Amazon Is Said to Buy Touch-Screen Company
In a sign that Amazon wants to upgrade its Kindle e-reader to compete head-on with the Apple iPad, Amazon has acquired Touchco, a New York-based start-up specializing in touch-screen technology, a per...
Verizon Drops ‘Droid’ Brand For Newest Android Phone (VZ, MOT, GOOG)
More Android phones are coming to Verizon Wireless, but the latest one won't get the carrier's memorable “Droid” branding. — The Motorola Devour, announced today, is scheduled to launch in March.
Flying Around With Hovercards
Because many of you use twitter.com to read and write tweets, we've been spending some time focusing on ways to improve your experience on the site. Today, we're introducing a feature called Hovercar...
Symbian Operating System, Now Open Source and Free
The source code for the ten-year old Symbian platform will be completely open source and available for free starting Thursday. The transition from proprietary code to open source is the largest in so...
Comcast Launches XFINITY
Today on Comcast's earnings call Brian Roberts and Steve Burke talked about XFINITY, the new brand for our technology platform and products. Simply put, XFINITY is about offering our customers more —...
Windows veteran Mike Nash to leave Microsoft
A couple of weeks after Windows Senior Vice President Bill Veghte decided to leave Microsoft, another Windows marketing veteran is doing the same. — Mike Nash, Corporate Vice President of Windows Pl...
Facebook Largest News Reader?
Marshall Kirkpatrick at Read Write Web had an interesting piece suggesting that Facebook could become the world's leading news reader. A recent Facebook company blog entry encouraged members to set u...
Monster Buys Yahoo HotJobs For $225 Million In Cash (YHOO, MWW)
Monster (MWW) will buy Yahoo (YHOO) HotJobs for $225 million in cash, the companies announced today. — Details from the release: — “Monster and Yahoo! have also entered into a three year commercial...
Kwedit Launches: The First Completely Unreliable Payment Network
Something tells me Kwedit, which launches today, is going to be a hit. It's a new payment service that absolutely doesn't guarantee payments. In fact, its unreliability is what makes it so attractiv...
Facebook Puts Email Addresses on User Profiles Back Into Plain Text
Facebook has been investing in tools to detect and block automated systems and scripts created by spammers heavily in recent years. When it comes to user email addresses on Facebook profiles, Faceboo...
Two Little Laptops With a Lot to Offer Their Core Users
For all the talk about new tablet computers like Apple's iPad, laptops remain the computer industry's bread and butter, and smaller laptops are especially popular with consumers. — So, I've been tes...
ICanHasLawsuit? Pet Holdings Sues Other Site For Framing Failbooking With Better Domain Name
A few weeks ago, when I attended Public Knowledge's World Fair Use Day, I had been excited to meet the guy behind ICanHasCheezburger, Ben Huh, who was supposed to be on my panel …
Factual Raises $1 Million Seed Round From Andreessen Horowitz, Idealab, And Angels
If you co-founded the company that became Google AdSense, as Gil Elbaz did with Applied Semantics, you don't have any problem finding investors when you want to start a new venture.
Versign fails to take action against malicious sites, researcher says
Verisign notified of problem but domains still ‘live ... and still serving malware’ — Computerworld - A security researcher is accusing Verisign Inc. of not acting fast enough to take down several d...
Movie Studios Lose Landmark Case Against Aussie ISP
The Federal Court has today ruled in favor of Aussie ISP iiNet following a copyright infringement case instigated by AFACT, the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft. — Last year several stu...
Content is not King. Self Promotion Is.
While I was at the airport last week, Dr. Pete sent me a link to his post on SEOmoz about SEO cliques and asked for my thoughts. The post talked about the various groups that exist in SEO, how not fr...
Report Details Hacks Targeting Google, Others
It's been three weeks since Google announced that a sophisticated and coordinated hack attack dubbed Operation Aurora recently targeted it and numerous other U.S. companies. — Until now we've only k...
Anonymity and the Internet
Universal identification is portrayed by some as the holy grail of Internet security. Anonymity is bad, the argument goes; and if we abolish it, we can ensure only the proper people have access to th...
Fusion Garage Announces Strategic Partnership With CSL Group of Malaysia, joojoo to Ship by End Feb
Fusion Garage just announced a manufacturing agreement and strategic partnership with mobile device OEM and distribution giant CSL Group of Malaysia. This effectively means that the joojoo tablet …
Apple recruits key talent to lead drive into mobile ad sales
Apple has made its first concerted move into the UK mobile advertising market as it seeks to take advantage of the burgeoning sector. — The iPhone manufacturer has recruited two mobile ad industry h...
Skype says new 3G iPhone app coming ‘really soon,’ will have CD-quality sound
After the news last week that Apple and AT&T are now allowing VoIP apps to make phone calls over the 3G network, Skype said it's still waiting to release a new 3G-ready version of its software for the...
iPad-inspired vending machine woos Hill staffers
T echnology has changed how we communicate, watch television and travel the globe. This morning, Capitol Hill staffers got to enjoy how technology has upgraded their Snickers bar experience. — The...
Microsoft's Bing will make money: executive
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp's 10-month-old search engine Bing, which has struggled to make headway against Google, can be a viable runner-up and make money online eventually, according to one o...
Textbook Firms Ink E-Deals For iPad
Major textbook publishers have struck deals with software company ScrollMotion Inc. to adapt their textbooks for the electronic page, as the industry embraces a hope that digital devices such as Apple...
SlideShare Launches Custom Channels for Businesses
SlideShare just announced that it now offers businesses the ability to create their own custom channels on the popular document sharing service. These channels allow businesses and enterprises to sha...
He Calls Google A Vampire, But Mark Cuban's Mahalo Is Doing The Sucking
Yesterday, Mark Cuban warned media owners in a keynote speech that Google is a vampire trying to suck them dry, giving them nothing back and daring owners to block it. This is the same Mark Cuban who...
Do the iPad's missing apps point to a multitasking dashboard?
Steve's iPad keynote felt just a little off. We got what we wanted, but it still felt a little like the iPad was a vehicle full of potential rather than a self-contained package of productivity. Thi...
Salesforce Simplifies The Creation Of Business Applications With Visual Process Manager
2009 was a banner year for Salesforce.com. The enterprise cloud computing company made significant enhancements to its product lineup, reported overall strong earnings, and even launched their own …
John Gruber's Daring Fireball Gets Comments (Whether He Likes It or Not)
John Gruber of Daring Fireball is the most influential Apple pundit on the web, but readers often complain about the lack of comments on his website. — In fact, Gruber's site is famous for not havin...
RIM Coiled for Spring Surprise: Rumor
Stock quotes in this article: RIMM , MOT , AAPL , GOOG — WATERLOO, Ont. (TheStreet) — Finally, some signs that the creative sap is running again at Research In Motion(RIMM Quote). — RIM has been ...
Apple's iPad heralds tablet explosion, analysts say
Apple's iPad tablet launch last week reflects the real start of a new market segment for media tablets that the analysts at ABI Research predict will grow from four million units shipped this year to ...
The Twitter Train Has Left the Station
George Packer usually writes about foreign affairs, politics and books for The New Yorker, but this week he decided to attack Twitter in a blog post that ironically got much of its attention because a...
Nokia: Ovi Maps With Free Navigation Averages A Download Per Second, 1.4M Total
I'm starting to suspect people like free stuff - a shocker, I know. — Nokia says the new version of Ovi Maps that includes free walk and drive navigation has been downloaded over 1.4 million times s...
iPhone OS 3.1.3 Update Brings Jailbreak Woes
Apple released version 3.1.3 of the iPhone operating system (OS) on Tuesday, much to jailbreakers dismay. The update, which is available now via iTunes, fixes a number of known bugs, patches known se...
Mobile App or Browser-Based Site? Report Says The Browser Will Win on Mobile
Mobile search company Taptu has released a detailed report showing that the future of the Mobile Web is likely to be dominated by cross-platform browser-based mobile web sites - rather than apps built...
Apple's iPad May Gain an Intelligent Bezel in the Future
Today, the US Patent and Trademark Office officially published two major granted patents of Apple's covering tablets and advanced touch technologies. The first patent may provide us with a glimpse of...
IBM buys Initiate; Bets on healthcare IT
IBM on Wednesday acquired privately held Initiate Systems, which makes data integrity software, for an undisclosed sum. — With the purchase (statement), IBM plans to bolster its focus on the healthc...
Digg's MySpace Problem — and What It's Doing About It
and What It's Doing About It — There's a lot of talk about tech IPO candidates lately. Conspicuously missing from those lists is longtime media darling Digg. Reportedly courted by Google in 2008, t...
Nearly 95 Percent of e-Reader Owners Are Happy With Their Devices
E-Reader satisfaction is high among owners, according to a new report e-Reader Owners: Attitudes and Usage from leading market research company The NPD Group. Almost all owners (93 percent) said they...
Next threat to Amazon's $9.99 books? Rupert Murdoch
* Amazon now appears ready to talk pricing - Murdoch — * Says Apple deals allow for some higher e-book pricing — Enjoy $9.99 electronic books while you can — for they soon may be a thing of the pa...
Video ad network BrightRoll turns profit, outreaches Hulu, closes $10M third round
BrightRoll co-founder and CEO Tod Sacerdoti — pronounced “satch er DOH tee” if you don't speak Italian — has three reasons to be happy this week. First, video advertising network BrightRoll is …
Nehalem Mac Pros take 20% performance hit when playing audio
Apple's latest Mac Pro, jammed with multicore Nehalem-based Xeon processors, is designed to be a computing beast with power to spare for the most demanding tasks. Since the current Mac Pros became av...