Apple App Store Tops 40 Billion Downloads
SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty Images(CUPERTINO, Calif.) — Apple announced on Monday that iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users have downloaded over 40 billion apps, with almost 20 billion in 2012 alone. In March, Apple reported that it had seen …
CES 2013: Toshiba Kicks Off the Ultra HD TV Flood
Toshiba(LAS VEGAS) –The UltraHD TVs are coming by the droves in Las Vegas at this year’s International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), and the first company to formally announce theirs is Toshiba with its L93000 Series Ultra HD 4K LED TVs.For those n…
A Facebook Phone? Company Testing Voice Apps Now
Peter Foley/Bloomberg via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Facebook is building a phone right in front of our faces. Maybe not a real phone, but all the apps and features you’d expect one to have.Facebook has just added a voice message feature to its Messenge…
FTC Settles Antitrust Investigation of Google
KIMIHIRO HOSHINO/AFP/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — After a high-profile 20-month investigation, the federal government announced Thursday it’s dropping an “exhaustive” antitrust probe into Google, the world’s largest search engine.The Federal Trade Commi…
Microsoft Fuels Antitrust Battle with Google
ABC News(NEW YORK) — Microsoft is making a last-ditch effort to get government regulators to crack down on Google. The Windows company claims Google is abusing its dominance of online search, online video and the lucrative smartphone market. Mic…
Facebook Poke App: Messages Self-Destruct Within 10 Seconds
ABC News(NEW YORK) — Sometimes, for some people, a text message can just be too permanent. It’s for those times and those people that Facebook has put out its new Poke app.The standalone app for the iPhone lets you log in with your Facebook account an…
Facebook’s New Privacy Controls Roll Out to All US Users
Facebook(NEW YORK) — If you think getting improved Facebook privacy controls is a gift, then Christmas is coming a bit early.Starting Thursday night, the new privacy tools, which were announced last week, will start to roll out to users in the United …
After User Uproar, Instagram Apologizes and Reverts to Old Terms of Service
THOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Instagram has snapped to it.Earlier this week, after users lashed out against Instagram’s updated terms of service, which implied the company might sell user photos and place them in ads, Instagram’s CEO, Kevin…
Facebook May Be Changing Your Timeline: Redesign Tests in Progress
ABC News(NEW YORK) — Facebook may have given us a peek at the future of Timeline after a new design was rolled out for one of ABC News’ producers Wednesday. Apparently Facebook is experimenting with new ways of laying out user’s pages.Face…
Instagram Responds to Backlash, Says It Won’t Sell User Photos
THOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Instagram has heard the mass outrage (including the celebrities’) in response to its new terms of service, and says it will clear things up.After confusion over its new Terms of Service, which implied Instagram…
NORAD Replaces Google Maps with Bing to Track Santa Claus
NORAD(NEW YORK) — Santa Claus is comin’ to town, but you won’t be able to find him on your Google Maps.That’s because the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) has decided to switch from Google Maps, which it has used sinc…
Morgan Stanley Fined for Role in Facebook IPO
Scott Eells/Bloomberg via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Morgan Stanley is the first major financial entity to be sanctioned in relation to Facebook’s IPO.Massachusetts officials are fining Morgan Stanley $5 million for not disclosing a revenue shortfall wi…
Fab.com: How Social Media, Apps and Cool Stuff Created One of the Hottest Online Stores
Fab.com(NEW YORK) — Fab.com in New York City is an up and coming online shopping site.If you hadn’t heard of Fab before you saw this story, chances are you would have soon. The site has gone from one million users to 10 million in just 18 months.So wh…
Google Maps App for iPhone Released
Google(NEW YORK) — The long-awaited Google Maps app for Apple’s iPhone is finally here. The app was released Thursday in Apple’s App Store.Ever since Apple replaced Google Maps with its own Maps app in iOS 6 and on the iPhone 5 in September, use…
New Flickr App for iPhone Goes After Instagram
Yahoo(NEW YORK) — Eighty-five million photo sharing users just got some new tools.On Wednesday, Yahoo released an update for its Flickr iPhone and iOS apps with several new features, including new ways to find and view photos, apply filters to photos,…
New Yahoo Mail: Multiple Apps for Web, iPhone, Android and Windows 8
Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — First it was Microsoft with Outlook. Then AOL came out with Alto. Now Yahoo is giving its email service a fresh face with totally redesigned email apps.”You’ve told us loud and clear that you want fe…
Take That, Instagram: Twitter Adds Own Photo Filters
Twitter(NEW YORK) — The filtered photo war is on.Instagram announced Sunday that it was no longer supporting embedded photos on Twitter, but Twitter isn’t sitting still when it comes to photo sharing.On Monday evening Twitter’s updated its…
Facebook Vote Ends, Along with Your Right to Vote on Facebook
Peter Foley/Bloomberg via Getty Images(PALO ALTO, Calif.) — What if they threatened to shut down your right to vote and nobody cared? ‘Tis the story of Facebook’s recent site vote, which closed Monday at 12:00 p.m. PT.Last week Facebook op…
Apple CEO Tim Cook: ‘Intense Interest’ in Improving TV
Apple(NEW YORK) — Steve Jobs said it many times: Apple TV, the company’s small TV add-on, was a hobby. Tim Cook, Apple’s current CEO, has used the same term over the last couple of months. But despite that, Apple TV has long been rum…
Patent War Resumes: Apple and Samsung Head Back to Court
SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty Images(SAN JOSE, Calif.) — The long $1 billion patent fight between Apple and Samsung resumes on Thursday. The two companies will square off again in a federal courtroom in San Jose, Calif.Samsung wants to overt…