Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg: 'I'm CEO ... b****!'
(Fortune) — Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is known as a precocious visionary, but as a college-age CEO he was as rebellious and irreverent as the next kid. In his forthcoming book The Facebook Eff...
Smartbooks have been delayed by Flash issues, says ARM
Smartbooks have failed to materialise due to delays in Flash optimisation, a lower-than-expected uptake of Linux on netbooks, and the sudden emergence of tablets, ARM's marketing chief has said. — A...
What Happens When You Deactivate Your Facebook Account
Facebook is a big part of millions and millions of peoples' lives, but what happens when you pull the plug? Last night I met a man who walked to the edge of the cliff and nearly deactivated his Faceb...
Sprint HTC EVO pre-orders start this month at The Shack
HTC's EVO 4G super-speced handset seems to be everywhere and nowhere at the same time. That situation looks set to change soon based on the pic above nabbed off The Shack's internal website showing a...
How the iPad gobbles up netbook sales
Also getting cannibalized: iPod touches, eReaders, desktop PCs and handheld videogames — There's an interesting chart in a report to clients issued early Thursday morning by Morgan Stanley's Katy Hu...
Google Latitude Has 3 Million Active Users, Check-Ins Likely On The Way
“Hey Foursquare and MyTown, suck it.” — Okay, Google's Steve Lee didn't actually say that during the location panel at the Web 2.0 Expo today, but he may as well have. While Foursquare may have jus...
Motorola hints at owning mobile OS, acquires Azingo
Motorola's Co-Chief Executive Officer Greg Brown recently told Bloomberg that his company was ready to make acquisitions to return to growth and it looks like we might have spotted their first deal. ...
What iPads Did To My Family
This one is most definitely off-topic, but you might find it interesting. — Last Sunday, I broke down and bought a non-3G iPad. I just was too damn curious. Walked into the Apple Store, played wit...
‘Historic’ day as first non-latin web addresses go live
Arab nations are leading a “historic” charge to make the world wide web live up to its name. — Net regulator Icann has switched on a system that allows full web addresses to contain no Latin charact...
Milestone gets Android 2.1 update in UK, available to download now
The saga of the Milestone's firmware update to Android 2.1 is finally over for one more territory. The United Kingdom is today awaking to the news that Motorola has made the freshest Eclair available...
On Formspring, an E-Vite to Insults and Crude Queries
It is the online version of the bathroom wall in school, the place to scrawl raw, anonymous gossip. — Formspring.me, a relatively new social networking site, has become a magnet for comments, many o...
Sprint gets super serious about the prepaid mobile market
Some huge news this evening in the world of prepaid mobiles as Sprint has announced its new strategies for Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile. With some 60 million Americans using prepaid mobiles, Sprint...
Apple iPad User Analysis
There's no question that the iPad is the latest “it” product, with first-day sales exceeding 300,000 and some analysts projecting as many as 7 million units sold by year's end. Inside Yahoo!, we're j...
Booyah Hits 2 Million, Stealing Foursquare's Thunder
Just a quick update on yesterday's post on Booyah: — While we were busy trying to guess the number of jellybeans in Foursquare's jar, Booyah was quietly, but swiftly, amassing new users. Guess what...
Kindle 2.5 hands on: social networks, passwords, and more
Amazon is preparing to release an updated version of its Kindle firmware that brings more integration with the rest of the world by adding social networking support and the ability to see the most pop...
Project puts 1M books online for blind, dyslexic
SAN FRANCISCO - Even as audio versions of best-sellers fill store shelves and new technology fuels the popularity of digitized books, the number of titles accessible to people who are blind or dyslexi...