WSJ on iPad for $17.99 a month, magazines to be at or near newsstand prices?
The Wall Street Journal is running a piece that focuses on ad sales for the iPad. Pretty boring stuff except for a few nuggets related to the actual content we crave. Rupert Murdoch already confirme...
Wikimedia gets ready for some big changes
In April, the Wikimedia Foundation is rolling out the first of several significant changes to the user experience of Wikipedia as part of our usability and user experience program. — We are changing ...
New Stuff Coming From Bing This Spring
Today at SES New York we shared with attendees our plans to begin testing some new Bing features as we start to move into the next wave of innovation which will be rolling out later this spring and su...
Facebook To Release A “Like” Button For the Whole Darn Internet
There will be lots of news leaking about Facebook's product announcements at their upcoming F8 Developer Conference in April. That's because they're already starting to test out a lot of the new stuf...
Smartphone traffic is up 193% in a year
Led by iPhone and the Androids. Traffic from the iPod touch is growing even faster. — Click to enlarge. Source: AdMob — Smartphone traffic is up. Feature phone share is down. And traffic from ...
George Hotz Is Back With Untethered Jailbreak For Every iDevice (iPad Too?)
The incredible iPhone genius George Hotz has just announced on his blog that he has managed to develop an untethered jailbreak for the iPhone and iPod touch. It will allow all of you who couldn't liv...
HTC CEO: Nexus One Is A Success
Despite customer service problems and sluggish sales, Peter Chou says his company's Android phone has done well. — LAS VEGAS — The launch of Google's Nexus One smart phone appears to have been a mes...
Four VC Firms Battle For Foursquare, Valuation Goes Stratospheric
What do Accel Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Khosla Ventures and Redpoint Ventures have in common? Besides being tier one venture capitalists, at least one thing: They are all fighting furiously to b...
CBS.com Prepping HTML5 Video Playback for iPad
With the imminent arrival of the Apple iPad, it seems at least one major television network is updating their website to provide video playback support for new tablet device — without Flash. CBS.com'...
Twitter Highlighting “Clever Accounts” @cleveraccounts
A common aspect of any Web-centric company looking to break out of an early adopter niche to more mainstream acceptance is the highlighting of customers who have been brave enough to take the plunge f...
U.S. Push on Internet Freedom Could Backfire
Internet censorship is an increasingly hot topic for U.S. legislators, a group of whom announced the launch of a Global Internet Freedom Caucus on Wednesday to highlight the issue and develop legislat...
Google Ads Will Now Follow You Across The Web
Advertisers are beginning to realize that ads on the Web have their own lifecycle. People who eventually click on an ad don't always click on it the first time they see it. Just like on TV or in pri...
Time Warner Cable Launches Wi-Fi HotSpots
Updated: Time Warner Cable this morning confirmed that it's launching Wi-Fi hotspots for customers of its NYC RoadRunner broadband service. According to the company: … Time Warner Cable, a large cabl...
Apple inks $240M deal with Samsung for 3M more iPad displays
Apple has agreed to pay Samsung nearly a quarter of a billion dollars as part of a new pact that will see the Korean electronics maker become the second major supplier of 9.7-inch display screens for ...
Google adds Twitter feed in China, again defying that country's rules
In a move sure to anger Beijing's censors, Google has introduced a real-time Twitter feed on its search results pages — in effect, lifting a nine-month blackout of the microblogging service in China.
Toshiba intros highest capacity laptop hard drives
The laptop hard drives are about to have a significant increase in capacities without compromising the performance. — Toshiba announced Wednesday two new 2.5-inch (laptop) hard drive families that f...
Meet The Genius Behind Apple's Beautiful Retail Stores (AAPL)
Peter Bohlin is the genius architect behind Apple's most famous stores around the world. — His work includes the cube store on 59th street and Fifth Avenue in New York City, as well as the new all g...
Smartphone Motion Patent's Authors Are Google, Apple Engineers
A quick follow-up on that broad motion-control patent I wrote about Thursday. I haven't been able to turn up any information on Durham Logistics, the limited liability company to which the patent is ...
OmniGraffle To Be Part Of The iPad App Store Grand Opening, But Is $49.99 Too Much To Pay?
The Omni Group's Ken Case made it very clear that the company was committed to iPad development with his iPad or Bust! blog post, and today we found out just how serious they are.
U.S. Is Fifth on List of Most ‘Networked’ Countries
An annual ranking of countries' information technology systems shows the U.S. falling to fifth as Sweden rose to the top and developing countries such as China and India made significant gains. … The ...
JooJoo tablet now shipping, should greet US consumers on March 29th
We noticed a minor textual change on the JooJoo order page just a few days back, and apparently it was no mistake — Fusion Garage has announced today that its long-awaited tablet PC has started to shi...
AT&T sees big cash in small gizmos like dog collars
(Reuters) - With most Americans already toting cellphones, AT&T Inc now wants to target their dogs. — A wireless dog collar set to hit the market this year is just one of a plethora of new devices t...
Wikipedia's Data Center Overheats
Wikipedia was offline yesterday after a cooling problem in Wikimedia's European data center led to a heat condition that caused a server shutdown. The initial problem affected Wikipedia users, but th...