On November 22, YouTube is holding an event called “YouTube Live!” — this has been known for a while, it’s just an event that will feature people hanging out together, in the flesh. But the event may also be the platform from which YouTube will launch its own live-streaming video service, a company source tells [...]
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Twitter recently touted the fact that there were no Fail Whale sightings all throughout its massive spike in usage during the U.S. presidential elections. Another micro-blogging site, Pownce hasn’t been so lucky today. The service has been down most of the morning.
The cause of the problems is apparently a slave database corruption issue which was [...]
One of the first applications to be removed from Apple’s App Store was NetShare. The app, which lets you tether an iPhone 3G to a computer (that is, use the phone’s data service to access the web on a computer) was thought to be in violation of AT&T’s terms of service. Still, seeing as AT&T [...]
Watch out distributors of premium content online, a 900-pound gorilla named YouTube just crept into the room. For the past few years, the service has become far and away the world’s most popular online video platform on the backs of its user-generated content and often legally questionable copyrighted material. But now the service may be [...]
Here’s my routine the last several weeks: Wake up, open my feed reader, read story after story about layoffs at FILL-IN-THE-BLANK tech company — it’s depressing. So it’s nice today to be able to report about one that has seen huge job growth this year: Apple.
The computer, iPod and iPhone maker saw its number of [...]
Maybe you heard about this election thing that took place yesterday. Even if you were literally in a cave, chances are you were getting updates about it on your phone via some service — and that service may have been Twitter.
The micro-messaging service saw huge usage numbers yesterday as Barack Obama was elected the United [...]
The Mac mini is easily the most neglected system in Apple’s entire line of computers. It hasn’t seen an update of any kind since 2007, and unlike other Apple products, it’s looked almost exactly the same since its inception in 2005. These factors, alongside talk of dwindling supplies, have led some to speculate about the [...]
Departing Apple executive Tony Fadell is getting a pretty nice deal to stay on as an advisor and not go to any other company, an SEC filing reveals. Specifically, he’ll be getting a $300,000 annual salary and restricted stock options that are potentially worth millions.
Apple confirmed yesterday that Fadell, its senior vice president of the [...]
One knock on applications built for the iPhone and iPod touch is that they’re fairly disposable. One might be popular one week, but then many others come along and the formerly popular one is largely forgotten about. We’ve seen it time an time again. A new app launched today is basically assured to have that [...]
Mozilla’s Firefox web browser surpassed 20 percent worldwide market share for the first time last month, according to new data from Net Applications. That’s a huge milestone for the open source web browser, which was first released (the 1.0 version) by Mozilla almost exactly four years ago (November 9, 2004), at a time when Microsoft’s [...]
It’s Election Day here in the United States, and so much of the country (and probably a good portion of the rest of the world as well) is doing what we do best: searching for stuff on Google. The Internet giant has written a post outlining some of the interesting trends it’s seeing in the [...]
Here’s the latest action:
Barack Obama’s views on tech policy — The polls all have him ahead right now, so we should probably know his positions on tech.
Circuit City closing 155 stores — I bet Blockbuster is pretty happy right now that its odd idea to buy the troubled electronics chain didn’t end up happening. The [...]
Tony Fadell, Apple’s senior vice president of the company’s iPod division is leaving the company, reports The Wall Street Journal. The motivation for his departure is said to be “personal reasons.” This is potentially a big blow to Apple.
The move makes sense of Apple’s desire to hire a former IBM executive, Mark Papermaster. Papermaster is [...]
I made it pretty clear the other day that I wasn’t a big fan of FriendFeed’s new ability to push user updates to Twitter. As a few examples showed, too much of the same content was being repeated and it made the moderate-to-heavy FriendFeed users who turned it on very noisy on Twitter. It was [...]
It has been a long few, um, weeks since Apple last launched a new product — the new MacBooks. The Internet is already chomping at the bit for more. While it was always unlikely that Apple would hold any more events before its big MacWorld conference in January, rumors were starting to circulate of smaller [...]
Google’s online email application Gmail is quickly turning into my main hub on the Internet. Not only does it house my email, it supports instant messaging (including Google Talk and AIM’s networks) and thanks to its brilliant Gmail Labs, services such as Google Calendar and Google Docs can be placed in Gmail’s sidebars as well. [...]
Remember Yahoo Live? Probably not. It’s Yahoo’s attempt at doing live video streaming over the Internet. It got some buzz when it launched back in February as Yahoo was the first of the large Internet companies to step into the space. But since then, it’s just lingered in obscurity and today, the company is announcing [...]
Maybe you’re aware that tomorrow is Election Day in the United States. Obviously, it’s a pretty big deal because we’ll be electing a new president, but there are several other key battles going on — both in contests for other offices and in proposition voting. With the explosion of online advertising over the past several [...]
You might not realize it, but Google has social profiles for users. Yes, the search engine has a page of personal information similar to what all the major social networks have for their users. In fact, if you have a Google account, you can probably find yours at this link: http://www.google.com/s2/profiles/me. While Google has done [...]
Sometimes I wish I had a secretary — not just to do my busy work, but so I could tell them to call my phone after a few minutes if I’m in a meeting I don’t want to be in. You know, the old: secretary calls the phone, you answer and then turn to the [...]
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