Rumors circulated late last year that Google was planning to make significant cuts to its temporary workers to cut costs. That definitely did happen, but details remain murky, even after a new regulatory filing showed up this week. Interestingly, Google seems to be going to some lengths to keep some of this information under wraps.
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Following yesterday’s announcement that Apple had reached agreements to convert the entire iTunes library to “iTunes Plus” format, a format without digital rights management (DRM), some people seem surprised that Apple is charging users 30 cents to upgrade a song. Well guess what? They have been since 2007, when iTunes Plus first launched.
To me, this [...]
Apple’s final Macworld Expo keynote today drew reviews that ranged from boring to awful. For a company that has been no stranger to praise from the press in recent years, there’s a growing concern that Apple can no longer live up to expectations, and that this may be a sign of a larger problem for [...]
Pandora Radio, Pandora’s iPhone application, was the top downloaded app in Apple’s App Store for all of 2008. By the end of the year, it had been downloaded over 2 million times. But the streaming music discovery service apparently isn’t content to rest on its laurels: Version 2 of the app launches today.
The new version [...]
When most people make predictions for the coming year, they probably don’t expect them to come true six days in. But that’s the case with our 2009 prediction that iTunes would go DRM-free this year. Apple announced that its music store will lose its DRM at the Macworld Expo today. But in reality it was [...]
One thing announced at today’s Macworld event in San Francisco that is sure to cause a lot of discussion is the new 17-inch MacBook’s eight-hour battery. That discussion will undoubtedly be both positive and negative as there will be two camps: Those who will hate that the battery is no longer replaceable, and those who [...]
Google finally launched its photo software, Picasa, for the Mac yesterday. It offered a nice alternative to Apple’s iPhoto, namely the ability to sync with a good online photo service, Picasa Web Albums. Of course, that was launched one day before the Apple keynote at Macworld. Today, Apple responded with iPhoto ‘09, which looks like [...]
We’re here at the Macworld Expo 2009 in San Francisco. For live updates, follow along below or in our FriendFeed room here.
Here’s the latest action:
Meg Whitman, governor of California? — That’s the rumor following Whitman’s resignation from the boards of eBay, Procter & Gamble and Dreamworks SKG. Current Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (yes, the Governator) will leave office in 2010, and term limits prevent him from seeking re-election. Whitman, the former chief executive of eBay, and, like [...]
Tomorrow at 9AM PST, Apple will hold its keynote address at the Macworld Expo. Myself and Dean Takahashi will be on hand to bring you any announcements from the keynote as they unfold live.
As usual, we’ll have a page on VentureBeat set up with a FriendFeed room embedded in it. What should make this even [...]
Until Apple’s keynote address starts tomorrow at 9AM PST, there are going to be non-stop rumors about which products will be unveiled. It’s becoming more clear what is going to be announced (iMacs, Mac minis, 17-inch MacBook Pros, DRM-free iTunes?), but there is always the chance that there will be a wild card.
The satirical news [...]
One of my key predictions for 2009 was that Apple’s iTunes store would go DRM-free. There are always a lot of Apple rumors out there, but I was so confident in this one that I actually made the prediction twice. It turns out that may have been a good call, as Apple and the major [...]
ESPN launched its new site design today and all I can say is “wow.” And it’s not a good “wow,” it’s a horrified “wow.” I can’t separate those advertisements from the content, and so I’ll never visit this site again.
It’s sad, because ESPN does have great content when it comes to sports. In fact, I [...]
Those of us in the San Francisco Bay Area can watch the construction of the new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge anytime we want. Unfortunately, most of the time that means sitting in traffic on the current Bay Bridge. But now there’s another option, and it’s not just for us locals: Watch it on Google Earth.
The [...]
When it launched last year, Roku was a compelling device because it was the first set-top box that streamed Netflix Watch Instantly movies to your television. Now, several other devices do that as well, including Blu-ray players, TiVo, the Xbox 360 gaming console and now LG televisions. Roku needed something else to help set it [...]
A phishing scam spread quickly on Twitter throughout the weekend — so quickly that Twitter had to put a message up on the main site telling users not to sign in to fake Twitter URLs sent by direct message from people they follow. Now another scam is apparently erupting, and this time there’s an enticing [...]
Apple has dabbled in a number of Product Red items over the years, most recently with a red version of the new iPod nano and iPod shuffle. Today, a French blog, Nowhere Else, posted some pictures of a supposed red version of the iPhone (which ReadWriteWeb reposted). So should we chalk this up to another [...]
One of the biggest complaints about Apple’s iPhone is that you cannot remove and replace the battery yourself. On the eve of its final Macworld Expo, it appears Apple is willing to live with that complaint for the newest version of its MacBook Pro line of computers as well.
Apple will reportedly use the Macworld event [...]
In today’s world, rarely do we get the opportunity to be sequestered somewhere for a long period of time to work on a project. We end up doing business on the go, using laptops and, most recently, mobile phones. Soonr, of Campbell, Calif., is a company that’s banking on that need for mobility by granting [...]
I know a lot of you are sick of hearing about iPhone fart applications, but keep in mind that iFart Mobile is still the number one app in Apple’s App Store and is making its developers tens of thousands of dollars each day. Also keep in mind that fart apps are still showing up in [...]
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