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Facebook Inches Past Google For Web Users' Minutes
19 min 39 sec agoIn August, people spent a total of 41.1 million minutes on Facebook, comScore said, about 9.9 percent of their Web-surfing minutes for the month. That just barely surpassed the 39.8 million minutes, or 9.6 percent, people spent on all of Google Inc.'s sites combined.
Apple To Publish Guidelines For App Approval
11 hours 58 min agoApple Inc. said it will publish the guidelines it uses to determine which programs can be sold in its App Store. The move follows more than two years of complaints from software developers about the company's secret and seemingly capricious rules, which block some programs from the store.
Military Bans Video Game That 'Kills' U.S. Troops
Wed, 09/08/2010 - 20:26Medal of Honor by Electronic Arts, a major game developer based in Redwood City, Calif., hits stores Oct. 12. Gamers are scoffing at the decision, saying that advanced technology has made it commonplace in the gaming world to let players switch sides and play the bad guy.
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Duke Nukem No Longer Never
Wed, 09/08/2010 - 19:47After years of being called vaporware and a Shakespearean development story, Duke Nukem Forever is finally being released.
Google's Logo Turns To Bouncing Balls For Anniversary, Event (Updated)
Tue, 09/07/2010 - 11:04Google has revamped its logo for yet another special occasion -- this time, its name is made out of a flock of colored balls that bounce away from the cursor when a visitor comes to the Google search page.
Oracle Names Ex-HP CEO Mark Hurd Co-President
Tue, 09/07/2010 - 10:49Oracle Corp. has announced that former Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO Mark Hurd is joining the database software maker as co-president. Oracle said in a statement Monday that Hurd will also serve as a member of the board of directors. He will report to CEO Larry Ellison.
Counting Calories? There Are Apps For That
Mon, 09/06/2010 - 19:00For decades, people who wanted to get serious about losing weight joined Weight Watchers. They used paper and pen to help keep track of their calories with a point system. But today, people have much easier ways to track their calories -- using weight-loss apps. How many calories in an avocado? 300. The mobile apps take away your excuse for not counting calories. NPR's Anthony Brooks reports on the Boston-based company called Lose It!
The 'Empty Pleasures' Of Artificial Sweeteners
Mon, 09/06/2010 - 19:00For this week's edition of All Tech Considered, NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Carolyn de la Pena, a professor at the University of California, Davis, about her new book, Empty Pleasures -- about the evolution and impact of artificial sweeteners.
Flying Cars? Conveyor Belts? The Future Of I-95
Sat, 09/04/2010 - 20:27When Interstate 95 was being built 50 years ago, high-speed roadways and high-tech cars were a fantasy of things to come. These days, I-95 commuters fantasize about simply being able to move. With smarter cars and sky-high roads, the future may just come to their rescue.
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Craigslist Drops Adult Services Ads
Sat, 09/04/2010 - 19:23The section on the website was replaced with a black bar that says "censored." A group of state attorneys general had asked the site to drop the section last month, saying there weren't enough protections against blocking potentially illegal ads promoting prostitution and child trafficking.
Texas Opens Inquiry Into Google Search Rankings
Sat, 09/04/2010 - 02:50The antitrust inquiry disclosed by Google late Friday is just the latest sign of the intensifying scrutiny facing the company as it enters its adolescence. The review appears to be focused on whether Google is manipulating its search results to stifle competition.
Studying Computers To Learn About Ourselves
Fri, 09/03/2010 - 17:00Clifford Nass, a communications professor at Stanford University, has been studying the ways humans interact with computers to tease out some of the intricacies of how people relate to each other. He talks about those findings in his new book The Man Who Lied to His Laptop.
Could Ping Really Take Down Facebook?
Fri, 09/03/2010 - 13:20Apple now has its own social network for music lovers. It's called Ping. It's built into the latest version of iTunes. All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen signed up and says and it seemed like he came to the party alone.
Bidding War Over 3Par Ends, HP Wins
Fri, 09/03/2010 - 08:00The high stakes bidding war between HP and Dell is over. HP will pay more than $2 billion for a California company called 3Par that specializes in digital data storage.
Dell Cedes Data-Storage Maker 3Par To HP
Thu, 09/02/2010 - 19:31Dell Inc. is walking away from a bidding contest with rival Hewlett-Packard Co. for data-storage maker 3Par Inc. Dell said it won't match HP's offer to pay $33 per share for 3Par, or about $2.07 billion.
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Apple Gambles On TV Episode Rentals: Does This Change The Game?
Thu, 09/02/2010 - 13:58Steve Jobs unveiled Apple's new 99-cent model for renting TV episodes yesterday. Will this catch on? Probably. Is it going to replace anyone's cable subscription? Probably not ... yet.
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Apple Wants To Friend You
Wed, 09/01/2010 - 22:17Apple gets into the social media business with Ping - where 160 million iTunes users can be friends.
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Jobs Unveils New Apple TV, iPod Line
Wed, 09/01/2010 - 18:15Apple says it will sell a new, smaller version of its Apple TV device for streaming movies and television shows over the Internet and into the living room. CEO Steve Jobs also announced a new line of iPods and social features for Apple's iTunes software allowing people to learn what their friends are listening to.
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Foreign Policy: The Politicization Of Digital Space
Wed, 09/01/2010 - 11:58Whatever Washington does in the digital space these days would almost necessarily reflect on Google -- even if they have no direct involvement in the issue. Evgeny Morozov of Foreign Policy argues the more moves the State Department makes in cyberspace, the more difficult it gets for the likes of Facebook, Google, and Twitter to claim that they are simply apolitical operators making the world transparent.
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What Exactly Is The Music Cloud? And Is It Headed Our Way?
Wed, 09/01/2010 - 11:00The biggest obstacle to songs at your disposal anywhere remains the record labels themselves.
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