Apple's new ‘two is better than one’ iPhone ad promotes Verizon, AT&T
Just days after Verizon launched its first iPhone ad, a new TV spot from Apple for the iPhone 4 highlights both Verizon and AT&T with the pitch “two is better than one.” — Set to the iconic Blue Dan...
Motorola Xoom launching February 17th at Best Buy (update: priced at $700)
When we stumbled upon an $800 price for the Motorola Xoom yesterday, our instinctive reaction was to leap forward to the next obvious question: when? Well, that call has now been answered by an inter...
A To Do List For Google's New CEO Larry Page
Welcome back, Larry! When you were last CEO of Google in 2001, the company was a much loved scrappy underdog with a bright future. Ten years later, you're coming back to the helm. Things have chang...
Hacker Shows It Doesn't Take $8 Million to Clone Qwiki - Just 321 Lines of HTML Will do the Trick
Qwiki is an app that creates pretty slideshows based on Wikipedia entries. The service won the top award at the last Techcrunch Disrupt conference and just received $8 million in new funding …
The Music Bay: Pirate Bay Crew Instill More Fear Into The Music Industry
For years The Pirate Bay has been a thorn in the side of the music industry, but things could be about to take a turn for the worse. Over the past days rumors of a new project titled “The Music Bay” ...
Why I Don't Buy the Quora Hype
Let me start with a disclaimer: I am not writing this in my capacity as a university professor or researcher; I don't claim to be an expert on social networking; and I will be happy to be proven wrong...
How much traffic can a Google Doodle drive to your site? Nearly 1/4 million uniques in a day.
Google's Doodles - the fun pieces of art that Google replaces its logo with for special occasions - are immensely popular with the public, but how much traffic do they actually drive?
Sean Parker: The Social Network is a complete work of fiction
Sean Parker and Paulo Coelho's two man panel at DLD raised a number of interesting points about the future of content but it was Coelho's question to Parker on his thoughts on the The Social Network, ...
Windows Phone 7 ‘jailbreakers’ working with Microsoft on homebrew support
Microsoft confirmed earlier this month that the company plans …
Facebook is Japan's LinkedIn
A couple of weeks back, an article Facebook Wins Relatively Few Friends in Japan made its rounds. As usual, Facebook is compared to the big three Japanese SNS: mixi, Gree, and Mobage-town. However, ...
Google May Let You Blacklist Domains To Fight Spam
Ready for do-it-yourself spam fighting? Google has discussed giving searchers the ability to remove domains from its search results. That's according to Matt Cutts, Google's top spam fighter, who's ...
Jason Calacanis Starts Promoting Mahalo 4.0 “Pivot”
Jason Calacanis is launching “Mahalo 4.0” on Tuesday, he just said on Quora, “our pivot from human-powered search to....... :-)”. — In other words, Mahalo, his startup, is shifting focus again. — ...
How Not to Get Snookered by Claims of “Proof” of Copyright Infringement
I guess you heard that Florian Mueller is at it again. He made strong claims of a smoking gun regarding alleged copyright infringement of Oracle files by Google. Well, in the cold light of day …
Tim Cook Is Running Apple, but Not Imitating Steve Jobs
On an 18-hour flight from California to Singapore a few years ago, Timothy D. Cook, Apple's chief operating officer, had little time for small talk with a colleague. Glued to his business class seat,...
Nvidia's Tegra 2 3D unveiled
A deep throat has leaked an image of Nvidia's Mobile World Congress presentation to TechEye - giving a glimpse of what the jolly green goblin has in store for punters and handset makers this year. — ...
Comparison Chart: Motorola XOOM vs. iPad
The price of the Motorola XOOM has been quite the topic of discussion over the last couple of days so we thought we'd drop some additional information into the conversation. Here is a comparison char...