Apple makes big land purchase in Cupertino
At a time when Apple is adding new workers almost as fast as it sells new iPhones and iPads, the pioneering computer maker has made a 98-acre land purchase that will roughly double the size of its hom...
Supply Data Now a Focus of Probe
Has the “channel check” become a criminal act? — Wall Street analysts have been left bewildered in recent days, as federal prosecutors begin to home in on insider-trading cases that appear to involv...
Shunned Profiling Technology on the Verge of Comeback
One of the most potentially intrusive technologies for profiling and targeting Internet users with ads is on the verge of a comeback, two years after an outcry by privacy advocates in the U.S. and Bri...
Acer Iconia first hands-on! (update: video!)
Acer's dual-screen Iconia laptop is bold, for sure — eschewing a physical keyboard for another display — but its LCD panels are also mighty glossy. If you've got a light in the vicinity above you, th...
The Better-Off Online
People in higher-income households are different from other Americans in their tech ownership and use. Analysis of several recent surveys conducted by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Li...
Netflix's Advice on Moving to Amazon Web Services
The Netflix's video streaming service has nearly tripled in growth during the past year. To scale the service, Netflix has moved its API and other operations to Amazon Web Services (AWS) over the pas...
Apps is the new Web: sowing the seeds for Web 3.0
[With the phenomenal success of mobile apps, the world of content is migrating from web 2.0 to apps as the new format for creating, packaging, discovering, paying and interacting with information. An...
A High-Tech Edge on Black Friday
Smartphone Apps Track the Latest Deals, What's in Stock; Reveal Your Location and Get a Coupon — Debbie Young has a secret weapon in her quest for Black Friday's best deals: her iPhone. — Using an...
iPhone gets UberTwitter client, BlackBerrys have one less reason to exist
If the name UberTwitter sounds familiar, that'll be because it's one of the more popular mobile Twitter clients, accounting for 10 million tweets each day from BlackBerry users around the globe. And ...
Delicious Founder Raises Funding For Tasty Labs' Take On Social Software
Earlier this month, we noted that Delicious founder Joshua Schachter, together with Nick Nguyen (the former director of add-ons for Mozilla) and Paul Rademacher, the ex-Googler known for creating “the...
Indie App Stores Struggle
Long before Apple Inc. started selling trendy applications to iPhone users, there were online stores where consumers could download apps for their cellphones. But Apple's dominance and the entry of o...
Salesforce names JP Rangaswami chief scientist
JP Rangaswami, the former chief scientist at BT, will take the same position at Salesforce.com. — Salesforce.com said Wednesday that Rangaswami will contribute to the company's product strategy and ...
Flash Free: Aviary Hatches A Lightweight HTML5 Photo Editor For The Web
Aviary is very good at what they do. That is, offering relatively powerful tools for amateur artists to edit content online. But all of those tools are Flash-based. And some of Aviary's partners di...
Google Docs Gets Drag-and-Drop Uploads
Google just announced it's extending the drag-and-drop functionality in its online office suite, Google Docs. A few weeks ago, it introduced an image uploader for docs that worked the same way as the...
Bad Robot? Android Is Limiting Publishers' Payment Prospects
Publishers are increasingly confident about the prospects for tablet editions in the post-print area. But, when it comes to actually monetising the opportunity, Android's limitations mean iTunes Stor...
Opera Mini Had 76.3 Million Users In October, Up 92 Percent From Last Year
Opera's mobile browser, Opera Mini has had a big year. It's iPhone app was approved, saw one million downloads in the first day and since the mobile browser has been growing like gangbusters.