Bring Us Your Apps, and Sell Them, Too
Submit your webOS applications today for the Palm App Catalog e-commerce beta starting in mid-September — Starting today, you can submit your apps via email for consideration in the Palm App Catalog...
Shocker: Windows 7 to sell in UK for half the US price!
We've been doing some investigating, friends — making phone calls, demanding answers. And it was worth it. We can confirm something very few people get to confirm: British shoppers aren't going to b...
Google Tops In Search Satisfaction According To Pre-Bing Survey
On an annual basis the University of Michigan puts out the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) E-Business report, sponsored and administered by Foresee Results. Among the things the index exa...
How Smartphones Are Making Wi-Fi Hot Again
As many of you know, I recently moved to a new neighborhood in San Francisco. The move came with its own share of ups and downs, but waiting for broadband was the most challenging for me. It took al...
Sale of iLike to MySpace-$13.5 Million in Cash
The board of iLike planned a meeting earlier tonight to go over a buyout offer by MySpace, several sources close to the situation said.
Wikipedia Lauches Official iPhone App
The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization behind the popular Wikipedia, just released its first official iPhone application for Wikipedia. Wikipedia Mobile, which is available for free in...
PS3 price cuts appear in print, must be real (update: 'new exciting Playstation 3')
As the story goes, a Kotaku reader just received these PS3 posters (now posted after the break) into the FYE shop where he works. You'll notice that the “new low price” is augmented with a “while sup...
Apple: How They Can Sell 50 Million iPhones A Year
Apple (AAPL) is on track to sell more than 50 million iPhones a year by the September 2011 fiscal year, Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi asserted in a research note this morning, up from an ...
Report: One in four songs sold in U.S. is from iTunes
The NPD Group reported Tuesday that Apple's iTunes Store is responsible for selling one in four songs in the United States. — NPD MusicWatch's report indicates that audio CDs remain the dominant for...
Apptio raises $14 million from Andreessen fund
August is supposed to be a quiet month, but the tech deals just keep coming. — Whether it marks a recovery or not, money's starting to flow, including a $14 million financing round that Bellevue ent...
New Privacy Lawsuit Throws The Kitchen Sink At Facebook
A new lawsuit filed against Facebook in the Superior Court of California in Orange County is one of the more entertaining documents we've had the pleasure of reading recently. A lot of lawsuits again...
EU invests a fresh € 18 million in future ultra high-speed mobile internet
As of 1 January 2010, the EU will invest € 18 million into research that will underpin next generation 4G mobile networks. The European Commission just decided to start the process of funding researc...
Apple, RIM, Palm Get Wet Kiss From RBC
As smartphone sales soar — “the new world order” — Apple, RIM, and Palm are positioned for leadership, RBC analyst Mike Abramsky said today, jacking estimates and price targets for all three companies...
Lenovo Reveal Their First Home Server - The IdeaCenter D400
Looks like Lenovo just spilt the beans on their first Windows Home Server model, the IdeaCenter D400. The company just posted a teaser image of the product and have promised more information will be ...
Hackers break into police computer as sting backfires
Exclusive: An Australian Federal Police boast, on the ABC's Four Corners program, about officers breaking up an underground hacker forum, has backfired after hackers broke into a federal police comput...
First Look: Facebook 3.0
Joe Hewitt, the developer behind the iPhone version of Facebook, just graced my inbox with a copy of the Facebook 3.0 app he submitted to the App Store. — It feels more like the full Facebook than e...
Wi-Fi via White Spaces
A network design that uses old TV spectrum could produce better long-range wireless connectivity. — Long-range, low-cost wireless Internet could soon be delivered using radio spectrum once reserved ...
Qwest Issues 60-Day Notice to Qwest Wireless Customers
Effective Oct. 31, Qwest Wireless Service Will No Longer Be Available — Starting today, Qwest Wireless customers will begin to receive notification that they have 60 days to switch their Qwest Wirel...
What Europeans do at Night
The New York Times recently had an interesting piece on the changing daily Internet usage patterns in the US. The basic gist of the article was Americans are using the Internet more than in the past ...
MSI to be first to launch Pine Trail-M netbooks in December, claim sources
Micro-Star International (MSI) has decided to take the initiative among global vendors to launch netbooks based on Pine Trail-M in December 2009 although Intel reportedly has decided to postpone offer...
Sharing with Google Groups
As more and more businesses and organizations “go Google,” we find that many of the features we develop based on feedback from large enterprises end up benefiting all of our users. We recently rolled...
Can the Apple Touch Sell the Tablet?
The Mac and iPhone maker may join a host of tech players hoping to win big in tablet PCs, an area where some of the industry's biggest names have failed — Apple may be at the forefront of a renewed ...
Smartphone wars - BlackBerry's plan to win
Locked in an epic battle with Apple's iPhone, Research in Motion has managed to grow bigger and more dominant than ever. But the competition is about to get tougher. — (Fortune Magazine) — For two ...
CBS Interactive's Smith: Authentication's Not Around The Corner
The concept of “TV Everywhere” won't reach critical mass until perhaps 2014, according to some players, and even that date is uncertain, said CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) CEO Quincy Smith, speaking on ...
Analyst: Apple to Sell 80+ Million iPhones in 2012, Snag 5.7% of Total Mobile Phone Market
In an extensive research report on the smartphone industry released this morning, RBC Capital Markets reveals a “new world order” in which smartphones embracing the convergence of communication …
Xbox 360: Played x5 more than Wii, x5 more likely to fail that PS3
According to a poll carried out by Game Informer of some 5,000 readers, the Xbox 360 is played some five times more than the Wii, but has a failure rate that five times as much as that of the PlayStat...
New York Times Invites Public Discussion of Paid Content
The New York Times is going public with discussion of paid content options — sort of. — According to an e-mail newsletter sent from the Times Monday evening, more than 3,000 readers have joined The ...
BlackBerry App World Web Portal Launched
Good news, everyone! RIM has launched a web site featuring the full BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) App World library for easier perusing. We had heard this feature would be launching with the latest update...