Goodreads is now the Netflix of book recommendations, or at least the company thinks so, seeing as its CEO Otis Chandler said exactly that in a press release announcing Goodreads’ new recommendation engine yesterday.
It’s about time. Founded in 2006, Goodreads has gathered nearly six million users, a plump following for a niche social …
People choose Facebook over flushable toilets, the Winklevoss twins star in a TV ad, Yoko Ono rules Twitter, Windows 8 is coming and more.
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These days, you’ve got to be crazy to sell a tablet for the same price as Apple’s iPad, so it’s no surprise that Research in Motion is planning to slash the price of its ailing Blackberry Playbook tablet.
RIM Co-CEO Jim Balsillie said that the company will soon offer rebates on the Playbook, according to Boy Genius Report. For …
On Wednesday I wrote about a digital Key Ring Rewards app that puts your membership cards (grocery, gym, etc.) onto your smartphone, cutting down on the amount of plastic you’d carry around every day. But what if I told you that soon you might be able to do the same with your physical door keys too?
New door key software—currently …
It sounds like prototypes (yes, plural) of Apple’s iPad 3 may be floating around the “supply chain” already, but don’t look for the next-gen tablet this year, because…why, right? If you were sitting on 68.3% of the tablet market (according to the latest 2Q 2011 IDC report) and your nearest competitor (that would be Google’s Android) …
So much for RIM’s brief PlayBook sales “surge” to “4.9% of the tablet market”: The company’s losing market share “much faster than expected to rivals Apple and Google,” reports Reuters this morning.
RIM took another bath in red ink yesterday, when it revealed its quarterly profits had plummeted, sending the company’s shares tumbling …
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.
Earlier in the week Microsoft gave the world a more in-depth preview of their next operating system at their developer conference called BUILD. …
As calls for comprehensive online privacy legislation get louder, Congress is looking to the experience of our cousins across the Atlantic where the European Union has had strict privacy regulations for over 15 years. What they’re finding is that privacy protections come with tradeoffs.
At a House hearing yesterday, M.I.T. Professor …
The fine folks at security firm McAfee have compiled a list of the 10 most dangerous celebrities on the internet, with searches for the top celebrity comprising an almost 10% chance of running into something awful.
Canadian authorities have had to issue a warning to Internet users concerning fake copyright notices they may receive about pornography they haven’t actually downloaded. Confused? You will be.
Apparently, some Canadian senior citizens have received letters claiming to come from “Artisan International License, Compliance and …
Cyber attacks on PayPal, AT&T and other organizations weren’t just attempts to cause chaos or anarchistic assaults on the establishment, according to attorneys defending the fourteen members of Anonymous arrested earlier this year. Instead, they were apparently part of a political protest over the treatment of WikiLeaks’ founder Julian …
If you’ve been planning to invest in Facebook when it finally goes public, then you might have to wait a little longer than you’d planned. According to anonymous sources talking to Financial Times, Facebook’s IPO might come as many as six months later than the original April 2012 date experts were expecting.
Those sources, credited …
