Facebook Will Allow Users to Share Location
Starting next month, the more than 400 million Facebook users could begin seeing a new kind of status update flow through their news feed: the current locations of their friends. — Facebook plans to...
Trust And Safety
As Director of Twitter's Trust and Safety team, a big part of my job is focused on the detection and prevention of spam and abuse. A couple weeks ago, Biz explained how Twitter users were being victi...
Open for business: the Google Apps Marketplace
Every day, thousands of businesses choose the cloud. More than 2 million businesses have adopted Google Apps over the last three years, eliminating the hassles associated with purchasing, installing ...
Analyst: PlayStation 3 to win console war in the end
Even though Sony's PlayStation 3 is far behind both the Nintendo Wii and Xbox 360 in console sales, analysts at Strategy Analytics contend that when all is said and done, Sony will sell more consoles ...
Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal
I feel for Google - Steve Jobs threatened to sue me, too. — In 2003, after I unveiled a prototype Linux desktop called Project Looking Glass*, Steve called my office to let me know the graphical eff...
February Search Results Are In: Bing Is Up Again, Yahoo Is Down Again (MSFT, YHOO)
Another month, another weak search performance from Yahoo. — The latest data from comScore on the US search market came out today. — It shows Bing had 11.5% of the search market in February, up fr...
Eternal optimist Verizon calls iPad launch ‘an opportunity’ to sell some data plans
That's the “glass is half full” attitude we like, Verizon — always looking for a way to sign a few more of those lucrative data contracts, no matter the circumstances! Turns out Big Red is tipping of...
Retweet.com Sells for $250,000
Retweet.com, which put itself up for sale last month, has sold for $250,000 in an online auction on Flippa. The auction saw a fair amount of interest with 45 bids in total, but it appears that the wi...
MetaLab Accuses Mozilla Of Plagiarizing Its Design (Updated)
Andrew Wilkinson of MetaLab has just written a blog post accusing Mozilla of plagiarizing the design of its FlightDeck editor. To make matters worse, Wilkinson says that MetaLab actually bid on creat...
Apple To Build 5 Million iPads In First Half 2010, Analyst Says
Apple (AAPL) is on track to build 5 million iPads in the first half of 2010, according to FBR Capital chip analyst Craig Berger. — “We believe various news articles and competitor notes calling for ...
Almost #3 now: Dell's decline is Acer's gain
With the economic sinkhole of 2008-09 now a figment of many technology companies' past, most PC manufacturers are back on their regularly scheduled growth curve. Last month, Dell had indicated to inv...
Steve Ballmer praises Apple for creation of iPhone App Store
Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer recently had positive words about Apple's success with the iPhone and its App Store, adding fuel to rumors of a potential alignment between Apple and Microsoft to bring B...
Once-fading MySpace undergoes youthful reincarnation
BEVERLY HILLS — Facebook thumped it, and Twitter threatens it as a source for entertainment news and real-time searches. — But MySpace, nestled in the entertainment capital of the world, thinks it c...
Google's Chief Economist: “Newspapers Have Never Made Much Money From News”
Earlier today, Google chief economist Hal Varian gave a presentation to an FTC workshop on the changing economics of the newspaper industry. We all know that newspaper ad revenues have been falling o...
Apple talks tough to handset makers
The HTC lawsuit capped blunt talks that have reportedly shaken their faith in Google — Oppenheimer's Yair Reiner issued a behind-the-scenes report Tuesday that sheds a lot of light on the patent sui...
Vodafone distributes Mariposa botnet
Here is yet another example of a company distributing malware to its userbase. Unfortunately it probably won't be the last. — Today one of our colleagues received a brand new Vodafone HTC Magic wit...
Another one bites the dust: Cisco steps out of the WiMAX game
It's still far, far too early to call WiMAX a dead technology, but with the second major infrastructure supplier moving away from it in as many months, that's a pretty damning sign, isn't it? After A...
Report: Microsoft moves up Windows 7 SP1 release date
Analyst argues that Microsoft should delay SP1 to maintain momentum of fast-selling OS — Computerworld - Even though Microsoft has dropped a plan to wait nearly two years after Windows 7's launch to...
Apple patent: use your iPhone as an electronic “iKey”
The Daily Telegraph reports that a new Apple patent has surfaced which could potentially allow the iPhone, or another Apple portable, to act as a sort of electronic key. The potential applications ar...
Tim Berners-Lee: The year open data went worldwide
At TED2009, Tim Berners-Lee called for “raw data now” — for governments, scientists and institutions to make their data openly available on the web. At TED University in 2010, he shows a few of the i...
Amazon Is Building a Better Browser for Kindle
Browsing the web on one of Amazon's Kindle e-readers is like taking a step backwards in time. It's clunky and has only limited support for web standards and bare-bones JavaScript capabilities. — Bu...
Foursquare + Google Maps = FourWhere
With the SXSW conference approaching in Austin, we are seeing a lot of geo-location launching this year. A lot of startups are taking advantage of Foursquare's APIs in particular to get their geo app...
German publisher in row with Apple over pin-ups in iPhone app
Conflict sparks debate about online censorship and highlights Apple's control over software platform — The International Federation of the Periodical Press (FIPP) is considering making a complaint t...
Mainsoft's Harmony Brings Google Docs To Microsoft Outlook
Google's recently announced $25 million acquisition of DocVerse represented one saga of an ongoing war between Google and Microsoft over dominance in the productivity suite place. Today, Israeli ente...
Apple's iTunes LP 6 Months Later: LP What?
When it was first unveiled, Apple's new iTunes LP format — codenamed “Cocktail” and introduced at a “rock and roll event” in San Francisco — promised to give consumers a new reason to buy albums inste...
Google Buzz Could Have Dominated Location. (And Snuck Up On Facebook And Twitter.)
Tomorrow it will be exactly one month since the launch of Google Buzz. The song remains the same: it's a mess. Normally, that wouldn't bother me so much — after all, a lot of services are a mess — b...
Facebook security measures criticised after Ashleigh Hall murder
Networking site under fire after conviction of Peter Chapman, who posed as a teenager to lure and kill 17-year-old girl — Facebook was today accused of a “glaring failure” to implement advice on pro...
Tumblr Hits Major Milestones, Plans to Start Generating Revenue
Tumblr, one of the simplest blogging platforms around, is doing really well. Situated between WordPress, which requires a bit more effort to create and organize content, and Twitter, which requires a...
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....
U.K. to Regulate Social Network Marketing
Marketers and brands using social networks will soon find their activities in those spaces regulated by the U.K.'s Advertising Standards Authority, following recommendations submitted by the Advertisi...