Determined to Crack the Social Code
Google has been stunningly adept at devising computer algorithms to help people search the Internet. But when it comes to building features for social networking, the company has been much less effec...
Apple Has $51 Billion and a Shopping List. Is Facebook On It?
Steve Jobs made a rare appearance during today's Apple's earnings call and spent most of his time beating up his rivals, past and present. Summary: The iPhone has left Research in Motion's BlackBerry...
The new Google Search Appliance - a bridge to the cloud
In the last year, businesses have started using cloud-based applications from Google and other technology providers at an accelerated rate. While many organizations still have information that reside...
Verizon's tiered data plans hitting October 28, smartphones still getting unlimited option?
We'd told you back in July that Verizon would migrate away from unlimited data and toward a tiered model very quickly; turns out it wasn't quite as quickly as we'd thought, but as Ivan Seidenberg said...
Europe's Trademark Office Confirms iPad's New Landscape Design
This week the European Trademarks and Designs Registration Office confirmed that one of Apple's new iPad designs is displaying an extra left side 30 pin connector to allow it to dock in landscape mode...
Next Apple iPhone (Verizon model) hits “AP” field test stage, iPhone 5 hits “EVT” stage?
One of our solid Apple sources has just let us know some pretty interesting (and exciting) information surrounding Apple's upcoming iPhone devices. For starters, we have been told that iPhone model 3...
Sprint promises WiMAX in NYC on November 1, LA on December 1, and San Francisco a few weeks later
The fact that Sprint and Clearwire have teamed up to deliver WiMAX to New York, LA, and San Francisco isn't news. In fact, we've already seen the networks light up in operational readiness modes …
New MacBook Air: Bigger Battery, Sharper Case [Independent Confirmation]
Apple's new MacBook Air will be thinner, lighter and boxier than the current model. Mockup exclusively for CultofMac.com by Dan Draper. — On Wednesday, Steve Jobs will likely introduce a redesigned...
Netflix on Wii drops the clunky disc requirement, starts streaming through Wii Menu
It's not just the PS3 that will be doing its Netflix streaming disc-free from today: the Wii is joining in the fun as well! Americans and Canadians alike will be able to download and install Netflix ...
Adobe Reader X Lands on Android, WP7, Blackberry Tablet OS
Today, leading software giant Adobe Systems Incorporated announced the launch of the Adobe Acrobat X software family (Acrobat X, Reader X, the Acrobat X Suite and new document exchange services) for p...
The Facebook Money Machine
An update to this column: According to the Wall Street Journal, any of Facebook's most popular applications have been transmitting identifying information — in effect, providing access to people's nam...
IPv4 Space Shrinks To 5% - Final Addresses To Be Issued In Early 2011
The Number Resource Organization, the coordinating mechanism for the five Regional Internet Registries or RIRs, this morning announced that less than 5% of the world's IPv4 (Internet Protocol version ...