Amazon's Lady Gaga album/cloud storage deal crashed and burned earlier this week, and Amazon's wooden response didn't help matters, especially considering Apple's about to swoop into the space. But Amazon's relaunching the deal, with a sense of humor, to boot. Will it be enough? READ»
Microsoft has revealed some impressive-sounding stats to buff up the PR image of its Windows Phone 7 platform. But a close look at the numbers--and which ones aren't included--tells a different story. READ»
Groupon is soaring like a rocket at the moment: Today it opens the Grouponicus Store, with Rihanna's new album as the star offering and social media links a-plenty built in. It's the latest sign that the check-in/coupon digital marketing phenomenon is exploding.READ»
Microsoft's venerable Internet Explorer has been known as Internet Exploder for some time, due to its sluggishness and out-of-date feature set. But the new IE9 beta is netting millions of downloads. Is the curse finally broken?READ»
Net TV may be the biggest new media tech event on the horizon in the U.S., but it's also big news in China. Though it's for different reasons, the rapid developments in online TV there may well impact how you watch TV in the future, ...READ»
A week after the FCC debuted a beta tool for consumers to measure their broadband speeds, we've got the first set of stats. 150,000 people decided to avail themselves of the widget, available on Android, iPhone and Web platforms, ...READ»
We suspected as much, but Apple's just proved its iPad applications will be data monsters by upping the over-the-air 3G app download limit from 10MB to 20MB. Users and developers win, but is AT&T panicking?
Applications written ...READ»
Best Buy and Roxio CinemaNow announced a partnership today that will result in a whole new movie downloading service. It'll apparently be integrated into pretty much every Web-enabled device Best Buy sells too, which is a good way of ...READ»
Here's one you probably weren't expecting: There's a rumor Google's poised to leap into yet another business sector--music. Actually, given Google's expansionist habits it's probably not a surprise. But it is confusing.
The rumor's ...READ»
In April Apple announced that a billion apps had been downloaded from its iTunes App Store. Now, 14 months since the Store's launch, the folks at Cupertino have revealed that another billion apps have zipped over the ...READ»
Ah, the music biz--source of fun for the masses, and craziness for businesspeople. We all know about the first part of that, but the second bit's been highlighted by some odd news this week, hinging on MP3s.
The American Society of ...READ»
