Lauren Goode in Commerce on January 3 at 10:10 am PT
For Uber, the start-up behind a smartphone app for requesting car service, raising fares on busy nights is a no-brainer. But for consumers, the premium pricing may put the service just out of reach.
Kara Swisher in News on April 4, 2011 at 7:08 am PT
As BoomTown reported earlier, AOL has confirmed that Tim Stevens (pictured here as Speed Racer) will replace Josh Topolsky as Editor-in-Chief of Engadget.
Stevens has been working at the site since 2007, most recently as its automotive editor and also–until recently–part time.
The appointment comes as eight former staffers at the giant tech news site said they were joining together to create a competing gadget site.
Ina Fried in Mobile on January 19, 2011 at 8:10 am PT
The carrier plans to offer a service called DriveSmart Plus that detects when a phone is in a moving car and disables most calling and texting functions.
John Paczkowski in News on January 4, 2011 at 4:02 am PT
Despite Research in Motion’s best efforts to silence them, questions about the battery life of its forthcoming PlayBook tablet have followed the company into the new year. In a sequel to his original research note suggesting the PlayBook’s battery life is “relatively poor” compared to rivals’, Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu reiterates that claim, saying he would be “very surprised if PlayBook matches anywhere near the battery life of the iPad.”
Kara Swisher in News on December 16, 2010 at 12:30 am PT
There are certainly a lot of movie trailers on the Web, but this one made its first appearance on the Facebook fan page of its meaty star.
That would be action star Vin Diesel, who is the star of the “Fast and Furious” car thief series and has–no,
really, including BoomTown–20 million fans on the social networking site.
Kara Swisher in News on November 9, 2010 at 12:31 pm PT
The
All Things Digital readership has spoken: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was wrong in declaring that the Apple iPad was not mobile.
In fact, 1,671 takers of a survey BoomTown ginned up on the subject using SurveyMonkey disagreed with him 85.1 percent to 14.9 percent.
Kara Swisher in News on November 5, 2010 at 6:01 am PT
Because while those who live in the echo chamber of Silicon Valley are frequently wrong, but never in doubt, a gigantic amount of time is spent being more technical than realistic.
And by “technical,” I mean annoyingly detailed in making a point as to completely obfuscate the essence of anything.
Let me explain.
Kara Swisher in News on October 22, 2010 at 1:21 am PT
Okay, this is a freaky Friday video–a trailer for the upcoming movie “Wrecked,” starring Adrien Brody. He wakes up after a car accident at the bottom of a ravine in the deep forest and has no idea how he got there. Also, there are lots of dead people with him.
Really
freaky.
Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on October 6, 2010 at 6:03 pm PT
Walt finds Ford’s new touch-screen dashboard, MyFord Touch, to have clear, logical displays and a good voice-command system. But the interface has so many options it presents a challenging learning curve.
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on September 27, 2010 at 11:31 am PT
British police said Monday that the owner of the company that makes the Segway was found dead after falling off a cliff…on a Segway. It’s a gruesome chapter in the history of an invention that was supposed to revolutionize the way we get around but that ended up going nowhere.
