Apple iTunes Remains Dominant in U.S. Online Movies in 2010, Despite Competitors' Inroads
Despite intensified competition from fierce rivals including Microsoft Corp. and Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Apple Inc.'s iTunes store in 2010 managed to hold onto its dominance in the U.S. market …
A More Open Platform: The Instagram API
One of our guiding principles at Instagram is to create & maintain an open ecosystem that changes the way we see our world. With nearly 300k photo uploads happening every day, we feel encouraged by t...
NoSQL Companies CouchOne And Membase Merge To Form Couchbase
NoSQL companies unite! Membase (formerly NorthScale) and CouchOne have decided to merge to form Couchbase, which will provide a comprehensive family of NoSQL (which focuses on adding horizontal scala...
AT&T's Chief Marketing Officer on How the Company Has Found (Android) Religion
Although AT&T has dabbled with Android in the past, the carrier is now dead serious about making sure that it has a range of products running Google's operating system. — While many will observe …
Nokia CEO Stephen Elop rallies troops in brutally honest ‘burning platform’ memo? (update: it's real!)
“The first iPhone shipped in 2007, and we still don't have a product that is close to their experience. Android came on the scene just over 2 years ago, and this week they took our leadership positio...
Apple's New iPad in Production
Apple Inc. has started production of a new version of its iPad tablet computer, said people familiar with the matter. — The new device will be thinner, lighter and will come with a faster processor,...
Introducing the Google Translate app for iPhone
Back in August 2008, we launched a Google Translate HTML5 web app for iPhone users. Today, the official Google Translate for iPhone app is available for download from the App Store. The new app has ...
Verizon iPhone 4 antenna problems persist (video)
In the course of conducting our standard suite of iPhone 4 performance tests, iLounge has discovered that the Verizon CDMA iPhone 4 suffers from signal attenuation problems similar to ones discovered ...
Mahalo's Calacanis: Time To End The Content Farm Arms Race
No stranger to controversy, Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis threw down a gauntlet at his “content farm” competitors, arguing they're polluting the web and angering Google, to the detriment of searchers and...
Valleywag's Ryan Tate Publishes Photo of Zuckerberg's House; Days Later, Stalker Shows Up
A few months back, I had a few harsh words for Valleywag editor Ryan Tate over his decision to pay a paparazzo for photographs of Mark Zuckerberg's house and girlfriend. — Specifically I said...
Dell unveils 10-inch Windows 7 tablet
Steven Lalla, vice president and general manager of Dell's commercial client product group, holds up a non-working mockup of the company's new commercial Windows tablet. — Dell expanded its foray in...
Breaking the Web with hash-bangs
Lifehacker, along with every other Gawker property, experienced a lengthy site-outage on Monday over a misbehaving piece of JavaScript. Gawker sites were reduced to being an empty homepage layout wit...
Analysis: World of Goo's iPad Launch
We attempted, and failed, to bring World of Goo to iPhone in the summer of 2009. Development was sporadic and slow as we worked with a series of four different contractors who, for various reasons, d...
Mayor Lures Twitter to Dangerous Skid Row
Mayor Ed Lee wants to keep Twitter in San Francisco. So why is he offering them office space in the worst part? — Ed Lee is expected to announce tax credits targeted specifically at companies like ...