Black Widow
Twitter has an enormous advantage over Facebook in one key area: while people on Facebook tend to friend their friends, people on Twitter tend to follow their interests. The following graph from Twit...
LG says started production of new screen, as Apple plans product launch
(Reuters) - Flat-screen maker LG Display has started mass production of a new and thinner display, widely speculated to be for use in Apple Inc's next iPhone, and the display's production schedule rem...
Why The OFT And FTC Let Facebook Buy Instagram: FB Camera Is Tiny, IG Makes No Money, And Google
Evidence from Facebook and Instagram plus analysis from outside experts has convinced the Federal Trade Commission to today approve the landmark acquisition.
Enabling FaceTime Over Our Mobile Broadband Network
Last week, we confirmed plans to make FaceTime available over our mobile broadband network for our AT&T Mobile Share data plan customers. — FaceTime is a video chat application that has been pre-loa...
PayPal Trumps Square's Deal With Starbucks by Partnering With Discover
Under a new partnership being announced with Discover, PayPal is super-sizing the number of merchant locations it will accepted at in the U.S. to more than seven million. — “The whole industry has b...
Launching a New Hulu: A Fresh Look for the Shows You Love
In 1992, the great comedian Phil Hartman threw on his Arkansas sweatshirt and walked into a McDonald's. He was on the set of “Saturday Night Live” and doing his best Bill Clinton impression, continui...
Verizon Is Said To Offer Nokia Windows 8 Phone This Year
Verizon Wireless plans to sell a new Nokia (NOK1V) Oyj phone with Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s Windows 8 software this year, marking the first time it has released a Windows device since May 2011, a perso...
T-Mobile adding unlimited data plans with no throttling on September 5th
Among US national carriers, T-Mobile and Sprint have long been the champions of unlimited data even as Verizon and AT&T have clamped down in recent years — but for T-Mobile customers, there's always b...
Android App Websites Seized in the U.S. for Alleged Copyright Violations
U.S. law enforcement officials said on Tuesday that three websites that were allegedly distributing illegal copies of copyrighted Android cell phone apps had been seized in what is described as the fi...
Spotify to Launch in Canada
STOCKHOLM—Spotify is set to launch its popular music-streaming service in Canada, and has further plans to possibly expand into Asia and South America, according to the Anglo-Swedish company's recentl...
How ‘Call Me Maybe’ and Social Media Are Upending Music
For decades, the song of the summer would emerge each year following a pattern as predictable as the beach tides. — Pop radio would get it rolling before school let out, and soon the song — inevitab...
CouchSurfing, now a ‘social travel network’, gets a $15M boost
CouchSurfing, a website that connects travelers with friendly, foreign strangers willing to share their home, is proving to be profitable business. Today, the company raised an additional $15 million...
Current BlackBerry Enterprise Servers incompatible with BlackBerry 10 devices; RIM to cease development
Research In Motion (RIMM) has had an incredibly difficult time getting QNX-based devices to work with the company's existing systems. The reason the BlackBerry PlayBook shipped without email …
Google lashes out at German copyright ‘threat’
Google has launched a broadside against a proposed law in Germany that would see search engines forced to pay license fees for linking people to news stories. — Well, actually that's slightly inaccu...
Nikon's Coolpix S800c: an Android-powered point-and-shoot camera for $350
It's here: the first Android-powered camera, and it's one that you'd actually consider buying. Nikon's $349.95 Coolpix S800c is nearly as slim as a smartphone from the middle of last decade, boasting...
Amazon's Kindle hits stores in India as digital bookstore launches with over 1 million titles
With a population of 1.2 billion, India is a huge market with bags of potential for tech firms and, with that in mind, Amazon is expanding its global reach and stepping up its presence in the country ...
City of Oakland, FCC identify source of police radio interference: AT&T
Since its installation in July 2011, the City of Oakland has had massive problems with its radio system. — Timothy Wells — On Tuesday, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that local officials …
YouTube Will Now Let Mobile Users Choose Whether to Watch Ads
People often visit Web sites on their mobile phones as much or more than they do on computers. But that leaves Web companies with a challenge: how to make money on phones, where there is less space f...
Opera Q2: Sales Up 32% To $52.1M; Mobile Surges, Desktop Flat, Google Deal Stays Put
Opera Software, the Norway-based Internet browser company, today reported Q2 2012 earnings that solidified the company's strength in mobile, and ongoing weakness in desktop usage in the face of compet...
Storage Provider Nutanix Raises $33 Million And Shows Signs Of Readying For An IPO
Nutanix has raised $33 million in a Series C funding round. The investment comes from investors Lightspeed Venture Partners and Khosla Ventures along with new investors Battery Ventures and Goldman S...
Typesafe Nets $14M to Deliver Development Tools for the Cloud and Multi-Core Computing Environment of the Future
Five or ten years ago, developers rode their fixie bikes uphill to work, both ways, in the snow, then used simple and familiar programming languages to ply their trade.
An LTE iPhone could be the most disruptive thing in the UK mobile market since the original
Today's been rather a momentous day in the UK mobile arena, following local regulator Ofcom's approval of Everything Everywhere's plans to use existing spectrum to roll out LTE service early.