Apple appoints new Senior VP of Operations to address product quality
Apple has appointed a new Senior Vice President of Operations dedicated to ensuring that Apple products meet “the highest standards of quality, “AppleInsider has learned. — Jeff Williams …
500 Million Stories
As of this morning, 500 million people all around the world are actively using Facebook to stay connected with their friends and the people around them. — This is an important milestone for all of y...
Galaxy Phones From Samsung Are Worthy iPhone Rivals
The war of the super-smartphones continues to heat up, and, at the moment, most of the combat seems to be between Apple's iPhone and the multiplying array of competitors running Google's Android opera...
First look at “revolutionary” social news iPad app: Flipboard
You've seen Twitter clients like TweetDeck or Seesmic, but you've never seen one like this. — You've seen news readers like NewsGator, Google Reader, or, even, newer ones for iPad like Pulse, but yo...
Where Facebook's half a billion users reside
Facebook announced this morning that they now reach 500 million active users (just five and half years after launching). But where do these half a billion users reside? Refreshing my post from Febru...
Verizon confirms Droid X screen issues, but says they're not widespread
We just got word back from Verizon regarding those flickering Droid X screens, and sure enough, the ghastly images are not a side effect of your assimilation into the Droid collective.
Twitter Opening Its Own Custom Data Center In Utah Later This Year
As you may have noticed, Twitter has had some reliability issues over the past few months. Part of this was related to the World Cup, part of it is because they just continue to grow at a fast pace —...
Verizon switching to AT&T-style limited data plans later this month?
Hang on to your megabytes, folks, because it looks like the Brave New World of limited data is truly upon us. AT&T and Verizon tend to follow each others' moves pretty closely — the two carriers rega...
Fred Wilson: Apple is evil and Facebook is just a photo-sharing site
Twitter and Foursquare investor Fred Wilson shrugged off Facebook's open graph, the social network's strategy for mapping the web via people's relationships and tastes, and called Apple evil for its i...
Google takes the FTC to school
Google just issued a response to the Federal Trade commission's staff discussion draft on potential recommendations to support the reinvention [read: preservation] of journalism [read: newspapers]. (...
The Web Means the End of Forgetting
Four years ago, Stacy Snyder, then a 25-year-old teacher in training at Conestoga Valley High School in Lancaster, Pa., posted a photo on her MySpace page that showed her at a party wearing a pirate h...
Months after deleting your account, Facebook still publishes your name and picture
Over two months ago, on May 17, 2010, I completely deleted my Facebook account because I felt that they “don't respect my privacy.” What a drama queen move, right? Of course they respect it; after a...
Trada Raises $5.75M From Google Ventures To Crowdsource Search Engine Marketing
Google's AdWords may be one of the most successful products in Internet history, but it's fair to say that most small and medium-sized business owners aren't exactly experts when it comes to writing t...
What Is Google Editions?
Someday soon—later this summer perhaps—there will be a major new development in the evolution of e-books: the launch of Google Editions. The initial success of Amazon's Kindle, Apple's iPad, and the ...
Droid 2 could be first phone to launch with Froyo
The team over at Droid Life got their hands on a photo of what appears to be a pre-release version of the Droid 2 running OS 2.2. If the the device arrives on schedule next month with Froyo, it would...
Readying For An IPO, Jive Software Raises $30 Million From Kleiner Perkins And Sequoia
Jive Software, the maker of an all-in-one social enterprise software, has just raised $30 million in Series C funding led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers with existing investor Sequoia Capital p...
TSMC, Arm Join to Develop Next-generation Mobile Chips
Arm and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company announced a partnership to enable the design of smaller chips for devices like smartphones and tablets, the companies said on Tuesday. — The partne...
Amazon Makes It Clear It Will Survive iPadmania
This is a phenomenal week to be covering the publishing industry. Tuesday, Apple released its quarterly earnings. Big surprise, another record-breaking quarter for the folks in Cupertino. A few bil...
Inside BlackBerry 6: Multimedia Experience
Our team has been working hard to enhance the overall multimedia experience in BlackBerry® 6, and we've packed a lot of changes into the upcoming release. I'm very excited to be able to provide some ...
Lokast Brings Proximity Based Mobile Social Network To Android Phones
Startup NearVerse, the developers of proximity based mobile social network LoKast is rolling out an Android app today. — Originally launched on the iPhone at SXSW in March, LoKast, which is actually...
Google Maps Gets Improved Border Data for 60 Countries and Regions
Including regions with disputed borders — The technical challenges of maintaining a detailed map of the world are hard enough, but things get even more complicated when you factor in political issue...