Check-In On Foursquare Without Taking Your Phone Out Of Your Pocket
Heavy Foursquare users, you have a new app to get immediately. Future Checkin is an app that allows you to check-in to your favorite Foursquare venues automatically when you're near them.
Android Sales Overtake iPhone in the U.S.
Sales of Google Android phones in the U.S. are rising so quickly, the devices have outsold Apple handsets for the first time on record. New smartphone subscribers choosing Google phones accounted for...
No E-Books Allowed in This Establishment
A few weeks ago I decided to mosey over to a local Manhattan coffee shop for an afternoon cappuccino. — After placing my order I sat down at a table and pulled out my Amazon Kindle. — I barely mad...
AT&T, Verizon Said to Target Visa, MasterCard With Smartphones
AT&T Inc. and Verizon Wireless, the biggest U.S. mobile carriers, are planning a venture to displace credit and debit cards with smartphones, posing a new threat to Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc., thre...
Here's how much data 3G FaceTime uses
Many people are curious to know how much data FaceTime over 3G actually uses. We put two iPhone 4s to the test, one running FaceTime over 3G, and took before and after screenshots of the data. As yo...
Windows Phone 7 coming to Europe in October, US in November, according to Microsoft COO (video)
Here's something that seems to have slipped the net from Kevin Turner's recent presentation on Windows Phone 7 devices. While discussing the move to Microsoft's next great hope in the mobile space …
Amazon: We have 70-80 percent of e-book market
Recently, I sat down with Ian Freed, an Amazon vice president in charge of the Kindle, to get a sneak peek at the new Kindles and discuss e-books and the Kindle business in general. Naturally, a good...
What Microsoft isn't saying about its iPad compete strategy
Some believe Microsoft is being coy about its slate plans. Others simply think the company is being clueless. I think the Redmondians are planting decoys, hoping they'll provide cover for missteps.
Apple is run like a huge startup. The key to great products is small teams
One of my favorite and most-used iPhone apps is Apple's Remote app. It lets me remotely control iTunes, which is streaming to my living room stereo via an Airport Express. But why hasn't it been upd...
Facebook Would-Be Owner Says He Owes Claim to Arrest, Andrew Cuomo Lawsuit
Paul Ceglia, who claims in a lawsuit that he owns 84 percent of Facebook Inc., said his case wouldn't have been possible if state troopers hadn't come to his house in October to arrest him for fraud.
Twitter to Require Password Reset for Those Who Bought Followers
Twitter is requiring password resets for users who signed up for “suspicious” third-party programs that promise to automatically (or magically) get them followers. Twitter usually pushes out password...
Bing and Google in a Race for Search Features
Edwin Perello discovered that Bing, the Microsoft search engine, could find addresses in his rural Indiana town when Google could not. Laura Michelson, an administrative assistant in San Francisco, w...
PC vendors unenthusiastic about Intel Atom tablets
Despite Intel promoting its Atom processors aggressively to persuade PC vendors to adopt the platform for their tablet PCs and is set to launch its next-generation Oak Trail platform with even lower p...
Office for Mac 2011 Hitting Store Shelves This October
Qualifying new purchases of Office 2008 will include a full upgrade to Office 2011. — Microsoft Office for Mac 2011, the next version of the leading productivity suite for the Mac, will be available...
Exclusive: PlayOn brings Hulu and Netflix to the iPhone — without Apple's help
without Apple's help — PlayOn, the service that allows you to view streaming media from the web and PCs on a variety of devices, is finally headed to the iPhone as of tomorrow. It originally planned...
Media Companies Try Getting Social With Tumblr
By now, plenty of traditional media companies have hopped on the social media bandwagon, pumping out news updates on Facebook and Twitter. — But do those companies have the time and resources to wor...
What Americans Do Online: Social Media And Games Dominate Activity
Americans spend nearly a quarter of their time online on social networking sites and blogs, up from 15.8 percent just a year ago (43 percent increase) according to new research released today from The...
Attorney General Investigates Potentially Anticompetitive E-Book Deals With Amazon And Apple
Attorney General Investigates Potentially Anticompetitive E-Book Deals With Amazon And Apple — Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is investigating agreements between the country's largest e-book pu...
Windows 7 wins, Mac OS X loses July battle for share
Microsoft's Windows 7 reached a major milestone in July, while Apple's Mac OS X lost ground for the fourth straight month, a Web analytics firm Net Applications said Sunday. — Microsoft's Windows 7 ...
Jailbreak Only: FaceTime Goes 3G
Well that was quick! Less than 24 hours after the public release of the iPhone 4 jailbreak, FaceTime has already been tricked into working over 3G connections. It's made possible thanks to My3G, a j...
Internet Explorer on a Roll - Gains Another .42%
Internet Explorer extended its usage share gains by another .42% in July, gaining about 1% global share since May. This is the second month in a row of global gains for Internet Explorer and the thir...