Expedia removes American Airlines' fares completely
It's official. At least for now, American Airlines' fares and any links to same have been completely removed from Expedia.com. That means you'll no longer find AA's fares compared on Expedia or Orbi...
Verizon Drops Galaxy Tab Price to $499, Tosses in $60 in Free Movie Rentals (Updated)
Is Verizon ringing in the New Year with a price drop to its Samsung Galaxy Tab (our review)? According to one of our peeps and that picture above, stores should be changing out displays to reflect a ...
The “Android SMS Bug” Does Not Exist
Let me tell you all a story of my youth. I was in high school, driving around in my first car, a 1976 Mercury Monarch. Approaching an intersection, I saw the stop sign too late; I was going to run r...
Google Chrome Hoarding Gives a 404 Error
Unlike other web browsers Google Chrome is exploring different media to promote itself. While online advertising for web browsers was so long believed to be the most effective way of getting more peo...
NES Emulator created, blocked for Windows Phone 7
Matt Bettcher has ported an open source emulator for the famous NES platform to Windows Phone 7. He says the code, at present unoptimised, runs at 10-20 frames per second on this Samsung Focus, which...
So Much For FREE!: Apple Will Sell $2B in Apps in 2011
I've often wondered if the early Web pioneers had it all to do over again if Web companies would have put less of an emphasis on free. — People have been conditioned against paying for services or c...
Verizon Buying Up iPhone Domains? Well, Not Recently.
An enticing headline over the weekend at PocketNow claims that Verizon is buying up iPhone-related domains, presumably as a prelude to the launch of an actual Verizon iPhone. — The report notes that...
Goldman Invests in Facebook at $50 Billion Valuation
Facebook, the popular social networking site, has raised $500 million from Goldman Sachs and a Russian investor in a deal that values the company at $50 billion, according to people involved in the tr...
Google Digital Newsstand Aims to Muscle In on Apple
Google Inc. and Apple Inc. have stepped up their battle to win over publishers, as the two companies vie to become the dominant distributor of newspapers and magazines for tablet computers and other m...
Vizio to Introduce Tablet, Cellphone
Company to Unveil Tablet, Cellphone With Same Strategy as Its Low-Cost TVs — Vizio Inc., which put inexpensive flat-panel TVs in living rooms, now is setting its sights on cellphones and tablet comp...
Square Starts 2011 with A New Round At A Big Valuation
While much of Silicon Valley spent the last two weeks skiing or otherwise reveling in all that money made this year from acquisitions, partial liquidations and secondary deals, Square founder Jack Dor...
Let's End the Myth that Ideas are Worthless
I love Silicon Valley. I love the entrepreneurial energy and the blister and pop of passion being painted into reality every day. But if entrepreneurial density is the Valley's greatest asset, it ca...