Apple's Schiller Defends iPhone App Approval Process
In his first wide-ranging interview on the matter, the Apple senior vice-president explains his company's App Store vigilance—and why it sometimes loosens up — Apple (AAPL) is under fire from some d...
Apple Launching New iPhone Ads Tonight
Apple is launching two new iPhone ads on TV tonight. The ads are intended to tout the iPhone's ability to hold a simultaneous voice and data connection at the same time. — One ad shows a set of wor...
Another iPhone worm - and this time it's malicious
I had guessed we would see a dangerous incarnation of worm for the iPhone within a week of the 5 Euro scam that Graham blogged about on November 3rd. Fortunately my predictions were wrong, and we mad...
New Facebook worm - don't click da' button baby!
Thanks to a tip-off from colleague Gadi Evron, I've just spent some time looking into the latest Facebook worm after he alerted Facebook about it. — Like so many past worms, this one uses a suggesti...
Apple Announces Black Friday 2009 Sale
As expected, Apple has announced that they will be holding a one day shopping event on Friday, November 27th. In the U.S., the day after Thanksgiving is called “Black Friday”, which is historically o...
Offensive Michelle Obama Image Returns, Google Buys Ad To Explain
Google is buying ads to explain why an offensive image of the First Lady is back in its index and ranking so highly on searches for Michelle Obama in Google Image Search. — As we reported last week ...
MSNBC.com Taking Over @BreakingNews Twitter Feed; Signs On As BNO News' First Client
Well, it isnât exactly the acquisition I was hoping for, but close, and probably for the better: BNO News, of the popular @BreakingNews Twitter feed and the BNO iPhone app, is launching …
Happy Thanksgiving Travels: Google Maps Navigation now available for Android 1.6
A few weeks ago we launched Google Maps Navigation (Beta) as a free feature of Google Maps on Android 2.0 devices. Today we're expanding availability of Google Maps Navigation to devices running Andr...
AdMob Data Reveals Android's Growth, Device Market Share
AdMob, a mobile advertising network, which has been releasing mobile metrics for a while now and touting the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch metrics as headlines, is instead focusing on RIM, Symbian, Andr...
Google-backed Pixazza opens up photo tagging service to help blogs earn revenue
Pixazza, a Google Ventures-backed startup, is opening up its crowdsourced photo-tagging service, which can turn any Web site into an online store. — The Mountain View-based startup uses an army of t...
LinkedIn Platform: Open for Business
Over fifty million users entrust their professional identities and relationships with LinkedIn, helping build LinkedIn into the largest global professional network today. However, professionals aroun...
Displaying the best display ad with Teracent
Can you spot the difference between these two sample display ads? Of course you can. However, the most important difference is not discernible to the naked eye. — The lower ad was customized and c...
Spotify Expands Its Reach, but Still Can't Get to the U.S.
Another expansion for Spotify, the much-hyped European streaming music service: It's now going to be available on Nokia (NOK) phones and other handsets that run the Symbian platform. That's good, bec...
Volunteers Log Off As Wikipedia Ages
Wikipedia.org is the fifth-most-popular Web site in the world, with roughly 325 million monthly visitors. But unprecedented numbers of the millions of online volunteers who write, edit and police it ...
Web-Based Productivity Suite Zoho Launches Human Resources Application Zoho Recruit
Web-based productivity suite Zoho is launching a new product today, Zoho Recruit. A niche product, Zoho Recruit, is an application designed to help HR Departments and staffing agencies management rec...
Why go Pro when iMac goes faster?
Core i5 and i7 iMacs bring Mac Pro speed to mainstream Macs — The Mac Pro has always been something of a niche product, appealing mainly to those who need vast amounts of internal storage (thanks to...
Microsoft's Bing Gets ‘Stickier,’ Grabs More Local Dollars
But Will It Keep Gains When Its $100 Million Campaign Stops Running? — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Bing has a long way to go to catch Google, but six months after the site's launch, the numbers show it's...
Beyond Bookmark Me! Become a Fan of This App! Is the Latest Way Games Get Facebook Users
The push by marketers to be “bookmarked” has been going on since the Favorites tab first showed up in web browsers. Bookmarks including Photos, FarmVille, Mafia Wars, Word Challenge …
Hulu to Users: Tag, You're It
Hulu took a step toward crowdsourcing its classification and discovery capabilities this morning, adding the ability for users to add tags to videos. — The online video site added a “Tags” tab along...
Data Robotics introduces 5-bay Drobo S, enterprise-ready DroboElite
Data Robotics has been quietly raking in the dough (and trying to match up supply with demand) ever since it launched its 8-bay DroboPro back in April, and now the company is making yet another bold m...
The First Desktop Application to have AdSense Ads is Google Earth
Google Earth is probably the first and only desktop application to have AdSense Ads. These ads are is now showing in at least two different places inside the application: — Figure A: When you searc...
Newspaper circulation may be worse than it looks
SAN FRANCISCO — While U.S. newspapers are losing subscribers at a staggering rate, a few dailies stand out because their circulation is rising. But they aren't necessarily selling more copies. — He...