Why everyone hates new net neutrality rules—even NN supporters
even NN supporters — It's no surprise that those who have always opposed net neutrality weren't pleased with today's FCC order instituting it—one expects no less—but the sheer vehemence of the object...
EXCLUSIVE: iPad Competitor Coming Soon From Palm
FoxNews has obtained exclusive images of Palm's forthcoming competitor to the iPad, called the PalmPad, which will debut at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show. — The Apple iPad has a solid lead in t...
Amazon Is Said to Exceed Kindle Sales Estimates by 60 Percent
Dec. 21 (Bloomberg) — Amazon.com Inc. is likely to sell more than 8 million Kindle electronic-book readers this year, at least 60 percent more than analysts have predicted, according to two people who...
Fluther Flocks to Twitter
There are now three times as many people on the Twitter team as there were at this time last year. More than half of our employees work in engineering and operations, and those teams continue to grow...
EXCLUSIVE: PlayStation phone to hit shops in April
Sources confirm to Pocket-lint launch date and release — The Sony Ericsson PlayStation phone will hit shops in April, after a February Mobile World Congress launch, sources close to the matter have ...
Four reasons Google is still Awesome
My recent predictions about which Google products will succeed (and which won't) are causing people to think that I'm anti-Google, which makes me sad since Google is probably still the best company of...
Facebook Launches Instant Personalization On TripAdvisor
Hot on the heels of bringing Instant Personalization to Clicker last week, today Facebook is announcing the latest addition to the program: TripAdvisor. The popular travel site, which includes user r...
IDC: Windows Phone 7 marketplace ramping up “faster than Android”
The Windows Phone 7 marketplace is ramping up faster than Android, and even when compared to the iPhone App store (red line) it does not look too bad. (WP7 graph from WP7Applist.com) — We continue ...
No Hulu Plus for Your Cable DVR
Hulu Plus is slated to come to TiVo's Premiere DVR soon — but don't expect it to show up on any TiVo devices supplied by cable companies like Suddenlink, Cox or RCN. Rights holders are resisting subs...
Windows Phone 7: 1.5 Million Devices Sold, But Not To Consumers
In the last six weeks, there has been a lot of speculation over just how many Windows Phone 7 handsets have been sold since the devices hit the market. Now we have a number, sort of: 1.5 million, rev...
Microsoft Is Said to Announce Version of Windows for ARM Chips
Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, will announce a version of its Windows operating system that runs on ARM Holdings Plc technology for the first time, said two people familiar with ...
Email secrecy won't save you from spam
The spam wars aren't going away soon but treating public email addresses as secret is of no benefit — Last week, I needed to get in touch with a colleague, an academic who'd recently changed univers...
Real Estate Site Trulia Acquires Movity
San Francisco real estate site Trulia said it has acquired Movity, a buzzy stealth start-up that searches and aggregates geodata for home buyers and renters, such as noise, crime and pricing, from a v...
Verizon Will Offer Motorola Phone for 4G Network
Verizon Wireless will distribute a smartphone made by Motorola Inc. to run on its speedy new 4G network next year, the carrier's chief operating officer, John Stratton, said in an interview Tuesday. ...
Steve Jobs is the No. 4 ‘wealth creator’
Apple's CEO moved up 31 places in Chief Executive magazine's 2010 ranking — Only Priceline's (PCLN) Jeffrey Boyd, Aflac's (AFL) Daniel Amos and Federated Investors' (FII) Christopher Donahue created...
Why Apple Removed a WikiLeaks App From Its Store
Apple on Tuesday confirmed that it had removed from its online store an iPhone and iPad app that let users view the content on the WikiLeaks site and follow the WikiLeaks Twitter account. — Trudy Mu...
Salesforce Buys Email Contact Manager Etacts
We heard earlier today that Y Combinator-funded Etacts shut down its CRM-like email contact manager after less than a year in service. We subsequently learned that Salesforce has bought Etacts, and h...
Google shopping for Groupon wannabe: sources
Google, whose $6 billion buyout offer was spurned by online coupon site Groupon, is in talks with much smaller rivals of the two-year-old firm, a source close to the situation told The Post. — The d...
Facebook Rolling Out More Prominent Design of News Feed Filters
Facebook is rolling out a new way to filter the news feed. Users with access to the redesigned feature see a drop-down arrow beside their Most Recent news feed tab on the home page, revealing filters...
One of the “Killer Apps for Android,” Swype Opens Its Beta
Oh, the war of words between iPhone and Android fans. How it has preoccupied us this year. I won't take sides now. I own both. (Don't judge.) But I will say this: if you're an Android user, you m...
Viewsonic: There's no G Tablet ‘manufacturing defect,’ it's a user experience issue
In case you missed it, this weekend Staples announced that it was no longer offering the 10.1-inch Viewsonic G Tablet because of a “manufacturing defect.” Well, as it turns out, Viewsonic is claiming...
How Click-to-Call Boosts Google's Mobile Revenues
In October, Google crowed about its mobile business hitting a $1 billion run rate, though much of that is assumed to be mobile search advertising, an offshoot of Google's biggest business online. But...
Cloud Engines raises $15M to turn old hard drives into private cloud servers
Cloud Engines, maker of the Pogoplug set-top appliance that turns external hard drives into private cloud servers, announced today that it has raised $15 million from Softbank Capital and Morgan Stanl...
CHART OF THE DAY: Facebook Revenue Is Not Growing Like Google's Did
Want to get the Chart of The Day before everybody else? Get it in an email. — Facebook is on track to generate $2 billion in sales this year, a nice milestone for the social networking king.
EBay Sends Shoppers to Offline Stores
To help last minute holiday shoppers, EBay is sending them to bricks and mortar stores. — Yes, you read that right. The company has adopted a counter-intuitive strategy intended to make its Web sit...
Announcing Google Shared Spaces
In August, Google announced that Wave would no longer be developed as a standalone product, but that the Wave technology would survive in other products. Today, I am happy announce the launch of Goog...
Roku CEO: Sales Doubled When Apple TV Launched
When Apple and Google made big moves into the “digital living room” this year, it made sense to assume that business would become a lot harder for Roku. — The Silicon Valley-based company has been s...
Windows Phone 7 Sales Off to a Promising Start, First Step in a New Era of Mobile
Achim Berg, Microsoft's vice president of business and marketing for Windows Phones, discusses the momentum, strengths and challenges of the company's newly launched Windows Phone 7.
Apple Removes WikiLeaks App From App Store
Looks like an unofficial iPhone and iPad app that let you view WikiLeaks site content and follow the WikiLeaks Twitter account on the go has been removed from the App app store earlier today. The app...
Four reasons Google is still Awesome
My recent predictions about which Google products will succeed (and which won't) are causing people to think that I'm anti-Google, which makes me sad since Google is probably still the best company of...
New Apple TV Sales to Top One Million This Week
Apple® today announced that it expects sales of its new Apple TV® to top one million units later this week. The new Apple TV offers the simplest way to watch your favorite HD movies and TV shows, str...
E-Mail's Big Demographic Split
In an article in Tuesday's Times, I wrote about the changing status of e-mail. Once it was cool to merely have an e-mail account (or several), but many young people now think of it as old school, and...
About.Me CEO Tony Conrad: Here's Why I Sold My Company To AOL So Quickly
About.me, a super-simple make-your-own-pretty-looking- homepage tool, just launched last week, and today the company announced that it had already been acquired by AOL. (Actually, the company signed ...
Hidden Safari Mobile feature reveals augmented reality capability
Occipital, the company behind the grand app recently profiled by TNW, 360 Panorama, has discovered something new and exciting contained within the Safari Mobile Browser. — To use what Occipital's di...
It's Official: EA Owns the App Store - Now What Do We Do?
It's official. The big publishers now own the App Store. We all knew it was going to happen sooner or later (it's just we all hoped it would be later). Apologies for leading off our second idevblog...
FCC approves net neutrality rules
The Federal Communications Commission adopted new rules that will govern how Internet providers treat Web traffic and services, a move that sets the stage for a heated political battle on Capitol Hill...
Acer, Asustek, Lenovo to launch new notebooks with ultra-thin design in 1Q11
As Apple's new MacBook Air notebook has seen a strong demand in the channel, notebook brands including Acer, Asustek Computer and Lenovo are all set to follow suit and launch 13.3- to 14-inch notebook...
VCs say they'll invest, hire and sell more in 2011
Venture capitalists say they will invest more in 2011, as hiring in the sector heats up and selling begins to shake off the lingering woes of the financial crisis, according to a study released today ...