The ongoing trademark war over the rights to the term “app store” just had another interesting turn. This time Amazon’s assertion of the phrase’s genericness cites a few key phrases used by Steve Jobs himself in a recent conference call.
GeekWire is reporting that the Seattle-based retailer has asked that Apple’s complaint be thrown …
TheWrap is reporting that as early as next week, YouTube will be making the leap into streaming video-on-demand service, putting it in direct competition with Apple’s iTunes.
Currently, the Google-owned video giant states they have “over 7,000 hours of long-form content on YouTube, including thousands of short films and television …
Kate who? Royal wedding? What? Internet?! No! Huh?
GigaOM has an interesting post up on whether or not Prince William and Kate Middleton’s nuptials might actually — God forbid — break the Internet. British Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt guessed that over 2 billion sets of eyes across the globe will tune in, which isn’t as wild as it …
“It may be difficult to conceptualize the idea of digital paper, but in fact, we believe that’s what’s going to happen,” says then Knight-Ridder director Roger Fidler in this eerily prescient video from way back in 1994. That’s over 16 years ago, in a world where Aol was still America Online and you had to use a screechy landline to sign …
The first thing you notice about Kiip CEO Brian Wong is how decidedly un-CEO he actually looks.
Case in point: I made two swervy surveillance laps around a not-at-all-crowded, lower-level concourse in 30 Rock before I spotted the 20 year old Digg alum alone at a table, scrunched over his iPhone. In nerdy black glasses and a halfway …
In technology’s newest arms race, it appears Apple may have beaten out Google in the dash to the cloud.
According to a new report from Reuters, Apple has finished working on a new iTunes-based music service that would allow users to transfer their music libraries onto remote servers. In addition to freeing up valuable hard drive …
Yes, of course they do, or at least according to a massive survey conducted by a new suggestion website called Hunch.com.
According to a report on Yahoo News/Live Science, Hunch may be able to predict a person’s preferences in terms of movies, food, art and even politcal leanings based off their operating system of choice.
How does …
Let’s play a game. On one hand you have Lady Gaga: living-breathing performance artist, best-selling singer, and wearer of designer dresses made of tenderized meat. On the other, Zynga: creators of mass appeal time-sucks like FarmVille, FrontierVille, and a game I should really be a lot better at, Words With Friends. What do these two …
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Our annual TIME 100 list is by no means definitive (are any of them really?) but as always our assemblage of movers and shakers cover a wide range of movements and industry: artists, politicians, freedom fighters, rebels, writers, athletes… and the list goes on.
But of course, you’re here at Techland because you care about …
With today’s estimated $135 million acquisition of Where.com – the hyperlocal media company that will soon offer deals based on user geotargeting – eBay not only adds another channel to its growing number of revenue streams, but also plants its foot firmly in the growing world of offline commerce.
Under eBay’s PayPal arm, …
Plenty of CEOs earn a symbolic $1 per year, but according to The Wall Street Journal, Google’s Eric Schmidt will be getting a significant raise as the Internet search company’s Executive Chairman, in which he’ll be going from a reported single dollar a year to a slightly better $1.25 million.
To top things off, he’ll also be making an …
