iPhone 4S Sales Now Reservation-Only at Apple Retail Stores in U.S. and Canada
Apple has updated its “how to buy” page for the iPhone 4S to note that Apple retail stores in the United States and Canada are now selling the device on a reservation-only basis.
DROID RAZR Revealed Early from Teaser Site
We talked earlier this morning about Moto's new teaser site from the DROID RAZR that will slowly be revealed up until launch. Well, we discovered the image early...spoiler alert? It matches up to al...
The Missed Red Flags on Groupon
This summer, Lloyd Blankfein, the chief executive of Goldman Sachs, flew to Chicago to personally pitch his firm to underwrite what was supposed to be the hottest initial public offering of the year: ...
4chan's Chris Poole: Facebook & Google Are Doing It Wrong
Chris Poole delivered the most powerful 10 minutes of Web philosophy of the afternoon at Web 2.0. The man formerly known as moot - founder of anonymous image sharing den 4chan and its new, better-lit...
YouTube Now Allows Music Partners To Sell Merchandise, Digital Downloads And Event Tickets
We already know that YouTube is seeing 3 billion videos viewed per day day, but now the online video giant is now seeing a whopping 800 million people per month visiting the site, Google revealed in i...
Sean Parker: Yes, My New Startup Is Called Airtime
The Web 2.0 Summit kicked off today. — Mark Pincus was supposed to kick it off, but canceled on Friday. Presumably that's because of concerns over the company's IPO period. — Instead the irrepres...
Price of Bitcoin Still Dropping, Falls Below the Price of Mining
The price of Bitcoin continues to drop by about a dollar every week to ten days, currently settling at about $2.80 USD, and Bitcoin enthusiasts are starting to get worried. “I am not trying to cause ...
Scoop: Skype founders gunning for Netflix with Vdio
Updated. With Skype's sale to Microsoft finally sealed, one might wonder: What are Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, the European serial entrepreneurs that have founded KaZaA, Skype, Joost and Rdio, ...
More Google Wallet merchants are live. Now you can pay AND save in a single tap.
We're hearing from people at check-out counters throughout the country that paying with your phone is a little like magic. Just look at the ecstatic reaction on the faces of our friends who made thei...
Exclusive: Yahoo CTO Out, But Stays EIR at Company
Yahoo CTO Raymie Stata is stepping down as CTO of the Silicon Valley Internet giant, the company confirmed this afternoon, after I made a query about the change. — He will be replaced by Ash Munshi,...
Samsung Seeks iPhone 4S Sales Ban in Japan, Australia
SEOUL—Samsung Electronics Co. said it is seeking to stop the sale of Apple Inc.'s new iPhone 4S in Japan and Australia, further ramping up a legal clash with the U.S. company after a series of setback...
Introducing Instapaper 4.0 for iPad and iPhone
The iPhone reading screens also no longer show the top status bar by default (but there's an option to put it back). This gives a larger, less distracting reading area without sacrificing easy access...
Citigroup CEO targeted by hackers over protest arrests
Vikram Pandit, chief executive of Citigroup — Hackers released personal information on the head of Citigroup today in retaliation for the arrest of protesters during the Occupy Wall Street demonstra...
Hold on to your pants: Microsoft ‘PocketTouch’ enables device input through fabric
Microsoft researchers have come up with a way to make devices sensitive to touch input through fabric — for silencing a phone or even entering text without taking the device out of a pocket or bag.
Five things to watch for in Apple's earnings tomorrow
Apple is once again expected to top Wall Street's estimates when it reports its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings tomorrow. — The maker of iPhones, iPads, and Macs is expected to post earnings of $7.27...
Smartphone Camera Battle: iPhone 4S vs. the Android Elite
The iPhone 4S offers better camera specs than previous iPhones, but does it capture better-looking stills and videos than the best Android phones? Let's find out. — By now, you've probably heard ru...
Microsoft's plan for bringing its BI tools to iOS, Android, and Windows 8 devices
Summary: Microsoft outlined its mobile BI roadmap, which includes support for Microsoft business intelligence tools on iOS, Android and Windows 8 over the next year-plus. — While Microsoft's coming ...
iPhone 4S First Weekend Sales Top Four Million
Apple® today announced it has sold over four million of its new iPhone® 4S, just three days after its launch on October 14. In addition, more than 25 million customers are already using iOS 5, the wo...
A Studio Chief Pens Revealing First-Person Steve Jobs Remembrance
During the spring and summer of 2006, Steve Jobs was negotiating with Fox and other studios to expand iTunes from selling digital music and TV shows to selling feature films.
Serving at the Pleasure of the King
I enjoy my iPhone tremendously; I think it's the most important product Apple has ever created and one they were born to make. As a consumer who has waited far too long for the phone industry to get ...
There is only one Cloud Icon in the Entire Universe
I recently worked on the update to the ASP.NET site, now in beta at http://beta.asp.net. On that site we used an icon from the Pictos collection. I have an email from March of 2010 where we selected...
Google Music Store Will Launch This Quarter
Google's long awaited music store is on schedule for launch this quarter, and the major labels are starting to spread the word to their subsidiaries and partners. — We got word from the owner of an ...
David Cameron will never shut down Facebook
It was thought that after a number of executives from Facebook, Twitter and Blackberry were summoned to a meeting with Theresa May …
Too Little, Too Late: Motorola Will Start Selling A $400 Xoom
Motorola will start selling a $400 Xoom this Sunday, the WSJ reports. — The $400 Xoom will have 16 gigabytes of storage. The original Xoom had 32 gigabytes. — Will it make a difference? Probably...