April 2011 News

Groupon Kills Ads on Donald Trump’s Apprentice Website
Online daily deals site Groupon announced today via blog post that they will be taking st...
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Angry Birds Going After China
While reveling in their recent success -- 140 million downloads, ya'll -- Rovio announced their next move for the Angry Birds franchise. The target? The far east; China, to be ex...
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Verizon Addresses Location Tracking, Announces New Warning Label
In a letter dated April 19th, 2011 - one day before the Apple iPhone tracking hullabaloo all bega...
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20 Percent of Job Searchers Use Smartphones to Look for Jobs
According to data released by the vertical search engine for jobs called LinkUp, 20 percent of job seekers use their smartphone to look for jo...
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Apple iCloud – The Future of iOS and Mac OS?
Apple had been rumored to have acquired the domain iCloud.com f...
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HBO App Hits Android, iPhone
It's not TV, it's HBO -- on your mobile phone, no less. Well, a couple of them, anyway. Oh, look, just in time for True Blood, too. That's right, if you own and Android...
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PlayStation Network Users’ Credit Card Info Stolen, Says Hackers
Ever since the PSN went down, and Sony admitted that the cause was...
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Royal Wedding Google Doodle is a Stretch
A lot of people found Google's recent doodle for John James Audubon difficult to read. I personally didn't have too much trouble with it, but I do look at these things a lot. Howev...
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Google Talks Mobile, Local and CPA At Goldman Sachs Con
Here are my notes on the interesting points in Google’s presentation to Goldman Sachs’ Tech and Internet Conference. It’s noteworthy not just for seeing the trends in where they’...
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Exclusive Interview with Man Who Is Suing Facebook over Customer Support
In terms of the Internet, calling someone a spammer is about the lowest jab a person can give, especially if the accused denies the claims. Dav...
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Android Video Chat Via Google Talk
Google announced the launch of Google Talk with video and voice chat for Android phones. Apple's FaceTime is becoming less of a unique draw to the iOS. "You can now video or vo...
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Steve Jobs In Carbonite Is Awesome, Unavailable
It's been a busy couple of weeks for the guys at Apple. First, there's the hubbub surrounding the iPhone's ability to track its users, followed by South Park's lampooning of every...
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PayPal Buys Fig Card, Aims to Kill the Wallet
PayPal has acquired Fig Card in the latest move in the increasingly interesting mobile payments space. This comes just a week after the...
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Obama’s Birth Certificate: New Conspiracy Theories
It has been a rough week for the Birthers.  After 2 and 1/2 years of demands that President Barack Obama release his long-form birth certificate to prove that he is, in fact, an Am...
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Amazon Talks Preventing Future Outages, Says It’s Sorry
Amazon has finally released a big statement regarding the...
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