RIM recalls at least 900 faulty BlackBerry PlayBooks, here are the serial numbers
We found the BlackBerry PlayBook to be a pretty solid piece of hardware, but it seems there was a problem batch — an inside source tells us that nearly 1,000 faulty tablets were shipped to Staples, an...
Why Microsoft bought Skype
There is so much to write about but I'll begin with Microsoft buying Skype for $8.5 billion. The pundits are debating whether this move by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer makes good business sense, but t...
New Stanford computing lab imagines the mobile-social future
At the MobiSocial Lab, an engineering research team asks fundamental questions about the marriage of mobile communications and social networking, and begins to design the future of open-source social ...
Twitter feed lawsuit underscores power of a tweet
When Adorian Deck was home sick from high school, he entertained himself like countless other teenagers have in recent years: He started a Twitter account. Unlike other teenagers, Deck's account beca...
Bing Adds Facebook Recommendations to Search
In Battle Against Google, Microsoft Seeks Leg Up in Social Search — Microsoft will begin adding Facebook data to its Bing search results on Tuesday, including the ubiquitous “like,” in another bid t...
Access To iPad App Flipboard Compromised In China
As of today certain aspects of the Flipboard experience have been blocked for Chinese users, at the very least access to Facebook and Twitter according to Flipboard CEO Mike McCue. While direct acces...
Honeycomb Has A Fighting Chance Against The iPad
If you'd asked me a week ago what I thought about Honeycomb, the tablet version of Android, I would have said that it was in very bad shape and that it would be several months before it could even hol...
Bing Maps To Be Powered (Replaced) By Nokia?
I had a chance lunch with a person with close connections to Nokia about a week ago. Naturally we began talking about the outlook for the Microsoft-Nokia Windows Phone deal. He was hopeful but mindf...
Full text: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's advice to USC grads
Yesterday we offered a few highlights from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's commencement address Friday at the University of Southern California, via media coverage of the ceremonies. Since then we were...
How Viral PDFs Of A Naughty Bedtime Book Exploded The Old Publishing Model
The party line on piracy is that it's bad for business. But what to make of the case of “Go the F**k to Sleep,” the “children's book for adults” whose viral-pirate PDF launched the book to the number...
Ballmer's latest acquisition
In a bold move, Microsoft acquires Nokia and catapults itself to the top of the smartphone world. The full integration of Windows Phone 7 software into Nokia hardware will result in a better user exp...