Apple Reverses Course On In-App Subscriptions
Apple has quietly changed its guidelines on the pricing of In-App Subscriptions on the App Store. There are no longer any requirements that a subscription be the “same price or less than it is offere...
Google Acquires AdMeld For $400 Million
AdMeld, an advertising optimization platform for publishers, has been acquired by Google for around $400 million according to multiple sources. The company, which launched in 2007, has raised just $3...
IDC predicts WP7 to overtake iPhone by 2015
Believe it or not, IDC, which claims to be a premier global market intelligence company has predicted in its latest research that the Windows Phone 7 platform will overtake the market share of the iPh...
The next step in embedded videos: HD preview images and a logoless option
It may be hard to imagine, but YouTube's video preview images represent to many the ultimate deciding factor as to whether or not to watch a video. If a preview image looks interesting, it can mean t...
Apple's iTunes in iCloud 'won't launch in the UK this year'
Apple's cloud music service will not launch in the UK until 2012, according to record label executives and music analysts. — Earlier this week Steve Jobs, Apple's chief executive, returned from sick...
Coming Soon: Google Panda Update 2.2
One of the bigger pieces of news — certainly for webmasters and SEOs — from our SMX Advanced conference this week is that Google will soon be releasing version 2.2 of the Panda algorithm update. — G...
Two government agencies say LightSquared's network interferes with GPS
A government agency that conducted tests with proposed wholesale network operator LightSquared's base station said Thursday that it found interference in the higher portion of LightSquared's spectrum ...
Carriers Sweat as Texting Cools Off
New Messaging Apps from Apple, Others May Hit Fees — Growth in the volume of text messaging is slowing sharply, just as new threats emerge to that lucrative source of wireless carrier profits. — W...
Anonymous warns NATO not to challenge it
Responding to a recent report from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization condemning Anonymous, the online “hacktivist” group has issued a public response warning the global organization not to challe...
Apple Just Handed Twitter The Keys To The iOS Kingdom — Here's Twitter's Take
Here's Twitter's Take — When we first broke the news that iOS 5 would come with Twitter integration, I wasn't thinking big enough. Based on the fairly vague (but credible) information I had, I figur...
CHART OF THE DAY: Huffington Post Traffic Zooms Past The New York Times
The Huffington Post has zipped past the New York Times in monthly uniques, according to data from comScore. — It's an impressive feat. As AOL employee Brad Garlinghouse put it on Twitter, “Six year...
Congress Members Produce 30% Fewer Tweets After Weinergate [INFOGRAPHIC]
On the evening of May 27, Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York accidentally posted a lewd photo to Twitter, deleted it and claimed that his Twitter account had been hacked. Two weeks later, we're still em...
Chromebooks Go On Sale - Finally!
A tweet from Google a few minutes ago revealed everything! Yes, Chromebooks are now finally selling; on pre-order ofcourse. This is the moment most of us have been waiting for since November 2009! ...
Great news: Promoted Trends on Twitter now cost only $120,000 per day!
You know, I remember a time when Twitter was trying hard to find itself a monetization model. Ads were apparently out of the question, celebrities were cashing in with sponsored tweets, and spammers....
iPhone Mobile App Discovery with Bing
There are more than half a million apps on the market. If you know exactly which app you are looking for, finding it can be relatively easy; however, sifting through the volume of apps one by one to ...
Facebook acquires Dutch software house Sofa
Facebook has acquired the Dutch software development firm Sofa, the smaller company announced in a blog post today. — Sofa is an Apple Design Award winner and is behind the popular Mac applications ...
Stephen Elop: Android's Success Is Apple's Fault, And Beware The Boxes
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may be on the ropes, but CEO Stephen Elop is still slugging away in the handset maker's comeback strategy. Today, he laid out some of Nokia's biggest challenges and opportunities …
ICloud Allows For Apps That Apple Removed From The AppStore To Be Re-Downloaded
The purchased apps section of the iPad and iPhone appstore allows for apps to be downloaded that Apple has already removed from the Appstore. For example, if you downloaded iDos before Apple removed ...
Exclusive: Myspace in Advanced Deal Talks With Investor Group, Possibly Including Activision's Kotick
And then there was one. — According to sources close to the situation, News Corp. is down to one possible investing group in its quest to make lemonade out of the lemon that its Myspace social enter...
AT&T to Offer Free Wi-Fi Web Access in New York City Parks
AT&T Inc. (T), the second-largest U.S. mobile carrier, will offer free wireless-Internet access in New York parks in cooperation with the most populous U.S. city. — The Wi-Fi service will be availab...
Citi says hackers access bank card data
(Reuters) - Citigroup Inc said computer hackers breached the bank's network and accessed data on hundreds of thousands of bank card holders in the latest of a string of cyber attacks on high-profile c...
Cupertino To Jobs: There's No Chance We're Saying No To The Apple Spaceship Campus
While he's no Steve Jobs, Cupertino Mayor Gilbert Wong has his unique charm. In a press conference today responding to yesterday's amazing Steve Jobs pitch, Wong said emphatically, “Cupertino is read...
Apple shows off its networking savvy at WWDC
After building a temporary network of WiFi hotspots to provide coverage for the 5,200 attendees at its annual Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple has set up a graphic visualization of the network it...
Visa Acquires Mobile Financial Services Company Fundamo For $110M In Cash
Visa this morning announced that it has agreed to acquire Fundamo, a specialist mobile financial services provider to network operators and financial institutions in developing economies, for $110 mil...
Coupons.com Raises $200 Million At A Whopping $1 Billion Valuation
It looks like Coupons.com may have just become the Airbnb of mega-million dollar raises at billion dollar valuations. Today, Coupons.com, the largest provider of digital coupons, announced that it ha...
Facebook's face recognition strategy may be just the ticket
Most of the commentary on Facebook's new face-recognition strategy has been negative, with many folks posting instructions on how to opt out. I, on the other hand, think that Facebook may have come u...
How Apple Feeds Its Army of App Makers
Let them make money, ensure the coding tools are easy to use, and keep out the riffraff — As he has for each of the past 14 years, Andrew Stone woke at 3:45 on the morning of Apple's (AAPL) annual W...
HP TouchPad launches July 1st, starts at $499.99
HP on Thursday announced that its HP TouchPad tablet will become available on July 1st. The TouchPad, which was first unveiled at a media event this past February, is the first webOS-powered tablet o...
Jeff Bezos-backed Doxo puts a digital filing cabinet in your iPhone
Doxo is a service designed to act as a ‘digital file cabinet’ for your household bills and important documents. You can even sign up to get bills from participating companies sent paper-free to your ...
Worldwide Smartphone Market Expected to Grow 55% in 2011 and Approach Shipments of One Billion in 2015, According to IDC
The worldwide smartphone market is forecast to grow 55% year over year in 2011 as a growing number of users turn in their feature phones for more advanced devices.
Fusion-io Opens At $25 Per Share With A $1.9 Billion Market Cap
As we heard yesterday, Fusion-io, the developer of flash- memory technology for companies, upped the opening price of its IPO to $19 per share, valuing the company at $1.5 billion. Earlier in the wee...
Dell's prototype 7-inch tablet touts slide-out split QWERTY keyboard (update: just a concept)
Whoa. Every so often, a giant in Round Rock pokes it head up above water long enough to put forth a truly mesmerizing design, and while it's no Adamo, this is most definitely the freshest …
A Launchpad for Watching TV, Movies on the iPad
Watching movies and TV shows on an iPad is a pleasure. Deciding what to watch, and then figuring out which iPad app offers which film or show at that moment, isn't. — [ See post to watch video ] —...
Dell spurns U.S. in launch of Android tablet in China
Current stable of Dell tablets. Dell will launch its 10-inch competitor to Apple's iPad in China first, citing ‘barriers and inhibitors’ in the U.S. and ‘upside-down’ pricing at U.S. carriers. — De...
Bitcoin: inside the encrypted, peer-to-peer digital currency
Bitcoin—a pseudonymous cryptographic currency designed by an enigmatic, freedom-loving hacker, and currently used by the geek underground to buy and sell everything from servers to cellphone jammers.
U.S. Supreme Court sides with Toronto's i4i in Microsoft patent battle
UPDATE (11:16 a.m. ET): You can read the entire judgement here. — The United States Supreme Court ruled against software giant Microsoft Corp. and in favour of Toronto's i4i Inc. on Thursday, bringi...
Google doodle lets you play a recordable guitar ditty in honor of Les Paul
Have you been to Google's US home page recently? Do it, you've got less than 24 hours to check out its guitar-inspired doodle celebrating the birthday of Les Paul. The “Google” script is highly inte...
Why Is The Federal Government Running Ads Secretly Created & Owned By NBC Universal?
We certainly suspected this when New York City first announced that it was running a series of silly and misleading videos as part of a media campaign to “Stop Piracy in NYC,” but now it's been confir...
Sprint Motorola Photon 4G hands-on: 4.3-inch qHD display, Gingerbread, WiMAX, and Tegra 2
Don't you just love when things come together just as planned? That's right, just as we had heard, Motorola's Sanjay Jha and Sprint's Dan Hesse took the stage this morning in NYC to announce a brand ...
Safari's New Reading Lists Are Glorified Bookmarks - Not Instapaper Killers
Apple's Reading Lists are basically just glorified bookmarks. While Instapaper lets you save articles in its easy to read text-only view, Reading Lists don't make use Reader, Apple's new text-only mo...