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Orders for Apples New iPad Start Today
It's iPad Day in America -- at least Apple hopes it is. The company began taking orders online Friday for its new tablet computer, with delivery scheduled for April 3, the same day the iPad goes on sale in stores in the United States. The company said on its site that buyers who order the iPad ...
Apple Pushes for Quality in Apps
Apple's recent purge of sex-tinged iPhone apps and its lesser- known ban of “cookie- cutter" apps signifies the company's new focus on quality in its App Store, rather than quantity. Last month, Apple removed about 5,000 apps with “overtly sexual content" from its App Store. And this week Apple told Mobile Roadie, a company that provides ...
Barbican Launches "JazzEast" Website jazzeast.org
The Barbican has announced the launch of a comprehensive new tool for jazz musicians, students, educators, journalists - and fans. The JazzEast website is a unique resource that offers a user-friendly and informative guide to the burgeoning jazz scene in the eastern half of the capital. The website, commissioned by Barbican Contemporary Music, gives 'one-click' information ...
Twitter Wants to Know Where You Are
Facebook may not be quite ready to commit to location-based services (at least not until April), but Twitter is making no bones about jumping onto the super-hot trend. The site today added another question to its long-standing “What's Happening" prompt: “Where Are You?" Twitter today rolled out the feature for number of users. Logging onto the ...
Superglued: The Can't-Miss Live Music iPhone App
If you've ever done SXSW before, then you know about the music here in Austin. If you haven't, let us tell you now - there's a lot. But how do you find it all? And how do you find out which show is best? And how do you share blogs, photos, videos and tweet about it ...
Unlimited Internet Access 'Has to Change'
The two largest U.S. wireless carriers agree that the days of unlimited Internet cellphone access are numbered. A week after AT&T Chief Executive Randall Stephenson said the telecom industry would transition to “variable pricing," Verizon Wireless Chief Technology Officer Anthony Melone chimed in to support the idea. Plans offering “as much data as you can consume ...
Amazon's Daily Deal Skirmish Offers Reminder of Apple's Power over the Major Labels
According to recent reports, Apple has been aggressively discouraging labels from participating in Amazon MP3's Daily Deal. Feature a new release there, the labels have been told, and your release will get no promotion at all on iTunes. Being an aggressive competitor is nothing new for Apple. It's also common for labels for show a preference ...
MySpace Redesign May Be Its Last Gasp
How will MySpace regain its footing in the social networking space? A month after ditching Owen Van Natta as chief executive in favor of two co-presidents, the News Corp.-owned site announced Wednesday that its new focus will be on gaming. “Just as music was our springboard for revitalizing our platform, we're taking a similar approach to ...
Meet UK's Number One Data Sluth #001
Did you know that 62 percent of all cited statistics are bogus? OK, we made that up. But after a 2007 poll found that barely a third of all British citizens trust published stats, Parliament formed a math-police squad to investigate. The top cop in the UK Statistics Authority is Richard Alldritt, an expert in how ...
Conan's Lone Tweeter Followee: It's Just Nuts!
CONWAY TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- Last week, Sarah Killen had three Twitter followers. This week, she has 20,000 -- as well as a new iMac computer and offers to help pay for a dress and drinks for her wedding. The unsuspecting rural Michigan woman has one out-of-work late-night talk show host to thank for her newfound online ...
