June 7, 2011
(This story was corrected to show that the developer kit will be available at a later date.)Matt Bell moves about an elevated podium in a conference room overlooking ...
May 27, 2011
Magazine apps appear to be enjoying quite the bump, thanks to the introduction of in-app subscriptions to select titles. Wired, for example, is the fifth top-grossing ...
May 26, 2011
(Bloomberg) Pandora Media Inc., the Internet-music company preparing for an initial public offering, said revenue more than doubled last quarter and its user ...
May 19, 2011
Cisco Systems (CSCO) is getting less love from investors these days, following five straight disappointing quarters. And yet it's the darling of social-media users, ...
May 17, 2011
Erik Schwartz hates tickers. Whether it's sports scores scrolling through the bottom of the screen on ESPN or news headlines on CNN, he just doesn't want to see any of...
May 12, 2011
Google announced its new cloud music service Tuesday, May 10, and Amazon.com (AMZN) revealed its own Cloud Player in late March. At this point, Apple (AAPL) is really ...
May 5, 2011
A couple of weeks ago Spotify, the European music streaming startup, came in for sharp criticism when it made the decision to place tight limits on the music you could...
April 29, 2011
(Updates with Australian Gold comment in ninth paragraph.) (Bloomberg) Groupon Inc. said it won't let ads appear on the website for The Apprentice after ...
April 25, 2011
It used to be so easy to define what a book was: a collection of printed pages bound inside a cover (hard or soft) that you could place on a shelf in your library or ...
April 4, 2011
Mattel (MAT) plans to release a game called Mindflex Duel in August, which will let players move a ball through an obstacle course, using only the power of their ...
March 28, 2011
As tablet sales, led primarily by Apple's (AAPL) iPad, gain momentum, it seems everyone wants in on the market. Not only are traditional computing and smartphone ...
March 7, 2011
If you want to understand the Chinese media market, Youku.com (YOKU) Chief Executive Officer Victor Koo told me last week, you'll have to look back. Way back. Think ...
January 19, 2011
Unlike last quarter, Apple's (AAPL) conference call on Tuesday, Jan. 18, regarding quarterly results did not include a cameo by iconic Chief Executive Officer Steve ...
January 14, 2011
The Sundance Film Festival is a showcase that draws about 50,000 people to Park City, Utah—all toting cell phones, tablets, and computers, and all expecting to ...
December 20, 2010
When Julia Childs' The French Chef appeared on PBS in 1972 with captions, it marked the first time TV had ever been accessible to the deaf and hard of hearing. Nearly ...
December 16, 2010
Electronic Arts (EA) (ERTS) has a lot of games in the App Store (AAPL), and a huge chunk of them are now available for only $0.99 (via Touch Arcade) as part of a ...
November 11, 2010
Most people just want to watch TV. They want it to be simple, and it should "just work." Those are some of the findings from research conducted through interviews with...
October 28, 2010
(This story was updated to include other companies working with AT&T)AT&T (T) is in the early stages of a plan to turn mobile phones into credit cards. The carrier ...
October 4, 2010
The components in the latest version of Apple's (AAPL) Apple TV device, selling for $99, may cost less than $64, according to market research firm iSuppli. The most ...
September 12, 2010
Sirius XM Radio (SIRI) may keep adding listeners, fueling a stock rally that has lifted the satellite radio provider by 74 percent this year, notwithstanding the ...
September 7, 2010
It was nine years ago next month that Apple's (AAPL) first iPod music player took its first bow before an initially skeptical world. In that time its rank as first ...
September 2, 2010
Apple (AAPL) announced on Wednesday, Sept.1, a cornucopia of new hardware and software: sleek iPods, a brand-new Internet-enabled video streaming device, and new ...
August 27, 2010
Facebook's 500 million users spend about six hours a month on the social-networking website. To Sony Pictures, the question is how many will invest two hours at the ...
August 8, 2010
Microsoft (MSFT), Yahoo! (YHOO), and Hulu plan to make online advertisements less annoying and more profitable by letting users select which ones they'll watch. ...
August 2, 2010
On the TV show NCIS, actress Pauley Perrette plays quirky, über-smart forensic specialist Abby Sciuto. As part of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, the ...
