revenues from recorded music sales declining, rightsholders have turned their eyes in recent years to commercial ...
Samsung HMX-U10 Full HD camcorder with 1-button YouTube uploads out-Ultras the Flip
Step aside Flip, Samsung's aiming its massive consumer-electronics guns directly at your point-shoot-n-upload to YouTube base. Samsung's new HMX-U10 fixed-focus, ultra-compact camcorder takes 10 mega...
Windows 95 on iPhone 3G (video)
Developers of iSoft team ran windows 95 on iPhone, its done with help of Bochs emulator and original win 95 image. — Main trouble is a perfomance of the iPhone and, mainly, of emulator... only windo...
Google Eases The Switch From Lotus Notes To Google Apps
A few weeks ago, Google announced a new plug-in that will sync Google Apps—the enterprise versions of Gmail, contacts, and calendar—with Microsoft's Outlook, letting customers use Outlook on their des...
‘Bruno’: Did Twitter Reviews Hurt Movie at Box Office?
In the old days — like, until yesterday — movie studios judged the success of their big pictures by how much they grossed on the opening weekend. But in the age of Twitter, electronic word-of-mouth i...
Sun Microsystems: Ye Gads, That Was An Ugly Quarter
Hey, Oracle (ORCL) CEO Larry Ellison! Are you totally sure you want to buy Sun Microsystems (JAVA)? — Sun today pre-announced extremely ugly results for its fiscal fourth quarter ended June 30. Th...
Microsoft vomit ad more than half of campaign's views
Vomit throws up viral views. — At least that is the conclusion of the strangely anal examiners of viral video at Visible Measures. — Perhaps some of you may have avoided the splashback from the In...
WhitePages unveils $2.5 million Web site redesign
“It's been a hell of a lot of work,” says John Lusk. But the vice president of marketing at WhitePages is hoping that the $2.5 million overhaul of the company's Web site — the first major redesign in...
Welcome to IT Dashboard - The Blog!
It has been an exciting time since we launched the IT Dashboard. There have been more than 20 million hits so far, and we've received an encouraging response from members of Congress and the public i...
Financial Times Tweets That It Now Has An iPhone App. Yup, It's Pink.
International business newspaper and website Financial Times, founded in 1888, is now part of the iPhone app club with the release of a free application on the iTunes App Store (iTunes link).
Posterous works awesome with Google Maps
Embedding a Google Map in one of your posts could not be simpler. Just grab the map link from Google Maps and drop it on its own line into your email or our web based post editor. We'll expand it in...