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Not At Any Price: Twitter Denied Data To Google And Bet On Itself
If Twitter continued to sell its firehose to Google, fewer searches would occur on Twitter’s internal search engine where the microblog platform can serve its own ads. That’s ...
Bloomberg: iPad 3 To Have Quad-Core CPU, LTE, High-Def Screen
You’ve just got to love the timing. First, Apple announces their education-focused media event smack dab in the middle of CES. Now, just as CES is winding down, ...
iPhone 4S launch in China greeted with egg throwing
Launches of previous versions of the iPhone have been greeted with large crowds at times. However, the crowd of approximately 500 people waiting for the Chinese launch of ...
Microsoft web sites could be blocked in India
Microsoft and many other major Internet companies could have some of their sites blocked in India. ZDNet reports that Delhi’s High Court warned Microsoft as well as Facebook, ...
Apple Temporarily Stops Selling iPhone 4S in China to Protect Store Employees
Apple stores in China have temporarily stopped selling the iPhone 4S to protect store employees and customers, the New York Times reports. The iPhone 4S was scheduled to ...
MySpace Isn’t Dead In The US, It’s Just Getting Closer To Zero Users… As Twitter, G+ Grow
If you look at just one month of data, you’ll see that Myspace still has users. That’s the good news for the aging social network. The bad news ...
Following LG Patent Deal, Microsoft Execs Taunt Google On Twitter
Microsoft this morning announced that it has signed a patent licensing agreement with Android device manufacturer LG, its eleventh deal of the kind. Microsoft says effectively 70 percent ...
Google Drive Is 404′ing Now, Gets A Blank Support Site, Robots.txt
Oh look, drive.google.com is 404′ing now. (Page Not Found). That’s interesting because back in October the site was forwarding to the https version before giving a 105 error ...
Michelle Obama Joins Twitter
First Lady Michelle Obama officially joined Twitter on Thursday under the handle @MichelleObama. Obama and her staff will be using the account – which has already raked in ...
Microsoft Strikes Another Patent Deal With An Android, Chrome OS Device Maker: LG
Microsoft has signed a patent licensing agreement with LG, maker of tablets, phones and other consumer electronics devices running Android or Chrome OS. This marks the 11th deal ...
Facebook Page Performance Art Glitchr Purposefully Tries To Activate Code Glitches
Making the link rounds among designers in Silicon Valley this holiday season is Facebook fan page Glitchr, which tries to mess up Facebook code on purpose. While I ...
Twitter dumps on Google’s new search revamp
On Tuesday, we reported on Google’s major revamp of its search service. That revamp included adding information to search results generated from Google’s own Google+ social network. Now ...
Google revamps search with new features
Google continues to change how its Search feature works and today the company announced a major revamp. It has added several new features to Search that Google collectively ...
Why Samsung Is The Next Apple
For most of the ten years I’ve been coming to CES, every presentation, every booth, has had one goal: to create an ecosystem in order to encourage consumer ...
iOS Market Share Up From 26% In Q3 To 43% In Oct/Nov 2011
According to a new report from research firm NPD, iOS’s U.S. market share (by sales) jumped from 26% in the third quarter of 2011 to 43% by October ...
Pioneer Announces Android Support For AppRadio 2
AppRadio has always been a pretty sweet offering from Pioneer, but something important was missing: support for Android. In 2012, however, Pioneer’s new AppRadio 2 platform will support ...
Apple Gets Hit With $1.9 Million Copyright Lawsuit By Chinese Writers
Apple is putting a big bet on China, where its products and services have proven hugely popular, but that could also leave it exposed to a few bad ...
Samsung Launches New Smart TV Ad Platform, Samsung AdHub
Today at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Samsung launched its advertising platform, Samsung AdHub, for Samsung Smart TVs. With the new service, publishers and brands will ...


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