Apple’s Steve Jobs, Scott Forstall and Phil Schiller discussed in more detail some of the announcements the company made today regarding the white iPhone 4 and recent concerns over the usage and storage of location information on iOS devices. Read More »
Archive for April 2011
Visa’s investment in Square is the latest move by big credit card companies to better position themselves for the coming mobile payments boom. The companies need to stay active in this market or risk being bypassed. We look at the efforts of the big three.… Read More »
Despite building a massive data center and the expected launch of cloud-based music storage, the troubled history of Apple’s online services suggests the company has yet to come up with a plan for the cloud. How can Apple provide the kind of experience its customers expect? Read More »
The world is looking to London for the royal wedding this Friday, and you’ll have plenty of opportunity to follow the entire event live online as well. Practically every news network and many other sites are streaming their take on the wedding in real time. Read More »
Wireless charging is an appealing concept for many of us who loathe the sight of messy power cords or the need to find outlets in public. Carmakers like it, too. Toyota announced a deal Wednesday with WiTricity to bring wireless charging to cars. Read More »
Russia’s biggest Internet company, Mail.ru, has made its financial results public for the first time — and in doing so has revealed that despite relatively slim profits, it holds as much as $2 billion of hot technology companies such as Facebook and Groupon Read More »
Amazon is the most noteworthy of a small army of new app distributors that are hoping to compete with Google’s Android Market. Here are a few other companies that should consider joining the field and capitalizing on Android’s runaway success. Read More »
Reuters reports that the beleaguered Japanese utility that owns the nuclear reactors at Fukushima, Tokyo Electric Power Company, plans to start treating contaminated water at its reactors with technology from stealthy startup Kurion, Toshiba, Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy, and Areva. Read More »
Journalism professor Jay Rosen says one of the lessons he has learned in his career is that “the more people who participate in the press, the stronger it will be.” In other words, while “crowdsourcing” can produce plenty of noise, journalism is the better for it. Read More »
Epix, the premium cable network that launched with an online, on-demand video component, is making that service available through a number of new mobile and otherwise connected devices, including Android tablets, Samsung connected TVs and Blu-ray players, the Blackberry PlayBook and Roku broadband set-top boxes. Read More »
MIT’s Media Lab is a hothouse of talent that helped usher in the digital revolution of the 1990s — but as the Internet has become dominated by large companies, its influence has waned. Now incoming director Joi Ito must help it regain its momentum. Read More »
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