Pandora, the popular streaming music service, has been issued a subpoena by a federal grand jury concerning the sharing of personal data with its smartphone application.
Pandora Media Inc. filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in seeking an initial public offering, which revealed a subpoena received for potentially …
Suddenly, Time Warner Cable’s 32-channel iPad app seems much less controversial. Cablevision has launched a new iPad app called Optimum Live TV, which provides subscribers streaming access to around 300 live channels, with an additional 2000 VoD options available. Subscribers can register three separate iPads to each account, with two …
A national survey conducted on the role of technology in education – comprised of 30,000 students from over 6,500 private and public schools – has just been released, and (surprise, surprise!) students really wish they could use their phones in class.
The full Speak Up report, titled “The New 3 E’s of Education: Enabled, …
Due to a technicality, Verizon’s attempt to sue the Federal Communications Commission over net neutrality regulations will have to wait.
The FCC voted in favor of net neutrality regulations last December. The rules prohibit wired broadband providers from blocking lawful uses of the Internet or discriminating against individual types …
Do you love modern art, but hate all the snobby, faux-intellectual posturing that comes with going to the museum? If you own an iPad, the new MoMA app just might be for you.
Developed in collaboration with noted design agency Rendermonkey (edit: turns out it was developed in-house with an assist from a nice little indie shop called …
Sony will join the tablet fray by the end of the year, and possibly by this summer, with a device that runs Android 3.0 Honeycomb software.
Bloomberg relayed the news from the Nikkei newspaper, which cited Sony Chief Executive Howard Stringer as saying the device will be ready by the end of the summer. Sony then told AV Watch that …
Hi Larry. Welcome back to your position as CEO of Google. Did you find your desk okay? Great. Do you have your HR paperwork? Great.
Oh, I see you’ve already bid $900 million on Nortel patents today. That’s aggressive. I like it. Let’s go with it.
Google under Eric Schmidt made money and enjoyed high stock prices. Google with …
For too long, young kids were unaware of the dangers associated with football concussions. If your head got dinged, conventional wisdom favored just toughing it out and getting back in the game. Now it seems concussion awareness is about to reach a whole new level, because education about it is coming to game consoles everywhere.
In …
It’s been a weird year for football fans. The NFL lockout means Sunday’s regular pigskin battles may disappear entirely, or worse, that they’ll be waged by substitute players. It’s even getting strange on the video game front, where sports-play bigwig EA’s adding cautionary concussion mechanics to this year’s edition of their perennial …
Angry Birds Rio has been downloaded 10 million times in less than two weeks. If you can’t do the relatively simple math, that’s ohhhh, about one million downloads for every day since it’s been out.
Rovio, the developer, didn’t say how many people downloaded the free or paid version of the game. The day that the Amazon app …
Did you stare droolingly at last Friday’s Gmail Motion news? The idea was that you’d use your computer’s camera to capture your own gestures, which would in turn be translated into commonly-used Gmail commands. Did you cry at your desk when you found out it was an April Fools’ Day joke?
Makes you wish you had an office with a door …
Space Shuttle Endeavour’s swan song will have to wait an extra 10 days, after a scheduling conflict with a Russian spacecraft forced NASA to delay the shuttle’s final launch from April 19 to April 29.
It’s a matter of who gets to go first, or actually how many get to go at the same time: In this case, an unmanned Russian cargo ship …