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iPad Apps Could Put Apple in Charge of the News
Publishers should think twice before worshipping the iPad as the future platform for magazines and newspapers. That is, if they value their independence from an often-capricious corporate gatekeeper. The past weeks controversy swirling around Apples retroactive ban of sexy apps in the App Store seems trivial, but the implications of Apples arbitrariness should be disconcerting to ...
Motorola Wants to Mash-up Phone and TV Functions
Motorola Seeks Tighter Link Between Phones, TV Boxes. Barcelona Spain, Motorola Inc. plans to bring a new email and social-networking function to its television set-top boxes, an early move to share features between its cellphone and home-product divisions. The two divisions long made products that were treated separately, but they will start moving closer now that ...
Italy's Google Verdict Launches Debate over Internet Freedom
It was one of those Internet links that triggers the same morbid instinct that makes motorists slow down to stare at a highway accident scene: Bullying: disabled boy abused in school. The three-minute clip, which was posted to the Google Video platform in 2006, showed four youths in the Italian city of Turin teasing an autistic ...
dropcards.com: New Look, Even Better Tasting!
Kyle Bylin (@kbylin), Associate Editor In January, Dropcards unveiled their new download card platform. Then, late last week, they held a short webinar to take people through a tour of the new features they added. I was in attendance, and while I was not familiar with the inner workings of their previous site, I became quite impressed with their ...
Sellaband Saved, May Be Back Online Today
After declaring bankruptcy in Dutch court earlier this week, fan to artist funding site Sellaband has been saved by a German investment group who are moving the site to their home country and promising to have it back online today. Exactly why the site went dark and how the new owner plans to change SellaBand is ...
Google Begins Indexing Facebook Pages
It took a while, but Google is now indexing Pages from Facebook, Google said today via a tweet on its official account. Unlike individual profiles, Facebook Pages were designed for organizations, businesses, celebrities, and bands to provide updates. Now, those will be part of Google's real-time search results, which were first announced in December at its ...
In Defense of Adobe Flash
Flash is going through a pretty tough time right now. Apple's Steve Jobs, reportedly, hates it. Consumers seem to think it's bloated and unsafeat least that's the commonly held wisdom. For me, though, Flash is one of the Web's more sublime technologies, one I've known and used for more than 15 years. It was 1994 or ...
iTunes: Over 10 Billion Songs Served
Apple has passed the 10 billion songs sold mark on iTunes. The 10 billionth song, “Guess Things Happen That Way" by Johnny Cash, was purchased by Louie Sulcer of Woodstock, Georgia. As the winner of the iTunes Countdown to 10 Billion Songs, Louie will receive a $10,000 iTunes Gift Card. iTunes is the number one music retailer ...
Yahoo Strikes Content-Sharing Partnership with Twitter
In a battle to woo back Web surfers who are spending more time on social networking sites, Internet portal Yahoo has clinched a deal with Twitter to share content across both properties. Yahoo reached a similar agreement with Facebook in December, expanding the partnership to make it easier for users to share Facebook status updates and ...
Apple is a Mobile Device Company
Here are some snippets from Apple Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook's keynote at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday. On mobile: Apple is a mobile device company. That transition began in 1991. Even the Macintosh business has become mostly mobile. The vast majority of Apple's revenue comes from ...
