Apple reverses its no-cash payment policy for iPads
Apple stepped up to the plate Wednesday, responding to a 7 On Your Side report about a woman who tried to buy an iPad using her carefully saved up money, only to be told she could not pay with cash. ...
Nvidia's Android Tablet: Okay, I Could Want This
A rounded, plasticky take on the iPad. That's how Nvidia's latest Android tablet prototype struck me. It's pretty nice. But not as nice as the inside. — Inside this 8.9-inch tablet, you see, is N...
Google Offers Up A Few More Details About The Chrome Web Store
Perhaps the biggest story of day one at Google I/O was the announcement of the Chrome Web Store. This store is meant to highlight web apps while at the same time, providing a way for developers to be...
First Look: TweetDeck Now Supports Foursquare and Buzz [SCREENSHOTS]
Popular cross-platform social app TweetDeck is announcing an update to its desktop client this morning which will add Foursquare and Google Buzz to its arsenal of supported streams which already inclu...
Facebook CEO's latest woe: accusations of securities fraud
May has been a bad month for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who just turned 26 last Friday but spent his birthday wrestling with an uproar over Facebook's privacy practices. The latest unwelcome gift:...
Netflix Is The Latest To Talk The HTML5 Talk
As we all know, the battle between Flash and HTML5 for the future of online video is raging. But what about that other plugin some sites use for video? You know, the one made by Microsoft — Silverli...
Android 3.0 “Gingerbread” coming in Q4 2010, says WebM media team
Crikey, while we're all expecting Google to unleash Android 2.2 on us all later today at its Google I/O 2010 conference, plans are already well underway for a launch of the 3.0 refresh of the mobile O...
iPad app store goes live internationally
Irrespective of Apple policy, we know that many of our readers already purchased a US iPad for use — gasp — outside of the United States. With favorable exchange rates and an early US launch really, ...
Apple Selling More iPads Than Macs
Here's a stunner of a data point: Apple (AAPL) is selling more than 200,000 iPads per week. Which means, according to RBC Capital Markets analyst Mike Abramsky, that sales of the company's new device...
UK data chief: I don't want to declare war on Google
Data protection chief defends ‘proportionate’ response to Street View Wi-Fi affair, as other countries plan investigations — The UK's information commissioner says he does not want to “declare war” ...
Millennial Media: Android Ad Impressions Rise 77 Percent In April, iPhone Sees 8 Percent Drop
Mobile ad network Millennial Media, which claims that its mobile advertising network reaches 83 percent of 72 million mobile web users in the U.S., is reporting that Android ad requests grew 77% month...
YouTube, 450 Websites Blocked in Pakistan as Government Steps Up Crackdown
Pakistan, home to the world's second- largest Muslim population, blocked Google Inc.'s YouTube service and more than 450 websites as the government widened a crackdown on Internet material deemed as b...
BigQuery and Prediction API: Get more from your data with Google
To deliver our services, Google has had to develop sophisticated internal tools to process data more efficiently. We know that some of these tools could be useful to any developer, so we've been work...
Google Has A Problem: VP8 Is Not As Good As H.264, On2's Quality Claims Unfounded
When On2 announced their VP8 codec in September of 2008, they made some pretty big claims comparing the improved quality of VP8 over H.264. Specifically, On2 said that VP8, “delivers over 50% bandwid...
New Bing Map Apps: Gas Prices, Distance Calculator and Parking Finder
Let me take you on a little trip. It's raining in Seattle today (surprise, surprise), so I've decided to head to San Diego for the weekend - the weather should be better there. First thing I want to...
IDC Forecasts 7.6 Million Media Tablets to be Shipped Worldwide in 2010
The nascent market for media tablets, fostered by the launch of Apple's iPad, will be driven by the device's attributes as a content consumption platform and the compelling applications and services t...
Twitter for BlackBerry Beta Update!
I'm happy to tell you that a new version of Twitter® for BlackBerry® Smartphones is coming soon to the BlackBerry App World™ Test Center. This update should start rolling out tonight and is expected ...