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Apple Blocks iTunes Sync on the Palm Pre
We feared this day, and yet here it is: Apple has blocked the Palm Pre from syncing with iTunes 8 with its latest iTunes 8.2.1 update, according to Engadget Mobile. Apple's Software Update says in the install dialog that the new version “provides a number of important bug fixes and addresses an issue with verification of ...
Amazon Sued over Cracking Kindles
Perhaps it's a bit much to ask, but I'd expect that a protective cover purchased for an expensive device like the Amazon Kindle would, at the very least, not damage the product. Matthew Geise shelled over the extra $30 for his wife's ebook reader; 3 months later, the Kindle started cracking where the cover fastens via ...
Twitter Ponders Legal Options After Hack
Twitter executives are still pondering their legal options after a hacker gained access to sensitive files and shopped them around to various blogs and news sites, but none of that data compromised the security of Twitter users, according to co-founder Biz Stone. “The stolen documents which were downloaded and offered to various blogs and publications are ...
Yahoo Allows Users to Opt out of Mobile Ads
Yahoo has unveiled a new mobile feature that lets users opt out of interest-based advertising from the company right from their mobile devices, in an effort to make each user's privacy choices more accessible and transparent. “We believe we are among the first of our major competitors to offer an opt-out choice of this kind directly ...
Facebook Membership Hits 250 Million
Facebook has passed the 250 million member mark, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg announced Wednesday. “For us, growing to 250 million users isn't just an impressive number; it is a mark of how many personal connections all of you have made, and how far we at Facebook have to go to extend the power of connection to ...
Pandora Nails Down $35 Million in Funding
Days after securing a deal for royalty rates, Internet radio station Pandora has also locked up venture capitalist funding rumored to be in the neighborhood of $35 million. “Pandora recently closed a round of financing" with Greylock Partners, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist firm, a Pandora spokeswoman wrote in an e-mail. Pandora declined to comment on ...
What if Google Wasn't Free?
The launch of Google's Chrome OS spurred numerous questions among analysts and bloggers: what is it? How will it be used? Will it displace Android? Microsoft Windows? The question that's now being asked is: what if it isn't free? And what if Google decides to charge consumers for Gmail, or its Apps package, or any number ...
New York Times Considering Charging Online
The New York Times is considering a five-dollar per month charge for access to its Web content, according to Bloomberg. The newspaper floated the idea to its print subscribers in a survey, which also reportedly asked about a discounted $2.50 Web access rate for subscribers. The Times already dabbled in subscription-based services back in 2007 with ...
Google's Chrome Os: Next Up, a Web Tablet?
Google's evolution follows an interesting trend. And if the line holds true, I think we can guess what comes next after the Chrome OS. I tweeted as much earlier yesterday, (with a timeline error or two; blame the doctor's office) but I'll recap it here and extrapolate out further. Google began as a search engine using ...
Google Announces Chrome Operating System
was poised to continue its netbook dominance with Windows 7, Google on Wednesday announced an OS of its own, Google Chrome OS, which will run on both x86 and ARM systems. The emphasis of the OS is the same as what netbooks were originally designed for: light, Web-based computing. Obviously, Windows XP wasn't designed for such ...
