Nokia Booklet 3G brings all day mobility to the PC world
Espoo, Finland - After more than 25 years as a pioneer and leader in the mobile industry, Nokia will bring its rich mobility heritage and knowledge to the PC world with the new, Windows based, Nokia B...
Jobs, Back at Apple, Focuses on New Tablet
Just a few months after Steve Jobs had a liver transplant, the Apple Inc. chief executive is once again managing even the smallest details of his company's products, this time focused on a new tablet ...
Introducing Rhapsody on the iPhone
Every day I watch Twitter to see what people are talking about with regards to our brands. I see lots of suggestions and lots of feedback, but the one thing that keeps on coming is this question: Whe...
Why Craigslist Is Such a Mess
The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and useful. So how come when you arrive at the most popular dating site in the US you find a stream of anonymous...
Outed blogger Rosemary Port blames model Liskula Cohen for ‘skank’ stink
Sorry seems to be the hardest word for the blogger who anonymously scorned a model as a “ho” and a “skank,” igniting a legal and media maelstrom. — Speaking out for the first time since a court orde...
Wikipedia to Limit Changes to Articles on People
Wikipedia, one of the 10 most popular sites on the Web, was founded about eight years ago as a long-shot experiment to create a free encyclopedia from the contributions of volunteers, all with the pow...
Facebook's Zuckerberg Plans to Increase Staff 50% Amid Engineer Surplus
Aug. 24 (Bloomberg) — Facebook Inc. plans to expand its staff by as much as 50 percent this year as it benefits from a surplus of engineers amid the recession, Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg ...
Sony boss reveals plans for PlayStation
The Times was the only UK publication at Gamescom in Cologne last week to speak with Sony Computer Entertainment boss Kazuo “Kaz” Hirai. We met up with him the morning after he had taken the stage to...
Apple to Ship Mac OS X Snow Leopard on August 28
Apple® today announced that Mac OS® X v10.6 Snow Leopard™ will go on sale Friday, August 28 at Apple's retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers, and that Apple's online store is now accepting pre-...
First look at Nokia N97 Mini
Imagine there's no Nokia N900 and its brand-new OS, what would Nokia have left on their hands? The right answer is S60, that will be utilized in a plethora of new devices, as the number of smartphone...
How I Got the Google Voice/App Store Story Wrong
As I mentioned in my piece Friday on Apple's response to the FCC's Google Voice App Store inquiry, I got an important aspect of the story wrong in my initial coverage. On 28 July, in a piece in which...
Publishers Are Killing Web Advertising's Potential With Misguided Pricing
Jim Spanfeller is the outgoing president and CEO of Forbes.com. He is also treasurer of the Online Publishers Association and chairman emeritus of the Interactive Advertising Bureau. — How is ad pr...
Apple Highest Grossing Retailer on Fifth Avenue as iPhone Defies Recession
Aug. 24 (Bloomberg) — As vacancies increase and retail sales throughout the U.S. remain a shadow of the decade's boom, Apple Inc.'s stores are defying the recession. — At Fifth Avenue and Fifty-Nint...
Facebook Reaps Recruits at High Levels
Boosting hiring amid a job slump, Facebook snares Yahoo!'s security chief, an open-source guru from Six Apart, and talent from Genentech and Google — So much for cutting back during the downturn. —...
Barnes & Noble Lands Irex, Another Would-Be Kindle Killer
Here's another company choosing a side in the coming e-book war: Irex Technologies, a Dutch company that plans on selling a Kindle-like reader in the U.S. this fall, has allied itself with Barnes & No...
NYT Starts Serving Up Intrusive Ads in Its iPhone App
The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) has thrown down the gauntlet when it comes to ads on mobile apps, specifically its iPhone app. Over the weekend, it has started running roadblock interactive ads on its...
Apple blogger legally unlocks iPhone
Thanks be to ‘benevolent carrier’ — An iPhone blogger has revealed a way of legally unlocking the device after paying off his mobile contract. — TheAppleBlog.com's Olly Farshi claimed he legitimat...
Swiss privacy commissioner says “nein” to Google Street View
Google launched Street View in Switzerland last week, and the Swiss Privacy Commissioner isn't satisfied that it will safeguard the privacy of Swiss citizens. — Whether you're searching for a storef...
Can AT&T Meet iPhone Network Demands?
As AT&T struggles to keep up with iPhone-delivered videos and apps, its leadership in the market for smartphone Web access is at stake — When AT&T (T) cut the deal that made it the exclusive U.S. di...
Zune HD's “Apps” menu item spotted in the Marketplace, still short on details
At Best Buy's Zune HD preview today a certain Matthew Arkin on Qik was able to shoot footage of the “Apps” item that resides within the “Marketplace” section on the device. It's still incredibly uncl...