MySpace Ads Up for Grabs
News Corp. is in discussions with Google Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. about replacing MySpace's crucial search-advertising partnership with Google, which expires next month, according to peopl...
Microsoft Calling. Anyone There?
Microsoft's engineers and executives spent two years creating a new line of smartphones with playful names that sounded like creatures straight out of “The Cat in the Hat” — Kin One and Kin Two. Styl...
Hurt Locker Lawsuit Doesn't Affect BitTorrent Downloads
In recent years copyright holders have been trying to find creative ways to turn piracy into profit, with some success. One way to make money from file-sharers is to collect the IP-addresses of the p...
LG confirms Android tablet for Q4 2010 launch, Froyo for Optimus Z
Now this is jolly good news. LG, which already has a Windows 7 tablet in the works, is gearing up to service those with a hankering for some Android in their slate computers as well. Clearly unwilli...
Apple's app store, filled with “App farms” being used to steal. [Examples]
As the story of of iTunes accounts being hacked continues to develop, we've come across a number of what we would call “App Farms” in iTunes being used to scam users out of their money.
HTC Vision with Android, full QWERTY in the wild?
For reasons seemingly known only to Peter Chou himself, HTC has mostly steered clear of producing high-quality physical QWERTY devices running Android, despite the fact that there might be no phone ma...
Brizzly CEO Shoots Down Foursquare Acq-Hire Speculation
Thing Labs — the team behind Twitter client Brizzly — is not going to be acq-hired by Foursquare, cofounder and CEO Jason Shellen tweets. — “Brizzly/Thing Labs is not selling to Foursquare. I do lo...
The Future of Online Socializing
Overview — The social benefits of internet use will far outweigh the negatives over the next decade, according to experts. They say this is because email, social networks, and other online tools of...
At Yahoo, Using Searches to Steer News Coverage
Welcome to the era of the algorithm as editor. — For as long as hot lead has been used to make metal type, the model for generating news has been top-down: editors determined what information was im...
Distimo: 57% Of Android Apps Are Free Vs. 28% Of iPhone Apps
App store analytics provider Distimo last week published its report for June 2010, and zoomed in on the pricing of mobile applications across a variety of platforms once more. — The startup found th...
What it takes to be a top 100 website (charts)
Everyone knows that the really big and popular websites have a ton of visitors. But how many? How much does it take to reach the top? — We were curious about this ourselves. We've all seen the al...
Mobile Developer Economics 2010: The migration of developer mindshare
[In part 1 of the 4-part series on our latest research - Mobile Developer Economics 2010 and Beyond - Andreas Constantinou looks at the migration of developer mindshare that is taking place in mobile ...