Apple Pulls the Plug on Lala, Replaces It With...Nada
Remember a month ago? When Apple announced that it would shutter Lala and everyone assumed that it was going to replace the streaming music service it bought in December with a streaming music servic...
HP's Transition to the Cloud Will Cost 9,000 Jobs
Hewlett-Packard said today that it would cut 9,000 jobs and take a $1 billion restructuring charge, spread out through the end of its 2013 fiscal year, as the company seeks to automate its data center...
Adobe reveals magazine iPad-izer software
The Flash Player may be banned from the iPad, but that's not keeping Adobe Systems from other efforts to leave its mark on the Apple devices. The latest development: new viewer software announced Mon...
Android Chief Andy Rubin: Updates Will Eventually Come Once A Year
In an interview with the Silicon Valley Mercury News, Google VP Andy Rubin — who founded and leads the Android platform — shared some information about the future of the mobile OS. One of the more in...
The State of Mobile Apps
“There's an app for that” is Apple's catch phrase to promote the literally thousands of applications that can be downloaded to an iPhone. Whether you want to check the weather or traffic, bide time p...
Experiments in delinkification
A few years back, my friend Steve Gillmor, the long-time technology writer and blogger, went on a crusade against the hyperlink. He stopped putting links into his posts and other online writings. I ...
Windows and Security: Setting the Record Straight
There's been some coverage overnight about the security of Windows and whether or not one particular company is reducing its use of Windows. We thought this was a good opportunity to set the record s...
StatCounter: IE6 Usage Falls Below 5% In The US, But IE8 Still On The Rise
Microsoft's oft-lamented browser, Internet Explorer 6, may finally be put to rest. This will make many a Web developer happy - but also Microsoft itself. — Web analytics company StatCounter claims ...
More alleged iPhone 4/HD parts surface (videos)
iPhone Portugal has posted videos of alleged iPhone 4/HD sub-frame assemblies that were purchased in China by one of its readers. The site goes out of its way to state that the parts weren't “stolen ...
Borders To Sell Up To 10 E-Readers In Stores; Adds $120 Libre
Running well behind aggressive rival Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) on the digital front, Borders is now in the midst of a big catch-up push. The struggling bookstore chain, which has had Sony (NYSE: SNE...
Intel debuts new Atom chips for razor-thin netbooks
Intel is debuting new members of its Atom family of microprocessors today that can be the brains of everything from low-power laptops to razor-thin netbooks. — To show off the new technology at the ...
The Coming Data Explosion
One of the key aspects of the emerging Internet of Things - where real-world objects are connected to the Internet - is the massive amount of new data on the Web that will result. As more and more “t...
Zoho lets users search across its business applications
For a while, it seemed like Zoho was launching a new application every month — it now has a suite of 22 apps including email, word processing, and customer management. But the constant stream of new ...
Charges for Skype 2.0 calling on iPhone put off until 2011
When Skype 2.0 for the iPhone was released, our first reaction was: “It supports free calling over 3G, hooray!” That was, of course, followed quickly by: “It's only free until August, boo!” However,...
Amazon Vs. Apple Be Damned: Publishers Pine For A Universal E-Book Format
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Giants and upstarts of publishing gathered at the annual BookExpo America here last week agreed e-books will transform the business but believe the big change will come when ther...
Exclusive: LG UX10 tablet preview at Computex
Microsoft isn't kidding around about showing Apple it's serious in regard to competing in the tablet space, and while most of the devices surrounding its Computex booth were locked down tight, we were...