Yesterday, During Amazon’s Q2 earnings call — where Amazon posted $6.57 billion in net sales, up 41% year-0ver-year — the online retailer announced that over $1 billion of merchandise was order on mobile devices. Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, had this to say: “In the last twelve months, customers around the world have ordered more than $1 billion ...
AFP - Tablet computers such as Apple's iPad may allow the news industry a "re-set" and to start charging for content after years of giving it away for free, a senior News Corp. executive said Friday.
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HP has confirmed that it will not be making phones with Microsoft Windows Phone 7, but will instead develop handsets exclusively with webOS, the mobile OS it acquired when it bought Palm earlier this year.In an interview with CNBC, HP's Todd Bradley, the executive vice president of the company's Personal Systems Group, stated in no uncertain terms that "we won't ...
Facebook hit 500 million users this week, but where do they all live? If Facebook were a country, it would be the third most populous in the world - but it's not a country. Those 500 million people (give or take a few fake profiles, right?) all live in actual countries, where Facebook is used to a greater ...
This post is part of Mashable's Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.Name: LucyPhoneQuick Pitch: LucyPhone is a free web-based solution and new iPhone app [iTunes link] that helps users avoid ...
AFP - A major US telecommunications industry group asked a federal court to block a law requiring mobile phone makers to warn customers that the gadgets are bathing them in radiation.
PC World - Computers in Iran have been hardest hit by a dangerous computer worm that tries to steal information from industrial control systems.
AP - Former Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod, who was forced to resign after a blogger posted comments she made about race to an NAACP audience, is unsure about returning to a government job, she said Friday.
I’ve fielded a lot of questions today about the iPhone 4. No, not about the antenna — that was last week — today, all people want to know is why the hell is white version being delayed again? Like everyone else outside of Apple, I have no idea. Is it a problem with the glass supplier? That they’re prioritizing the black ...
Google’s video supersite YouTube has been ramping up support for HTML5 this year, most recently with the launch of a mobile website powered by the new Web format. YouTube’s latest move: A new code style for embedded videos that allows them to be viewed in HTML5.
That’s important because embedding is how videos get distributed beyond the YouTube website itself — ...
A Google-owned car with camera mounted on the roof maps streets in Geneva -- and gathered data such as e-mail fragments and passwords.
Mashable - With the rise of e-book technologies such as the Amazon Kindle and Apple's iBooks, are we finally witnessing the end of the printed word?
Marriott International today unveiled a prototype that will help it build more green, LEED-certified hotels.
The prototype is the first of its kind for the U.S. hotel industry, the company says.
LEED, or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, is a voluntary rating system developed by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).
LEED-certified buildings are designed to meet environmental goals including ...
AP - A Facebook feud between two women who claimed to love the same prison inmate led to a high-speed chase and a crash that critically injured one of the rivals, killed her friend and left the second rival facing murder charges.
Lobbying arm hopes to block San Francisco ordinance requiring cell phone retailers to display cell phone radiation information at the item of sale.
Earlier this week, Opsource announced a partner program. The news came on Monday, the first day developers could download code from OpenStack, a separate initiative that has had considerable attention this week.
Both companies provide cloud infrastructure based upon open source. They could easily be part of a same open-cloud network such as OpenStack. But for now Opsource says it will ...
AFP - A major US telecommunications industry group on Friday asked a federal court to block a law requiring mobile phone makers to warn customers that the gadgets are bathing them in radiation.
Macworld.com - Remember those free Windows Phone 7 devices Microsoft employees were getting? Yeah, turns out there’s a catch. Also, Samsung tries to capitalize on annoyed iPhone 4 users and LG steps up and takes some blame. Remainders for July 23, 2010 start now.
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