The Next Step for Facebook Credits
Facebook Credits is a virtual currency that enables fast and easy transactions across games on Facebook. With Facebook Credits, people enter their payment information once and can buy, earn and spend...
Apple Plans Service That Lets IPhone Users Pay With Handsets
Apple Inc. plans to introduce services that would let customers use its iPhone and iPad computer to make purchases, said Richard Doherty, director of consulting firm Envisioneering Group. — The serv...
Verizon iPhone: $30 Unlimited Data (for Now)
It's official: Verizon is going to offer iPhone buyers a $30 unlimited data plan. The carrier's heir apparent and chief operating officer, Lowell McAdam, told us the news ahead of the company's meeti...
Why The Verizon iPhone Is Going To Be Huge: Only 26% Of Verizon Subscribers Have Smartphones
Apple probably would have been better off if it had started selling the iPhone at Verizon a year ago, as it probably would have stifled Google Android from becoming such a strong competitor.
Why 3D doesn't work and never will. Case closed.
I received a letter that ends, as far as I am concerned, the discussion about 3D. It doesn't work with our brains and it never will. — The notion that we are asked to pay a premium to witness an in...
Unhappy With Slow Growth Of Android App Purchases, Google Talks 2011 Roadmap
Google's Android platform manager Eric Chu knows that though the number of Android smartphone users may be rising quickly, the number of purchases of paid apps in the Android Market is not doing nearl...
Obama surrenders to Big Content
The President of the French-backed terrorist government of the former British colony of Virginia has turned over the control of his country's judiciary to the entertainment industry. — In an unusual...
Justice Department seeks mandatory data retention
Criminal investigations “are being frustrated” because no law currently exists to force Internet providers to keep track of what their customers are doing, the U.S. Department of Justice will announce...
Facebook Turns the ‘Like’ Into Its Newest Ad
Say Something About a Brand? It Could End Up as an Ad in Your Friends' Feeds — SAN FRANCISCO (AdAge.com) — The ubiquitous “like” is currency for brands, and Facebook is giving them a new way to col...
Google To Acquire fflick For $10 Million
Back in August we wrote about a neat service called fflick that looked to harness Twitter to power a movie sentiment and recommendation engine, with an added dash of colorful style. Now the service i...
More codenames provide clues to planned Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV blitz
Microsoft filed an International Trade Commission complaint against Tivo in an attempt to stop that company from importing set-top boxes on January 24. Just another day in Microsoft-litigation land? ...
Report: Amazon plans to expand grocery delivery service
Amazon.com is looking to expand its home delivery service, with The Financial Times reporting (subscription required) that the online retailer has begun recruiting staffers for a national push. Amazo...
Developers Report Increased Interest in Android, Tablets for 2011
The average developer is now building for four different devices, a joint survey from app development firm Appcelerator and analyst firm IDC has revealed. Of those multiple devices, building apps for...
HP's New Cloud Products Offer a Flashback to 2009
Hewlett-Packard unveiled four new cloud products in what I view as somewhat of a comeback tour for the hardware giant after staying on the sidelines for much of 2010. However, the four new products, ...
DLD11: James Murdoch On The Daily, Paywalls, Google And Apple
James Murdoch, son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch and currently Chairman and CEO of News Corporation, Europe and Asia, was interviewed on stage at the DLD Conference in Munich, Germany. — Murdoch tou...
The State of Windows 8
Beneath a thin surface layer of established fact about Microsoft's next OS lies a deep pool of rumor and speculation. We plunge in to test the water. — Only Microsoft knows how the next version of ...
State of the Stack 2010 (a message from your CEO)
2010 was an absolutely amazing year here at Stack Overflow. We grew from 7 million visitors to over 16 million, putting us in Quantcast's top 400. We raised $6 million in venture capital, and we wen...
Eric Schmidt At DLD11: Google Will Add 1,000 New Employees In Europe
In the closing keynote of the DLD Conference in Germany, soon to be former Google CEO Eric Schmidt took the stage, notably less than a week after passing on the reins of the company to Google co-found...
Pegatron making 10m initial iPhone 5s, all-out for iPhone 4
Pegatron has already earned enough trust from Apple to start manufacturing the iPhone 5, part makers said Monday night. The company is due to make at least 10 million to 12 million CDMA iPhone 4 unit...
Android vs. iPhone In China: Will Google Beat Apple?
Google may be winning in China: Not in search—Google's premiere product has been losing market share since the company's clash over censorship with Chinese officials—but in the smartphone market, with...
Verizon's iPhone hot spot to cost $20 a month
Using Verizon's forthcoming iPhone as a mobile hot spot is going to cost subscribers $20 a month—that's on top of the required data and voice plans subscribers will already be paying for. — The fee,...
Cirtas raises $22.5M for cloud storage hardware and gets new CEO
Cirtas Systems, a cloud storage hardware company, is announcing today it has raised $22.5 million in a second round of funding and has named tech veteran Gary Messiana as its chief executive.
Adobe Touts iPad Magazine Ads
Have you bought an ad in an iPad magazine in the last year? Then you're in luck! Because people who read iPad magazines like looking at the ads in those apps, and they're more likely to buy stuff fr...