Apple Answers the FCC's Questions
Today Apple filed with the FCC the following answers to their questions. — We are pleased to respond to the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau's inquiry dated July 31, 2009, requesting information r...
Trading halted in stock of Pirate Bay bidder
The authorities that govern that Sweden"s stock markets have halted trading in Global Gaming Factory X, the software company that is due in less than a week to complete an acquisition of The Pirate Ba...
Email a task list
Sometimes you need to get your tasks out of Tasks. Although you already know how I feel about paper, we decided to add support for printing with Tasks's graduation from Gmail Labs. Today we're offer...
AT&T to require smartphone data plans starting September 6th
AT&T subscribers, we have good news and bad news. The bad news is that as of September 6th, AT&T will begin requiring that all smartphones sign up for a smartphone data plan. The good news is that c...
DST Still Shopping for Facebook Shares
Russian investor Digital Sky Technologies appears to be hungry for a bigger piece of Facebook. — AFP/Getty Images — The firm just finished spending $100 million to purchase current and former Face...
Asustek to launch Ion-based nettop in September and Eee Keyboard in October
Asustek Computer will launch Nvidia Ion-based Eee Box and Eee Top all-in-one PC, as well as two ultra-thin notebooks under its U/UX series line in September. The company will also launch its Eee Keyb...
What Wolfram Alpha Really Did This Summer: Struck A Deal With Bing.
Computer scientist Stephen Wolfram gave a report today listing what the team at Wolfram Alpha, his new search engine, did this summer. They added new knowledge domains and over 2 million lines of cod...
Microsoft Retail Stores: We're hiring!
You may have heard about our plans to open Microsoft retail stores in cities around the world. Well, I know a lot of you have heard because the JobsBloggers have been getting peppered with questions....
Why did Newser's traffic fall off a cliff?
Michael Wolff, whose two-year-old site, Newser, is frequently cited as a model for the future of journalism, titled a typically provocative blog post yesterday, “I'm Proud to Kill the News.” He made ...
Apple's UK Online Store Lists August 28th Ship Date for Snow Leopard Up-to-Date Program [Updated]
Apple's UK online store is now listing a shipping date for the OS X Snow Leopard “Up-to-Date” program of “by August 28th”. The listing comes on the heels of reports from several sources …
Craigslist Expands Coverage of Cities by 25 Percent
Craigslist, the simple, disruptive and occasionally controversial classified advertising site, is expanding. — On Thursday, the San Francisco company quietly added new sites for 140 cities, a 25 per...
Southwest to Roll Out Wi-Fi Fleetwide in Q1 2010
Southwest Airlines said today that it will begin a fleetwide rollout of its in-flight Wi-Fi service in the first quarter of 2010, putting it on track to be the first major airline to offer broadband a...
Tech giants unite against Google
Three technology heavyweights are joining a coalition to fight Google's attempt to create what could be the world's largest virtual library. — Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo will sign up to the Open Bo...
Twitter to roll out commercial accounts this year
Yes, Twitter will start earning some income this year. — Co-founder Biz Stone said the company is in the first phase of rolling out commercial accounts that will entice business users to pay for pre...
Tipjoy Heads To The Deadpool
Tipjoy, a startup that allowed users to easily collect ‘tips’ from their readers and fans in the form of small Paypal transfers, is closing up shop. Earlier this evening Co-founder Ivan Kirigin poste...
What derailed the Windows Mobile 7 train?
While many industry observers obsessed this week over a report that claimed Microsoft will offer two different Windows Mobile versions to phone makers in the coming year, they glossed over the real n...
You Tube Search-and-Delete Code Makes Money for Rights-Holders
Here, YouTube's Content ID system matches the original video (on the left) with a user-uploaded video (on the right), even though they're encoded differently. — You know how digital music works: Peo...
The Search For a Rival
Every year, the market-research firm Millward Brown conducts a survey to determine the economic worth of the world's brands — in other words, to put a dollar value on the many corporate logos that dom...
Apple Continues To Right App Store Wrongs. Obama “Hope” App Is Go.
Last month, we wrote about an iPhone app getting rejected because it featured artwork of President Obama. Specifically, it was Shepard Fairey's famous “HOPE” image of Obama that Apple found inappropr...
Reddit, Sears, Grills That Cook Babies... And The Streisand Effect
Adam sends in a link to a Reddit story where it comes out that someone (not entirely sure who) decided to push Reddit to take down an earlier story. Apparently Sears.com had some oddity in how conten...
New Palm Pre Ad from Bell looks identical to the iPhone Ads
I hate to say it, but the latest Bell Palm Pre Ads looks almost identical to the iPhone Ads that Apple had been running for years. It's a dude holding the device in one hand (impossibly good looking ...
What We've Been Doing This Summer
So what's been happening with Wolfram|Alpha this summer? A lot! — At a first glance, the website looks pretty much as it did when it first launched—with the straightforward input field. But inside...
Android and VoIP applications
I wanted to briefly set the record straight about an inaccurate claim in Friday's USA Today. The article stated: — “Consumers who use Android, the Google-developed operating system for wireless dev...
Yahoo wins U.S. court ruling over webcasting fees
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal appeals court in New York ruled that a Yahoo Inc Internet radio service is not required to pay fees to copyright holders of songs it plays, a defeat for Sony Corp's BMG ...
Advertising And User-Targeting Network Lookery Heads To The Deadpool
Lookery, a startup that focuses on collecting demographic data about users and sites around the web and then selling this information to ad networks to target users, is heading to the deadpool.
Telecoms chase after Google Voice's innovative calling features
Google engineers show off the Voice Web app. Credit: Septillion via Flickr — Google's pickup of Grand Central, a little Web startup with big ideas for revolutionizing phone use, is starting to look...
FCC to vote on wireless industry competition inquiry; Watch out Verizon and AT&T
The Federal Communication Commission will vote Aug. 27 on a broad inquiry into wireless industry competition. The FCC move is likely to put AT&T and Verizon under the regulatory microscope.
Flickr v. Free Speech. Where Is Their Courage?
One thing I've learned over the years is this - screwing over your users while yelling “the lawyers made me do it!” rarely ends well. Particularly when the lawyers are just being lazy, and free speec...
Snap it, click it, use it
A new way to deliver information to mobile phones is spreading around the world — NEGOTIATING his way across a crowded concourse at a busy railway station, a traveller removes his phone from his poc...
TweetMeme Retweet Button Growth
I wanted to share a few numbers about the growth of TweetMeme and explain why so many users are using our service. In the last 30 days we have served 1.6 billion retweet buttons, and we seeing an ave...
HTC Click video demo: entry-level Android Donut in wild [Updated]
Remember the HTC Click? The company's entry-level Android smartphone is tipped to arrive in September or October this year, but until we have any official confirmation we've got leaked hands-on foota...
Pirate Bay's Supposed Buyer Says Everything's Awesome. So Why Are Its Allies Running?
The company that wants to buy the Pirate Bay and turn the filesharing haven legit says its plans are moving full steam ahead. But it seems to be having a hard time convincing its own team.
Hewlett Foundation ponies up cash for Wikipedia
Someone has to pay for free content — The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, which handles the cash donated to various charities and good causes by one of the co-founders of Hewlett-Packard and h...
Google's 64-bit Chrome starts emerging—on Linux
on Linux — Google has begun work on a 64-bit version of Chrome for Linux, a move likely to whip Linux loyalists into a lather of excitement. — “The V8 team did some amazing work this quarter buildi...
You've got blogs: ex-AOLers build sites for writers, documentarians
New online platforms like True/Slant and SnagFilms are a home for original content. Can they succeed? — Godfather: Leonsis backs AOL-bred online ventures. Photo: SnagFilms — AOL is getting some ...
Los Angeles gets its Google Apps groove
On August 11, Randi Levin, the chief information officer of the city of Los Angeles, stood before City Council members at a hearing of the information technology committee and made her case for why th...
The Definition of Broadband
Today the FCC is releasing a Public Notice, or PN, on the best way to define broadband. As the PN points out, much of the recent debate tends to center on throughput speeds. Engineers know that thes...