Your Apps Are Watching You
A Journal investigation finds that iPhone and Android apps are breaching the privacy of smartphone users. — Few devices know more personal details about people than the smartphones in their pockets:...
Kinect sex game will not become reality, Microsoft says
Microsoft's Kinect motion controller has been out for less than two months and already there's an adult company looking to produce a 3-D sex game for the Xbox 360 console. — But Microsoft, maker of ...
Thinking Out Loud: What's Driving Groupon?
In the current issue of the New Yorker, columnist James Surowiecki, who I generally admire, gets it exactly wrong when it comes to Groupon. — He writes: … Well, that's a defensible opinion, but afte...
Bank of America cuts off WikiLeaks
Bank of America has added its name to a list of several financial institutions that have refused to process payments for WikiLeaks as the site reportedly readies a document release that targets the ba...
Mobile Carriers Dream of Charging per Page
Just a week before the FCC holds a vote on whether to apply fairness rules to some of the nation's internet service providers, two companies that sell their services to the country's largest cellular ...
The Cloud OS
My recent remark about the future of ChromeOS generated a surprisingly passionate response. Some said that my prediction was obvious and boring, but others disagreed, arguing instead that I am ugly a...
Viewsonic G Tablet pulled from Staples stores, ‘manufacturing defect’ to blame
Oh boy, we've not been shy about our love for NVIDIA's Tegra 2, but the tablets that have opted to use it so far keep meeting the same miserable end: discontinuation from shop floor availability.
BitTorrent Domain Exodus Continues As Torrentz Dumps .COM
The Internet's second biggest BitTorrent site is dumping its .COM domain. In an apparent response to the US Government's Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement recent...
Tumblr Now Has More Money & More Pageviews Than WordPress (Including Sequoia Money)
Tumblr, the hip blogging and curation platform based in New York City, announced today that it has raised a new round of venture capital. Not yet four years old, Tumblr hosts far fewer bloggers …
Yahoo Just Killed... Consumer Confidence In Them
It has been fairly amazing to watch this Yahoo “sunsetting” news over the past 48 hours. It seemed to go from a bad leak, to huge backlash, to PR disaster, to confusion, to worse PR disaster. Now Ya...
The Cloud OS
My recent remark about the future of ChromeOS generated a surprisingly passionate response. Some said that my prediction was obvious and boring, but others disagreed, arguing instead that I am ugly a...
Groupon's $6 Billion Gambler
The 30-year-old CEO in Chicago is changing the way we buy from local businesses. And trying to make billions doing it. — Chicago — Enter the offices of Groupon, the hottest Internet start-up in t...
EA's App Store price war
As we previously reported, EA dropped prices on most of its iOS apps this week, and that sale sent shockwaves through the App Store's holiday season. We've seen tons of awesome new apps hit the store...