Apple reportedly planning a smaller-size iPad for 1Q11, says Digitimes Research
Apple is reportedly scheduling a smaller 5- to 7-inch version of the iPad that is expected to launch as soon as the first quarter of 2011, according to Digitimes Research senior analyst Mingchi Kuo.
Why Apple Changed Section 3.3.1
We're still in the early days of the transition from the PC era to the mobile era. Right now, Apple is winning. There are other winners right now too — RIM is still growing, and Android has grown a ...
Palm CEO puts his cards on the table
Former Apple exec Jon Rubinstein remains committed to Palm's success, even as takeover rumors swirl. — Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein … The conventional wisdom is that Palm has blown it and either is going...
New in Labs: Nested Labels and Message Sneak Peek
Labels are more flexible than folders because a given email can have several labels but can't be in several folders at the same time. A highly requested feature for labels, though, comes from the wor...
China's Censorship Machine Takes On the Internet
An Internet cafe in Beijing. Some Internet cafes and schools use filtering software, and a version for cellphones is in development. — BEIJING — Type the Chinese characters for “carrot” into Google...
iChatAgent process shows up in iPhone OS 4.0 — video conferencing coming?
video conferencing coming? — As expected, Apple didn't introduce any new iPhone hardware today; knowing Steve Jobs & co., they still want to save some surprises when they unveil the 4G iPhone later t...
South Park Explains Everything That Is Annoying About Facebook
Tonight, South Park made comment on Facebook and its obsessives by brilliantly taking every ridiculous thing about what the social network has become and explaining it with hilariously awkward (and ee...
Apple's WebKit2 will add Google Chrome-like split processes to Safari
A new framework for the WebKit open source Web browser layout engine was revealed Thursday, bringing with it a built-in “split process model” that will keep Web content such as JavaScript, HTML and la...
Salesforce Chatter Gets Its Own App Marketplace: ChatterExchange
When Salesforce's enterprise-friendly social collaboration platform Chatter was announced last Fall, we focused on the social features and connectivity it could bring to the enterprise. It was, in fa...
Growing Around the World
Hi, my name is Matt Sanford and I'm the lead engineer for Twitter's International team. I spend a great deal of time thinking about Twitter's users outside of the US. Twitter's first users were the ...
Justin Long: Apple's ‘Get a Mac’ commercials ‘might be done’
“For a decade, Justin Long has acted in commercials, TV shows, studio features, and independents, many comedies and a few dramas. He's also done more than his share of voice work for animated fare......
Phones, 'Pads and Platform Plethora Pain
Fifteen years ago, James Gosling and others at Sun helped promote a new programming language, Java, which aggressively promised to allow developers to “write once” and have their programs “run anywher...
Steve Gillmor goes to the dark side: you should care
Steve Gillmor is joining Salesforce.com. Apparently he is a direct CEO appointment (cool or what?) Is that a big deal? Yes it is. Steve is a lightning rod for many things. He's been 100% relentle...
Apple is working on it's own mobile P2P payment service for iPhone and iPad
Mobile micropayments through your smartphone is emerging, and, most likely, soon to become pretty hot category. — Nokia is looking how to introduce mobile payments to developing world with it's Mon...
Ubuntu Claims 12 Million Users as Lucid Linux Desktop Nears
12 Million Users, Aubergine, Synchronization — Ubuntu Linux is gearing up for the debut of its latest release with Ubuntu 10.04, codenamed “the Lucid Lynx” and scheduled for general availability at ...
Barnes & Noble Nook arriving at Best Buy, will go on sale April 18
Looks like the e-reader wars are heating up, retail-style: we just found out that Target will be selling the Kindle later this month, and now multiple sources are telling us that Best Buy will start s...
HuffPo Launches Separate ‘Twitter Edition’; More Focus On Real-Time News
The Huffington Post is launching a “Twitter edition” that is intended to serve as an extension and a distinct entity from the main news and opinion site, the company told paidContent.
MySpace relaunch to combat Facebook
AAP — Rupert Murdoch's social networking website MySpace is planning a Spring relaunch to try to win back users from rival Facebook and reposition itself in the rapidly changing social media market....
Ron Conway And The Technology Ecosystem
In the beginning of an interview last week I introduced Ron Conway by saying that pitching him for an investment in your startup is a rite of passage in Silicon Valley. Venture Capitalists Marc Andre...
Microsoft's cloud-enabled Office 2010 set to join battle with Google
Contract terms, not features, may have major role in Google Apps vs. Office cloud decisions — Computerworld - SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Next month, Microsoft Corp. will release Office 2010 into an IT wo...
Parallels unveils Windows 7 upgrade tool
Parallels is indeed coming out with a product that uses virtualization to help ease the transition to Windows 7. — The software, the existence of which was first reported by CNET on Wednesday, takes...
Adobe Teams Up With Conviva for Better Flash Video Delivery
Adobe is announcing a strategic partnership with Conviva today that aims to improve Flash video streaming through advanced analytics and CDN optimization. — Conviva's technology works by offering a ...
Wi-LAN Files Patent Lawsuit Against Just About Every Portable Device Manufacturer
Wi-LAN, a Canadian company founded in 1992 to commercialize wireless networking technology, a couple of years ago decided to refocus its business on “developing, protecting and monetizing patented inv...
Get your e-book on the iPad (and keep all the royalties)
Tunecore has been a boon for musicians like Trent Reznor, who pay the Brooklyn-based company a flat fee of $40 or so and then see their music available for sale on Amazon, iTunes, and eMusic. The cop...
The iPad Luddites
Is it possible for a Geek God to also be a Luddite? That was the question that popped into my head as I read Cory Doctorow's impassioned anti-iPad diatribe at Boing Boing. The device that Apple call...