A Web Pioneer Profiles Users by Name
In the weeks before the New Hampshire primary last month, Linda Twombly of Nashua says she was peppered with online ads for Republican Senate hopeful Jim Bender. — It was no accident. An online tra...
The Donor
As the co-chairwoman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, whose $33 billion endowment makes it the largest private foundation in the world, you've focused your efforts on the health and welfare of ...
Jobs: There won't be a ‘mute-switch becomes an orientation lock’ option for iPad
Back in January 2010 Apple announced that the hardware switch on the side of the iPad would be a mute switch, just like on the iPhone. Then, closer to the product's launch in March of this year …
You need to use social services to understand them
I don't know if Malcolm Gladwell is right when he claims “the revolution will not be tweeted,” but I can say with certainty that the Twitter he describes is not the Twitter I know. Gladwell's central...
Is this the new Nook Color?
A few days ago, we posted a story about Barnes & Noble's next-generation Nook e-reader, which an anonymous tipster claimed would be a $249 touch-screen, Android-based color e-reader called the Nook Co...
Will the Mac App Store have enough to sell?
Apple bringing the App Store to the Mac was a pretty obvious move — I know I'm not the only one who was predicting it would happen sooner or later, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks this is...
Asterisk 1.8 - Major Release Sports 200 New Features
Digium today released Asterisk 1.8, a major new release of the popular open source telephony platform. According to Digium, it includes more than 200 notable new features. — I spoke with Digium's P...
Thousands of Reddit Users Donate Their Data for Research
Last month, Condé Nast social news site Reddit asked users if they would donate their data for research purposes. This week the site made available a data dump from more than 40,000 people who opted-...
In The Fight Against Apple's iAds, Google Plays The Cross-Platform Card
While there are many players in the mobile advertising market, there's no doubt that there's a little bit of a rivalry between Google's ad network AdMob and Apple's new foray into mobile ads, iAd.