Introducing “Kindle for Mac”
the Free Application for Reading Kindle Books on the Mac, Now Available in over 100 Countries — Read on Your Kindle, Read Some on Your iPhone, and Now, Read Some on Your Mac - Read Wherever and When...
Analysis Of Google And Viacom's Arguments Over YouTube: A Lot Of He Said/She Said
I've spent the last few hours going through the motions for summary judgment from both Google and Viacom in the YouTube case. If you'd like to kill a few hours yourself: — Viacom Summary Judgment Mo...
HTC responds to Apple's patent lawsuit, will ‘fully defend itself’
HTC hasn't filed its official reply to Apple's patent lawsuit in court yet, but the company just gave us an updated and expanded statement on the case, saying that while it “strongly advocates intelle...
Google May Shut Down Chinese Unit on April 10, China Business News Reports
Google Inc. may pull out of China on April 10, China Business News reported today, citing an unidentified Chinese sales agent for the company. — The search engine may announce its exit on March 22 …
SXSW Interactive Is Dead
No annual festival, conference, or party will ever be as good as the first year you went. That's not what I'm talking about when I say that South by Southwest Interactive died this year. — Earlier ...
Apple Races to Strike Content Deals Ahead of iPad Release
Apple Inc. is still working to secure content for the iPad with just weeks to go before the tablet computer's release, said people familiar with the matter, as the company tempers some of its initial ...
Looking Beyond the Staggering Mobile Stats in the BRIC Countries
My latest report - on wireless usage and advertising trends in the BRIC countries (Brazil / Russia / India / China) - launches today. Given their large populations, some of the numbers are understand...
Apple preps 27-inch LED Cinema Display, dodeca-core Mac Pro
Apple is putting the finishing touches on a pair of new products targeted at its professional customers, namely a larger version of its LED Cinema Display and a major update to its Mac Pro workstation...
More Bad News For Adobe & Flash - Wikipedia Is Going Open Video
Adobe already has trouble on its hands over Apple's decision to not support Flash on the iPhone and the iPad - and the general public's “meh” response. — Now Adobe's got bigger Flash problems.
Introducing Google Buzz widget for Android
Since we launched Google Buzz for mobile, we've been working on ways to make it quicker and easier to share your thoughts and experiences while you're out and about. — Today, we're excited to releas...
iGroups: Apple's New iPhone Social App in Development
Apple is working on a new communications based social networking application that they're simply calling “iGroups.” According to the documents published by USPTO today, Apple's iGroup will be a new s...
A Yahoo! Contacts That Updates Itself
Have you ever lost track of a friend because she moved and forgot to let you know her new address and phone number? When you've changed your contact information, did you remember to let all of your f...
Google charts new territory with ads in maps
Google has begun putting ads on its popular maps pages in Australia, a sign that the search engine giant wants to convert more of the high traffic to its websites into advertising dollars. — Logos f...
Xbox 360 gaining USB storage support in 2010 update
Documentation obtained by Joystiq - and subsequently confirmed with two separate sources - reveals that “USB Mass Storage Device Support on Xbox 360” will soon be a reality. The document, authored by...
Windows Phone 7 Series will have copy & paste, eventually
Contrary to the controversial report out of Microsoft MIX10 this week that Windows Phone 7 Series will not feature copy & paste functionality, a person close to the den explained that copy & paste is ...
RandomDorm: Chatroulette for the College Set
Taking a dizzying spin through the video chat service Chatroulette can be highly entertaining — you might stumble onto a celebrity or an impromptu performance by a pianist. — But there's always the ...
When Couples Fight on Facebook, Everyone Knows the Score
WHAT is the sound of an awkward silence on Facebook? If you have to ask, then you probably don't have friends like James Gower and Ashley Andrews, high school sweethearts from Spring, Tex., who are b...
Facebook Co-Founder Hughes Launches Philanthropic Venture Jumo
Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook and director of online organizing for Barack Obama's 2008 campaign, unveiled his new project on Thursday: a Web site for charitable organizations.
Apple exploring iPhone audio text message, walkie-talkie feature
Apple has been brainstorming a new capability that could allow iPhone users to transmit data — such as simple text messages — to each other over voice channels, forgoing a reliance wireless carriers' ...
Choosing Sides? John Doerr Leaves Amazon's Board Of Directors
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partner John Doerr, perhaps the most celebrated venture capitalist and certainly one of the most successful, will leave the Amazon board of directors this year.
BBC website to add Facebook and Twitter features
Talking to The Telegraph, Mr Huggers said that partnerships with the likes of Facebook, Twitter and Bebo were already in place and the first consumer manifestations of those relationships would come t...
Gist Acquires Startup Weekend App ‘Learn That Name’
Every few weeks (and sometimes even more often than that), dozens of techies gather together for regional Startup Weekends — fast-paced code writing frenzies where entrepreneurs and developers concei...
The Case for the Fat Start-Up
Much has been written and said about the current economic downturn and the resulting lessons on how to run a high-technology company. Quite famously, Sequoia Capital, the premier venture capital firm...
As Expected, Ridiculous, Wrong, Exaggerating And Misleading Report Claims That ‘Piracy’ Is Killing Jobs
As was leaked earlier this week, a study paid for by the International Chamber of Commerce has come out with ridiculously misleading and misguided report about how “piracy” is killing jobs all through...
Time Seems Right for Paypal to Fly
Should eBay change its name to PayPal? The company's auction business is mature, but PayPal, its online payments business, is growing fast. Plans announced on Wednesday to double PayPal's Asian staf...
Facebook Begins Letting Users Share Music (Updated)
For the longest time I've complained that Facebook should make it possible to share MP3 files on the site, without requiring users to upload the files. By simply providing a player for linked files, ...
Kaltura Launches HTML5Video.org, Publishes HTML5 Media Library
Open source video platform provider Kaltura launched a new site called HTML5Video.org today that is meant to be an industry resource for HTML5 video-related issues. The site is supported by Mozilla, ...