There are more book titles in the iTunes App Store than any other type of app, but they simply aren’t in demand, according to Apptizr, an iPhone application recommendation service, which gleaned such data and has recommended 10 million software suggestions to its users. Read More »
Archive for April 2010
When you think about our little blue planet, do you feel a little sad and frustrated? We know the feeling. But there are some amazing things happening in the strangest of places. And Mama Earth needs to know we haven’t given up on her yet. Read More »
In a week when all eyes were on a phone found in a bar, Dell has been leaking information about its mobile roadmap. The company is committed to the Android platform, but not exclusively as the Lightning with Windows Phone 7 demonstrates. We’re watching, Dell. Read More »
Hulu is one step closer to rolling out a premium subscription plan, according to a report from the Los Angeles Times. It may charge users $9.95 a month for access to a larger library of video content. Question is, will you pay for it? Read More »
CenturyTel said today it would buy Qwest Communications in a deal valued at $22.4 billion, continuing the consolidation of rural telephone companies and ending speculation of whether Qwest would sell itself. CenturyTel will spend $10.3 billion buying Qwest stock and will assume $11.8 billion in debt. Read More »
The co-founder of venture fund and incubator Bootup Labs has apologized publicly for the failure of the company’s Y Combinator-style startup camp, which fell apart last week after it failed to raise enough money to back all of the startups it had accepted into the program. Read More »
The question of whether the Internet should extend into our lives when we are cruising at 30,000 feet has been a heavily debated one. Should airplane cabins be bastions of quiet sanctity from the deluge of information and work that follows us everywhere? Read More »
In light of our upcoming Green:Net conference — which looks at the intersection of IT and green — we’ve decided to revive the second edition of the 25 Who Ditched Infotech for Cleantech list. Check it out: Read More »
Cisco sees a $20 billion opportunity in the smart grid, and while it may have gotten off a bit late to the party, it’s crashed it in a big way. The networking giant wants to deliver products and services that span the grid. Read More »
Apple was given up for dead by many of its competitors. Its products drew snickers but in the end Steve Jobs & Co. prevailed. Market cap of $235 billion puts it behind Exxon and Microsoft. Its one-time nemesis, Dell is worth only $33 billion. Read More »
San Francisco-based gay adult entertainment company Titan Media has sued aptly named free video streaming site Monstercocktube.com and its two German founders for copyright infringements, demanding $1.35 million in damages, according to a report from adult industry magazine Xbiz. Titan is… Read More »
At Facebook F8 conference, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the company will do a billion likes across the web by end of the day. To some it would be an infrastructure nightmare, but not so for Facebook, which is prepared well with its own data centers. Read More »
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