RIM Blindsided by Kindle Fire Pricing
If you recently purchased one of Research In Motion's BlackBerry PlayBooks at a significant discount, you may have Amazon to thank for it. — The move to slash $200 and then $300 from the device's re...
Gowalla is Going to Facebook
Three years ago Gowalla's journey began when I took a photograph of Lake Tahoe on my iPhone. I had just finished a phone call with my dad, and I wanted nothing more than to share that photo and place...
Former HP Chairman Patricia Dunn, Central Figure in Pretexting Case, Dies
Patricia Dunn, the former HP chairman who was the central figure in the 2006 spying scandal that rocked the company's boardroom early during the tenure of then-CEO Mark Hurd, has died, sources confirm...
Confirmed: Verizon Galaxy Nexus won't support Google Wallet (but will receive Google updates)
With the launch of Verizon's Galaxy Nexus growing closer, rumors about the device are starting to pour out at a breakneck speed. As such, I thought now might be a good time to do a quick round of fac...
Kindle Fire Usability Findings
CarrierIQ: The Real Story
Since the beginning of the media frenzy over CarrierIQ, I have repeatedly stated that based on my knowledge of the software, claims that keystrokes, SMS bodies, email bodies, and other data of this na...
Windows 8 will be ‘largely irrelevant’ to traditional PC users: IDC
Summary: IDC's top 10 system software predictions for 2012 are out. One of them casts doubt on Microsoft's potential market for Windows 8 among traditional PC users. — It's that time of year: The t...
IBM Makes Revolutionary Racetrack Memory Using Existing Tools
Racetrack memory could someday supersede flash in terms of density and cost. — IBM has shown that a revolutionary new type of computer memory—one that combines the large capacity of traditional hard...
The Rise of Google, the Ascent of Facebook and the Decline of Everyone Else
If you pay the slightest bit of attention to Internet advertising, you know this. But it's always good to see it spelled out: Look how ginormous Google is! — This exclamation point comes courtesy o...
In an Open-Source Society, Innovating by the Seat of Our Pants
The Internet isn't really a technology. It's a belief system, a philosophy about the effectiveness of decentralized, bottom-up innovation. And it's a philosophy that has begun to change how we think...
Exclusive: Apple vs. Samsung ruling divulges secret details
(Reuters) - A U.S. court error on Friday offered a brief glimpse at information that Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics have tried to shield from the public during their high-stakes patent litigation.
Android graphics, rendering, and hardware acceleration explained by Google
Dianne Hackborn, part of Google's Android engineering group, has taken to the company's Google+ social network to distribute some “true facts” about Android's graphics and rendering.
Over 100,000 XXX Domain Names Are Going Live Tomorrow At 11 EST
The next generation of online porn launches tomorrow at 11 AM EST. — We asked the guy behind XXX domain names who stands to benefit from the changeover. — ICM Registry CEO Stuart Lawley has been w...
Cox TV Connect brings in-home iPad TV streaming
Cox TV Connect relies on local link for live TV — Cox on Monday tried its formal hand at a live TV streaming app with the formal rollout of Cox TV Connect for the iPad (free, App Store). As with th...
iOS version code-names
While Android's dessert-derived code-names like Cupcake and Ice Cream Sandwich are publicly pitched by Google and used by media, Apple's iOS code-names don't get anywhere nearly as much attention. De...
Google Adds Graphical Math Calculator To Search Results
Google announced their answer to Wolfram Alpha's advanced math skills with math graphing functionality on Google search results. — All you need to do is type basic and complex math functions into th...
The Nerdy Address Of Facebook's New Headquarters? 1 Hacker Way
Apple has 1 Infinite Loop, Genentech has 1 DNA Way, and now Facebook has its own vanity headquarters address: 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, 94025. Seen here on a brand new business card of a Facebook emp...
Why Apple's cheap
I'm going to take one last bite at the Apple valuation question, since I'm happier now about why Apple's trading where it's trading than I was when I wrote my original post. — The first thing to not...
Coming next year: Ting, the less-evil mobile carrier
Cellular carriers are evil. — Or dumb. Because what but an evil or dumb company would punish its best customers for underestimating the amount of their product that they want? Cellular overage cha...
Starbucks apps account for 26M mobile payments and $110M in card reloads
The Starbucks brand may be synonymous with pricey lattes, but the coffee conglomerate has pushed a number of mobile initiatives in 2011 to make its name also stand for digital innovation. New numbers...
Microsoft upgrades Xbox Live with 40 entertainment services, live TV, and Kinect voice control
Xbox Live isn't just an online gaming service anymore. Microsoft is announcing today that the new version of its Xbox Live user interface will help transform entertainment on the television.
Dell drops Streak 7, backs out of Android tablets in US
Dell quits Android tablet arena in short term — Dell on Monday confirmed that it had stopped selling the Streak 7. The tablet is no longer available online and is withdrawing just months after Dell...
India Asks Google, Facebook to Screen User Content
The Indian government has asked Internet companies and social media sites like Facebook to prescreen user content from India and to remove disparaging, inflammatory or defamatory content before it goe...
Inside iPhone 4S US mobile data: AT&T vs Sprint vs Verizon
Apple now sells iPhones that work on three of the top four national US mobile carriers. Here's a look at how well you can expect Apple's latest smartphones to work on each of these mobile data networ...
Windows 8 will be ‘largely irrelevant’ to traditional PC users: IDC
Summary: IDC's top 10 system software predictions for 2012 are out. One of them casts doubt on Microsoft's potential market for Windows 8 among traditional PC users. — It's that time of year: The t...
$6 Billion in ‘Cyber Week’
Free Shipping Incentive Used on Nearly Two-Thirds of Online Transactions During Most Recent Two Weeks — comScore (NASDAQ : SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world …
There And Back Again: A Lengthy Weighing Of The Galaxy Nexus And iPhone 4S
Before me sit two phones. On the left is the iPhone 4S, which I bought (and signed my soul over to Verizon for) in October. On the right sits a loaner GSM version of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, sporti...
Hewlett-Packard Offers Box.net on Some Business PCs
Box.net is everywhere these days. The cloud storage and collaboration platform has been gaining new customers at an impressive clip — 7 million users at 100,000 companies at last count — and landing ...
Apple's Grand Central Terminal Apple Store will open at 7 AM Monday-Friday to accommodate commuters
While Apple officially announced via a sign at the location that the mega Apple Store in New York's Grand Central Terminal will open its doors for the first time on December 9th, Apple has now noted t...