The BBC is to massively overhaul its online presence over the next two years, cutting 360 positions and cutting its spending by a quarter, as part of the corporation’s new cost-cutting strategy, “Putting Quality First.”
The Pirate Bay seems to be staging a comeback – and they promise to be more sneaky in their illegal file sharing methods with their new venture. The Music Bay, a domain purchased by the company as a way to look into different methods of distributing music online under the radar according to Torrent Freak, [...]
Rumors of the demise of the Age of Twitter have, it seems, been greatly exaggerated. The social networking site is expected to earn around $150 million in revenue this year, up significantly from 2010′s revenue of $45 million, and expected to rise even further in 2012, to $250 million.
It’s the future—today! If you like printing stuff, that is. And only Google stuff. Otherwise, yes, it’s the future. You’ll need a fancy smartphone with an HTML5-capable web browser and you’ll need to connect your printer to an always-connected Windows computer running a beta version of Google’s Chrome web browser. Once that’s all taken care [...]
On the endless list of tablets birthed at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier in the month, the Motorola Xoom stands out as one of the more impressive. It’s the first Android tablet to run Google’s tablet-specific “Honeycomb” operating system, according to Motorola, and packs a whole lot of power into its 10-inch form factor.
Periodical sales on the iPad may not be growing, but not every tablet reader has that problem. Barnes & Noble’s NOOKnewsstand is reporting that it has already sold 150% more subscriptions since Christmas 2010 than in the previous twelve months combined, with 650,000 new subscriptions in the last month alone.
Sony’s supposedly holding an event to formally announce the PSP2 later this week in Japan but, per Kotaku, one of that country’s biggest newspapers has let a few details slip. According to the report, the next Sony portable will feature an OLED screen that will be touch-compatible and will be able to connect to the [...]
If you’re like most people who use the web, you may be unaware that many of the sites you visit have been taking notes about your browsing behavior.
You can’t blame Gail Davis for hanging up on the person who called her to congratulate her on downloading Apple’s 10 billionth app and winning a $10,000 iTunes gift certificate. Her husband and her both don’t have iPods capable of using App store items.
Giving up connectivity is hard to do. Apparently, it’s especially hard to do for the 8% of participants in a recent survey that declared that they would rather give up eating than give up cable, cellphones or internet.
The Comics Code Authority, the organization responsible for making sure American comic books were safe for children’s consumption, blinked out of existence late last week, following the withdrawal of the final two publishers that used its services. It was 56 years old.
