TV facing ‘iTunes moment’ warns Microsoft's Ashley Highfield
Television industry must act soon or face losing control of its online presence to brand such as Apple, says Highfield — The TV industry has as little as two years to create viable digital businesse...
Report: Are iPhones Really Exploding All Over the World?
We have done some research, and it appears than the rumors of iPhones exploding all around the world—"world" as in “France, UK, and Belgium”—are greatly exaggerated. Here are all the known cases, and...
Look This Up on Wikipedia: How Big Is Too Big?
Considering that Wikipedia has reached Top Five world status among Web sites - with more than 330 million users - its annual Wikimania conference, which ended Friday night in Buenos Aires, featured a ...
Angel Investor Chris Sacca To Launch $5 million Early Stage Venture Fund
Chris Sacca, a prolific Silicon Valley angel investor, is closing on a new venture fund he'll call Lowercase Capital, we've confirmed. The fund size will be in the $5 million range, and will make inv...
More questions than answers on Google Books
BERKELEY, CALIF. - Google's Dan Clancy had patiently answered question after question regarding Google's' Book Search settlement with publishers and authors until late in the afternoon Friday, when he...
Coupons You Don't Clip, Sent to Your Cellphone
Hunter Gilmore was never big on clipping coupons. “You stick them on the fridge, meaning to use them, and it never happens,” said Mr. Gilmore, a 29-year-old actor and advertising agency recruiter in ...
Pictures and Specifications of the Canon EOS 7D
Well, here it is, one step closer to being official. The Canon EOS 7D making another appearance, as in leaked, in of course a Chinese forum. Not only do we get a decidedly good look at the camera (a...
Do signs from Intel, Dell point to real turnaround?
Intel and Dell are indicating that PC demand may be increasing but it's not clear how sustained or strong this trend is. — The news Friday that Intel raised guidance is not a surprise, according to ...
More marketers use social networking to reach customers
SAN FRANCISCO — Ford Motor has high hopes for Fiesta, a popular model abroad launching in the U.S. next year. — So how does it introduce the subcompact car to Americans? A massive ad blitz on TV? ...
Data Deluge Swamps Science Historians
As Paper Trails Fade, Digital Material Grows in Size and Complexity; How to Decipher Those 80-Column Punch Cards — The next generation of experiments, like the Large Hadron Collider, above, a powerf...
Researchers Hope to Mass-Produce Robots on a Chip
(PhysOrg.com) — Tiny robots the size of a flea could one day be mass-produced, churned out in swarms and programmed for a variety of applications, such as surveillance, micromanufacturing, medicine, c...
Wolfram Alpha to open data feeds
Wolfram Alpha, a project from the makers of math software Mathematica, will soon be opening up its data sets, opening up new possibilities for data mash ups — Wolfram Alpha launched to much fanfare ...