Brave New Thermostat: How the iPod's Creator Is Making Home Heating Sexy
“You're going to built a what?” — That's what Tony Fadell's wife, Dani, said to him in 2009 when he told her his idea for a new company. Fadell is one of the most sought-after talents in the world ...
How People Use Tablets And What It Means For The Future Of News
READ THE FULL REPORT BELOW OR SEE THE FINDINGS IN AN INFOGRAPHIC OR SLIDESHOW — Eighteen months after the introduction of the iPad, 11% of U.S. adults now own a tablet computer of some kind.
Amazon's Kindle Fire Will Become To The Video Industry What The iPod Was To The Music Industry
Over the past five years, very few companies have single handily help jump-start the streaming media industry and propelled the market forward as a whole. Looking back, companies like YouTube …
Netflix plummets on weak outlook, downgrades
(Reuters) - Netflix Inc's shares plunged almost 40 percent on Tuesday and were set to open at their lowest level since March last year, a day after the movie rental company warned of higher subscriber...
Using Credit Cards to Target Web Ads
The two largest credit-card networks, Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc., are pushing into a new business: using what they know about people's credit-card purchases for targeting them with ads online. — ...
An Update on BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0
We know that many of you are looking forward to BlackBerry® PlayBook™ OS 2.0, and we wanted to provide you with an update on the progress that we're making. — As much as we'd love to have it in your...
IPads Change Economics, and Speed, of Hotel Wi-Fi
IF, like me, you have been complaining about unusually poor Internet service in hotel rooms lately, the hotels have a good explanation. — Largely because of the broad use of iPads and other mobile t...
Meg Whitman joins Zaarly's board, company gets $14M from Kleiner Perkins
Mobile marketplace Zaarly announced today that Hewlett-Packard chief executive Meg Whitman is joining its board of directors, and that it's getting a $14 million investment led by Kleiner Perkins Cauf...
It's Crunch Time for Nokia
Fast Rollout Crucial for Firm's Windows Smartphone, Expected to Debut This Week — When Nokia Corp. Chief Executive Stephen Elop takes the stage Wednesday at the big cellphone maker's annual conferen...
New Windows verification process creates controversy between ODM and brand vendors
Microsoft's new verification system for Windows 8 - OA 3. - which will add complications toward the upstream ODM's production lines and relatively generate significant extra cost, is raising controver...
Bluetooth 4.0 Becomes ‘Bluetooth Smart’ as iPhone 4S Creates New Opportunities
Following the debut of the iPhone 4S as the first phone to support the Bluetooth 4.0 standard, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has begun promoting the technology under the new “Bluetooth Sm...
Condé Nast digital subs soar 268% after iPad gets Newsstand
Conde Nast credits iOS 5 to surge in reading — Condé Nast suggested on Tuesday that tablet magazines might have turned a corner with the launch of iOS 5. Since the iPad received access to Newsstand...
Jobs Warned Cook Not to Try to Copy Him
Oct. 25 (Bloomberg) — When Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook took the microphone at a memorial tribute to Steve Jobs at the company's campus last week, he shared a piece of advice Jobs gave ...
Intel seeks industry effort to lower ultrabook prices
(Reuters) - Intel Corp is comfortable with its chip pricing now and is working with suppliers and manufacturers to lower the cost of its new ultrabook slim PCs, a product it sees as key to reviving th...
Anonymous plans three-pronged attack on November 5
November 5, known as Guy Fawkes Day in Britain, is a special day for Anonymous. Their signature look is the Guy Fawkes mask made popular in the movie V for Vendetta, after all. — And this November ...
ViewSonic rolls out $200 ViewPad 7e Android tablet
We've already seen it available for pre-order at Amazon and spent a bit of time with it ourselves last month, but ViewSonic's only just now officially getting its ViewPad 7e Android tablet out the doo...
Twitter and TV Get Close to Help Each Other Grow
Type the term “X Factor” into Twitter's search engine on a Tuesday or Wednesday night and within moments, hundreds of viewer compliments and complaints about the Fox television show of that name will ...
Hackers release data on ex-Treasury Secretary Rubin
Hackers supportive of the Occupy Wall Street protests today released personal information of former Citigroup and Goldman Sachs executive Robert Rubin who was U.S. Treasury Secretary under President C...
Twitter Is Testing An Expandable Timeline
Twitter is testing out new design changes which makes the main Twitter timeline expandable so that you can see media and related information right in the timeline instead of off to the side or clickin...