Office 2010 Reaches RTM!
I am very excited to share some great news with you. Earlier today we reached the release-to-manufacturing (RTM) milestone for Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Visio 2010 and Project 2010! — RTM is th...
Steve Jobs Says Apple Made a Mistake in Rejecting Pulitzer Winner's App
Apple's chief executive apparently believes that his company made a mistake when it rejected an iPhone app from a cartoonist who is now a Pulitzer prize winner. — An Apple spokeswoman did not commen...
Apple in advanced discussions to adopt AMD chips
Intel has served as Apple's sole source for the microprocessors used in its notebook and desktop personal computers since the company began its transition away from PowerPC in 2006, but that may soon ...
Dell's 7-inch and 10-inch Streak tablets leaked!
We'd heard through the grapevine that the engineers at Round Rock were working on a number of slates to fill the Streak lineup, but man, we didn't see this coming... at least not yet. A couple of ima...
Search with fewer keystrokes and better spelling
We spend a lot of time thinking about search results, but we also spend a lot of time thinking about search queries. Today we're announcing three enhancements to help you input your searches more qui...
AT&T blocks employees vacations in June for iPhone launch
Same story as last year and the year before, but we've confirmed with multiple AT&T sources that the carrier has now put a block on employees taking vacations in June. The only time AT&T does a strai...
Palm's SVP of software and services takes off, others given cash, stock to stick around (updated)
No one really knows exactly what's going on inside the walls of Palm HQ this week — whether the company will sink or swim is perhaps a bigger question right now than it has been since its rebirth last...
More Details Emerge About the iPad's Connectivity Issues
According to Dow Jones, some colleges have banned the iPad from their networks. Princeton and Cornell, for example, are seeing major networking and connectivity issues that mirror the problems many u...
RIM chief: market unclear for tablets, touch-only phones [U]
(Updated with clearer remarks) RIM's co-chief Mike Lazaridis downplayed many of Apple's efforts today in a keynote at the TD Newcrest technology conference in Toronto. The executive was concerned tha...
Apple's New Guidelines Won't Stop Wired Magazine iPad App, Conde Nast Says
Navigating New Restrictions En Route to the App Store — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Conde Nast 's Wired magazine app will indeed work on the iPad despite the restrictive new guidelines Apple issued this ...
Wi-Fi-Only Nook “Lite” Coming Soon, Nook 2 To Follow
We're told that Barnes & Noble will be revealing some new products later this year: Nook 2 ("Project Encore") and a Wi-Fi-only Nook Lite. Meanwhile, a software update that includes a full browser is ...
Apple Introduces us to a New iTunes “Concert Ticket +” System
There's no missing the point that Apple wants to enter the electronic concert and event ticket business via a new application and system simply called “Concert Ticket +.” The system that is laid out ...
Barcodes without barriers - is this the web's next big thing?
A British project is setting out to take geotagging to the next level — If you came across an old book in your bookshelf, would you like to know what your great grandfather thought about it? If the...
Inside the Apple 15-inch MacBook Pro
With nothing new on the outside, all the newness of the just-announced 15-inch MacBook Pro is on the inside, as iFixit illustrates in its latest teardown. — What is of interest to most, of course, i...
Twitter May Release Some Deleted Usernames Within Weeks
What's happening with all those inactive and deleted usernames that Twitter has? Some of them will continue to be held back for a few more weeks; some likely for much longer, Twitter cofounder Ev Wil...
Non-Apple's Mistake
The Golden Cage is indeed a cage, and a strong one. Yet it has no door.
Calif. cities dominate Apple's top 10 markets
Shocker! The San Francisco Bay Area is the biggest U.S. market for Apple products, according to the results of a survey conducted by research firm Experian Simmons. The study found that 32.3 percent...
An Update from Ning
As many of you know, we made a decision yesterday to focus 100% of the company on enhancing the features and services we offer to paying Ning Creators. The tens of thousands of you who already use ou...
Welcome to Mound, MN: home of the $249.99 DSL broadband plan
There's yet another uproar over an ISP imposing Internet data caps on its customers and charging users who exceed them several hundred dollars a month. This time around, the service in question isn't...
Online Coupons Know a Lot About You, and They Tell
For decades, shoppers have taken advantage of coupons. Now, the coupons are taking advantage of the shoppers. — A new breed of coupon, printed from the Internet or sent to mobile phones, is packed ...
Glympse Brings Real-Time Location Sharing To Facebook
Over the last few months there have been non-stop rumors about Facebook finally launching its location feature (an announcement may well come at f8). But a startup called Glympse has already beaten t...
Questionable Next-Generation iPhone Rear Shell Images Surface
We have received a set of images purportedly depicting an iPad-inspired rear shell design for the next-generation iPhone. While we have questions about the validity of the images given their claimed ...
Ideas for Twitter's new Annotations — from obvious to intriguing
from obvious to intriguing — The big game-changer (or alternately, the potential disaster) that came out of Twitter's first big conference this week was Annotations. It's a new way for developers to...
Sprout Now Lets You Simultaneously Build Rich Ads In Both HTML5 And Flash
Last week during Apple's iPhone 4.0 Preview, Steve Jobs announced iAd, a product that could help turn the mobile ad industry on its head. The new product lets developers quickly integrate rich …
Tech Sector in Hiring Drive
Google, Intel Add Workers as Profits Snap Back; Start-Ups Also Fight for Talent — The technology industry, an engine of innovation and U.S. prosperity for more than half a century, is accelerating i...
Search with fewer keystrokes and better spelling
We spend a lot of time thinking about search results, but we also spend a lot of time thinking about search queries. Today we're announcing three enhancements to help you input your searches more qui...
Cartoonist: Apple Backs Down After Denying iPhone App
The cartoonist who won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning this week says Apple has asked him to resubmit an iPhone app that it earlier rejected because it “ridicules public figures.” … Mark F...
Can Yahoo Nab Foursquare for $125 Million or Will VCs Prevail? The Race for the Hot Mobile Start-Up Nears Its End
You have to give Yahoo an A for effort, if perhaps the ultimate grade in its ongoing quest to buy hot mobile start-up Foursquare is an F. — While its founder Dennis Crowley …
Twitter Will Get Its Own Data Center
John Adams of the Twitter ops team at Velocity 2009 (Photo by Duncan Davidson via Flickr) — Twitter will be moving to its own data center soon to accommodate the rapid growth of its service, the com...
Autism iPhone breakthrough: from tantrums to app-y days
Lisa and Grace Domican use the Grace app. — Few can legitimately boast that an iPhone app changed their life but for 10-year-old Grace Domican, unable to speak due to autism, the touchscreen phone h...
Has the New York Times Run Afoul of the FTC's Endorsement Guides?
Terry Heaton and Jeff Jarvis have commented recently on the conflicts of interest implicated by the adulatory coverage of the iPad in the New York Times and other media companies. They point first to...
Report: 6.8% Of Business Internet Traffic Goes To Facebook
A report from the Network Box shows that 6.8 percent of all the URLs accessed by businesses goes to Facebook and 10 percent of internet bandwidth goes to Youtube. The study analyzed 13 billion URLs a...
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iPad Banned By Princeton And Other Universities (AAPL)
The iPad is not ready for some universities, Dow Jones reports. — George Washington University and Princeton are rejecting the iPad, citing security issues, according to Dow Jones. Cornell Universi...
Suit claims Web cam on school laptops took 1,000s of secret photos of students
A Web cam embedded in laptops issued by a Pennsylvania school captured thousands of images of students at home, according to new documents filed in a suit against the school district, The Philadelphi...
US joins HP bribery investigation
Details are emerging of HPs latest scandal as the net widens with the US saying it is also investigating the maker of extraordinarily priced printer ink. — The US Justice Department and Securities a...
Free at last! Official ACTA text coming next week
After more than a year of sustained pressure, the countries negotiating the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) have decided that the time is right to release the draft text of their work. — ...
It's 4SQ Day, But Foursquare Has (Almost) Nothing To Do With It
It's the day after tax filings are due, and that means one thing: 4SQ Day! Actually, the timing of 4SQ Day has nothing to do with a post-tax-filing celebration. The date (4/16) is four squared.