February 25, 2011
Now that the Motorola (MMI) Xoom is available, the first of many Google (GOOG) Honeycomb tablets is poised to battle Apple's (AAPL) iPad for consumer dollars and ...
February 24, 2011
If you've ever doubted the disruptive power of online video, consider this: Libyan border guards have started to frisk people leaving the country for recording ...
February 24, 2011
The Internet, as we currently know it, has run out of room. The roughly 4 billion destinations—a zoo of porn and retail, gambling, Justin Bieber, and conspiracy ...
February 13, 2011
It's not often that Google (GOOG) waves the white flag, but last month the search advertising giant capitulated in its attempt to enter the real estate search market. ...
February 9, 2011
Amazon.com (AMZN) Vice-President James Hamilton's schooling in computer data centers started under the hood of a Lamborghini Countach. Fixing luxury Italian autos in ...
February 3, 2011
Last week Canadians got the unwelcome news that their Internet Service Providers could cap their broadband access to downloading as little as 25 GB per month, or the ...
February 2, 2011
Over the last decade, the market for photo-sharing services on the Web has come to resemble a relay race. One service rises to prominence and then gets overtaken by a ...
February 2, 2011
This weekend, Borders (BGP) let their creditors know they'd be holding off on paying rent at the end of January, in a bid to preserve liquidity. Sure, many have known ...
February 1, 2011
Snap Interactive (STVI), operator of the AreYouInterested.com dating site, has developed a location-based service for Facebook users to meet and interact, based on how...
February 1, 2011
It's 8 a.m. on a Saturday morning and I'm ready to make some money. The coffee's kicking in and I've logged on to Amazon.com's (AMZN) Mechanical Turk. It's an online ...
February 1, 2011
When Julia Lee first heard of Tongal, she thought it was a scam. Tongal pays people—anyone with a good idea, really—to create online videos for companies ...
January 30, 2011
One of the justifications that Google (GOOG) provided for former Chief Executive Eric Schmidt's move into the chairman role and the reemergence of co-founder Larry ...
January 26, 2011
Samsung Electronics (005930:KS) wants to become the biggest U.S. large-household-appliance brand by making refrigerators smarter. Fridges, washers, dryers, ...
January 25, 2011
(Bloomberg) Apple Inc. plans to introduce services that would let customers use its iPhone and iPad computer to make purchases, said Richard Doherty, director ...
January 20, 2011
By now, because of such incidents as the earthquake in Haiti, the recent revolution in Tunisia, and the shooting of congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona, most ...
January 14, 2011
(Bloomberg) Groupon Inc., the largest coupon website, is seriously considering an initial public offering later this year and is meeting with securities firms ...
January 14, 2011
The Sundance Film Festival is a showcase that draws about 50,000 people to Park City, Utah—all toting cell phones, tablets, and computers, and all expecting to ...
January 13, 2011
Online data privacy has been in the spotlight for a variety of reasons over the past year, from Facebook's privacy settings to government subpoenas for WikiLeaks data....
January 9, 2011
If you're a Web service, especially a young startup, you want to get as many users as possible, right? But there are worse things than having a small number of ...
January 7, 2011
As Goldman Sachs (GS) lines up private investors for its Facebook fund, which appears to have closed already due to high demand, numbers are beginning to leak out ...
January 2, 2011
When the iPad (AAPL) first arrived on the scene, many newspaper and magazine publishers seemed to see it as a digital savior that would restore their fortunes and ...
December 31, 2010
(Bloomberg) Clearwire Corp., a company creating a nationwide high-speed wireless network using WiMax technology, said Chairman Craig McCaw will step down ...
December 30, 2010
(Bloomberg) Skype Technology SA, the biggest provider of international calls, introduced video calling for Apple Inc.'s wireless devices, a move that may ...
December 28, 2010
(Bloomberg) Google Inc. is talking with educational-software companies to help build a marketplace for online learning programs, an industry whose value may ...
December 22, 2010
There's a great moment in All The President's Men, the film based on the 1970s Watergate investigation, in which the inside source known only as Deep Throat tells ...