Statement: Reports of notebook, netbook sales declines grossly exaggerated
RICHFIELD, Minn., September 17, 2010 -In a statement today, Brian J. Dunn, CEO, Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE:BBY), likened recent rumors of a pending decline in notebook and netbook sales to a legendary M...
Intel Threatens to Sue Anyone Who Uses HDCP Crack
Intel threatened legal action Friday against anybody who uses its proprietary crypto key — leaked on the internet — to produce hardware that defeats the so-called HDCP technology that limits home reco...
A New Movie Experience, Starring You and Your Friends
“Have you seen any good movies recently?” is something I usually ask my friends as I start to make weekend plans. My friends are the most important movie critics to me, and we're constantly exchangin...
Airplay is Apple's ‘Go to Market’ Internet TV strategy
Steve Jobs told the AllThingsD audience a few months ago that the reason no one including Google and Apple have been successful in the TV space is that they lacked a successful ‘Go to market TV strate...
Apple Finally Lets A Google Voice Application Into The App Store (Again)
Google Voice applications have had a pretty tumultuous history in the App Store. At first, Apple approved them, and the people rejoiced. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, they were pulled, with …
Cuil Goes Down, And We Hear It's Down For Good
Cuil, the much maligned search engine that at one time had hopes of toppling Google, has gone offline. And from what we hear from former employees, it's not just a temporary outage, it may be done fo...
Shooting From Carol Bartz's Hip: Apple's iAds Are Just Awful, Which Is Why Yahoo Buys Them!
If you're going to trash the competition in the online advertising business in a widely quoted press interview, it's probably a good idea to check if someone on your staff was, you know, buying up the...
When Web sites and Web apps collide with IE 9: Questions and some answers
“People go to the Web for sites, not the browser, much as they go to their PC for apps, not Windows.” — That's what Microsoft Corporate Vice President Dean Hachamovitch told attendees of Microsoft's...
T-Mobile Won't Tax Twitter Texts But Will Hike Prices
T-Mobile USA finally divulged a little information on its impending pricing change for text messaging, saying the move affects only the messaging aggregators that serve as a kind of middleman between ...
Skyhook: Google forced Motorola to drop our location service, delay the Droid X
We figured Skyhook's business interference and patent infringement lawsuits against Google would turn up some dirt, and we didn't have long to wait: the location-services company's complaint flatly al...
Google To Distribute Mobile Devices To Businesses For Checkins, Ratings And More
In an effort to compete with services like Facebook, Yelp and Foursquare, Google is preparing to distribute millions of custom mobile devices to small businesses around the U.S., says a source with kn...
The Internet Freedom Fallacy and the Arab Digital activism
Introduction — This article focuses on grassroots digital activism in the Arab world and the risks of what seems to be an inevitable collusion with U.S foreign policy and interests. It sums up the ...
Facebook Lets You Mark Friend Requests with “Not Now,” then Decide on Them Later
Facebook is adding a new option to how people friend each other, trying to limit unwanted social behavior. — Now, when someone adds you as a friend, you can mark “Not Now,” thereby relegating their ...
Fly on the wall says Apple made Newsday kill funny iPad ap ad
Report unconfirmed; Apple has yet to respond — Yesterday we were speculating about whether Apple was behind the sudden disappearance from YouTube of a newspaper's funny iPad app ad that depicted a D...
YouTube vs. Fair Use
In YouTube: The Big Copyright Lie, I described my love-hate relationship with YouTube, at least as it existed in way back in the dark ages of 2007. … Today's lesson, then, is be careful what you ask f...
Is Google a Monopolist? A Debate
Amit Singhal of Google argues the competition is one click away. Charles Rule, an attorney whose firm represents corporations suing Google, counters that the company commands a share of search advert...
Transcript: Twitter's Ev Williams Answers An Hour's Worth Of Questions, On Twitter
Talk about eating your own dogfood! Today, Twitter CEO Evan Williams took questions for an hour on Twitter, about Twitter, replying from his own account. What was he asked?
Notebook sales growth goes negative. Can we blame the iPad yet?
Thursday night, just as a tornado — or something like it — was knocking down the trees that grow in our Brooklyn neighborhood, Morgan Stanley's Katy Huberty issued a report to clients with a chart (co...
Social Layers and Social Intention
I read Mike Arrington's post on Google's social efforts just now. I have not seen any of Google's work. I have not been briefed. I really have no clue what they are building. But this quote got my...
Case Study: McDonald's ups foot traffic 33% on Foursquare Day
McDonald's may be a large brand, but it doesn't always want to invest large budgets in marketing. With a little help from Foursquare this Spring, the fast food chain increased foot traffic 33% in one...
Too much of a good thing?
Traditionally, the biggest problem for most small businesses is getting customers in the door. Now, Groupon has presented some businesses with an entirely new problem: what happens when you have too ...
HDCP antipiracy leak opens doors for black boxes
An antipiracy code used in set-top boxes, Blu-ray and DVD players has been cracked and published on the Internet, and as a result, we may soon see devices on the market that allow people to make unaut...
Bing Maps Gets Transit Directions
Commuters rejoice! Today Bing Maps added transit routing to its directions options. So, for those of you who like to take the bus, subway, or local rail you now can turn to Bing Maps. This is a ver...
New Apple TV's iOS can be jailbroken and made to run apps?
Remember the mysterious reference to iProd 2,1 that appeared in the iPad's code? We thought it might be a new CDMA or camera-equipped iPad, but it just might have been the new iOS-based Apple TV inst...
A tale of two cultures
In recent days there's been much discussion of Digg and reddit that has concentrated on the technical and community aspects of the two sites. This commentary has overlooked a vital component to the d...
Apple's 27" LED Cinema Display Now On Sale
As anticipated, Apple has started selling the 27" Apple LED Cinema Display on their online store. — Connect the 27-inch Apple LED Cinema Display to your Mac and supersize your view with an incredibl...
Warner Bros. CEO: Apple's $0.99 show rentals “would have hurt sales of full seasons”
If you're wondering why Warner Brothers didn't join up with Apple for the 99 cent iTunes TV show rentals, WB Chief Executive, Barry Meyer's got an answer for you. According to the AP …
Hewlett-Packard Said to Be Near Decision on Hurd's Successor
Sept. 17 (Bloomberg) — Hewlett-Packard Co.'s board is nearing a decision on a successor to Mark Hurd as chief executive officer, and is leaning toward picking an internal candidate, according to a per...