Apple now taking Red Cross donations through iTunes for Japan relief fund
Apple has opened up a new portal in the iTunes Store to take donations for the Japan earthquake and tsunami relief fund. Users who wish to donate can donate in $5, $10, $25, $50, $100, and $200 incre...
Hello, I must be going
It's hard to believe that I'm currently writing the words I seem to be writing, though a casual stock-taking of my senses dictates that it must be true. Here I am, at my computer, typing letters one ...
Why Twitter Should Think Twice About Bulldozing the Ecosystem
In another shot fired across the bow of the Twitter ecosystem — or another volley in the ongoing Twitter wars of 2011 — the company has come out with new terms on which all developers must operate, wh...
Google's Quest to Build a Better Boss
IN early 2009, statisticians inside the Googleplex here embarked on a plan code-named Project Oxygen. — Their mission was to devise something far more important to the future of Google Inc. than its...
Tweeters: I want a witness tag
A proposal: — It would be terribly useful if there were a separate convention for tweets from witnesses to major events so their reports can be separated from the discussion that follows. How about...
Twitter to Devs: Don't Make Twitter Clients... Or Else
Pure play Twitter clients — apps like Echofon, Twidroyd and UberTwitter — got a sharp slap on the wrist today from Twitter platform chief Ryan Sarver. — In an API announcement post, Sarver finally m...
Kleiner Perkins Already Selling Its Twitter Stock
Kleiner Perkins is already selling some of the stock it bought in Twitter just last December, Henry Blodget reports. — We heard from a source that Kleiner has already unloaded some of its stock on p...
Apple facing iPad 2 shortages, poor retail launch planning
Apple has been hyping up today's iPad 2 launch since its announcement last week with its numerous newsletters, video guided tours, etc. Now it's launch day and it could be fairly said that Apple disa...
Are You Ready for the New Peer-to-Peer Economy?
Unless you really don't give two hoots about the world of technology, it's highly unlikely you would have missed the big brouhaha between San Francisco-based startup Square and VeriFone, a payment pro...
Introducing Stellar
For the past several months, I've been working on a new web app/site called Stellar. Stellar helps you discover and keep track of your favorite things online. If you like playing around on Twitter o...
Exclusive: Pics of Verizon HTC Incredible 2
Well look what we managed to get our hands on today...pictures of the HTC Incredible 2. It is quite the device I must say. Rocking Android 2.3 with Sense, this is one smoking hot phone. Although we...
Apple vs. Microsoft: A tale of two mobile updates
You can learn a lot about the positives and negatives of Apple and Microsoft by the way they update their mobile platforms — It's remarkable how much you can learn about a company from something as ...
Political Activists Targeted Through Unpatched IE Flaw
Google has discovered targeted attacks against users, political activists in particular, and “...users of another popular social site using an unpatched vulnerability in Internet Explorer. — The vul...