Apple Bans Some Apps for Sex-Tinged Content
Apple has started banning many applications for its iPhone that feature sexually suggestive material, including photos of women in bikinis and lingerie, a move that came as an abrupt surprise to devel...
Committed to competing fairly
As Google has grown, we've not surprisingly faced more questions about our role in the advertising ecosystem and our overall approach to competition. This kind of scrutiny goes with the territory whe...
Gartner Says Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales
Combined Market Share of Top Five Mobile Phone Vendors Dropped More Than 4 Percentage Points in 2009 — Worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totalled 1.211 billion units …
Apple COO Tim Cook: ‘We Have No Interest In Being In The TV Market’ (AAPL)
Apple COO Tim Cook says Apple will continue to invest in its Apple TV set-top box “hobby,” despite its relatively low popularity. — Why? — “We're continuing to invest in it because our gut tells u...
Exclusive: How Google's Algorithm Rules the Web
Want to know how Google is about to change your life? Stop by the Ouagadougou conference room on a Thursday morning. It is here, at the Mountain View, California, headquarters of the world's most po...
Yahoo Dramatically Expands Twitter Relationship in Next Stage of “Project Rushmore” (Complete With Cutesy Bird Puns)
Yahoo announced tonight that it is dramatically expanding its relationship with Twitter, integrating it broadly through its Web site, much in the same way it did recently with Facebook.
Lenovo says businesses don't want slate devices
Lenovo refreshed its tablet-capable business laptop on Tuesday and made a very conscious decision not to bring out a slate device, saying customers don't want it. — Lenovo updated its x series table...
Apple Quietly Reinstates Banned Bikini Shopping App
As previously reported, Apple pulled the app by Simply Beach, an online beachwear retailer, as part of its great sexy apps purge over the weekend.
Google-China Talks to Resume
Google Inc. representatives are scheduled to resume discussions in coming days with Chinese officials about the fate of Google's China business, said people briefed on the matter. — The schedule and...
Apple Confirms: iPad Uses PowerVR SGX Graphics Hardware
While this shouldn't be much of a surprise to most, Apple has confirmed that the iPad uses the same family of graphics chip as the iPhone and iPod Touch. According to reports, Apple's latest iPad SDK...
FarmVille on Nexus One - Flash 10.1 Demo on Android
I have been extensively testing the new HTC Sense from HTC Desire ROM on Nexus One and so far has been very impressed with what HTC has to offer with this new version of Sense experience for Android p...
Google's CEO Demanded His Mistress Take Down Her Blog: Source
Eric Schmidt might advocate for making information “even more open and accessible,” but not when it comes to his mistresses. We're told the Google CEO's aggressive lawyers brought down ex-girlfriend ...
Twitter Ad Platform ‘Imminent’
Twitter plans to launch an advertising platform in about a month, according to Seth Goldstein. The chief executive officer and co-founder of socialmedia.com led a panel Monday focused on the next wav...
Nearly 20% of U.S. is “Digitally Uncomfortable” or “Digitally Distant,” FCC Says
Less than a month before the Federal Communications Commission is set to release its voluminous plan for bringing high-speed Internet to all Americans, the agency is out with a new report profiling wh...
YouTube to kill IE6 support on March 13
Over six months ago, Google announced it would start phasing out support for Internet Explorer 6 on Orkut and YouTube, and started pushing its users to modern browsers. The search giant has now given...
Internet Freedom: Beyond Circumvention
Secretary Clinton's recent speech on Internet Freedom has signaled a strong interest from the US State Department in promoting the use of the internet to promote political reforms in closed societies....
Zoho Adds A Social Layer To Productivity Suite With Facebook Connect
Online productivity suite Zoho has been open to allowing users to use their Google, Google Apps and Yahoo accounts to log-in to Zoho Apps. Zoho says that most of its users are using their log-ins for...
Should Apple TV switch to the iPhone OS?
B&N: Nook “Single Best-Selling Product”; CEO Rebuffs iPad Fears
Calling the “Nook,” eBook reader its “single best-selling product,” Barnes & Noble (BKS) CEO Steve Riggio this morning argued the gadget is helping lure customers to its stores and boosting online tra...
Google's Music Strategy: Past, Present and Future
Google may have lost to Apple in its bid to acquire Lala, a music service that grabs users' digital music collections and hosts them in the cloud, allowing them to add to those collections for a mere ...
PocketGear acquires Handango, becomes world's largest cross-platform app store
Now this is intriguing. PocketGear has just acquired its former competitor Handango in the cross-platform app store space, and can now claim a library of software that places it right alongside Apple...