Microsoft ‘takes on Goliath’ with Bing ads mocking Google
Microsoft's ‘Bing and decide’ campaign, starting on television this week, attacks ‘information overload’ of rival's results — Microsoft is to launch a multimillion-pound TV ad campaign for its searc...
All Your Apps Are Belong to Apple: The iPhone Developer Program License Agreement
The entire family of devices built on the iPhone OS (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad) have been designed to run only software that is approved by Apple—a major shift from the norms of the personal computer m...
How Pandora Slipped Past the Junkyard
OAKLAND, Calif. — Tim Westergren recently sat in a Las Vegas penthouse suite, a glass of red wine in one hand and a truffle-infused Kobe beef burger in the other, courtesy of the investment bankers wh...
iPhone Apps on the iPad
Brian X. Chen at Wired, on the default iPhone apps that aren't present on the iPad: … Actually, it's sort of the opposite problem. It's not that Apple couldn't just create bigger versions of these ap...
The First Ever Gloriously Big, Gloriously Detailed Shots of an iPad Game
There has been much talk about gaming on the iPad, but not a whole lot of delivery. — In fact, I can only think of one game that I know of that will be made specifically for the iPad: Trism Spinoff.
HP Slate makes an appearance to show off Flash, stays for a rock concert
It shouldn't be any surprise that the HP Slate supports Flash, since it runs Windows 7, but we've seen so little of the device since Steve Ballmer first waved it around at CES that we're still totally...
Forrester Forecast: Online Retail Sales Will Grow To $250 Billion By 2014
Online retail sales aren't growing at the torrid pace they once were, but they continue to grow steadily. Forrester Research put out a new five-year forecast today predicting that e-commerce sales in...
Google's online-only phone selling model has failed
Well, it's been a while now since Google launched the Nexus One — and so far, it hasn't lived up to their expectations. I guess it's not as bad as the Google Buzz roll-out, but Google's attempt at fu...
An Apple App Star Explains Why He Won't Work With Android
Smule's Jeff Smith is one of the app revolution's success stories. His start-up has generated some of the biggest hits at Apple's iTunes app store, from novelty items like Sonic Lighter to more ambit...
Google Testing TV Search Service On Android-Enhanced Set-Top Boxes (GOOG, DISH)
Google is testing a new TV search service with Dish Network, the no. 2 U.S. satellite TV provider, the WSJ reports. — The service lets you search TV shows and Web video, including YouTube videos, th...
Intel Investigating Sale of Fake Core I7 Chip
Intel acknowledged Monday that at least one counterfeit version of its Core i7-920 processor made its may into the U.S. market, and said it's trying to determine how many more are out there. — On Fr...
Facebook Looks To Be Partnering With Eventbrite To Monetize Events
Here's a fascinating idea - Facebook looks to be partnering with Eventbrite to let users sell tickets to the 3.5 million events added to Facebook each month. — Earlier this month we confirmed that F...
Blockbuster Won't Survive: CEO Says “Conservative Approach” Required For Digital
Eight months ago I wrote a post entitled “Ten Years Later, Blockbuster Still Lacks A Digital Media Strategy” where I outlined some of the ways that Blockbuster has faltered with their strategy for the...
More states propose Internet sales taxes
Jeremy Bray received an e-mail message this morning with an unwelcome surprise: Amazon.com told him it had canceled its affiliate program, which provides small payments for referring customers, for ev...
Energizer Bunny's software infects PCs
USB battery recharger status software contains Trojan, says US-CERT — Computerworld - The Energizer Bunny infects PCs with backdoor malware, the Department of Homeland Security's US-CERT said Friday...
New York Times to spin off Book Review for e-readers
The New York Times is planning to offer its Book Review as a separate digital e-reader product, disaggregated from the rest of the Times content on the mobile devices, according to James Dunn, directo...
The New York Times is hiring 12 techies and a social media whiz
While pundits climb over each other to predict the death of The New York Times Company, the NYT is looking to hire at least a dozen full-time software engineers and Web designers, plus one social medi...
Mediagazer is to Media as Techmeme is to Tech
Today we're launching our first new news vertical in almost four years: Mediagazer, which will focus on the content production and distribution business, organizing topics as wide as journalism, blogg...
Apple Aims for Upgrade in China
BEIJING—China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd. is working with Apple Inc. to introduce iPhones with Wi-Fi wireless Internet capability to China, Unicom Chief Executive Chang Xiaobing said. — Apple and Unicom...
FDIC: Hackers took more than $120M in three months
IDG News Service - Ongoing computer scams targeting small businesses cost U.S. companies $25 million in the third quarter of 2009, according to the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. — Onli...
Fourface Is Foursquare As Modern Art
One common complaint about Foursquare is that in a increasingly crowded location-based space, it's not pretty enough when compared to the likes of Brightkite and Gowalla. The new iPhone app launching...
Bump Technologies closes in on 10 million downloads
Sequoia-backed Bump Technologies Inc. is closing in on 10 million downloads for its nifty contact and data-sharing app. With iPhone and iPod Touch sales estimated to be around 80 million, co-founder ...