Ping Users Top One Million in First 48 Hours
Apple® today announced that in less than 48 hours since its launch on Wednesday, more than one million users have joined Ping, its new social network for music which lets users follow their favorite a...
Trimming our privacy policies
Long, complicated and lawyerly—that's what most people think about privacy policies, and for good reason. Even taking into account that they're legal documents, most privacy policies are still too ha...
Steve Jobs: iTunes 10 Icon Does Not ‘Suck’
While winding down from Wednesday's iPod announcements, Apple CEO Steve Jobs appears to have taken some time to respond to an e-mail criticizing the new look of the iTunes icon. — Joshua Kopac, who ...
iPhone 3G Speed Test: iOS 4.0 versus iOS 4.1
iOS 4.0 was so slow on our 3G, we promptly downgraded after updating. Earlier this week, Apple announced, among other things, that iOS 4.1 fixed performance on the iPhone 3G. We put their claim to t...
Controversial ‘Duke Nukem Forever’ Will Finally Be Released
The first person shooter about a space marine with a penchant for off-color humor who battles aliens with increasingly destructive weapons …
Texas inquires on our approach to competition
We've always worked hard to ensure that our success is earned the right way — by building great products, not locking in our users or advertisers. That said, we recognize that as Google grows, we're ...
Google Announces Can't Be Missed Press Event On Search - What's Up?
Google's announced a special press event for next Wednesday on search that “you won't want to miss.” What big news could there be? Let's speculate — but I wouldn't get too excited. — Here's what th...
BREAKING: Facebook Now Displaying All Liked News Articles In Search Results
Another big upgrade from Facebook: the company is currently testing search results which display articles ranked by likes. Additionally, the results for searches now shows the results from all around...
Quantcast: Android continues to grow vs. iOS domination
The Android juggernaut continues to explode, now owning 25% of US mobile web browsing. — Quantcast data for August is in and the trends we've been seeing since the beginning of the year have continu...
BUSTED: Anti-Google Privacy Group Consumer Watchdog Is Tracking Your Clicks With Google Analytics
How's this for a little hypocrisy? — Consumer Watchdog, a nonprofit advocacy group and vocal Google critic, has been a promoting a video that lampoons Google's privacy practices by depicting …
Facebook Prevents Users From Sending Suspicious Friend Requests To Strangers
Facebook has begun implementing new security measures to prevent friend request spamming. Some users are being shown a “This Request Can't Be Sent” pop-up if their request is deemed suspicious.
New York's Tech Start-Up Scene Comes of Age
Just stop calling it ‘Silicon Alley’ — In the late 1990s, as Silicon Valley's tech industry headed into boom-land, so too did New York City. — A slew of startups formed, many focused on “new media...
Apple TV isn't 1080p and you shouldn't care
The refreshed Apple TV sports a new design, Netflix streaming, and low price, but like the old model, Apple's streaming video box is still limited to 720p content. While that means the Apple TV loses...
The Leaning Tower of Ping: How iTunes Could Be Apple's Undoing
Wade Roush wrote: — With each new product that Apple announces, including the revamped Apple TV and the new Ping social network, Steve Jobs reveals a little bit more of his plan to dominate the medi...
How Websites Make You Spill Your Secrets
People divulge more sensitive information on sites that look less safe. — Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have found that the appearance of website has a big effect on how honestly people ...
Coinstar Builds Apple Ties as It Seeks Online Partner
Sept. 3 (Bloomberg) — Coinstar Inc., owner of the Redbox DVD rental kiosks, is expanding ties with Apple Inc. as it searches for a partner to build an online viewing service. — The company added 1.8...
Mint Sets Spending Data Free
The online personal-finance assistant Mint often mines user data for trends and interesting charts to feature on its popular corporate blog. Now the Intuit-owned company is preparing to release the d...
Twitter: 300,000 apps, but none of them matter
Twitter CEO Ev Williams posted a blog entry Thursday with an update on the microblogging service's usage, which continues to grow sharply. More interesting than the numbers, though, was the message w...
Digg's Decline, Illustrated
Why does Digg have a new design and a new CEO? Here's one answer, via a handy chart. — This one comes from Christopher Mascari, a Gawker Media marketing guy, and it illustrates the blog network's t...
Apple gets Ping'd with comment spam - They didn't see this coming?
Most of the security industry has been pointing out the migration of spam from an email-only venture to blog/forum comments, Facebook, Twitter and other Web 2.0 platforms. But apparently Apple didn't...
Trimming our privacy policies
Long, complicated and lawyerly—that's what most people think about privacy policies, and for good reason. Even taking into account that they're legal documents, most privacy policies are still too ha...
Apple Building 2 Million iPads Per Month, But Shooting for 3 Million
“Shocked” by demand for the iPad after it launched, Apple (AAPL) has ramped up production of the device to meet it, but there's work left to do yet. Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty says Apple rec...
iPhone 3G Speed Test: iOS 4.0 versus iOS 4.1
iOS 4.0 was so slow on our 3G, we promptly downgraded after updating. Earlier this week, Apple announced, among other things, that iOS 4.1 fixed performance on the iPhone 3G. We put their claim to t...
iPod touch Is Close, But Still No Contract-Free iPhone
If you don't count the ol' iPod Classic, Apple completely revamped the iPod line yesterday at its annual music event. The Shuffle saw the return of buttons. The Nano is now a miniature multi-touch m...
Angry Birds arrives on the Android platform
iPhone smash hit broadens — One of the iPhone's biggest gaming hits has finally arrived on the Android platform, with Rovio Mobile's phenomenally addictive Angry Birds making the jump to a new platf...
iHome teases first AirPlay-compatible portable speaker dock
No surprise that iHome is first out of the gate with a speaker dock that's compatible with Apple's newly-open AirPlay music streaming system, but unfortunately the teaser page is maddeningly light on ...
iOS browsing is bigger than Android (6x) and Linux says NetApps
Apple's iOS has become the third most popular platform on the Internet with marketshare that's nealry six times larger than Android. Indeed, iOS is bigger than Linux, says Net Applications.
Ev Williams: Twitter Will Actually Help Information Overload
At its core, Twitter is a “recipient-driven medium,” said CEO Evan Williams in a public conversation tonight in San Francisco, Calif. What does that mean? Williams, an unusually theoretical CEO, is h...
bit.ly and Link Wrapping
Following this week's OAuth and apps announcements, some of our users have inquired about how bit.ly will work with Twitter's new link-wrapping service. Link-wrapping will enable Twitter to collect t...
See, YouTube ads can be awesome: A hunter shoots a bear
Nice timing. Just a few hours after The New York Times reported that YouTube's ad revenues have grown to the point that the Google-owned video site will be profitable this year, I spotted a video tha...
Live Streaming Video Jumps 600% in Past Year
Nearly a decade before anyone had heard of YouTube, the first viral video spread among snickering teens and procrastinating college students. Discovered via direct download links and embedded QuickTi...
Vox is closing September 30, 2010
Vox has been a fun place to explore, create and connect with your friends. But Vox is closing its doors on September 30, 2010. — This doesn't mean you have to say goodbye to your blog. We want you...
In Defense of Links, part three: In links we trust
How Tagged Found A 100 Million User Path Post Facebookocalypse (Video)
Heard of Tagged? Back in 2005 it was a teenager-only social network, catering primarily to U.S. high school students as Facebook charged through the college crowds. By 2007 they were profitable and ...
Google to pay 8.5 million dollars to settle Buzz case
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Google has agreed to pay 8.5 million dollars (US) to settle a privacy lawsuit over a Buzz social networking tool added to free email service Gmail in February, according to court...
A Swedish Shield, Unraised
How much protection can WikiLeaks offer? — Julian Assange, the public face of the secret-sharing site WikiLeaks, has recently been spending a lot of time in Sweden. And given a recent investigation...
Reddit Diggs Traffic Surge, Prepares For Expansion
It's all hands on deck at Reddit this week. — In the wake of Digg's bungled redesign, its rival is enjoying a surge in traffic and a jump in ad and subscription sales. Since Monday, the site has be...
an unwarranted bashing of Twitter's oAuth
Ryan Paul over at ArsTechnica claims a compromise of Twitter's oAuth system, but fails to demonstrate such a compromise. It's unfortunate, because some of his comments are indeed worthwhile, and ther...