Reed Hastings Doesn't Want You To Pay More For Netflix. He Wants You To Stop Using DVDs.
Why did Netflix raise its prices by 60 percent yesterday? — Reed Hastings' company says it's a cost issue. If people are going to use both his DVD-by-mail service and his Web video streaming servic...
Amazon Plans Tablet Computer By October
Amazon.com Inc. plans to introduce a tablet computer before October, said people familiar with the matter, in a move that will heighten the online retailer's rivalry with Apple Inc. — The Seattle-ba...
Job posting points to iPhone 5 launch on 16 August
The post, which was sent to us by a tipster, asks for “full-time iPhone Sales Staff for an exciting project …
The Problem With Silicon Valley Is Itself
As a Brit who gave up cheerleading the European tech scene to make the pilgrimage to Silicon Valley to live, eat and breath the world's leading hub for technology startup innovation, I've been largely...
Apple Introduces Volume App Purchasing for Business and B2B Apps
Alongside today's international App Store pricing changes, Apple has introduced a new Volume Purchase program for the App Store. According to Apple, the App Store Volume Purchase Program allows busin...
Frustrated by Apple's Long Approval Process, WhitePages Goes Android First With Latest App
When WhitePages launches its Localicious app on Wednesday, it will be in Android Market rather than in the iPhone App Store. — There's a simple reason for that.
Why I left Google. What happened to my book. What I work on at Facebook.
In the last couple of weeks there has been plenty of speculation around: — Why I left Google — What happened to my book ‘Social Circles’ — What I'm working on at Facebook
RIM promises seven new BlackBerry smartphones in coming months
RIM just finished wrapping up their annual shareholders meeting. The bit of info mentioned of most interest to everyday consumers was that seven BlackBerry smartphones are due to land in the next cou...
How Google+ is built
If you're curious about all things Google+, you're in luck. The project's technical lead, Google engineer Joseph Smarr, is currently hosting an online question and answer session about the service — ...
Visually Launches To Automate The Making Of Infographics
The whiz kids behind Mint's infographics, Stewart Langille and Lee Sherman are today launching the first startup that solely focuses on mass producing infographics, Visually. Users who visit Visually...
Badgeville Raises $12 Million, Celebrates With An Infographic
Badgeville founder and CEO Kris Duggan is one of those people that is so ridiculously upbeat and positive all the time that sometimes you just want to strangle him. No one has a right to be that happ...
Google Employee No. 59 on Google+, Privacy and Why He Left
Pegatron unlikely to share iPad orders with Foxconn in 2011
Monica Chen, Taipei, Steve Shen, DIGITIMES [Wednesday 13 July 2011] — Pegatron Technology is expected to land orders for at least 10 million units of iPhone 5 (or iPhone 4S) but is unlikely to share...
AT&T Sponsors Cheaper Kindle 3G With Special Offers
Amazon's Kindle 3G with Special Offers has something new to offer: AT&T (NYSE: T) sponsorship and a 15 percent price drop, to $139. — Kindle's 3G connectivity was already provided by AT&T, but AT&T ...
Beamforming your data: how WiGig will offer 7Gbps speeds
The Wireless Gigabit Alliance recently announced that it has published the certification-ready 1.1 specification of its wireless system, and it includes some new capabilities, like a framework for vid...
In AT&T's bid for T-Mobile, Obama administration is caught in the middle
AT&T's $39 billion bid for T-Mobile is a deal that consumer advocates hate but labor unions love. And that puts the Obama administration squarely between two powerful constituencies that typically su...