Expecting the Unexpected From Jeff Bezos
EARLY employees of Amazon still remember the day the company took away their aspirin. — It was late 1999. After years of heady excess, the Internet boom was beginning to falter. Amazon, among the ...
Goldfinger: The Next iPhone
“Gold? All over?” M asks James Bond upon hearing how Jill Masterson died in 1964′s Goldfinger. While Bond goes on to explain that the gold coating on Ms. Masterson caused her to die of “skin suffoc...
Why can't email be secure?
Coming on the heels of our announcement that we had shut down our Silent Mail service, we received a comment about securing email communications. “In a recent press release, your company stated it wa...
Barnes & Noble drops Nook with GlowLight price to $99. New model on the way?
Barnes & Noble dropped the price of its front-lit e-reader, the Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight, to $99 on Sunday, from $119. This makes the Nook with GlowLight the only front-lit reader on the mark...
Celebrity endorsements: Turning tech companies around since 2010
HTC is struggling. Second quarter revenue fell sharply and the company is warning investors that it'll post a loss for the third quarter of this year. — But Chief Marketing Officer Ben Ho has big p...
Beats By Dre Looks to Drop HTC
The maker of the popular Beats by Dr. Dre headphones is looking to buy out its Asian partner and bring in a new investor that can provide it with fresh funds for growth, people familiar with the matte...
As Court Releases Files In Case Alleging Google Tracked UK Safari Users, Search Giant Wants To Move Case To U.S.
Some new developments this weekend in the case of 12 people in the UK who want to sue Google for secretly tracking their online activity by working around privacy settings in Apple's Safari web browse...
Mozilla to ship ‘Metro-ized’ Firefox Dec. 10
If all goes well, touch-enabled Windows 8 browser will ship as part of Firefox 26 — Mozilla will launch Firefox for Microsoft's Windows 8 “Modern” user interface in mid-December, more than a year af...
If you're single, your mom is more likely to use an iPad than you are
A new study from Flurry Analytics is out, filled with data about iPhone and iPad usage collected randomly from 44,295 users during the month of May. This data is helpful for advertisers, but it's pre...