Apple's Mac App Store Opens for Business
Apple® today announced that the Mac® App Store℠ is now open for business with more than 1,000 free and paid apps. The Mac App Store brings the revolutionary App Store experience to the Mac, so you ca...
Windows at CES 2011
It's been an exciting day for Windows with lots of news shared. I did however want to take a few minutes to share with you a bit more about the rest of the Windows story and the things we will be tal...
Google's decreasingly useful, spam-filled web search
Jeff Atwood, in Trouble In the House of Google: … (via Anil Dash's nice roundup on the issue) — I've been frustrated as well by Google's apparent defeat by spam. It's not a sudden issue — it's been...
CES: New Microsoft Surface to be priced at $7,600
Microsoft officials showed off “Surface 2.0″ — the new version of the company's multitouch tabletop — at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) yesterday. — There were lots of tweets and relatively few...
Apple restricting employee vacations as first 2011 products loom
Apple is quietly prohibiting vacation days for some retail employees for three weeks beginning later this month, a move that could foreshadow a significant product introduction in the coming weeks, Ap...
BlackBerry PlayBook Review
A Hands-On Pre-Release Review of the BlackBerry PlayBook — I've FINALLY gone hands-on with the BlackBerry PlayBook and thus it's time for me to report back with my initial review and impressions of ...
Thousands of stolen iTunes accounts for sale in China
Apple's iTunes service has been targeted several times by criminals in recent years — Tens of thousands of fraudulent iTunes accounts are for sale on a major Chinese website, it has been revealed.
Skype coming soon to Sony BRAVIA and VIZIO VIA TVs
Last year at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), we ushered in a new era of face-to-face communications with the introduction of Skype-enabled TVs. This year at CES, we're making further strides in ...
New Apple patent for network booting could lead to cloud-based Mac OS X
Apple has recently been granted a patent for administering and maintaining a network-booted operating system, possibly laying further groundwork for a cloud-based version of Mac OS X.
Quora Signups Exploded In Late December — Then Doubled From That This Week
Then Doubled From That This Week — So this service Quora, it's getting pretty hot. But up until now, we've only be able to guestimate how hot it actually is. But today they've finally shared some a...
Facebook Will Go Public or Disclose Financials by April 2012
Facebook Inc. will begin disclosing financial information or stage an initial public offering by April 2012, according to a new 100-page private-placement memo now being distributed to potential inves...
What happened in the recent Hotmail outage
On December 31, 2010, a number of our users reported their email messages and folders were missing from their Hotmail accounts. I want to take a little time to explain what happened, and what steps w...
Celebrating a New Year with a New Tweet Record
Well, that didn't take long. Just four seconds after midnight in Japan on January 1st, Twitterers set an all-time record in the number of Tweets sent per second (TPS). At that moment, the world sent...
HTC Thunderbolt and LG Revolution official on Verizon (update)
Would you look at that. Verizon's ongoing press conference has been accompanied by the appearance of two 4.3-inch LTE handsets coming to the network. Both HTC's Thunderbolt and LG's Revolution were ...