Hewlett-Packard To Kill Windows 7 Tablet Project
Hewlett-Packard has killed off its much ballyhooed Windows 7 tablet computer, says a source who's been briefed on the matter. — The device was first unveiled by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at CES 20...
Thoughts on Flash
Apple has a long relationship with Adobe. In fact, we met Adobe's founders when they were in their proverbial garage. Apple was their first big customer, adopting their Postscript language for our n...
Facebook's High Pressure Tactics: Opt-in or Else
Facebook users who choose not to link their user accounts to Facebook's public Pages are ending up with blank profiles containing no information at all. If you haven't experienced this problem, it's ...
Moving Forward
This morning Apple posted some thoughts about Flash on their web site. — The primary issue at hand is that Apple is choosing to block Adobe's — widely used runtimes as well as a variety of technol...
Jon Stewart Rips Into Apple Over Lost iPhone Debacle. That's Going To Leave A Mark.
Over the last two weeks countless blog posts and articles have been written about the Gizmodo/iPhone leak and the subsequent police investigation. Few have been as scathing toward Apple as a segment ...
iPhone Finder Regrets His ‘Mistake’
The person who found and sold an Apple iPhone prototype says he regrets not doing more to return the device to its owner, according to a statement provided by his attorney Thursday in response to quer...
Apple to Charge a Premium to Put Ads in Mobile Apps
Setting a high bar for its debut in the advertising business, Apple Inc. aims to charge close to $1 million for ads on its mobile devices this year and perhaps even more to be among the first, ad exec...
Get on the inside track with “Company Follow”
Since the day we launched Company Profiles, one of the most commonly requested features from our members has been to keep track of key developments at companies they like. Starting today, you can be ...
Skyfire 2.0 for Android launching today
Back in February, Skyfire (makers of the popular, Flash-enabled smartphone browser of the same name) announced that they'd snatched up Kolbysoft, the company behind the well-established Steel browser ...
LG Innotek to supply 5MP camera for Apple's fourth-gen iPhone - report
LG Innotek will serve as the supplier of 5-megapixel camera sensors for Apple's next-generation iPhone due to ship this spring, according to a report out of the Far East. — The Chosun reported Wedne...
Messenger across the web
As Jeff and Piero mentioned yesterday, the newest version of Messenger (beta coming soon) is designed to be the most meaningful way to stay in touch with the people who matter most, keeping you connec...
Apple Patents The Invisible Button
One of Apple's famous minimalist design principles is to get rid of buttons whenever possible. With touchscreen devices like the iPhone and iPad, almost all of the buttons appear when needed on the s...
Verizon's Droid Incredible goes on sale Thursday
Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal — Verizon Wireless will begin selling the Droid Incredible on Thursday. — Basking Ridge, N.J.-based Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ) said the device, which is ...
Social E-Commerce Goes Into Overdrive: LivingSocial Raises Another $14 Million
Could the social group-buying space get any frothier? — Well, yes, it could. — After the recent $135 million funding of Groupon that valued the Chicago start-up at upwards of an eye-popping $1 bil...
Terry Childs juror explains why he voted to convict
IDG News Service - Terry Childs' guilty conviction struck a nerve with IT staffers this week. — Here was a man who, by all accounts, was good at his job, though lacking in interpersonal skills. Sud...
Kindle Software Update Adds Twitter, PDF Zoom, Sharper Fonts
Amazon has updated the Kindle's software to v2.5 and added both useful and questionable new features to its second-generation e-book reader. — The new features fall into two categories: social, and ...