FAA approves iPads in the cockpit; American Airlines to start Friday
In June the Allied Pilots Association noted that American Airlines (AA) conducted the first tests of iPads for all phases of flight. AA pilots received Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approval ...
Introducing SkyDrive for iPhone and Windows Phone
SkyDrive is your personal cloud for your documents, notes, photos and videos. Move your files into SkyDrive and immediately they're available from any web browser anywhere in the world. As we detail...
Facebook Plans First Foray Into Mobile Ads
Facebook Inc. plans its first push into mobile advertising by the end of March, giving the company a fresh source of revenue ahead of a possible initial public offering, two people with knowledge of t...
Why apps are not the future
I hear it everywhere. The web is dead, apps are the future. — I heard it first on the cover of Wired Magazine in March 1997 and again in August 2010. I was so impressed I added it to my blogroll, ...
Windows Phone SMS attack discovered, reboots device and disables messaging hub
Microsoft's range of Windows Phone devices suffer from a denial-of-service attack that allows attackers to disable the messaging functionality on a device. — The flaw works simply by sending an SMS ...
Why You Can't Hire
There isn't a shortage of developers and designers. There's a surplus of founders. — The cost of starting a company has collapsed. It's now just (minimal) salaries. For entrepreneurs, desks are f...
Investors Were Kicked Off The Twitter Board “For The Good Of The Company”
In digging around trying to investigate rumors that KPCB VC John Doerr lost his “board observer"status at Twitter two weeks ago, I came across the information that almost all investors including Doerr...
Google Kills ‘Google Shoot View’ Video Game
Google has killed off “Google Shoot View,” a first-person shooter video game based on Google's Street View mapping product. The game used Google's Street View database of 360 degree street-level phot...
Apple hires designer Jan-Michael Cart praised for his iOS interface concepts
Apple is hiring dozens of talented people on a daily basis, but this one deserves your attention. Jan-Michael Cart, a mass media arts student from Georgia, is the brains behind a bunch of very insigh...
Microsoft offers free Windows phones to Android malware victims
Want a free Windows Phone? Well, it turns out that you may be able to get one for free - all you need to do is tell Microsoft about the malware problems you've had with Android smartphones. — Yes, ...
Maker of Yanked Driver's License App Fires Back at Apple
The maker of a fake driver's license app that was yanked from Apple's App Store this week has fired back, saying the free app was “specifically and deliberately designed ... to prevent the creation of...
Apple Reportedly Buying Flash Memory Company Anobit For $400 Million - $500 Million
Apple is reportedly going to use part of its enormous pile of cash to buy an Israeli fabless semiconductor company that specializes in flash storage solutions. Calcalist reports - in Hebrew …
FAA approves iPads in the cockpit; American Airlines to start Friday
In June the Allied Pilots Association noted that American Airlines (AA) conducted the first tests of iPads for all phases of flight. AA pilots received Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approval ...
iTunes Music and Movies Debut in 16 Latin American Countries, Brazil Gets iTunes Match
Following closely after a previously-rumored launch date of December 8th, Apple has now turned on new iTunes Store music and movie content in 16 Latin American countries.
Study: Tablet Buyers Use Wi-Fi, Not Cellular Data
Tablet owners overwhelming prefer Wi-Fi-only devices over those with cellular connections, according to a new study by Connected Intelligence, a service from market research firm The NPD Group. — Sl...
Amazon's Jungle Logic
Camden, Me. — I FIRST heard of Amazon's new “promotion” from my bookseller daughter, Emily, in an e-mail with the subject line “Can You Hear Me Screaming in Brooklyn?” According to a link Emily sup...
Bottlenose Is a Web-Based Twitter Client for Power Users
It was nine months ago that Twitter told outside developers they should stop building new Twitter clients. Since then Twitter bought and integrated power-user client TweetDeck, and tried to make all ...
WordPress 3.3 Released To The Masses; Includes iPad Optimization, Tumblr Importer And More
After 14 million downloads of WordPress 3.2, WordPress 3.3 is being released to the wild today. Codenamed “Sonny” in honor of the jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt, WordPress 3.3 is available for download...
Google Wallet stores too much unencrypted data in a rooted device—report
report — ViaForensics gives a report card of sorts to Google Wallet, noting that it securely stores passwords but doesn't encrypt other data that could be used in a social engineering attack.
Rara Sells Streaming Music to Everyone Who Hasn't Heard of Streaming Music
You get your legal music on the Web from services like Apple, Amazon, Google, Spotify and Pandora. Also, perhaps, from services like Rhapsody, MOG and Rdio, etc. — Yet here comes one more, via Rara...
Kevin v the world: reformed pirate sues tech giants for millions
Asher Moses — The Sydney entrepreneur who created Kazaa is a shareholder and chairman of a US company that is suing the biggest names on the internet, including Google and Amazon, for patent infring...
How Many Downloads Does an App Need to Reach The Top of The Free Charts on iOS?
It's a question we often get from developers: how many downloads does it take to make it to the top? — App tracking company Distimo has revealed data for top apps on a country-by-country basis for t...
Gowalla Went For $3M In Facebook Shares, And Many Investors Were Cool With That
What the headline says, basically, according to two sources. That and multiple sources are telling me that a majority of Gowalla investors were cool with the deal being entirely in Facebook shares …
Nokia: Youths are fed up with iPhone, baffled by Android
EXCLUSIVE: We offer something different — Nokia?has claimed that the youth of today are fed up with the iPhone?and baffled by Android. — In an exclusive interview with Pocket-lint, Niels Munksgaar...
Pay-to-Pitch Comes Creeping Back: How Much Is Too Much?
Entrepreneurs and other startup economy workers have started complaining about rising fees of events around town—the sheer abundance of tech events in New York has us habituated to all-star panels and...
A Closer Look At Apple's Role In The E-book ‘Conspiracy’
In the mushrooming controversy over e-books, it's easy to understand the publishers' motives. But what about Apple? (NSDQ: AAPL) Did the company want to raise book prices in order to protect its iPa...