Buy a DVD on Amazon; Start Watching the Movie in Minutes
Amazon.com just launched a promotion dubbed Disc+ On Demand that may well be the start to the industry's first major multi-platform retail experience. Customers who buy select movies on DVD or Blu-ra...
Facebook Asks More Than 350 Million Users Around the World To Personalize Their Privacy
Service Gives Users New Tools to Control Their Information — Setting a new standard in user control, Facebook announced today that it is calling on its more than 350 million users to review and upda...
Facebook's New Privacy Changes: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Five months after it first announced coming privacy changes this past summer, Facebook is finally rolling out a new set of revamped privacy settings for its 350 million users. The social networking s...
Apple tablet set for spring launch?
Production is starting and should hit mass-market stride in February, says an analyst — Artist's rendition of an Apple tablet computer, with iPhone. Credit: AppleInsider — “The manufacturing cogs...
Nook E-Reader Has Potential, but Needs Work
Amazon's Kindle has been the king of the nascent, much-hyped, category of wireless e-readers since it came out in 2007. Now, numerous companies are determined to challenge the Kindle with dedicated, ...
Twitter Spawned 50,000 Apps To Date, Will Open Up Firehose For More
Twitter's Director of Platform Ryan Sarver just took the stage at Le Web a couple of minutes ago, and shared some announcements with the audience about the future of the platform and the effect this w...
The iPhone Finally Gets Live Video Streaming With Ustream Live Broadcaster
Services like Ustream and Qik have long offered the promise of live streaming video from your mobile phone to the web — except if you had an iPhone. For those devices, that was only possible if you j...
AT&T to New York and San Francisco: We're Working on It
The head of AT&T's wireless unit said Wednesday that the carrier is working to improve its network for iPhone and other smart-phone subscribers in New York and San Francisco. … Manhattan and San Franc...
Opening the Gates, and Unleashing Data!
MySpace is a busy place. For example, our users share approximately 35 million public activities and updates per day. As a platform, we're committed to open standards, and providing rich data, avail...
The Droid Has Been Rooted — Now What?
Now What? — The Motorola/Verizon Droid is a brand new phone today. Like many smartphones before it, the Droid has been rooted so that owners of the Android 2.0-based smartphone can install multitouc...
Jack Dorsey Talks About Square at LeWeb: Wants Dongle to be Available for Free
At the annual LeWeb conference in Paris today, Loic Le Meur interviewed Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey about Square, the mobile payment system he launched in limited beta in November.
Join this group: Google Groups joins Google Apps
Blogs, wikis, social networks, YouTube and Twitter are changing how many of us connect with others. Yet within most businesses, especially large corporations, the software hasn't evolved much over th...
Safari edges Chrome in Mac speed trials
Google's Mac browser whips Firefox, Opera, lags Apple's Safari in JavaScript rendering race — Computerworld - Google's new beta of Chrome for the Mac is nearly twice as fast as Mozilla's Firefox, bu...
Vevo Stumbles Out of the Gate
If Vevo is supposed to be the future of the music industry, that future has gotten off to a slow and ignominious start. Apparently Vevo's servers are still hungover from a wild night of partying with...
Text Messages: Digital Lipstick on the Collar
There is a question that has crossed the mind recently of anyone who has sent a cellphone text message while cheating on a spouse: What was I thinking? — Text messages are the new lipstick on the co...
60 Million People A Month Use Facebook Connect
Facebook's Director Development Network Ethan Beard took the stage at the Le Web conference in Paris to talk about the status of Facebook Connect. — Beard's talk focused on the notion of identity as...
Acer chairman blames HP and Dell for poor ultra-thin notebook sales
Acer chairman JT Wang believes ultra-thin notebooks with long battery-lives will be the future trend in the notebook industry and he recently urged Intel, which plans to mainly push mainstream noteboo...
First Mobile Firefox enters home stretch
Mozilla is wrapping up work on its first version of Firefox for mobile phones, an important step in bringing the second most popular PC browser to an area where a rival project holds more influence. ...
Two Publishers Delay E-Books
Simon & Schuster is delaying by four months the electronic-book editions of about 35 leading titles coming out early next year, taking a dramatic stand against the cut-rate $9.99 pricing of e-book bes...
Finding Tweets that Matter to You: My6sense Launches New iPhone App
My6sense just announced a new version of its iPhone application that can automatically highlight the most relevant tweets from the users you follow. The mytweetsense feature learns from the user's im...
The American Diet: 34 Gigabytes a Day
A report published Wednesday by the University of California, San Diego, calculates that American households collectively consumed 3.6 zettabytes of information in 2008. The paper — entitled “How Muc...
Future of iTunes
iTunes has revealed its biggest selling singles and albums of 2009, with Black Eyed Peas and Kings of Leon topping the lists. — Lady Gaga also caps an amazing year, making the top three on both rund...
Nokia 6700 classic Gold Edition looms into view
GLOBAL - Two guesses what makes the Nokia 6700 classic Gold Edition different from the well-loved Nokia 6700 classic. And no, it isn't the included natural leather carrying case and strap or the 8GB ...
Variety.com behind paywall
Subscribers to get full access to all content — Starting Thursday, Variety will begin its rollout of the website's paywall as part of an overall revamp of the publication's subscription structure. ...
FTC Targets RoboCalls
The FTC said Tuesday that it has filed suit against three firms for allegedly making “hundreds of thousands or even millions” of robocalls to consumers in violation of the Do Not Call rule and other l...
Ericsson to axe 1,000 employees
“We're devastated” the engineers' union said after Ericsson's surprise announcement to cut almost 1,000 jobs. — “It's a tough day for us today,” said Ericsson CEO Carl-Henric Svanberg — L.M. Erics...
Austin's Gowalla raises $8.4 million
Austin-based Gowalla, which offers social networking services for smart phones, has raised $8.4 million in venture capital. — Gowalla received the funding from Greylock Partners, Maples Investments,...
Skyfire Lights Up New Version Of Rich Windows Mobile Browser
Skyfire, the developers of a “game-changing” PC-like web-browser for mobile devices, has launched a new version of its browser for Windows Mobile. Skyfire is free and the only browser of the bunch to...
Greystripe Launches Ads For Android
Mobile advertising network Greystripe is rolling out its ad formats for the Android this morning, offering Android app developers with an an Android SDK and an opportunity to monetize their applicatio...