End Of An Era: Sony Stops Manufacturing Cassette Walkmans
Truth be told, I wasn't aware Sony was still producing cassette Walkmans. But the company today announced it will stop manufacturing and selling these devices in Japan - after 30 years. Sony says th...
Wikileaks Founder Will Walk Out of Your Interview If Asked About His Rape Case
In addition to facilitating the largest military leak in U.S. history yesterday, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is a petulant man-child. Watch him walk out of a CNN interview when talk turned to hi...
Netflix testing $7.99 and $8.99 streaming-only plans in US right now, one is not a discount (update)
When CEO Reed Hastings called Netflix “primarily a streaming company that also offers DVD-by-mail,” he wasn't messing around, as the company's quietly made streaming-only plans a reality on US shores.
How Google TV Could Hand Netflix the entire streaming universe
I personally can't think of anything stupider for the big broadcast networks to do than give their shows to Google for free. Why ? Because they are finally getting BILLIONS of dollars in retransmiss...
Gosling blows lid off Jobs Java nonsense
Java daddy deprecates Apple cult leader — Steve Jobs has apparently weighed into the debate over Apple's decision to deprecate Java on the Mac, and his terse explanation was promptly deprecated by J...
Groupon Reveals Its Future Lies In Self-Serve
Groupon is quietly testing a self-serve deal platform for merchants to manage real time offers for consumers named Groupon Stores. According to Groupon, this is the future of the company: … Based on ...
Programmers Who Defined The Technology Industry: Where Are They Now?
Some early programmer names are familiar to even the most novice of software developers. You may never have seen a line of code written by Bill Gates, or written any application in BASIC (much less f...
Starbucks CIO shows why next version of Windows is “risky business” for Microsoft
Starbucks CIO, Stephen Gillett, and I had breakfast on Wednesday. He showed me Starbucks new Digital Network, which will pop up on the screen if you sign in on wifi at any of Starbucks US stores. 30 ...
Marketers Can Glean Private Data on Facebook
SAN FRANCISCO — Online advertising offers marketers the chance to aim ads at very specific groups of people — say, golf players in Illinois who make more than $150,000 a year and vacation in Hawaii. ...
Meet Google's New Search Boss: Udi Manber
Now that Marissa Mayer has been moved from search to local, Udi Manber is Google's search boss. — Google search is the world's most lucrative technology product, so this promotion makes Manber a pre...
Is Google Broken? Sites Big & Small Seeing Indexing Problems
No one seems to be immune from a Google indexing problem that has many site owners baffled. Blogs and websites, big and small, aren't being indexed as quickly as they normally are — if they're being ...
The new king of Apple analysts
He's a Romanian blogger with a Harvard MBA who lives in Finland. Go figure. — Horace Dediu. Photo: Rami Salle — What if you took all the estimates by all the analysts who write about Apple (AAPL...
Credit Cards Soon to Get a Makeover
The simple credit card is about to get a makeover. — Next month, Citibank will begin testing a card that has two buttons and tiny lights that allow users to choose at the register whether they want ...
Wikileaks Hacked By “Very Skilled” Attackers Prior To Iraq Doc Release
Update: Ahead of schedule, Wikileaks has published its latest leak: nearly 400,000 Iraq War documents. — Someone is trying to spring a leak in Wikileaks. — As the whistle-blower organization prepa...
Will Gingerbread be Android 2.3?
We've been talking about the next version of Android — (still) unofficially dubbed Gingerbread — as far back as a year ago — months before Froyo was ever announced. But what we haven't really known w...
Is Twitter Going Back to the Funding Well for a Giant New Round?
Twitter, which has raised $160 million in its four-year history, may end up more than doubling that total: The messaging service is mulling yet another funding round that could see it raise more than ...
Mozilla pays 12-year-old San Jose boy for hunting bugs in system
It's safe to say a typical Willow Glen 12-year-old doesn't earn $3,000 for a couple of weeks' worth of work. Then again, Alex Miller is no typical 12-year-old. — Alex is a bug hunter, but the bugs ...
Call centers connected to Verizon staff up
The January release of a Verizon iPhone remains unconfirmed, but we may have still more grist for the ever-churning rumor mill. Call centers connected to the wireless carrier and Apple are hiring hun...
Twitter's “Similar to You” could outdo “Who to Follow” for suggestions [TNW Social Media]
Over the last couple of days, we noticed what seemed to be a new recommendation feature on Twitter called “Similar to You”. We reached out to Twitter just now to ask about it …
Is Zynga Trying To Patent Virtual Currency?
If we're reading correctly, this patent filed in March is multiplayer gaming network Zynga's application for the control of non-redeemable virtual currency and/or poker chips bought with real currency...
Why IPv6? Vint Cerf keeps blaming himself
Impending exhaustion of IPv4 addresses ‘my fault,’ he says ... regularly — Are you struggling with or dreading the thought of IPv6? — If so, Vint Cerf, much-decorated “Father of the Internet,” wan...