App Store: 15,000 apps and 500m downloads
Apple Inc. is celebrating a huge App Store milestone: 500 million downloads, and over 15,000 apps in the store. The announcement is proudly displayed on the Apple home page, showcasing some of the most popular apps. Apple launched the App Store just six months ago, on July 11, 2008. The... Read on »
Steve Jobs: One letter can raise shares almost 6%
Just about everyone knows that Steve Jobs is the face and lifeblood of Apple, and while some Apple-lovers claim that this is not the case, investors think otherwise. Following the last few keynotes and what seemed to be a final blow, investors felt "on ice" about Steve Jobs and the... Read on »
HP could be violating US trade restrictions with Iran
HP has recently come under fire from the Boston Globe, who have reported that Redington Gulf, a third-party based in Dubai has been selling HP printers in Iran for 11 years, since 1997. HP has partnered with them, but if the partnership began with knowledge that printers will be sold... Read on »
Laptops beat desktop shipments in Q3 2008
With 3rd quarter sales, revenue, and earnings posted and evaluated, several surprising facts come into play. iSuppli, a market research firm, has... Read on »
EA games come to Steam, without DRM
Starting today, some of EA's biggest titles are available for purchase for the first time on Valve's Steam, a huge online superstore... Read on »
Gates Foundation donates $6.9m to libraries
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have stated that they will begin a new pilot program spanning 7 US states which will help fund Internet expansion into public libraries, as well as donating $850,000 to the American Library Association's Office for Information Technology Policy. The Foundation has carefully selected Arkansas,... Read on »
Microsoft and Yahoo working on $20 billion deal
Microsoft is once again in talks with Yahoo to acquire its search business for $20 billion according to reports from The Times. The deal comes after two previously failed Microsoft attempts to take over all of Yahoo. Also, Microsoft would support a Yahoo management team with $5 billion. This would... Read on »
Google violates iPhone API guidelines
Google has recently released a new version of it's Google Mobile application for the iPhone. This is the first time Google has made voice search available on a mobile device (Google Android users were not the first). In order to initiate a search, the iPhone is placed by your ear,... Read on »
Are we becoming over-green?
I'm positive that just about everyone has heard about global warming and the deadly effects it will have on future generations. We've all seen the scientific facts - the photos of the melting North Pole and rising water levels - NASA even announced that October 2008 was the hottest October... Read on »
New video and voice chat in Gmail
Google announced a brand new Gmail feature today: Video conversations in Gmail - called "Gmail Video and Voice". This service combines the chatting abilities of GTalk, previously used in Gmail for chatting inside the browser. Google has now enabled full video, voice, and text chat inside the browser to Firefox,... Read on »
Google's Android open source OS 'jailbroken'
Fans of Google's Android OS, now available on T-Mobile G1 phones, can finally feel more "at home" with the Open Source notion Google is taking. "Jailbreaking", a popular term popularized by Apple's iPhone, means "getting full (root) access". Why exactly would you jailbreak an open source device based on Linux?... Read on »
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