iPhone 4 at Wal-Mart on June 24
iPhone 4 goes on sale June 24. — If you'd rather avoid the lines at Apple and AT&T stores on iPhone 4 launch day, you have options this year. — Wal-Mart said Friday that it will be one of several ...
Comscore Says It'll Fix Search Share Measurement Now That Yahoo And Microsoft Are Gaming It (YHOO, MSFT, GOOG)
Yahoo and Microsoft's Bing have recently been “gaining” market share in comScore's search engine stats for somewhat sketchy reasons: The companies have increasingly been putting …
World Cup Fever: Internet Has Busiest Day Ever as Tabulated by Akamai
Akamai, the world's largest operator of a network of computers which carry video content, reports that today, opening day of the World Cup, is the busiest day it has tracked, with some 11 million vis...
Just When He Thought He Was Out, Facebook Pulls Calacanis Back In
This morning, we got a tip that despite all the hubbub about Jason Calacanis deleting his Facebook profile, it was still active. Sure enough, it was. So what gives? — We emailed Calacanis to find ...
The End Of An Era: Hotmail Ditches The Taglines
“Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. Get it now.” — When Hotmail launched in 1996 it grew fast. Very fast. It was one of the first free webmail providers, and they had a killer marketi...
Google wants to face single mega-lawsuit over WiFi snafu
Google is attempting to consolidate the growing number of lawsuits against the company as a result of its “accidental” WiFi data collection. Meanwhile, a privacy group has analyzed an independent ana...
Google News Gives News Orgs a Chance to Stand Out
Many mainstream news organizations have long viewed Google News as a threat to their interests. — But more recently, Google has been portrayed as sensitive to the health of the news media. Eric Sch...
Google Voice Desktop App Launch Delayed, May Be Scrapped
When Google acquired Gizmo5, a Skype competitor, in November Google Voice users rejoiced - presumably they'd be getting a much needed soft phone on the desktop for users to make and receive calls thro...
Google morphs Chrome OS into netbook thin client
‘Chromotes’ legacy PC apps inside browser — Exclusive Google's Chrome OS — the operating system that moves all apps and data into a web browser — will provide remote access to “legacy PC application...
ITC to probe Apple for HTC patent infringement
(Reuters) - A U.S. trade panel will investigate allegations made by HTC Corp that Apple infringes its technology, as HTC seeks to win a ban on the U.S. sale of iPhones, iPads and iPods. — The Intern...
A Perfect Storm.....of Whales
Since Saturday, Twitter has experienced several incidences of poor site performance and a high number of errors due to one of our internal sub-networks being over-capacity. — We're working hard to a...
Exclusive: Twitter's Next Moneymaker-"Promoted Trends"
Twitter is beginning to roll out its ad platform, which allows advertisers to insert messages into users' streams. But the microblogging service already has an idea for a new product: Selling some of...
Apple fears the killer app
Ok, so were finally getting down to it. On at least two fronts, Apple has now essentially thrown out its draconian rules on what developers can and cannot do on its platform, and replaced them with e...
Google Testing New Google News Home Page (With Sharing Options)
This never happens to me. Until now. While writing my earlier piece, Google News Tests Editors' Picks, I went to Google News on the off-chance that I'd be able to see the “limited test” of editors' ...
Motorola And RIM Make Peace, End All Outstanding Litigation Worldwide
Is it Christmas? — Motorola and BlackBerry maker Research In Motion have just jointly announced that they have entered into a settlement and licensing agreement that ends all outstanding worldwide l...
Cisco gets into the social network business with Quad
Does the world really need another business social network? Apparently Cisco thinks so, because it plans to release one later this year. The company has been revealing more details of the new produc...
Google Expanding Local Tags, Pushing Them Into Mobile
Google announced that it's rolling out its fixed-fee local ad product “Tags” (formerly “enhanced listings") nationally. It also announced that Tags will be showing up in mobile search results. Tags ...
What's Up With Foursquare, Doc? Try a Bridge Investment, Facebook Talks and More!
Memo to Dennis Crowley: BoomTown has not forgotten you! — In fact, I have been tracking the popular social location service he helms the way Elmer Fudd chases Bugs Bunny, since my last update in Apr...
Boxee Box by D-Link Release Set for November in North America
Earlier this week we got confirmation that the Boxee Box by D-Link will ship this November in US and Canada. We realize many of you have waited months to purchase the Boxee Box, and we know how frust...
FTC Sets Apple Mobile Software Probe
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Federal Trade Commission will investigate whether Apple Inc.'s business practices harm competition in the market for software used on mobile devices, people familiar with the situa...
Law firm offers to defend ‘Hurt Locker’ sharers
The heat is being turned up on the company representing the producers of “The Hurt Locker” as it wages a wide-ranging litigation campaign against illegal file sharing. — In Arizona, a law firm calle...
The Risks of Parenting While Plugged In
WHILE waiting for an elevator at the Fair Oaks Mall near her home in Virginia recently, Janice Im, who works in early-childhood development, witnessed a troubling incident between a young boy and his ...
AT&T Offers Up Specials For Recent iPhone 3GS Buyers
More A&T customers are about to become happy. Just days after the company announced that anyone with an iPhone contract ending at anytime in 2010 would be eligible for a iPhone 4 upgrade, comes word ...
Macs running Steam are more powerful than PCs, on average
No matter which three-legged sentry turret you pick, Steam games run fine if it houses a decent graphics card. That said, stick this in your breech and shoot it — the latest edition of Valve's hardwa...
Super Whales: Top Social Game Spenders Pay More than $10,000 Apiece for Virtual Goods
By now, most people in the social gaming industry have heard about “whales”, those players who spend massively on virtual goods and gifts in games like Mafia Wars or Happy Aquarium.
Microsoft hides mystery Firefox extension in toolbar update
As part of its regular Patch Tuesday, Microsoft released an update for its various toolbars, and this update came with more than just documented fixes. The update also installs an add-on for Internet...
Trade-in sites offering up to $320 for old iPhones
Leery of coughing up $200 or even $300 for yet another iPhone? Well, you can always sell your old iPhone on eBay. But there's another, potentially easier option: trading it in for cash. Some online...
Amazon cloud uses FedEx instead of the Internet to ship data
Amazon's new way to quickly move data to the cloud relies on air mail, not the Internet. — Amazon's cloud storage service has unveiled a brand new way to quickly move giant amounts of data to the cl...