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Reports abound that the iPhone 3G isn't living up to its family name: it may be an iPhone, but ordinary owners, reporters, and pundits are saying that in regular usage its actual speed is far below...
Verizon is spending $23 billion on its fiber-to-the-home, or FTTH, initiative. The service, called FiOS, will ultimately reach 19 million homes in Verizon territory, roughly half of the company's...
This morning, iTunes prompted me to update my iPhone operating system to version 2.0.2. "OK, great!" I thought, hoping that some of the crashing problems I've been having will be fixed. Of...
Recovering Journalist had an excellent summary of a surprising report from the Associated Press. It's shocking that such an organization, which has taken its fair share of grief from the online...
As you may have heard, there's a smallish sporting event going on in China. Despite its humbleness, people seem to be interested in the thing. Some of them use Macs. And some of those Mac users are...
Faced with huge song royalty increases, Net radio may soon face extinction. That is according to Internet radio Webcaster Pandora's founder Tim Westergren. He told the Washington Post his popular...
It's a rough time to be in the online music business with Pandora seeming close to extinction, and other Web radio companies in jeopardy if SoundExchange manages to get royalty rates for Web airplay...
Amid the rumors of underaged gymnasts and an Opening Ceremony that was a virtual chimera, there is actually a good deal more news that isn't making the glossed-over and gussied-up network coverage....
This cannot be a comfortable time for the venture capitalists who invested in NebuAd, an advertising service that tracks users' Web activities. Overwhelmingly negative attention by the press and a...
Sure, Yahoo Finance rocks. But plenty of other, smaller sites offer good data for the online investor. Sunday's San Francisco Chronicle outlined seven of them. In Harry Domash's piece, most of the...
Facebook is celebrating Michael Phelps's record run at the Beijing Olympics with a banner at the top of every U.S. user's News Feed. The notice, "Congratulations to Michael Phelps and all of the...
Argentina's Department of Justice recently sent a notice out to all ISPs operating in the country -- including several American firms -- ordering that they cut off domestic traffic to bwin.com.ar, a...
In case you haven't noticed, it's an election year. Along with making promises, shaking hands, and kissing babies, candidates and their supporters are leaning heavily on Web 2.0 sites to deliver...
e-Bullion co-owner James Fayed has pled not guilty to a federal charge of operating an unlicensed money transmitting business, according to the CBS affiliate in Los Angeles. Fayed was ordered to...
To coincide with the release of the company's iPhone 3G, Apple overhauled its Mac-centric .Mac service and renamed it--seemingly without irony--MobileMe. In addition to the new name and the vaguely...
In the days of print, archives of past news articles were only accessible via microfiche or an expensive subscription to an online archive service like Lexis-Nexus. Now, when most articles are...
With the constant flow of me-too social networking sites these days, it's nice to see a well-made site that identifies a real need and meets it. For solar power planning, that's Roofray.com, which...
The world loves Wikipedia, flocks to Flickr, and listens to Last.fm. And why not? Web 2.0 sites like them harness collective knowledge, promote interaction and communication, and improve the more you...
User-moderated news aggregators such as Digg and reddit have made a huge impact on the way people find and consume news, blogs, video, and other online content. A recently launched Y Combinator...
One of the more exciting developments of the iPhone 2.0 announcement at WWDC in June was Apple's "push notification" technology, which will, when it's released, allow inactive applications...
The US Patent and Trademark Office has denied an application by Dell to trademark the term "cloud computing." According to Sam Johnston, the USPTO has declared "cloud computing" a...
Microsoft's Xbox 360 outsold Sony's Playstation 3 for the first time earlier this month. The Xbox sold 28,116 units in Japan in the week ending August 10, versus 10,705 units of the PS3 on the back...
Pandora, the excellent music recommendation and streaming service, may be closing its doors in the near future over royalty fees paid to SoundExchange, an organization that represents artists and...
Apple seems to be making quite a little side business for itself out of iPhone App Store sales. Last November I laid out a plan for Apple to become larger than Google based mainly around a...
Yesterday, Yahoo VP & Deputy General Counsel Michael Samway posted an article describing Yahoo's progress in developing a human rights code of conduct for the company. While the Senate had...
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