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Arnold Kim Celebrates 10 Years as Apple Rumor King
Arnold Kim quit his job treating kidneys to dissect the secrets of his favorite electronics company, the famously confidential Apple. Kim launched his independent blog MacRumors.com on Feb. 24, 2000 during his fourth year in medical school. His Apple enthusiasm eventually outweighed his passion for nephrology. The medicine stuff, even as much as you enjoy the ...
Exclusive: How Googles Algorithm Rules the Web
When it comes to finding stuff, there's Google and there's everyone else. Want to know how Google is about to change your life? Stop by the Ouagadougou conference room on a Thursday morning. It is here, at the Mountain View, California, headquarters of the worlds most powerful Internet company, that a room filled with three dozen ...
iPad, iPhone and Cash Mountain Expected to Dominate Apple Annual Meeting
When Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs holds his annual face-to-face meeting with shareholders Thursday there will be no shortage of questions for a company famously stingy with information. Shareholders want to know what Jobs has planned for the iPad, whether the iPhone can sustain its growth momentum amid greater competition, and what the company will do ...
The Twitter Effect on Oscar
Most of the nominees have accounts -- and some even use them -- but nobody's tweeting for votes in 140-word haikus. On Twitter, Jesse James has never been one to mince words. He tweets with all the bad boy attitude and mucho macho swagger you'd expect from a celebrity chopper mechanic and star of such reality ...
Half of Twitter Tweets Not in English
Twitter might be a U.S.-based service, but thanks to the company's efforts at expanding its footprint internationally, approximately 50% of all tweets are not in English, Web research firm Semiocast has revealed. According to Semiocast, which examined 2.8 million tweets over two days in February, 50% of all messages sent on Twitter are in English. Japanese, ...
Conan O'Brien's First Public Act Since He Left 'The Tonight Show' is a Tweet
Conan O'Brien joins Twitter and doubles Jay Leno's follower count in two hours. O'Brien may not have had any fans in the NBC Universal boardroom, but there was perhaps no stronger congregation of Coco supporters than on Twitter. The social network quickly rushed to a profile page for @ConanOBrien that began tweeting on Wednesday. Twitter spokesman ...
The Fate of a Format: Will MusicDNA Catch On?
Kyle Bylin (@kbylin), Associate Editor Twenty-seven and a half years ago, the manufacturing of the world's first compact disc took place at a Philips factory in Langenhagen, Germany. Upon its introduction, the CD was marketed to music fans with regards to its superior sound quality and scratch free durability. But, as time when on, those ...
Reverbnation and Audiolife Partner for Reverb Store
Music marketing platform ReverbNation has partnered with direct to fan e-commerce provider Audiolife to launch of the Reverb Store following a private trial involving more than 15,000 bands. Using on demand production, the Reverb Store allows musicians to sell t-shirts, hoodies, hats, CDs, downloads and ringtones direct to fans on Facebook, social networks, their blog and ...
Cost, Crotchetiness Keep Broadband out of 1/3 of U.S. Homes
More than a third of American adults don't have a fast internet connection at home, leaving some 80 million adults and 13 million children at a distinct disadvantage in a wired world, according to an FCC report released Tuesday. The survey, conducted by phone last fall, comes less than a month before the FCC gives Congress ...
Cell Phones and People -- The Largest Human Biological Experiment Ever?
Lab rats with cellphones? Our wireless lifestyle is making us all unwitting test subjects. We love our digital gadgets -- “magic" devices that define cool and promise to remake our lives for the better. But there is growing evidence of a dark side to the techno-magic. Your cellphone, and any other wireless device that depends on ...
