Leaked Windows Phone Roadmap gives us a peek into the future
For those who wonder what Microsoft's game plan with Windows Phone is, this leaked roadmap should at least provide some pointers, up to date as of October 2011. — It lays the foundation with the rel...
Apple wants to offer television subscribers customized channel lineups
Apple's anticipated full-fledged television set could offer Internet-based content subscriptions with customized channel lineups, if the company has its way. — Customized programming is said to be o...
Dear Google+
Earlier today I noticed something funny. My Google profile picture — the picture associated with my Gmail account, my GChat account, my Google+ account, etc — had vanished. A bug? Nope. — It turn...
End of an Era: The Golden Age of Tech Blogging is Over
That's right. We're at the end of an important period. The tech blogosphere as we know it, is over. — Four Trends Show the End of this Era: — Like the film industry, the Golden Era is the emerge...
Online Retailers Home In on a New Demographic: The Drunken Consumer
After enjoying a few drinks, some people go dancing. Others order food. And for some, it's time to shop online. — “I have my account linked to my phone, so it's really easy,” said Tiffany Whitten,...
Apple May Hurt Shareholders With Patent War
Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple (AAPL) Inc., told his biographer that he'd rather wage “thermonuclear war” with Google Inc. than make deals to share its technology with the maker of the Android op...
UPDATE: There were 3.7M Android devices activated on 12/24 and 12/25.
The Latest Entrant In ‘How Not To Do Marketing’ In An Online World: Ocean Marketing Fail
One of the key points that we've been making for years is that, in an online world, pissing off (or simply not caring about) customers is no longer a viable business strategy.
Apple Adds another Core iPhone Multitouch Patent to their Arsenal
On December twentieth, The Washington Post reported that “Apple Inc. won a patent-infringement ruling that bans some HTC Corp. smartphones from the U.S. starting next year, bolstering efforts to prove...
Intel to unveil 22nm Ivy Bridge processors on April 8, say Taiwan PC makers
Intel plans to release a total of 25 models of its 22nm Ivy Bridge processors, including 17 CPUs for desktops and eight for notebooks and ultrabooks on or around April 8, 2012, according to PC makers ...
Exclusive: Groupon Acquires Stealth Silicon Valley Startup Campfire Labs
Groupon has continued its (talent) acquisition spree with the recent purchase of a hot Silicon Valley startup before they even launched - and with extremely little fanfare. — We've learned that Camp...
Amazon, Apple Soar In Customer Satisfaction In 2011; Netflix Plummets
According to customer experience analytics company ForeSee, e-commerce giant Amazon once again topped consumer satisfaction in online retail after taking the top spot in 2010. However, Netflix, which...
Verizon Customers Dealing With Third Data Outage In One Month
It seems like December just can't end soon enough for the folks at Verizon — we're getting reports that Verizon's data network is once again on the fritz. — Like both other times this month, not eve...
Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?
There are certain topics that even some of the best journalists can't fully grok. One of them is profitability. — I find it amusing when a journalist writes an article about a prominent startup (ei...
New York Times sends subscriber email to 8.6 million readers instead of 300
The New York Times has determined that a mass email sent to subscribers was an error, not the result of spam or hacking. — “We regret that the error was made, but no one's security has been compromi...
The Definition Of Open Is... Missing
A few minutes ago, Android chief Andy Rubin sent out his 6th tweet. A milestone. Never mind that they're all self-serving promotion with Rubin never responding to anything or really giving anything ...
Insights on the writing of Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson shares new information on his best-selling biography of the Apple founder. — FORTUNE — Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs has topped The New York Times bestseller's list for eight consecut...
Kindle case maker calls Amazon.com a corporate bully in federal lawsuit
M-Edge Accessories, a 50-person Maryland maker of sleeves and protective cases for electronic reading devices, is suing Amazon.com for patent infringement, unfair competition, intentional interference...
WiFi Protected Setup Flaw Can Lead to Compromise of Router PINs
The US-CERT is warning about a vulnerability in the WiFi Protected Setup standard that reduces the number of attempts it would take an attacker to brute-force the PIN for a wireless router's setup pro...
HP TouchPad Go reviewed: it's a 7-inch TouchPad and that's about it
It's a fairly well-known fact that HP actually produced two TouchPad tablets before killing all its webOS hardware: the 9.7-inch iPad-alike that bombed at retail, and the unreleased 7-inch TouchPad Go...
Amazon.com quietly acquires the social shopping whizzes at Quorus
A few weeks ago, we reported that Quorus co-founder Logan Bowers had left the upstart to become a senior software engineer at Amazon.com. Well, as it turns out, the former Zillow and Expedia develope...
Nokia Windows Phones reportedly receiving ‘Nokia Collection’ Marketplace section
A Nokia-only section of the Windows Phone Marketplace is rolling out to owners of Nokia's Lumia line, according to recent reports. First spotted in France by Professor Thibault, the section has been ...
Final Christmas Push Propels U.S. Online Holiday Spending to $35.3 Billion, Up 15 Percent Versus Last Year
comScore (NASDAQ : SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today reported holiday season retail e-commerce spending for the first 56 days of the November - December 2011 holiday season.
Tough negotiator: HP wanted $1.2B for webOS and Palm's assets (exclusive)
$1.2 billion. That's how much HP paid for Palm last year, and it's also how much the company was trying to sell its Palm assets for over the latter half of 2011, VentureBeat has learned.
Mocked And Misunderstood
When people ask me, “how do you know which companies and services are going to be the biggest successes?”, I usually tell them to look for the companies and services that are mocked and misunderstood....
2012 To Be Biggest Internet IPO Year Since '99
Facebook Inc. and Yelp Inc. are set to lead the biggest year for U.S. initial public offerings by Internet companies since 1999, testing demand for IPOs after investors lost money on Zynga Inc. and Pa...
Report details extent of Anonymous hack on Stratfor
Now that the Yuletide fog has cleared, details are emerging about the extent of an Anonymous hack on security think tank Strategic Forecasting that was first reported Christmas Day and appears to have...
Golden Age of Tech Blogging Done? I Couldn't Disagree More
I'm a big fan of Jeremiah Owyang's market analysis but I think he missed the point on this one, big time. He recently wrote a post on how the Golden Age of tech blogging is over. No way. Unless of ...