Why Is Twitter More Popular With Black People Than White People?
New data confirms that Twitter's population is disproportionately black. — According to Edison Research's annual report on Twitter, black people represent 25% of Twitter users, roughly twice their s...
H.264 Already Won—Makes Up 66 Percent Of Web Videos
Makes Up 66 Percent Of Web Videos — Earlier this week, Steve Jobs kicked the debate about the need for Flash into high gear, especially for Web video. As he explained, Apple products like the iPhone...
Inside the mind of Boy Genius, whose blog sold for millions
Like that, the veil was lifted. — One boy (now, man) made such a racket for mobile industry executives over the last 3 1/2 years that he seemingly upended how mobile juggernauts approach product lea...
Facebook's “Evil Interfaces”
Social networking companies don't have it easy. Advertisers covet their users' data, and in a niche that often seems to lack a clear business model, selling (or otherwise leveraging) that data is a t...
Hard Labor: Adobe Rebuilds Its Wired Magazine App to Fit Apple's Flash-Free Agenda
Condé Nast and Adobe spent months creating a version of Wired magazine for the iPad — only to be to told Apple wouldn't let the thing anywhere near its gadget. — So back to the drawing board …
A Russian Star Rises in Silicon Valley
Yuri Milner's DST has quietly acquired 10% of Facebook — Yuri Milner keeps a telescope in his office on the 57th floor of Moscow's Nabarezhnaya Tower to check out what's happening across the city. ...
LG Ally spotted in new Iron Man 2 commercial
Want more on the LG Ally for Verizon? We've got it. It's in a commercial for “Iron Man 2,” and it's clearly running Android. That keyboard looks pretty darn usable, but the D-pad could be interesti...
Encryption Can't Stop The Wiretapping Boom
As encryption technologies have outpaced the mathematical methods of breaking crypto schemes, law enforcement has feared for years that scrambled messages between evildoers (or law-breaking activists)...
Amazon targets federal cloud
As Google, Microsoft and other technology companies talk up their ability to provide cloud computing services to federal agencies, another tech giant, Amazon.com, is quietly positioning itself to be a...
Facebook's just made it easier to share what you're going to do
Feeling that Facebook events aren't currently used enough for spontaneous events, the worlds largest social network has released a feature to make future plans easier to share. — Events can now be c...