Latest info on PlayStation Network Status
As you may be aware, some customers have been unable to connect to the PlayStation Network today. This problem affects the models other than the new slim PS3. — We believe we have identified that t...
Condé Nast Is Preparing iPad Versions of Some of Its Top Magazines
Condé Nast's plans for the iPad tablet computer from Apple are getting firmer. — The first magazines for which it will create iPad versions are Wired, GQ, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and Glamour …
Microsoft: “No Windows Phone 7 upgrade for Windows Mobile 6.x devices”
Microsoft's tight hardware spec for Windows Phone 7 smartphones means that Windows Mobile 6.x devices - including HTC's just-launched HD2 - can't be upgraded. — Owners of HTC's highly-praised HD2 to...
Picnik Acquired by Google
When Bitnik, Inc was created, our founders envisioned making great software for real people and giving users the power to edit digital photos in their browser, without having to purchase or download c...
Apple prepping first Macs with HDMI - sources
Apple plans to introduce HDMI connectivity on some of its personal computers this year, embracing an emerging trend that has seen the high-definition audio/video interface crop up on an increasing num...
Production Delays Mean iPad Inventories May Be Tight at Launch
When Apple's new iPad slate begins to arrive at market later this month, limited availability may leave some early adopters empty-handed-assuming it goes on sale this month at all. — In a research n...
Understanding the Participatory News Consumer
Overview — In the digital era, news has become omnipresent. Americans access it in multiple formats on multiple platforms on myriad devices. The days of loyalty to a particular news organization o...
Math of Publishing Meets the E-Book
In the emerging world of e-books, many consumers assume it is only logical that publishers are saving vast amounts by not having to print or distribute paper books, leaving room to pass along those sa...
How AT&T Plans to Keep SXSW From Swamping Its Network
Smartphones, including iPhones, were all the rage at SxSW in 2009. — Last year, the hordes of South by Southwest-attending geeks toting iPhones blew out the AT&T network around the convention center...
Google, Microsoft Spar Over Antitrust
Seeking $335,000 in unpaid advertising bills, Google Inc. filed suit against a small Internet site in Ohio in October. The complaint was so routine it was just two sentences long. — Google never ex...
Apps for the Army - a first of its kind app dev contest for .mil
Disclaimer: iStrategyLabs does not represent the views and options of the US Army. The views and options contained in this post are to be taken solely as those of Peter Corbett, CEO, iStrategyLabs.
Facebook Details How It Tests Code, But Won't Say How It Misdelivered Private Messages
Last week, Facebook was affected by a glitch that sent what appear to be thousands of private messages to the wrong people — a very alarming security breach given the amount of data 400 million users ...
Why Google makes it easy to leave Google
We profiled Google's Data Liberation Front when the initiative was first made public last year, but what has Google's in-house data export team been up to since? Designing stickers, for one thing. —...
Google Chrome only browser to make gains in February
Data collected by web metrics firm Net Applications suggests that over the month of February, Google's Chrome web browser was the only desktop browser to make any gains over the month. — Google Chro...
Apple Aggressively Pursues ‘Joint Venture’ Trademark
On March 1, 2010, the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple's latest trademark application for “Joint Venture” under application 77942739. Apple has filed their trademark under International C...
E-Readers' Price May Fall to $150 This Year With New Chip, Freescale Says
Freescale Semiconductor Inc., whose products power about 90 percent of electronic book readers, said a new chip will help drive down the price of the devices to less than $150 this year.
EU cell phone users to have limited online surfing
BRUSSELS - — Mobile phone operators must now limit how much they charge customers for using the Internet within the European Union, after new rules went into effect Monday. — Customers have until ...
New Wacom Cintiq 21UX Has 2048 Pressure Levels and Back Touchpads
I'm a fan of Wacom's Cintiq display tablets, so I'm excited about their new 21-inch model, the Cintiq 21UX. According to Wacom, it has better pen performance and ergonomics. The two back touch-strip...
Additional thoughts on last week's lawsuit, or How a Conspiracy Theory is Born
(The following is a continuation of my blog post from last Friday.) — I have said that false allegations that Yelp manipulates reviews for money ignore empirical evidence to the contrary and instead...
Twitter Opens Up the Firehose to Startups
Twitter has just announced that it has opened up its full data feed of all public tweets — aka the “Firehose” — to seven new startups, and is looking to partner with more to give them access to the da...
Putting the Web in a Spreadsheet
A new tool can be used to collect, analyze, and visualize large quantities of data. — Vast quantities of data are freely available on the Web, and it can be a potential treasure trove for many busin...
Series Seed Documents-With an Assist From Andreessen Horowitz-To Help Entrepreneurs With Legal Hairballs
Series Seed Documents, templated term sheets for entrepreneurs to use for seed-stage deals, will be launched today, part of an effort by Silicon Valley lawyer Ted Wang and pushed by venture capital fi...
Opera's Jon Von Tetzchner on browser choice, the iphone and Google
The highlights — Interview In a wide-ranging interview today Opera chairman Jon von Tetzchner talked about the Browser Choice ruling, Opera's iPhone app, Google as a competitor, and how P2P will be ...
An Android Success Story: $13,000/month App Sales
Since releasing the “Car Locator” Android application about 5 months ago, I posted twice before with sales figures on the Android Marketplace. First, when I got excited after it averaged $20/day for ...
Enabling A Rush of Innovation
Even before Twitter was officially a company, we opened our technology in ways that invited developers to extend the service. Before long, Twitter became a platform and an ecosystem of innovation beg...
Microsoft to show off new ‘Mobile Surface’ at TechFest 2010
It looks like Microsoft has finally figured out how to turn its table-sized multi-touch Surface computer into a more portable experience. — Microsoft is planning to demonstrate this week at its empl...
Google wins patent for location-based advertising
While the blogosphere was buzzing over the patent Facebook won for its news feed last week, Google earned a killer one too. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office awarded the search giant a patent for ...
Firefox may never hit 25 percent market share
Firefox is on a decline. It may not be as steady as Internet Explorer's death spiral, and it certainly has not been going on for as long, but if the last three months are any indication, Firefox will...
New Wacom Cintiq 21UX Has 2048 Pressure Levels and Back Touchpads
I'm a fan of Wacom's Cintiq display tablets, so I'm excited about their new 21-inch model, the Cintiq 21UX. According to Wacom, it has better pen performance and ergonomics. The two back touch-strip...
‘Topeka to be Google, Kansas’
Topeka Mayor Bill Bunten signed a proclamation Monday calling for Topeka to be known for the month of March as “Google, Kansas — the capital city of fiber optics.” — Bunten told city council members...
Action Streams: A New Idea for Social Networks
Walled gardens are already under attack because of the ease of sending content like messages and photos from one website to another. Sites that don't let content flow in and out freely, when that's w...
HP updates ultraportable with Core i5, i7 chips
Hewlett-Packard is refreshing its business ultraportable laptop and hybrid laptop-tablet with Intel Core i5 and i7 processors, becoming one of the first major PC makers to squeeze these powerful proce...
Angels vs. Venture Capitalists
[This blog post is by Ben Horowitz, the Horowitz of Andreessen Horowitz.] — At our new venture fund, we've been spending time looking into new ways that will make the lives of entrepreneurs seeking ...
TigerText can erase sent text messages. Is it really the ‘perfect app for cheating’?
OK, confession time: How many of you have ever sent a text that could one day come back to haunt you? — Yeah, that's what I thought. — Those text messages? Now bygones. The answer from here on o...
PlayStation Network Service Restored
We are aware that the internal clock functionality in the PS3 units other than the slim model, recognized the year 2010 as a leap year. Having the internal clock date change from February 29 to March...
In Wake Of Fabulis Debacle, Citibank Makes Changes To Internet Business Policy
Last week, Citibank found itself in the eye of an Internet storm after it was revealed that the bank had blocked the business account of Web startup fabulis over (non-existing) ‘objectionable content’...
Microsoft readies new SharePoint-based healthcare software
Microsoft is readying another piece of its healthcare software and service platform. — The latest component is a SharePoint-based offering called HealthVault Community Connect, which Microsoft is in...
Deal Will Put Times Content on 850 Screens
Starting Monday, video screens in coffee shops, casual eateries and airport newsstands in five major cities will display the work of The New York Times, under a deal with RMG Networks, a major owner o...