Re-inventing Windows Live Hotmail - the next generation of personal email
If you've been following this blog, you know that we've spent a lot of time talking about how consumers are using their email and how they manage their inboxes. We've also talked about how we decide ...
Fast and Free Facebook Mobile Access with 0.facebook.com
Today, we are launching another way for people to access Facebook anytime, anywhere: 0.facebook.com. 0.facebook.com is a new mobile site that includes all of the key features of Facebook but is optimi...
Google To Buy VOIP Technology Firm Global IP Solutions For $68.2 Million
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is offering $68.2 million to buy up publicly-traded Global IP Solutions, a San Francisco-based company which sells technology used to deliver voice and video over IP networks.
Is Firefox Headed Towards A Massive Decline? Its Co-Founder Thinks So
Quora is a great place to find answers about products from prominent people involved with them. It's also a great place for those prominent people to disagree, publicly. That's what's happening righ...
MacBook refresh gets official with 10-hour battery
Weird, but there it is, the leaked MacBook refresh is now official, on Tuesday, just as we thought. The 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo refresh with NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics and longer 10-hour battery life (up...
Visa officially announces their case that turns your iPhone into a credit card (and we've got pics!)
Around two weeks ago, Visa announced that they'd partnered with a company called DeviceFidelity to build the iPhone case of our dreams: one that would allow us to use our iPhone as a credit card …
Kindle For Android Hits This Summer — And You Can Buy Books In It
And You Can Buy Books In It — Easily one of my favorite apps for the iPad is the Kindle app. Weird, I know. But in some ways it's superior to the iPad's own iBooks experience. You can sync it acro...
Waiting to Pay for Hulu? Wait a While Longer.
A public service announcement for any of you eager to start paying for Hulu: Be patient. You're going to have to keep waiting. — Last month, the Los Angeles Times said Hulu was set to roll out a su...
Spotify Halves Subscription Cost As Competitors Gather
Spotify is slashing the cost of its advert-free music streaming in Europe, in a bid to win more paying customers besides just mobile users. It comes in two new tariffs Spotify's introducing... —Spot...
Steve Jobs Is Opening Up Apple One Email at a Time
If there's one enduring lesson I took away from my late-night argument with Steve Jobs, it's that Apple's relationship with the public is undergoing a quiet revolution. Are we about to see a new, mor...
Cash not always welcome at Apple stores
PALO ALTO (KGO) — It is said that “cash is king” and that people can buy anything with U.S. currency. But, that is not always true and the red hot Apple iPad is a case in point. It is unbelievable b...
The iPad doesn't need to do everything
Rationalizing the purchase of an iPad usually includes a few of these: — I'll carry it around most of the time. — I'll be able to replace my laptop with it. — I'll be able to replace my Kindle with...
The Pirate Party Becomes The Pirate Bay's New Host
Following an injunction obtained by several major Hollywood movie studios, yesterday Pirate Bay bandwidth provider CB3ROB Ltd. & Co. KG took the decision to take the site offline while it digested the...
Google deletes private data in Ireland; a complaint filed in U.S.
Google said Monday afternoon that upon the request of Ireland's Data Protection Authority, it has deleted private data it collected as part of its Street View application. — In a blog post, the comp...
7 Lessons Learned While Building Reddit to 270 Million Page Views a Month
Steve Huffman, co-founder of social news site Reddit, gave an excellent presentation (slides, transcript) on the lessons he learned while building and growing Reddit to 7.5 million users per month, 27...
Best Buy's Internet video service ready to debut
SAN FRANCISCO - Best Buy Co. is about to give its customers one less reason to buy DVDs. — The largest U.S. consumer electronics retailer said Tuesday that it will start renting and selling the late...
Kevin Rose Gives A Glimpse Of The New Digg
Yesterday, while he was visiting his father and working beside a Colorado stream, Kevin Rose sent out a seemingly bland, lazy Sunday Tweet: … But the payload of that Tweet, a link to picture showing a...
Is the iPad Driving E-Book Piracy, and Does It Matter?
If you wanted to know how many pirated e-books are being downloaded, BitTorrent would be a good starting place. TorrentFreak, a blog that covers these speedy, P2P downloads, recently decided to check...
Shazam shares big numbers: 75 million users, over 1 billion songs identified
Mobile music recognition and discovery startup Shazam this afternoon revealed that it has grown its user base from 50 million to 75 million members in the last six months. — Stunningly, the company ...