Microsoft Said to Stop Releasing New Zune Models as Demand Ebbs
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) will cease introducing new versions of the Zune music and video-player amid tepid demand, helping the company shift its focus to mobile phones, according to a person familiar wi...
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Five years ago this week, a small team of people started working on a prototype of the service that we now know as Twitter. On March 21, 2006, Jack Dorsey (@jack) sent the first Tweet. — Today, on ...
Apple rejects ‘wave and pay’ for new iPhone
Apple will not include “wave and pay” chips in the new iPhone to be released later this year, dashing industry hopes that a universal standard for the technology would be adopted in 2011. — Sources ...
Apple Stores To Open Early On Tuesday For iPad Sales (Updated)
We've received reports this morning that Apple will be opening Retail Stores one hour early tomorrow for iPad sales. While no official announcement has been forthcoming from Apple, anecdotal reports ...
Internet Explorer 9 launches tonight, we've got your early look (update: it's out)
Yes, we know it's PI day, but don't tell the guys and gals at Microsoft — we hear they're celebrating something a little different. That's right, the long-awaited IE9 browser is finally coming out of...
Social Is Too Important For Google To Screw Up With A Big Launch Circus
Google will launch a “major new social network” imminently at the SXSW conference, said Read/Write Web early this morning. They were stupendously wrong on timing - Google told us and others that ther...
Tablet camera tests: iPad 2 vs. Motorola Xoom vs. Samsung Galaxy Tab
Odds are, if you ask anyone waiting in line for an iPad 2, they'll list plenty of reasons why they're lusting after Apple's latest camera-equipped tablet. — According to our lab tests, image quality...
Rush to Fix Quake-Damaged Undersea Cables
BEIJING—Asia's major telecom operators scrambled Monday to eliminate the impact on their operations from damage to several submarine cables following the massive earthquake and tsunami in Japan. — M...
Apple's Role in Japan during the Tohoku Earthquake
Wow, this email is from a friend of mine that works for Apple in Japan... makes me happy Apple went the extra mile here, check out his story below: — Dear Alex L, David, & Kevin, — Hi this is XXXX...
Mike hit the jackpot
Mike Arrington wrote a milestone piece yesterday saying Google wouldn't make the mistake of overhyping whatever new thing it may or may not be cooking up to compete with Facebook. — Important though...
Flickr Burning As Yahoo Fiddles: Head Of Service Walks Away
When you ask Yahoo who is in charge of Flickr, they always point to one man: Matthew Rothenberg. Well, technically, there are people at Yahoo above him in charge of the group of products that Flickr ...
Google's 15 Biggest Acquisitions And What Happened To Them
Google has a reputation as an innovative company, but in fact it owes a lot of its success to acquisitions. — Google basically bought AdSense, the paid search platform that made it a financial power...
The Four Big Steps To Cutting The Cord
Do it! Cut the cord and free yourself from the tyranny of the cable mafia. The movement is slowly gaining traction but the whole task is daunting. What do you do next? Where does your TV content c...
iPad 2 Beats Out MacBook Pros In iMovie Speed Tests!
Now that iMovie has made its way onto our iPads, you may be curious to see just how well it performs. We were just as curious. The question we want to answer is this: If I am going to be shooting vi...
Leo Apotheker lays out his strategy for first time as HP CEO
Leo Apotheker, chief executive of Hewlett-Packard, articulated his company's strategy to make the shift from its dominant position in computing and enterprise hardware to playing a role in the emergin...
Finally, a Startup Visa That Works
In my last post about the Startup Visa, I was very critical of the Kerry-Lugar legislation. That's because it required immigrant entrepreneurs to raise at least $250,000 in financing for their startu...
An Open Letter to Jon Bon Jovi On What's Really “Killing The Music Business”
When my wife—a huge and long-time Bon Jovi fan—asked me to spend over $300 for two floor seat tickets to your Valentine's Day show in Toronto, there were two reasons that I said yes.
Introducing The New Samsung GALAXY Tab 10.1
Samsung GALAXY Tab 10.1 is your ultimate entertainer, delivering multimedia tablet experience at the grandest scale ever — Watch Full HD movies, take 8MP photos, and play games or surf Flash website...
Apples To Apples: Apple Inc. Files For Apple Corps' Old Apple Logo Trademark
The legal dispute between Apple Corps and Apple Inc. for the rights to the Apple logo are far reaching. Since the first case back in 1978, Apple Inc. has slowly whittled away at Apple Corp's initial ...
How AT&T Totally Flubbed 4G
AT&T is lying about 4G. Shamelessly. The company's two “4G” phones and its “4G” modem don't deliver 4G even by AT&T's own wishy-washy standards. Unfortunately, there's no such thing as the 4G polic...
DRAMA IN TWITTERLAND: Featuring Kleiner Perkins, John Doerr And A Dentist
“Kleiner Perkins Already Selling Its Twitter Stock” reads one headline on SAI from Friday, alleging that venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers has been selling Twitter stock that they bought o...
Is Anonymous The New WikiLeaks?
After defending WikiLeaks late last year, hactivist collective Anonymous may have just scooped it. — At midnight last night an Anonymous member who goes by the Twitter handle OperationLeakS released...
Google teases slick new Blogger interface, mobile themes and content discovery tool
Google's Blogger is one of the grand old daddies of blog platforms and while remaining widely used, there's no doubt that the interface itself is looking a bit tired these days.
Facebook Plans to Test Groupon-Inspired Service That Offers Discount Deals
Facebook Inc. is planning to test a service that will let consumers buy discounted one-time offers as it looks for new ways to boost sales and attract local business customers. — The service will le...
AT&T makes calling Japan free until the end of March
We imagine that many of you, like us, have been making frantic calls to friends and family in Japan over the last few days without regard to the costs. Now, in the face of otherwise devastating news,...
Will Congress Push Google To Tweak Its Algorithm To Punish Pirate Sites?
Judging by today's hearings, some members of Congress are willing to consider radical measures to rid the internet of “rogue” websites accused of piracy. Among them: getting search engines like Googl...