Apple’s iPhone 4S most-discussed smartphone for second half of 2011
Apple's iPhone 4S is the smartphone on the tip of everyone's tongue this holiday season, according to stats from Nielsen/McKinsey subsidiary NM Incite released Friday. The 4S captured 40 percent of online buzz around smartphones during the last six months, despite not being introduced until October.
iPad 2: The rumor buzz
As Apple's March 2nd iPad announcement draws near, the Interwebs are alive with rumors. In no particular order, here's the buzz that we're seeing flick across our in-boxes today.
Will Apple produce a White iPad? That's what the 9 to 5 Mac blog ...
Google opens up Buzz firehose API
Google has launched several new APIs for its Buzz social networking service this week. One of the most significant additions is a new, real-time "firehose" feed that will allow third-party developers to consume all public Buzz messa...
Charting Apple's loss of 'cool'
A polling firm tests the question raised this week by the New York Times and ABC News "Has Apple lost its cool?" That was the title of a New York Times blog post Wednesday — itself a follow-up on a three-minute conversation between ABC News correspondent John Berman and the Times' Nick Bilton the day...
Countries ask Google to drop “launch now, fix later” policy
Government officials from 10 countries sent Google an open letter (PDF) this week asking the company to adhere to a list of privacy principles in the wake of the company's botched...
Lawmakers want Google to Buzz off over privacy concerns
Google's Buzz social networking service, which launched as part of Gmail in February, was met with considerable controversy. The service automatically transformed users' e-mail address books into public Buzz...
Death and social media: what happens to your life online?
Losing a friend or family member is painful enough, but imagine the extra, unnecessary jabs when that friend's social networking profile continues to pop up in searches. Or say your friend was...
Google works to clean up Buzz privacy mess after launch
Mere days after the high-profile launch of Google's social media service Buzz, the company has made modifications to its functionality in hopes of appeasing privacy critics. Over the weekend, Google...
Toy Story 3 and the Mac
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