Apple now holds about 20 percent of the U.S. ebook market, director Keith Moerer testified in court on Tuesday. Moerer also said that the iBookstore’s sales grew by 100 percent in 2012. Read more at paidContent »
The data center in Luleå, Sweden, is highly energy-efficient as it uses hydroelectric power. It may also prove handy in keeping Facebook on the right side of European data protection legislation. Read more »
Belly is offering a bunch of new tools to small businesses to help them amp up their loyalty programs and market to new customers. Read more »
Want to correlate data from a NoSQL database with data from Salesforce, Stripe or Mailchimp? MetricaDB, a finalist in our Structure 2013 LaunchPad competition, wants to make that easy for you. Read more »
Vodafone has made a “preliminary approach” to Germany’s top cable provider, but no bids have been revealed yet. Reports suggest Liberty Global might also be interested. Read more »
The next big technology wave — the internet of things (IoT) — promises to transform how people interact with the world and make everyone from entrepreneurs to enterprises a ton of money in the process. With Xively’s IoT public cloud, you can easily capitalize on this huge opportunity. Read more »
The company that claims Kevin Mitnick, The Clinton Foundation, Wal-Mart and Rush Limbaugh as customers will use its new funding to market and promote its secure cloud services. Read more »
Anytime Apple announces a new piece of hardware or changes its software, we get a lot of people weighing in on those developments. The news of iOS 7 wasn’t any different. There are hundreds of posts out there, but here are seven I like. Read more »
This is what happens when people get fat broadband connections — marketers see the opportunity to turn static custom offers and billing statements into “personalized” videos. Read more »
Silverback Learning, a startup hatched out of a school district in Idaho, has raised $2.5 million as it plans to expand to school districts nationwide. Read more »
AMD is joining the Chrome game but we’re still waiting for Intel Haswell hardware. Apple has it and now the MacBook Air gets 12 hours of battery life! We share a pair of great extensions and talk about iTunes in the browser. Read more »
The Swedish reverse-lookup phone directory service, which recently invited third-party developers to access its databases, is on a roll. And India continues to provide the company’s most fertile ground for growth. Read more »
Facebook, Google and Microsoft want to show users just how much the federal government requests access to data. The actions are attempts to save face on the privacy front following reports of the PRISM program. Read more »
We know the NSA is collecting our call records, but there are far bigger fonts of information carriers hold. The mobile network is highly managed, tracking our internet habits from the websites we visit to the apps we use. Read more »
One of the “key features” of iOS 6 didn’t merit a mention by Apple in the introduction of iOS 7. But perhaps Apple has something bigger planned. Read more »
The growing popularity of solar leases, falling prices of solar panels and efforts to reduce the costs of marketing, sales and permitting, have steadily boosted the growth of the solar market in recent years. Read more »
Red Hat Enterprise Linux gets a free tier of its own on Amazon Web Services, perhaps in a bid to unseat Ubuntu which runs more than half of all EC2 instances. Read more »
Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a lot of issues to deal with right now, from PRISM and allegations of governent cooperation to questions about the company’s revenue. On Tuesday, he got to add stockholder questions to that list. Read more »
New studies show websites fending off 95 percent more exploits than five years ago, and 30 percent safer than last year. Are mobile devices throwing a wrench in the works? Backend APIs, leveraging web logic for mobile and brute scrapers. How simple strategies are often most secure. Read more »
After getting involved in Hurricane Sandy Relief, Airbnb has finally introduced an emergency shelter tool for areas affected by disasters. Read more »
A lot of Americans might say they support NSA surveillance of their online activities, but many other people — including folks overseas — aren’t so thrilled. Can these laws withstand pressure from a tech lobby concerned about lost profits from fleeing users? Read more »
After a wave of initial shock at the revelations about NSA surveillance, there seems to be a pervasive feeling of resignation about our data being collected by the government. Have we grown too used to being spied on? Read more »
For aspiring Quantified Selfers who don’t want to bother with additional hardware, Noom has launched a new smartphone-based pedometer app. Read more »
OpenStreetMap shows off the last eight years of crowdsourcing map development in a series of striking images. Read more »
Four years after it launched at our Mobilize conference, Waze is finally sold to Google for about a billion. It certainly was a windfall for its early investors. And one surprising one! Read more »
Google wants more marketshare in the Infrastructure-as-a-Service market, so it’s cutting prices on the BigQuery data-analysis service and adding features to boost the appeal of the larger Cloud Platform. Read more »
Is iTunes not your media player of choice? No problem: You may have another option soon only this one will be in the browser. Google has added iTunes as a default destination for local media files usable by Chrome. Read more »
The last year has been a whirl of inconsistent Apple ads. While the company’s longtime agency is still adjusting to life post-Jobs, the ad Apple showed at WWDC shows Apple’s messaging getting back to what it does best. Read more »
Comcast CEO Brian Roberts showed off some of the company’s new tech and explained how Comcast is responding to changing viewer expectations. Read more at paidContent »
Are you overwhelmed with the possibilities available for music streaming? This quick graph breaks it all down. Read more »
Executives at this year’s annual Cable Show are trying to figure out their industry’s future. The technology for delivering faster broadband is ready, but the business model of the future isn’t. Read more »
Comcast showed off a 3Gbps connection and 4K video delivery Tuesday at the Cable Show, but how realistic was that demo? On the broadband side, we have our doubts. Still, that is one fast connection. Read more »
After months of rumors that speculated the company was the target of an acquisition by either Facebook or Google, social-mapping provider Waze is set to be snapped up by Google and added to the web giant’s map service. Read more »
Cloud-based business software can save significant energy, according to a new report from Berkeley Lab. To prove this the researchers built a model that crunches the data around the cloud and energy. Read more »
Despite the hype, one size does not fit all when it comes to data analytics in the cloud. Here are two companies using the cloud — one using the public cloud, one using a private cloud — to solve specific business problems. Read more »
iZettle will start offering its credit card reader to its U.K. banking customers. That gives iZettle another key distribution point as it waits for Square and PayPal to challenge it in Europe. Read more »
One of the announced features in iOS 7 that Apple didn’t get to discuss is one you’ll like to use, particularly if you hop between Wi-Fi networks. It’s called Wi-Fi Hotspot 2.0 and it makes it seamless to roam on Wi-Fi. Read more »
A storage startup called SageCloud is looking to deliver low-cost backup storage to the masses who want Facebook-like cold storage without resorting to tape, cloud services or building their own gear. Read more »
Missed E3? Here’s the need-to-know stuff about consoles and gaming from Day 1 at the expo. Read more »
The Sprint board is kicking Dish to the curb, saying the company has yet to submit an “actionable” offer, but it is giving Dish another week to come up with something better. Read more »
