The iPhone’s Application Store is becoming a target for pirates who have illegally cracked twenty percent of paid applications. The App Store offers about 25,000 paid apps, and it is estimated that over 5,000 have been pirated.
This is a real problem that developers, Apple and the community need to address. It is unclear how much [...]
Google is forming a $100 million fund to invest in early-stage start-up firms. While fully owned by Google, Google Ventures will operate as a separate entity and will seek investment opportunities to maximize returns.
Google Ventures will look at a wide variety of companies to invest in, including information technology, health care and biotech, and consumer [...]
As part of its effort to expand beyond desktop computers Skype is planning to launch its service for iPhone users tomorrow and for BlackBerry users in May. Skype users were mostly lured by the promise of cheap and sometimes free calls made using its computer application. There are high hopes for the application’s success on [...]
Google launched free downloads of licensed songs in China today, while sharing advertising revenues earned with major music labels.
baidu.com leads google as a search market by holding more than 60 percent of the market, in part because Google lagged in the mainland search market was because it did not offer music downloads. The new service [...]
There are twittering athletes, celebrities, and now even appliances are getting into the twittering craze.
The Tweet-a-watt kit from Adafruit Industries lets users post the energy consumption of their refrigerator, TV, any appliance set daily to thier Twitter account. The idea, which won the Greener Gadgets Competition earlier this month, is now on sale for 90.00. [...]
Consumer electronics startups are the new frontier for entrepreneurs. Once thought to be an expensive business skewed in favor of large companies with nearly unlimited access to capital, the business is attracting entrepreneurs who think small and move quickly. And they’re changing the consumer electronics landscape. In some cases, these gadget startups have led to [...]
For simple browsing, e-mailing and perhaps even listening to music, the little laptops are ideal anything. Work related tasks however, are another story. Here are the top 5 (non work) uses for the netbook
Photo Assistant
Compare using a netbook to having to purchase extra memory cards that can run about 70.00 each.
A netbook is tiny, and can [...]
“AT&T, one of the nation’s largest Internet service providers, confirmed on Tuesday the company is working with the recording industry to combat illegal file sharing. At a digital music conference in Nashville, Jim Cicconi, a senior executive for AT&T told the audience that the ISP has begun issuing takedown notices to people accused of pirating [...]
“I am working with a couple of large companies that are purchasing web and collaboration software stacks from Microsoft, IBM and others. These are for thousands of end users and are (supposedly) ready for multiple data center deployment and other big-corp requirements. I have suggested some open source alternatives such as Liferay and Drupal, and [...]
A critical bug has been discovered that deletes all music from an iPod when it’s connected to The songbird Media Player.
The problem lies with an add-on that can delete or corrupt music from your iPod. At this time, the problem is only affecting a small number of users. Songbird has pulled the add-on from [...]
