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Tech Giants Again Defend Data Collection Policies
Can you anonymously surf the Web and peruse social networks without consequence, or are today's top tech companies compiling a FBI-like file on your behavior? More than likely, it's somewhere in the middle, according to Thursday testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Representatives from Facebook, Yahoo, and Google appeared on Capitol Hill to once ...
Sirius XM Launches iPhone App
Just in time for the release of the iPhone 3.0 software, satellite radio giant Sirius XM on Thursday made official its new app for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The app provides subscribers with access to the content provider's 120 channels of music and talk like NPR, CNN, Fox News Talk, Oprah Radio, MLB Home Plate, ...
Google Still Tops in Search, Will Bing Change That?
Google once again topped the list for search engine share in May according to data from comScore. The company captured 65 percent of all core searches, up about 0.8 percent from April. Yahoo came in second with 20.1 percent of searches and Microsoft was third with 8 percent, a drop of 0.3 and 0.2 percent respectively. ...
Obama Favors Dumping Work Cell Phone Tax
The Obama administration on Tuesday said it will back repealing a hard-to-enforce tax on personal use of work cellphones, appeasing the business community, phone makers and users. A 1989 law requires companies seeking to deduct worker cellphones as an expense to track personal use with painstaking documentation of minutes. The government, in a notice last week ...
Apple's iPhone Os 3.0 is Late; We Say: Wait
Ladies and gentlemen, start your iTunes. Just not yet. The new iPhone OS 3.0 update for all existing iPhones is scheduled to come out today, but it still hasn't arrived on iTunes as of 10 AM ET. According to general Web scuttlebutt, the update will arrive around 1 PM ET. Expect Apple's servers to be slammed, ...
Apple Takes Aim at Palm Pre's iTunes Support
Considering that the Palm Pre was designed in part by ex-Apple employees, and that its iTunes syncing function works by pretending to be an iPod, it was predictable that Apple would try to shoot it down. The Big Fruit today released a very thinly veiled attack on the Pre's iTunes capabilities, in the form of a ...
Report: Broadband Usage is Up, as Are Prices
Broadband adoption is on the rise, but so are monthly bills, according to a Wednesday report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project. About 63 percent of American adults now have broadband connections at home, up 15 percent from the same time last year. Unfortunately, an increased customer base has not prompted a drop in ...
Obama's FCC Pick Touts Broadband, Competition
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) must have a strong focus on broadband development, competition, and advancements in mobile technology, Julius Genachowski, President Obama's pick for FCC chairman, told the Senate Commerce Committee. “In the 21st century, communications has the potential to unleash new waves of innovation: increasing opportunity and prosperity, driving American competitiveness and leadership, connecting ...
Adobe Launches Online Spreadsheet, Web Collaboration
With Google Wave's recent attempt to move business people to a new hosted paradigm for collaboration, Adobe has its own ideas about moving workgroups and documents to the cloud. The San Jose-based company today took its Web-based productivity suite, Acrobat.com, out of beta and added a beta version of its new online spreadsheet, Tables, joining Adobe's ...
Virgin to Launch Unlimited Download MP3 Service
operator Virgin Media is to launch an unlimited music download subscription service through a partnership with the world's largest music company, Universal. The music industry has been desperate to boost digital sales in recent years to overcome online piracy, and the agreement comes a day before a British report sets out how the creative and telecoms ...
