Clearing Up Confusion on Google and China
From Silicon Valley to Zhongguancun, Google's surprise announcement that it may pull out of China has fueled an enormous amount of discussion in recent days, not all of it 100% accurate. Below are so...
Is Apple Ready for Merger Mania?
The company has hired a banker from Goldman Sachs and looks to be in a more acquisitive mode — Historically, Steve Jobs has not been the acquisitive type. Since he returned to Apple (AAPL) as chief...
Verizon Wireless revamps calling plans; Goes for customer grab ahead of 4G
Verizon Wireless is going on offense as it tweaks pricing plans, pares its device portfolio and markets heavily with its “there's a map for that” ad campaign. The grand plan for Verizon Wireless: Gra...
Twitter's Answer To Facebook Connect
Twitter is preparing to launch a new set of tools that will let third party websites easily integrate Twitter features directly into their web sites and services, multiple sources have confirmed. In ...
Sarcasm punctuation mark aims to put an end to email confusion
Expressing sarcasm in the written word can be a dangerous business, as anyone forced to apologise for sending a tongue-in-cheek email will confirm. — The SarcMark costs $1.99 to download — Now a U...
FCC Votes to Prohibit Distribution and Sale of Wireless Mics Using 700 mHz
Current users have until June 12 to get off band — Wireless microphones using the 700 mHz band will be following the stand-alone analog TV set into the sunset. — The FCC has voted to prohibit the ...
Music file-sharer ‘Oink’ cleared of fraud
A man who ran a music-sharing website with almost 200,000 members has been found not guilty of conspiracy to defraud at Teesside Crown Court. — Alan Ellis, 26, was the first person in the UK to be p...
Apple's Media Players will One Day be Both Portable TV & DVR
On January 14, 2010, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that reveals one of the next chapters coming to Apple's Media Players. In Q4 2010, Apple introduced the...
The Original Tablet
I enjoyed Paul Thurrott's daily coverage of CES last week. A big trade show is a hard thing to capture in prose, and Thurrott got it. — But I chuckled at this piece starting his CES coverage, “Excl...
Why freemium is bad for business
I've never been comfortable with free products for business use, even though it's difficult to avoid using them if you're a small or one-person business (web analytics, for example, has been all but w...
Nokia 2010 Symbian UI update detailed: built on Qt
Remember the concept mockups of what Nokia envisaged its Symbian S^4 UI might look like after it's reworked in 2010? The company showed off a brief video demo back in early December 2009, and now the...
Patent Reveals Possible Groundbreaking Multi-Touch Features for Apple's iSlate
Now that everyone knows the iSlate is real, the question is: what the hell is this thing going to be like? How will it work? What will wow us about the iSlate that we never really expected?
FTC Not Sure How to Enforce Blogger Disclosure Rules
The Federal Trade Commission is still trying to define how it will enforce new disclosure guidelines for bloggers who may have received free products from the companies they cover, according to northe...
Foursquare's Twist on Facebook: A Reward for Checking In
Tweeting was the breakout web term for 2009. The early favorite for 2010? “Checking in.” — That's the basis of the Foursquare, the gorilla in a new wave of location-based social networking sites.
Mozilla dumps Firefox 3.7 from schedule, changes dev process
Plans to quicken development pace by adding some features via security updates — Computerworld - Mozilla has made major changes to how it develops Firefox, and plans to drop Firefox 3.7 from its sch...
OneRiot's Realtime Ad Network RiotWise Now Open To The Masses
OneRiot's recently ventured into the advertising world with RiotWise, an ad format which places content in an emphasized position in their realtime feed. A few weeks ago, the realtime search engine l...
Microsoft Exchange Team Fires Back at IBM Ahead of Lotusphere
Microsoft Jan. 15 offered training vouchers to the first 500 Lotus Notes professionals who want to learn to use Microsoft's Office productivity suite, Exchange e-mail server, SharePoint collaboration ...
US to formally ask China for explanation on cyber-attacks
WASHINGTON — The United States said Friday that it will formally ask the Chinese government in “the coming days” for an explanation of China-based cyberattacks on the Internet giant Google. — “We wi...
Yelp Enables Check-Ins On Its iPhone App; Foursquare, Gowalla Ousted As Mayors
When you think of the idea of “checking-in” at a venue in a mobile app, you likely think of Foursquare or Gowalla right now. The two gained significant momentum, funding, and users in the location sp...
Scaling the Digital Wall in China
The Great Firewall of China is hardly impregnable. — Just as Mongol invaders could not be stopped by the Great Wall, Chinese citizens have found ways to circumvent the sophisticated Internet censors...
Fa.il: Bing's URL Shortener Is Longer Than Bing's Own Domain
Everyone is getting into the URL shortening game these days. Google, YouTube, and Facebook are just a few joining the likes of the established players such as Bit.ly. And now Microsoft is jumping in...
Analyst: Apple tablet ‘in full production’
An analyst at AVI Securities said Friday morning that the Apple tablet is “in full production” and a research note stated that Apple “NAND” flash chip requirements may be increasing because of the tab...
Amazon Opens Up Kindle Digital Text Platform To Authors Outside The U.S.
Amazon.com this morning announced that it is expanding its self-service Kindle Digital Text Platform worldwide, giving more authors and publishers the chance to upload and sell books in English …
Google, Bing Gain in U.S. Search While Yahoo's Slide Continues
comScore Jan. 15 said Google and Microsoft grabbed more U.S. search market share from Yahoo in December, with Bing ascending to its greatest search share since August 2007. Google, which earlier this...
Hack to Hacker: Rise of the Journalist-Programmer
As if the journalism job landscape weren't terrifying enough, now you've got to think about learning to code. It's yet another new media skill you'll need to stay ahead of competitors. And make no m...
Justice Dept completes inquiry of text messaging rates
The Justice Department has finally completed its investigation over text messaging fees charged by carriers such as Verizon, AT&T, Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile, according to the Wall Street Journal. In...
Data Revenues Will Push Mobile Biz Past $1 Trillion
The growing popularity of smartphones and high-speed wireless broadband networks are proving to be two major catalysts for the wireless industry. As a result, expect its revenues to barrel past the $...