Facebook's New Privacy Problem: Partners and Guilt by Association
Facebook risks guilt by association as third party applications use the site to deliver individually-targeted marketing.
Technology
Starbucks Offers Free Wi-Fi -- Would You Like Some Digital Media With Your Latte?
Starbucks needed to offer free WiFi, but is experimenting with an interesting suite of content on top of this new feature.
Smaller Smartphones: A Market Ready to Explode
In a world of ultra-capable tablets, who wants a big smartphone?
Yahoo Sells Out Login Page -- Plus Its Heritage, Users, and Business
Yahoo (YHOO) has decided to go big time -- big time cashing in, that is. The company will now make its login page available to advertisers. Granted that the revenue will be good, maybe even great, but it's a desperate act that highlights how wrong the company has gone under turnaround CEO Carol Bart...
Geopolitics and High Tech: Big Surprises Await in Afghanistan and North Korea [Updated]
Afghanistan and North Korea become technology players, putting the high tech industry into geopolitics.
Performance Anxiety: Sony's Fear of Porn Blocks Potential PlayStation Profits
Sony (SNE) lost the BetaMax versus VHS battle more than two decades ago because it wouldn't tried to keep porn off the VCR. some thirty years later, it is reportedly making the same mistake again with the PlayStation 3. The company has marketed the PS3 as a mature machine for adults, but behind the ...
Apple iPhone 4's Super Display and the Law of Unintended Bloat
The high resolution "retinal" display on the Apple iPhone 4 will have an unintended consequence of image and app bloat and will require app and web developers to work differently.
How Yahoo and Microsoft are Gaming the Search Market, and Why it Will End
The tricks Microsoft and Yahoo have used to grow their search market share are about to end.
Bad Strategy: At E3, Microsoft and Sony Put Nintendo On the Defensive
Nintendo (NTDOY) is headed to a crisis point on the eve of the Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, America's largest video game conference. It is still the number one video game company, but past successes, dated technology and lost loyalties are deteriorating the lead. First, from Tom Ivan at ED...
Microsoft Pulls Out All the Resource Stops for Windows Phone 7
Microsoft will use gaming, performance-boosting online services, and even direct application development for OEMs to give Windows Phone 7 the push the company needs to compete with Google and Apple.
Apple Control of iPad and iPhone Ads Is Good for the Industry
Apple's approach to its iAd platform has drawn fire. However, it offers some potential huge benefits to an online ad industry that has been battered and bruised.
7 Reasons Google Slipped When It Copied Microsoft Bing
You could write off Google's imitating the look of Bing as a slip, but the decision showed that Google made seven major errors all at once.
Sony's Pressure-Sensitive Touchscreen Could Be a Game Changer -- For Any Other Company, That Is
Sony (SNE) just revealed some awesome technology: A mobile touchscreen that responds to finger pressure. It could be a game changer, especially as tablets approach their tipping point, but Sony's own history of lameness isn't particularly encouraging if you're expecting the company to launch strikin...
Facebook-Kodak Deal: A First Step Toward Social Networks Infiltrating Everything
Facebook shoes the potential for social networks to break away from computers and integrate themselves into all parts of life.
Walmart Needs to Go Online to Tempt Wealthier Customers With Fashion
By testing high-fashion lines on the Web, Wal-Mart can lure new, wealthier customers and grow its lock-in with existing ones.
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