Has the Apple App Store experience been everything you wanted and more? AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson thinks that their customers deserve more. In a keynote speech at the Mobile World Congress, Stephenson called out Apple for forcing customers to purchase the same program for different products.
“You purchase an app for one operating …
Verizon iPhone sales may be “performing a little under what Apple and Verizon anticipated,” according to BGR.com, which cites sales numbers apparently leaked to the site from one of its sources inside Apple.
The data reportedly comes from five Apple retail locations, “including two very, very prominent Apple stores,” and includes …
Yesterday, Apple announced how it plans to handle subscriptions inside apps. The basic details are that subscriptions to content-based apps sold within the App Store earn Apple a 30% cut of any revenue generated unless the subscriber is referred directly to the app from the publisher.
(More on TIME.com: The Basics Behind Apple’s New …
Big media still rules when it comes to Twitter, it seems. Hewlett-Packard researchers have been looking into where Twitter’s Trending Topics come from, and the answer may be somewhat depressing to those convinced that the internet is all about democraticizing information.
According the HP report, Trending Topics are all about the …
It’s taken a few months longer than expected – not to mention a couple of missed deadlines – but Netflix has finally made it to Boxee. Yesterday, the New York-based start-up added its much-anticipated, long-delayed Netflix app to the Boxee Box, with CEO Avner Ronen making the official announcement on the company blog:
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Apple has officially opened its new subscription payment service up to publishers today. Here’s how everything shakes out.
How does this affect you?
Unless you’re a publisher that wants to sell “content-based apps” in Apple’s App Store, it doesn’t affect you all that much. You’ll probably start to notice more newspapers and …
Whatever its size, the cross-section of Amazon diehards and Windows Phone 7 owners can now officially be placated with Amazon’s Windows Phone 7 app.
The app takes advantage of Windows Phone 7’s swipe-friendly interface to provide easy access to a specific product’s details, customer reviews and related items without having to load up …
If you’ve noticed recently that YouTube videos seem to be uploading faster, and without as much buffer-stutter, then perhaps you should be thanking the Hydra. That’s the name of an internal project within YouTube to speed up video loading times, and in the process, lower both user frustration and operating costs. The key? Google …
I’ll be honest: Rumors of an iPhone that’s capable of facilitating time travel haven’t surfaced… yet. But there’s some new scuttlebutt regarding larger-screen versions and an apparent prototype with a slide-out keyboard.
The rumors pertain to the iPhone 5, which is widely expected to be announced in June during Apple’s …
HTC has officially made its entry into the wild world of tablets with the HTC Flyer, a 7-inch Android tablet.
The Flyer features a 1.5GHz processor, 1024×600-resolution screen, aluminum body, 4G cellular data connection, and access to web-based gaming service OnLive. It’ll be running Android version 2.4 by launch time underneath HTC’s …
Sick of Google telling you what to read all the time? There’s now an extension for the company’s Chrome web browser called Personal Blocklist that allows you to oust sites you don’t want showing up in your search results.
Once installed, each search result will contain a link to block its associated site from showing up next time. …
After seven months of retooling following reporting glitches, Nielsen has released online video metrics that show just how big Netflix has become online, with the site not only becoming the only paid product to appear on the top 10 of both total video streams and unique viewers, but also winning users in terms of time spent on the …
