One on One: Andrey Ternovskiy, Creator of Chatroulette
Andrey Ternovskiy, a polite, excited and eager Russian high school student scoured the Internet trying to find a Web site that allowed random video chats with strangers. When he realized a site like ...
Hunch Gets It Right, Adds a $10 Million Series B Round Led by Khosla Ventures
Hunch, a buzzy start-up that answers questions using crowdsourced recommendations, has resolved one query of its own: Who's going to fund our B round? — Sources tell me that Khosla Ventures is leadi...
Apple's iPad Will Read Books Out Loud, Support Free E-Books
When it began taking pre-orders for the iPad this morning, Apple also published some new details about how the tablet device will function as an e-book reader. — It turns out the iPad will read book...
It's Hard To Watch The Newsosaurs Turn A Blind Eye To Their Own Extinction
Sometimes it is obvious where the world is headed, but some people and industries become frozen in place and time. They are like the duckbilled dinosaurs happily munching on the still-abundant plants...
Opera browser for iPhone may be ‘weeks’ away
Austin, Texas (CNN) — The company behind the Web browser Opera is weeks away from submitting it to Apple's iPhone store for approval, a spokesman said Friday. — The result, according to the Norwegia...
Musings on Customer Support in a 140 Character World
It's always nice when the company you ordered your brother's birthday gift from includes a pre-printed return label in case you need to exchange the shirt for another size. Being able to buy movie ti...
Xbox 360 Games on Your iPhone? Yes. But Not From Microsoft
On Monday, Novell will demonstrate new technology that will allow Microsoft Xbox 360 games to be translated into iPhone apps. It also has the capability to be used to create Android games, potentiall...
Tim Cook Receives Bonus of $5 Million and Stock for Performance During Jobs' Absence
Apple today filed a Form 8-K submission with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission disclosing a bonus of $5 million and 75,000 shares of Apple stock paid to Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook …
Apple iPad — model A1337 — phreaks the FCC
model A1337 — phreaks the FCC — A pair of iPads was just revealed in the FCC's system in perfect synchrony with that little pre-order sitch with which you may or may not already be familiar. Apple, ...
Apple Estimated to Have Taken 50,000 iPad Orders in First Two Hours
With iPad pre-orders having begun in the U.S. just a few hours ago, observers are looking for any signs that might indicate how sales are going. According to one report, two orders placed 30 minutes ...
Lenovo: mobile Internet to be 80% of sales in five years
The vast majority of Lenovo's sales will come from Internet-capable portable devices in five years, company chief Yang Yuanqing stated on Friday. He observed that ThinkPads and IdeaPads already outwe...
Google to strip unique client ID from future Google Chrome installs
Whether you were aware of it or not, Google has always tagged Chrome installs with a unique identifier. It's long been reported as a privacy-compromising feature, though as H-Online states in their p...
Formspring prank story plagues Twitter
One of the top trending topics on Twitter right now is Formspring, apparently due to a fake news story circulating on the microblogging service. — Formspring.me, a social media platform designed for...
iPad ‘Mute’ button magically turns into ‘screen rotation lock’
The iPad is magic! That was then, this is now! Voilà!! — Another new fun fact: the iPad can also play Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) up to 35 Mbps, 1280 by 720 pixels, 30 frames per second, audio in ulaw, P...
What Google Will Do in China (SXSW Presentation)
Kaiser Kuo presented today at SXSW about Google in China. He spoke about how the Google situation will impact Chinese Internet users, other companies and the Chinese government. — In the presentati...
SXSW's location-tagging smackdown
Foursquare and Gowalla are squaring off for the title of top tagger at Austin's annual tech-fest. — By Caroline Waxler, contributor — The annual South By Southwest Interactive conference kicks off...
Brightkite's Sneaky Plan To Get Regular Users Into Location: Group Text
Brightkite is tricky. Tricky and smart. — While larger than most of their location-based rivals with over 2 million users, they know that in the past year they've lost some momentum to the newer ch...
Apple limits iPad preorders to two per customer
Apple on Friday began accepting preorders for its multimedia iPad — both the Wi-Fi and 3G models — with reservations limited to two per customer and free hardware delivery on the April 3 launch date. ...
Introducing the Google Wave Extensions Gallery
We've just rolled out an initial version of our extensions gallery: simply look for “Extensions” in the navigation panel of Google Wave. The gallery is intended to make it easier for users to discove...
Qualcomm's Multi-Fold Device Can Replace Your iPad And iPhone
In digital media circles, there are traditionally three screens for user consumption : the TV, mobile phone and desktop. This conventionality is seen to be the primary reason why manufacturers were n...
Apple's future won't be brought to you by the letter ‘i’
Apple has been dealt a severe blow having been told that it no longer has a monopoly on the letter “i” as part of the name for its products. — A trademarks tribunal has knocked back Apple's bid to s...
Is Voice-Based Bubbly the New Twitter?
Service Takes Off in India With Zero Marketing; Brazil and Japan Are Next — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — In India, thousands of consumers are going from tweeting to bubbling. — A hot new social-networki...
Video: Rupert Murdoch Loves the iPad, Hates Search
Rupert Murdoch, the legendary founder of News Corp., has always had a love-hate relationship with the digital world. Sometimes (read: during the bubbles) he loves it. Sometimes (read: during adverti...
Andreessen's not-so-hot idea for publishers
Marc Andreessen had a really good idea when he invented the first popular browser for the web, but his latest notion - that newspapers should walk away from a business grossing more than $30 billion a...
Nokia, Apple seek patent trial in 2 years
(Reuters) - Top phone makers Nokia and Apple will seek a U.S. court hearing in a key patent battle in mid-2012, a court filing showed, raising the specter of a prolonged legal struggle. — Handset le...
Instant Ads Set the Pace on the Web
Time is now on the side of online advertisers. — Advertisers have been able to direct online messages based on demographics, income and even location, but one element has been largely missing until ...
Overdoing the interface metaphor
We're often told that we should design our websites and software to mimic real-life objects. The iPhone strengthened this idiom, and Apple has been driving this home hard for the iPad. — But it's n...
Tweets ‘fundamental to democracy’
THE INTERVIEW — Social networks will become the fundamental way we communicate with our governments, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams has told the BBC. — He said that Twitter will be expanding int...
Chinese minister insists Google obey the law
BEIJING - China's top Internet regulator insisted Friday that Google must obey its laws or “pay the consequences,” giving no sign of a possible compromise in their dispute over censorship and hacking....
Hearst Pumps Out 70 iPhone Apps To Bring In The Money
Hearst's LMK division is pumping out dozens of cheap iPhone apps to bring in a new revenue stream, the Wall Street Journal reports. — Lead by executive vice president of Hearst Entertainment George ...
Believe Digital's digital music distribution service Zimbalam opens in the US
[France] Zimbalam, the digital music distributor from Believe Digital, launches in the US today. — The service lets artists submit and distribute their music through 25 of the most popular music pla...
For The Trifecta: MSNBC Extends Its BreakingNews Brand To Facebook
Last November, MSNBC acquired the Twitter account @breakingnews, which was started as a basic newswire by Michael van Poppel and gradually grew to 1.4 million followers (it's now up to over 1.6 millio...
Six Apart's Berkowitz Joins WolframAlpha
A big name addition to WolframAlpha's executive team. Barak Berkowitz, who headed blogging firm Six Apart until he left two-and-a-half years ago, is joining the search startup as managing director ta...
Is the Apps Marketplace just playing catchup to Microsoft?
In the last two days, I've had two very different conversations. The first was with Google's senior product manager for the Google Apps Marketplace, Chris Vander Mey. The second was with Alex Payne,...