Toys R' Us to start selling 16 GB and 32 GB WiFi iPad 2s, Smart Covers tomorrow - Sunday, April 17
Following the rumors that Apple will expand their iPad 2 retail presence to Toys R' Us, we have been told that the rumors are true and that Toys R' Us will begin selling the iPad 2 tomorrow.
Righthaven's Secret Contract Revealed: Will Its Strategy Collapse?
Angered at Righthaven's behavior, a Las Vegas federal judge unsealed the company's heretofore confidential agreement with the Las Vegas Review-Journal late on Friday. The contract reveals that the co...
.XXX Goes Live in the Root Servers
Earlier today IANA added the .XXX Top Level Domain to the root nameservers. While the registry operator Afilias is still in their setup process for ICM registry, the zone is currently propagating. W...
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. Blames The iPad For Killing Jobs
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL), who admits to owning an iPad, blames the Apple Inc. product for “eliminating thousands of American jobs.” — “A few short weeks ago I came to the House floor after havi...
Speculation on an Amazon iPad competitor
I'd bet on Amazon releasing a true tablet, competing more directly with the iPad than the Kindle currently does, in the possibly-near future. Andy Ihnatko nailed it last month: … I don't know why it ...
Apple launches Apple Support Communities with question asking, tracked responses
Apple took their support discussions website down this morning and now it is back up. It's not back up as support discussions, though. Apple has finally replaced their aging support discussions boar...
What Happened to Encyclopedia Dramatica?
Unofficial 4chan wiki Encyclopedia Dramatica, the user-authored repository of memes, racism and homophobia, is no more. It's been replaced by OhInternet, a much cleaner site with much less offensive ...
Square's Disruptive Payment Service About To Get A Huge Retail Boost From Apple
Mobile payments company Square has landed a big coup—sales placement on Apple's online store. And we've just confirmed with Square that the startup has a deal for in-store sales as well.
HTC Preparing 16-Megapixel Windows Phone 7? (Video)
HTC is working on a Windows Phone 7 model with an unprecedented 16-megapixel camera, according to the ad embedded below. Such a handset would double the pixel count of the company's highest-resolutio...
The 11 Techstars NYC Startups You Need To Know About
This morning, we sat among 750 VCs and entrepreneurs and watched eleven promising startups present. — Each was selected from a pool of 600 applicants, making Techstars NYC harder to get into than Ha...
The Real Reason Mike McCue Needs $50 Million: Google Is Building A Flipboard Killer
When news came out the other day that Flipboard just raised another $50 million at a $200 million valuation for its iPad news reading app, I gave CEO Mike McCue a hard time on Twitter and here on Tech...