Apple issues statement on iPhone factory suicides
Apple has issued a public statement on the spate of tragic worker suicides at the Chinese manufacturing plant of its iPod/iPhone production partner, Foxconn. — Company spokesman, Steve Dowling, told...
BitTorrent Download Record Shattered By Lost Series Finale
Last year, Lost achieved the questionable honor of being the second most-pirated TV-show on BitTorrent. With more than 6 million downloads for a single episode, Lost was only trailing Heroes by a few...
30 percent of netbook shoppers bought an iPad instead, survey says
Nearly one in three buyers who had been considering a netbook waited for, and then bought, an Apple iPad tablet instead, according to a survey of more than a thousand US consumers spread across gender...
Facebook's Culture Problem May Be Fatal
Facebook's imbroglio over privacy reveals what may be a fatal business model. I know because my students at Parsons The New School For Design tell me so. They live on Facebook and they are furious a...
Wired Coming to Apple's iPad — With Adobe
With Adobe — Wired magazine's iPad application is expected to hit Apple's app store on Wednesday, capping a nearly year-long effort that thrust the Conde Nast publication into the middle of the publi...
Yahoo Adds More Facebook Features to Email
For more than a year, Yahoo has been adding social features to make its email platform look more like Facebook; now, it's rolling out a change that just brings part of Facebook itself to Yahoo mail. ...
Lean vs Fat Startups: The Disrupt Debate
Back in March, Ben Horowitz of Andreessen Horowitz wrote a post called The Case For The Fat Startup, where he outlined some of the reasons why a fledging company might want to consider taking a large ...
BBC iPlayer adds Twitter and Facebook to socialise TV
The BBC's video on demand service, iPlayer is introducing social networking features which should further boost the uptale of Twitter and Facebook in the UK - as if they needed any boosting. The new ...
Google tries its hand at influence in Washington
When someone as influential as Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV requests your presence at a hearing, Washington insiders know it's more of a summons than an invitation. — So for two hours on the morning ...
Inside Foursquare: Checking In Before the Party Started (Part II)
In Part I of our insider look at the earliest days of Foursquare, we saw everything go downhill in a flurry of technical catastrophes. But we also caught a glimpse of light at the end of the tunnel.
Yext's Rep monitors Yelp, Google, and other sites for local businesses
New York-based startup Yext has been working to bring more effective advertising and analytics to local businesses for some time. Today at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, Yext CEO Howard Lerman an...
Apple: Will Steve Ballmer Show Up At The WWDC Keynote?
So, maybe there could be a surprise or two at the Apple (AAPL) Worldwide Developers Conference, after all. Trip Chowdhry, an analyst with tiny Global Equities Research, contends that 7 minutes of the...
Firefox Home Coming Soon to the iPhone
We have been working on an application for the iPhone based on the Firefox Sync (formerly Weave Sync) technology. The app is called Firefox Home, and it gives iPhone users instant access to their Fir...