When Apple says it sold 37.5 million iPhones and 19.5 million iPads this is often interpreted as Apple declaring that 37.5 million iPhones and 19.5 million iPads have been purchased by customers. That’s not quite the whole story. Read more »
Creative Suite users take to Change.org to petition Adobe to abandon what they call a forced march to the cloud. Read more »
The FCC has identified 500 MHz of airwaves that could be used to deliver broadband connections to aircraft. The plan could make in-flight Wi-Fi accessible, cheap, and — most importantly — fast to all airline passengers. Read more »
Facebook has responded to some low reviews of the Facebook Home app, announcing a few planned changes to the app in the coming months to address user concerns. Read more »
Despite myths of Chrome OS as only running web apps, there is now software that can be installed and used offline on a Chromebook. This particular game supports an Xbox 360 controller too. Get ready for the second coming of Chrome OS. Read more »
YouTube’s long-rumored paid channels are live: The Google-owned service started its new subscription offering with select partners Thursday. Read more at paidContent »
Box wants to make document sharing and collaborating “consumer-grade,” and it’s moving forward on that journey with the acquisition of the PDF-to-HTML5 converting company Crocodoc. Read more »
Politico announced Thursday that it will test a metered paywall this week in six states, as well as abroad. But readers in the Washington, D.C. area remain exempt because Politico gets so much advertising revenue from them. Read more at paidContent »
The chairman of Dish Networks toned down some of his recent rhetoric against broadcasters on today’s earnings call, and said he is in favor of a subscriber-advertising model for TV. Read more at paidContent »
Netflix CEO thought he could do a better job at developing a recommendation algorithm than his engineers. He failed – and the episode shaped the way the company has looked at data ever since. Read more »
There are lots of potential cloud workloads out there but there are also about a zillion clouds. Is there really enough paid work to support them all? Read more »
The U.S. government has reams of data locked away in agencies and even filing cabinets, but an executive order signed Thursday should make more of it accessible. Read more »
Self-publishing platform and distributor Smashwords analyzed ebook sales for nearly a year. CEO Mark Coker draws some interesting conclusions on the best way to price a self-published ebook. Read more at paidContent »
MVNO Karma is trying to seed its social broadband mesh network throughout New York, so it’s starting with food trucks. Thirty mobile restaurants are now offering free Karma Wi-Fi. Read more »
News reports out of Israel say Facebook is in talks to acquire traffic-information service Waze for as much as $1 billion, but Google will be making a big mistake if it doesn’t try to top that offer. Read more »
Dekko is debuting its augmented reality operating system that uses the camera on your mobile device and powerful computer vision algorithms, backed by new seed funding. Read more »
Investment platform Healthfundr aims to give health entrepreneurs another funding option while opening up health technology investing to a larger pool of people. Read more »
GigaOM readers receive 20 percent off tickets to Glimpse, the social discovery conference. The day brings together experts in the social discovery space, from verticals including music, dating, content, investment and more, to discuss the current stage of discovery and what’s to come. Don’t miss it! Read more »
The $99 Ouya gaming console built on Android got a boost today with an additional $15 million in funding, plus a new board member that formerly worked at EA. Read more »
Startup says its visualization tool is an easier way to see all AWS resources associated with a given application and will use its new money to advertise that feature. Read more »
Apple has won one of its many lawsuits involving “i” products — a federal judge threw out a case in which a New York publisher claimed that it, not Apple, has the rights to use “iBooks.” Read more »
AIO Wireless, a new pre-paid services company that is an AT&T subsidiary, launches today. The plans are simple and you can even get an iPhone, but you won’t get LTE data. Read more »
Microsoft already has a stake in Nook Media, and now it is reportedly seeking to buy out the entire company. In Nook, Microsoft sees a shot at competing against Amazon and Apple — in a way it might not be able to do from scratch. Read more at paidContent »
Google, NASA, USGS and TIME have released a set of photos that show a “picture of Earth through time.” It is stunning to see Amazon rainforest shrink and a glacier vanish. Impressive Read more »
Tier 3, Dell, Rackspace — all would very much like to sell their cloud wares to telcos, carriers, managed service providers and are rolling out packages to attract those companies. Read more »
Broadband is the essential enabling ingredient for some of the most innovative work being done in the Internet and digital media ecosystem. It’s also the focal point of The Cable Show 2013, happening June 10-12, 2013 in Washington, DC. Find out more. Read more »
ShoreTel Mobility enables iPads and iPhones with a unified communications solution to give users a productivity tool supporting their own work rhythm. With ShoreTel Dock, workers can click their device into the dock to gain benefits of a desk phone including a handset, keypad and speakerphone. Read more »
Startup Ovuline uses machine learning to make sense of women’s health data and help couples conceive. Read more »
Combine the internet of things and Numenta’s machine learning algorithms and a new world of possibilities emerge. In this week’s podcast we cover machines that will tell you before they break and fields that ask for water. Read more »
Tweets and other public-facing data have limits, but researchers see new value in Wikipedia page views. That data could inform an investment strategy more closely tied to Dow Jones performance than a random strategy. Read more »
UPenn researchers presented the acrobatic feats of their robot today at a conference on robotics and automation. Read more »
LinkedIn has been making some significant moves towards becoming a media entity focused on business news, and the launch of new magazine-style channels of content is just the latest example of this. Read more at paidContent »
News Corp COO Chase Carey spoke about Fox’s digital strategy in an earnings call Wednesday afternoon. The company saw strong growth in home video, thanks to digital downloads. Carey also acknowledged that Hulu will have to adapt in coming years to compete with Netflix. Read more at paidContent »
Tesla stock jumped almost 30 percent in after hour trading on the news that electric car maker Tesla has delivered a profit for the first time. Read more »
Slacker has seen some solid growth after its relaunch in February – now, the company wants to add millions of paying subscribers with a carrier partnership. Read more at paidContent »
The cloud is the latest thing in data storage, but is it the best thing for your business? Here are three expert points of view that can help identify which workloads are good candidates for the cloud, calculate the true costs of cloud storage and more. Read more »
Design is no longer esoteric and instead it influences everything and is everywhere, argues author John Maeda, President of Rhode Island School of Design. Health and healthcare too are changing with design thinking. Read more »
The University of Florida has implemented the next-gen computing architecture of Internet2, the consortium of universities and research institutions. The Innovation Platform should bring superfast connections and software-defined networking (SDN) to campuses across the country. Read more »
Tesla hit its goal of the first profit in its 10-year history, and also delivered a record revenue, and boosted its guidance of Model S car sales by 1,000, to 21,000 for the year. Read more »
The long-running fight over Google’s decision to scan the world’s library books took a new twist on Wednesday as an appeals court pushed the parties over copyright law’s “fair use” doctrine. Read more at paidContent »
