comScore Reports December 2009 U.S. Mobile Subscriber Market Share
Nearly Two-Thirds of America's 234 Million Mobile Subscribers used Text Messaging in December 2009 — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released data from ...
Disney's Iger Takes Big Swig Of iPad Kool-Aid
Bob Iger wasn't on stage for the iPad launch last month, but the Disney CEO just gave a demo spiel Steve Jobs, the company's largest shareholder, would applaud about a “really compelling” device that ...
Foursquare Signs a Deal With Zagat
Foursquare, the location-based mobile application that is capturing the fancy of hip urbanites, is a fun bar game that lets users compete for points and badges when they go out at night. But recently...
HTC Legend makes an encore appearance, this time with specs
The race is on to see how many angles of HTC's upcoming Legend can be snapped before the phone's official debut, so here's our next submission. As you can see, the hard-edged aluminum theme continues...
Will You Be E-Mailing This Column? It's Awesome
Sociologists have developed elaborate theories of who spreads gossip and news — who tells whom, who matters most in social networks — but they've had less success measuring what kind of information tr...
Apple Releases Aperture 3 - Retail Price Is $199, Upgrade Costs $99
It's been almost 2 years to the day when Apple released Aperture 2.0, and this morning the company announced that the third iteration of the photo editing and management software is available.
The Man Who Looked Into Facebook's Soul
Youth social networking researcher danah boyd has observed that many people presume the way they use social networks is the way everyone uses them. “I interviewed gay men who thought Friendster was a...
Cisco: The Mobilpocalypse Is Coming!!!!!
Cisco forecasts that by 2014 we will be using 3.6 exabytes a month on mobile networks worldwide, according to its Visual Networking Index figures released today. (For those pondering an exabyte, it's...
Microsoft launches ‘child-friendly’ Internet Explorer
The ‘Click Clever, Click Safe’ browser will enable young users to report cyber bullying and inappropriate content to the authorities — The web browser, an enhanced version of Internet Explorer 8, gi...
How a quantum physics trick may make smartphones even smarter
Hand-held devices could soon have pressure-sensitive touch-screens and keys, thanks to a UK firm's material that exploits a quantum physics trick. — The technology allows, for example, scrolling dow...
Facebook Pulls Lexicon Analytics Tool
Facebook has taken its promising Lexicon tool down from the site. Perhaps this happened when they pushed their new redesign. Lexicon, like Google Trends, provided limited yet interesting data on sit...
A Veteran of Big Music Explains Why Big Music Is Doomed
There are plenty of people who can explain, persuasively, why the big music labels are screwed. And many of those people still work for the big music labels. But those people can't speak candidly, o...
MobileNavigator 1.5.0 adds personalized routes, social networking integration
If you demand more from your GPS turn-by-turn directions app than simply finding the way to your destination, Navigon is here to oblige with the latest update to its MobileNavigator iPhone app (which ...
Shared content on Facebook surges fivefold from seven months ago
Facebook users are sharing five billion pieces of content a week, or five times as much as they were in July, according to new statistics the company released this month. — The big burst in sharing ...
WorldMate helps you find LinkedIn connections while traveling
Mobile travel application WorldMate just announced new integration that should help users tap into their connections on business networking site LinkedIn while they're on-the-road. — Palo Alto, Cali...
Turning the Tables: Carol Bartz Grills BoomTown in the Yahoo Cafeteria (Over Easy With a Side of Disclosure)
Today, BoomTown gassed up the Mini Cooper and motored down to the Sunnyvale HQ of Yahoo, this time with a tiny bit of trepidation. — Ok, not that much, but some! — Why?
Watching the birth of Flickr co-founder's gaming start-up
Tiny Speck, a company started by Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield and three partners, is unveiling its new game, Glitch, on Tuesday. The company has been under the radar since it was founded las...