If the price of digital books has ever struck you as seeming too high, you’re not alone. Digital booksellers and major book publishers alike are facing no less than 17 class action lawsuits alleging digital price fixing.
The initial lawsuit, against Apple and five publishers, was filed in California in August, and followed the next …
Netflix may dominate the streaming video market, but there’s some surprising good news for Hulu from the MIPCOM conference in Cannes. The streaming video audience seems to be moving firmly in the direction of catching up on television rather than watching movies. Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos revealed the information at the …
It’s the classic good news/bad news situation for Twitter. The good news: It’s looking less likely that the company is going to face accusations that its platform is being used by activists such as the “Occupy Wall Street” protesters to organize, and therefore face legal action as a result. The bad news: It’s because activists seem to be …
Slowly but surely, many of the best iOS apps are coming to Android, and their quality once they get there is improving.
Case in point: The excellent air travel search engine Hipmunk, which arrived in a version for Android phones recently. Its Android version is just as good as the iOS one—good looking, easy to use, and brilliantly …
Sometimes you need to listen to a particular song that’s in your head, just to exorcise it. And sometimes that song is so embarrassing—”I Think We’re Alone Now,” by Tiffany, for example—that you’d really rather it didn’t show up on your Facebook profile for all to see. That’s where Spotify’s new “Private Listening” feature comes …
Ben Bajarin is the Director of Consumer Technology Analysis and Research at Creative Strategies, Inc, a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm located in Silicon Valley.
As is to be expected, many in the media are commenting on the extremely aggressive pricing of the Kindle Fire as the most disruptive element of the …
Tango has launched a PC app, giving desktop and laptop users a new way to video chat with their smartphone-toting friends. The app is available free for Windows PCs from Tango’s website.
Although several other video chat apps exist already for smartphones—Fring and Qik among them—rare is the service that allows PC-to-smartphone or …
Pundits asking whether the new Kindle Fire will be an “iPad killer” are way off the mark. It’s a killer alright, but the victim is not who you think it is. “We don’t think of the Kindle Fire as a tablet. We think of it as a service,” says Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
And the main competing service in his sights is cable …
“Hyperlocal” has been a buzzword for quite some time, based around the idea that the Internet should be talking to you about your neighborhood in particular, and not just some homogenous “out there.” But according to a new Pew Institute study, there’s one thing in particular users want from their hyperlocal surfing: food.
While …
Next time you leave your home for any appreciable length of time, whatever you do, don’t tell the Internet. A new study has revealed that an unsettling 78% of burglars use social media such as Twitter, Facebook and Foursquare to choose just where they’re going to break in next.
That’s not the only way that burglars have started using …
Summer’s over. You have a lot of happy memories, and many of them are stored digitally as photographs. Organizing those pictures will help you find the ones you want quickly and easily.
Sure, you can easily find all the photos from your Grand Canyon trip, because they’re in a folder called “Grand Canyon.” But can you just as easily …
Facebook may not be planning to shut down your account or charge you, but that doesn’t mean that they aren’t doing some things that you might want to be concerned about. Say, for example, tracking users even after they log out of the site.
That’s the accusation from developer Nik Cubrilovic, who discovered that Facebook “alters” …
