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When we designed Twitter, we took a different approach—we didn't require a relationship model like that of a social network. Keeping things open meant you could browse our site to read tweets from fr...
Netflix prototyped for Windows Phone 7 Series
We just got a quick at Netflix for Windows Phone 7 Series, one of the third-party apps Microsoft's showing off here at MIX10, and it looks... well, very Netflixy — it's red to the bone. Unlike other ...
Apple iPad orders drop sharply
A rough three-day estimate, based on an analysis of order numbers: 152,000 units — After the initial burst of excitement on Friday that saw iPad pre-orders coming in at the rate of 25,000 per hour, ...
Apple hires ‘Senior Prototype Engineer’ for work on wearable computing
Richard DeVaul's Linkedin status changed last month from Founder & President at AWare Technologies to Senior Prototype Engineer at Apple computer. This is a significant hire for Apple and one that sh...
Ning CEO Gina Bianchini to Step Down-Becomes an EIR at Andreessen Horowitz
Gina Bianchini, the high-profile CEO of social networking platform Ning, is stepping down and will become an Executive in Residence at the Andreessen Horowitz venture firm. — Bianchini (pictured her...
40% of Blackberry users willing to trade in for an iPhone
BlackBerry users may be ready to move on to other smartphone platforms, suggesting that RIM isn't keeping up with consumer demand in its efforts to combat growing encroachment from the likes of iPhone...
Hitwise says Facebook Most Popular U.S. Site
New data released from analytics service Hitwise today names Facebook the largest website in the U.S. with 7.07% of all U.S. visits. Google is second at 7.03%. Yahoo Mail is third with 3.8% and Yaho...
Exclusive: Yahoo's Top Ad Money-Maker Bradford Leaving for New Job at Demand Media
According to several sources, Yahoo's SVP of U.S. Revenue and Market Development Joanne Bradford (pictured here) is planning on leaving the Internet giant to take a new position as Chief Revenue Offic...
Web guru Tim Bray takes Google Android job
Tim Bray—co-inventor of XML, notable tech blogger, and until recently a Sun Microsystems employee—has joined Google's Android team in part to show the world what he thinks is wrong with Apple's iPhone...
Why Wikipedia Should Be Trusted As A Breaking News Source
Most any journalism professor, upon mention of Wikipedia, will immediately launch into a rant about how the massively collaborative online encyclopedia can't be trusted. It can, you see, be edited an...
Fandango Begins Rolling Out Mobile Tickets That Let Moviegoers Go Paperless
Waiting in line for movie tickets is still the worst part of going to the movies (unless you are going to see The Bounty Hunter). With so many mobile phone movie apps, it's easy to find what's playin...
A trend? Intel releases $125 ‘affordable’ SSD
Editor's Note: This story is excerpted from Computerworld. For more Mac coverage, visit Computerworld's Macintosh Knowledge Center. — On the heels of OCZ Technology Group's release of its first sub...
File-Sharing and Link Sites Declared Legal in Spain
Despite many rulings which have declared file-sharing sites legal if they don't profit directly from copyright infringements, in recent years its become something of a custom in Spain for music rights...
MOG launches mobile apps with unlimited downloads to your phone
Music streaming service MOG unveiled its mobile strategy today, laying out Android and iPhone apps that will let users get unlimited song downloads to their phones for $10 a month. — Subscribers wil...
‘Enriched’ e-books: Will they fly?
Amazon.com early on made a habit of pricing digital versions of new release books at $9.99, well below hardcover list price. That irked publishers, who thought the $9.99 standard would devalue books ...
HTC shipping CDMA-version Nexus One to Verizon, says paper
HTC (High Tech Computer) has started shipping CDMA-version of the Nexus One Google phones to Verizon Wireless, which will begin to market the smartphones this month or in April at the earliest, accord...
ICQ Is Back And It Uses Facebook and Twitter
Do you remember ICQ ("I Seek You")? It was one of the first desktop download chat applications and was sold to AOL for $400 million in 1998. Strangely, it fell off the map after the acquisition, but...
PayPal Launches Revamped iPhone App, Teams With Bump For Phone-Tapping Money Transfers
PayPal has just launched an upgraded iPhone application that adds new features and includes a facelift that's meant to help instill a greater sense of security. And it also brings with it big news …
U.S. Mac sales up 39% in Jan. and Feb.
NPD data show iPod sales were also up — 7% year to year — for the first time in 16 months — In a report to clients issued Monday afternoon, Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster — a long-time Apple (AAPL) bo...
Google sees mobile ad rates passing PC rates
(Reuters) - Google Inc said that it expects the rates that companies pay for search ads on mobile phones could surpass the rates of its existing PC-based ad business thanks to the growing popularity o...
Digg overhaul expected to lessen coveted traffic spikes to publishers
Say goodbye to the “Digg effect”? — Digg Chief Executive Jay Adelson announced a vastly revised version of its social news website at an event Saturday during the South by Southwest Interactive conf...
Palm launches a new slogan for webOS: Life moves fast. Don't miss a thing.
We love webOS around these parts. What we don't love — not one bit — is how they've been advertising it. They kicked things off with creepiness, and then followed it up with mis-aimed cheesiness.
For Apps, iPhone Bigger Than Facebook Platform
When it comes to apps, the iPhone platform is now bigger than the Facebook platform, according to a report by Flurry, a San Francisco-based mobile analytics company. Flurry said today that Apple's iT...
Pew: readers prefer ad-supported news to pay walls
Advertising remains the primary means of support for online news outlets, and there's a long uphill battle facing anyone trying to forge new business models, at least according to a report produced by...
Google Product Manager RJ Pittman Defects To Apple
The battle between Google and Apple continues. RJ Pittman, a prominent product manager at Google, has left the company to join Apple. We've been tipped off to a tweet he sent out two days ago that s...
Twitter Expected To Take The Wraps Off Its Advertising Platform Today
Later today, Twitter CEO Evan Williams will be interviewed by Umair Haque of the Havas Media Lab at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas. We'll of course be covering any announcements that will be ma...
Delays hit iPad accessories, more shortages to come?
Over the past few days, Apple has altered some of the shipping times on their branded iPad accessories. First we noticed the iPad case making a slight shift from April 3rd to Mid-April. Today we not...
Notes on Leadership: Be Like Steve Jobs, . . . And Bill Campbell, And Andy Grove
Editor's note: When venture capitalists invest in early stage startups, more than anything else they are investing in the founders of the company and their ability to lead their employees through …
Microsoft exec says Apple's HTC suit ‘is not necessarily a bad thing’
Even though Windows Mobile handsets are named in Apple's lawsuit against smartphone maker HTC, one Microsoft executive recently stated that the suit might help to sort out intellectual property owners...
Report: 98.9% Of Downloads On The Android Market Are Free
Mobile gaming and an abundance of free apps have helped the Android Market surpass 250 million downloads according to a report from market research and consulting firm FADE. — FADE claim that an est...
Apple practices ‘legal alchemy’ to mask IP theft, claims Nokia
Apple tries to divert attention from patent dispute with antitrust charges, Nokia argues in federal court — Computerworld - Nokia last week asked a federal judge to toss out Apple's antitrust claims...
25 years of .com domain names
On March 15, 1985, a Massachusetts computer systems firm registered the first .com Internet domain name. — Although Symbolics.com didn't spark an instant gold rush, the event planted the first seed ...
Google runs into a problem with Nexus One trademark application
Google filed an application for the Nexus One trademark back on 10th December 2009 for use in connection with mobile phones. It would appear however that whoever handled the filing didn't spend a lot...
New Offices to Support You Around the World
As more and more people share and connect on Facebook, we are growing our operations and teams to support them around the world. Just last week, we announced plans to invest in a new Austin, Texas, o...
AT&T's Latest Dumbphones Come With New Smartphone Services
You don't need a smartphone to get smartphone-like services, claims AT&T. They of course have a few new handsets backing up that boast, but what's most interesting is the free online syncing for both ...