The collective groans of supervisors was heard this week as the successful Angry Birds game was released for Android. Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Tab this week, a competitor to the iPad. We took doubleTwist for a spin and found it to be iTunes for An...

Om claimed that Ping is the future of social commerce, but its sole focus on purchases and its presence behind a walled garden may hinder that bright future. Here are the four main issues Apple has to work on quickly for Ping to be successful.

Facebook has started integrating social activity from the network into its search results, by showing how many people "liked" or shared a page. This is the first step in rolling out the network's social-search engine, which could become a competitive...

While on-demand services like YouTube and Hulu get all the press, live streaming services have posted dramatic increases in viewer engagement over the last year. Time spent watching live online video increased nearly 650 percent in that time, to 1.4...

A chart of the traffic that Gawker Media gets from social networks shows Facebook in number one position and Fark as number 5 -- but the most interesting part is how much influence Stumbleupon has on traffic, despite the lack of attention the site ge...

Google Android continues to gain mobile browser share in the U.S. as all other platforms, including Apple's iOS, are declining. Thanks to smart partnerships on other platforms, Google has had the mobile search market sewn up for years. And with Andro...

Almost every year, Apple releases a new version of iTunes with some new feature. Last year it was Home Sharing. This year, it's Ping. Apple also usually tweaks the UI, many times creating a backlash. This year Apple has outdone itself.

The online personal finance assistant Mint often mines user data for trends and interesting charts to feature on its popular corporate blog. Now the Intuit-owned company is preparing to release the data it's collected on behalf of its 3 million users...

Smaller cable networks might see their negotiation leverage being stripped away, as cable companies commit more of their programming spend to "must carry" channels. That's one key takeaway from AT&T's recent negotiations with Crown Media for car...

Three iPad competitors running Google Android were announced at the IFA show in Berlin. Each has pros and cons, but will any be able to take a bite of the hot tablet market? Here are the odds of each to sell a million units by year-end.

Whether by design or accident, Ping's lack of integration with other social networks, or even with the web itself, is now its most compelling feature — at least from a strategic perspective. It's essentially an e-commerce platform for music disguis...

Facebook has confirmed it is testing a new feature that allows a member of the network to "subscribe" to another user's updates, in the same way Twitter allows users to "follow" each other. But implementing a full "follow" feature would be a big risk...

After posting Kevin Tofel's demo of the struggles he had with Flash-based video on his Nexus One mobile handset, we've received a ton of comments, including response videos from readers who showed their own experiences with Flash on Android mobile ha...

One of the most fun areas of any tradeshow is the startup pavilion: a place where smaller companies can rent a kiosk. So I wandered through the pavilion at VMworld and discovered plenty of interesting startups attacking the hot market segments today....

Given the opportunity, Twitter CEO Evan Williams will happily extemporize at a high level about the ideas that drive his company (which is now up to 145 million users). Williams contended tonight that the medium of Twitter is (gasp!) actually well-su...

Mobile use of Twitter has climbed by more than 60 percent since April, when the company introduced its official iPhone client, Twitter CEO Ev Williams says. The service also has 145 million registered users, up almost 40 percent from the number it ha...