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Friday, November 20th, 2009
Sony unveiled plans for a digital download store to sell music, videos and books just like Apple’s iTunes. What the company forgot to mention is that the digital download space is already too crowded.
Posted in Apple, Music, Online video | 1 Comment »
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
In the last month, Facebook has overtaken sites like ESPN, ABC and CBS to become the number three video site on the Web.
Posted in Online video, Social Media, YouTube | No Comments »
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
Verizon’s commercials ridiculing AT&T’s 3G coverage may have sparked a lawsuit, but the company stands by the campaign saying the, “ads are true and the truth hurts.”
Posted in Cell phones, Legal | 2 Comments »
Monday, November 16th, 2009
Palm stock surged 8 percent on reports that Nokia could acquire the struggling smartphone maker, but does Nokia really need yet another mobile platform?
Posted in Cell phones | No Comments »
Friday, November 13th, 2009
After a nearly flat September, Twitter saw a whopping 8 percent drop in users during the month of October. Has the service reached critical mass long before becoming mainstream?
Posted in Social Media, Web2.0 | No Comments »
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
A recent study finds that as many as 60 percent of news outlets are evaluating a paid subscription model for their content. If these papers want to save journalism, they might just have to give up on trying to save print.
Posted in Technology, Web2.0 | No Comments »
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
Internet players like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are sponsoring free Wi-Fi hotspots in airports, hotels and even Time Square in hopes of easing holiday travel and winning over some new customers.
Posted in Technology, Wi-Fi | No Comments »
Monday, November 9th, 2009
Surpassing long-running leader Internet Explorer, the browser with the most security vulnerabilities is now Mozilla Firefox according to application security company Cenzic.
Posted in Security, Software | 6 Comments »
Friday, November 6th, 2009
Without warning or any need based on it’s applications, iPhone gaming company Storm8 has been snooping on users’ cell phone numbers and storing them on their servers. Left unchecked, what other kind of malware might slip into the iTunes App Store?
Posted in Apple, Cell phones, Software | 3 Comments »
Thursday, November 5th, 2009
In his review of the Motorola Droid, New York Times writer David Pogue tried to coin the phrase “App Phone” for the newest, high-end mobile devices, presumably because, well, you can install applications on them. While the newer platforms are getting a lot more attention from app developers, that’s not what makes them different.
Posted in Cell phones, Software, Technology | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
Verizon has been drumming up press for it’s new DROID smartphone in commercials by showing a map of Verizon’s 3G coverage beside one of AT&T’s. Now AT&T has filed a lawsuit claiming that the map is misleading because it doesn’t include its 2G network coverage.
Posted in Cell phones | 6 Comments »
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
New York-based Peek Inc has launched a dedicated wireless device called the TwitterPeek meant entirely for tweeting on the go. However questions loom as to whether users need a device on top of their mobile phone to keep up with their tweets.
Posted in Cell phones, Social Media, Technology | No Comments »
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
A surge in book-related releases for the iPhone has some people wondering if the device can displace the Kindle as a lower-cost e-reader. Or the question could be posed, “If you build it, will they read?”
Posted in Amazon, Cell phones, Software, Technology | 1 Comment »
Friday, October 30th, 2009
The latest iTunes update again breaks the Palm Pre’s “unofficial” sync capability in a game of cat and mouse that can only serve to drive away paying iTunes customers.
Posted in Apple, Music | 19 Comments »
Thursday, October 29th, 2009
Want to write an application for LinkedIn that spreads between users or introduces people with similar interests? With those kinds of features closed, it’s no wonder that nobody is writing apps for LinkedIn.
Posted in Social Media | No Comments »
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
The City of Los Angeles has decided that its 30,000 employees will “Go Google,” as the city has selected Gmail as its new email system. This decision might spell a troubling trend for Microsoft in the Enterprise Software market.
Posted in Google, Microsoft, Software, Technology | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
Over the weekend Mozilla Labs launched the prototype of a new Web-based messaging inbox called Raindrop that helps sift through all of your messages to make sure you don’t miss important ones. More importantly Raindrop collects your email, Twitter and Skype messages into one clean inbox called the Inflow.
Posted in Software, Technology | No Comments »