Google to Launch Digital Books by Early Summer
Google Inc. will begin selling digital books in late June or July, a company representative said Tuesday, setting off a three-way battle between the Internet giant and Amazon.com Inc. and Apple Inc. ...
Murdoch: WSJ iPad App Has 64,000 Active Users—And We Keep The Money
And We Keep The Money — It's not even a rounding error but one of the numbers Rupert Murdoch seemed to really enjoy tossing out during the News Corp earnings call: more than 64,000 active users for t...
BOUCHER, STEARNS RELEASE DISCUSSION DRAFT OF PRIVACY LEGISLATION
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Representatives Rick Boucher (VA-09), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet, and Cliff Stearns, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee...
Introducing Spindex - the Latest Exploration From Microsoft's Labs
Last fall, with Ray Ozzie's support and sponsorship, we started FUSE Labs, with the mission to work with Microsoft product and research teams to ideate, develop and deliver new social, real-time and m...
Intel shows off first Light Peak laptop
Intel has provided the first hands-on demonstration of a laptop running its Light Peak technology, at the company's inaugural European research showcase here in Brussels. — Light Peak is an optical ...
FarmVille Maker Zynga Valued at $4 Billion
Zynga Game Network, the maker of popular online social games such as FarmVille, filed documents authorizing it to sell roughly 2 million preferred shares at a price that gives the company an implied v...
Could ‘Menlo’ signal a change in Microsoft's mobile strategy?
I've been digging for a few months for information about two new Microsoft codenames and have come up with few clues. But I've decided to share what I have been able to surface in the hopes that othe...
Pedal to the Chrome metal: Our fastest beta to date for Windows, Mac and Linux
Here in Aarhus, Denmark — home of the V8 project, Chrome's JavaScript engine — we've been tuning, testing, and polishing the V8 engine to give Chrome a hefty boost in speed.
iPod widget and orientation lock coming to OS 4
Update: It looks like Apple has pulled the update temporarily. — A big new feature has been added to the multi-tasking user interface in iPhone OS 4, and that appears to be a widget interface for th...
Torture test: Is AT&T's unlimited iPad 3G plan truly unlimited?
We get acquainted with the iPad Wi-Fi + 3G by hammering AT&T's data network to see if “unlimited” really does mean unlimited … EARLIER: Last week, the drawn-out launch of Apple's first-generation iPad...
Steve Jobs' Big New York Times Letdown
Users have jeered the New York Times' main iPad app, but the newspaper is listening to one in particular: We hear Steve Jobs is among the app's most vociferous critics and has been shunning it. — Jo...
AddThis Toolbox Gets the Facebook “Like” Button
Social sharing widget-maker AddThis is enabling users to integrate the Facebook “Like” button by adding a single line of code to the AddThis Toolbox. — AddThis is now used on 1.2 million websites. ...
Google's new buggy microblogging Web app aims to educate
Web applications are susceptible to a wide range of Web app-specific security flaws. Though Web developers are often aware of at least some of the common modes of attack, they are many and varied, an...
Fresh-baked tweets for your posts
Here at Twitter Media, we want to experiment in exactly the same way we're encouraging you to experiment. We want to implement the things we're recommending that you implement. And we want to share ...
When It Comes to Downloading Content from the Web, Connected iPhone and iPod Touch Users Lead The Pack
The NPD Group's “Entertainment Trends in America” update reveals three quarters of iPhone and iPod touch users are connecting to the Web to download entertainment content and apps.
Google Adds App Store for Analytics
Today, Google is giving users even more tools for finding and understanding their web stats. The company has just announced they're opening a full App Gallery for Google Analytics. — Currently, the...
Apple may change iPhone SDK to avoid antitrust case
Apple could avoid a possible FTC antitrust investigation by changing the terms of the iPhone 4.0 SDK, insiders said Monday night. The FTC would supposedly leave Apple alone if it let developers write...
Ning Planning to Remain Free for Teachers
Ning, a company that allows users to build their own social networks, says it has signed a letter of intent with a major educational publisher to keep its service free for educators, several weeks aft...
Internet Explorer Falls Below 60% Market Share
Microsoft's Internet Explorer dropped to a historic market share low in April, according to Net Applications. The company estimated IE's market share at 59.95% in April, which is about the range that...
Google Mail is becoming Gmail in the UK
As a Brit, my friends and family often tell me they're miffed that they get an @googlemail.com address instead of @gmail.com. Today I have good news for them: Google Mail is soon becoming Gmail again...
YouTube Developing Self-Serve Rental Model
YouTube engineers are working on a self-service method that will give moviemakers the ability to upload and provide their streaming content for rent, Hunter Walk, who heads product management at YouTu...
Goodbye petabytes, hello zettabytes
• Massive figure equal to a million million gigabytes — • Planet's digital content grew by 62% last year — Every man, woman and child on the planet using micro-blogging site Twitter for a century....
Solving the Alt-Tab Problem
Switching between applications, windows, and tabs is a fundamental action of modern computers. As people browse the web, we know that an average user will switch tabs more times in a day than they cl...
Ignorance and Hubris at the FTC...
Clustrix Builds the Webscale Holy Grail: A Database That Scales
Clustrix, a Y Combinator graduate from 2006, launched today with the claim that it's built a transaction database with MySQL-like functionality and reliability that can scale to billions of entries.
Apple Tweaks Wi-Fi in IPhone to Use China Protocol
Apple appears to have tweaked its iPhone to support a Chinese security protocol for wireless networks, as companies increasingly adopt Chinese government-backed technologies to break into the country'...
Beware the black market rising for IP addresses
Organizations slow to adopt IPv6 take heed: Surging requests for IPv4 addresses are quickly drying up the available store, raising the specter of an IPv4 black market that could dramatically increase ...
Nielsen Acquires Online Video Analytics Company GlanceGuide
Analytics and audience measurement giant Nielsen has acquired video analytics company GlanceGuide. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. — GlanceGuide's analytics and measurements provide insights ...
eBay Founder Pierre Omidyar's $20-Per-Month Hawaii News Site Is Live
Honolulu Civil Beat, the new Hawaii-based online news site and community hub launched by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, went live this morning. — A little background: Omidyar describes the site as a “...
SharePoint Competitor Central Desktop Launches Microsoft Office Collaboration Tool
Central Desktop, a SharePoint-like SaaS collaboration platform for the enterprise, is launching a new tool that allows for cloud-enabled document collaboration for Microsoft Office users.
Apps on Wheels: Developing Mobile Apps that Work at 70 MPH
When we talk about mobile apps today, chances are that we are mostly talking about apps for cell phones and - maybe - tablets. The latest trend in mobile apps, however, is apps for cars. One of the ...
Evernote Zooms Past 3 Million Users
If there is something everyone needs help with now and then, it is remembering stuff. Evernote does that very well via the iPhone, the iPad, Android phones, Blackberries, Windows PCs, and the Web. I...
US Treasury Web sites hacked, serving malware
IDG News Service - Three Web sites belonging to the U.S. Department of the Treasury have been hacked to attack visitors with malicious software, security vendor AVG says. — AVG researcher Roger Thom...
Apax Partners buys stake in security company Sophos for $400M
Private equity firm Apax Partners is buying a 70 percent stake in security firm Sophos for more than $400 million plus debt assumption. The deal values Sophos at $830 million. — Boston-based Sophos...