John Paczkowski in News on April 4 at 3:40 am PT
According to investment bank Piper Jaffray’s latest teen survey, a third of high-school students own an iPhone and a bunch more plan to buy one soon.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on February 17, 2011 at 2:30 pm PT
It took two years and $350 million, but America now has a detailed map showing where all its broadband Internet connections are and where they are not.
Liz Gannes in Social on December 22, 2010 at 5:00 am PT
Among the early adopter types I know in the tech industry, there’s a sense that casual gaming on Facebook serves an entirely different demographic from their own. The thinking is that games from Zynga and the like replace relatively mindless activities like soap opera watching.
But as someone who has just reorganized her virtual retail shops to be surrounded by virtual trees so as to accumulate more virtual bonus points, I see how social gaming–especially as it gets more social–might appeal to the desire for mindless diversions in all of us.
Liz Gannes in Social on December 9, 2010 at 12:20 am PT
Young, urban, minority, women, well-educated. What do these demographic factors spell out? The categories of American Internet users who are most likely to use Twitter. That’s according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project.
Liz Gannes in Social on November 11, 2010 at 11:12 am PT
AngelPad, the new incubator from former Googlers, held its first end-of-session Demo Day last night at its offices on a dead-end alley in San Francisco’s SOMA district. It was a familiar format for those who have been to Y Combinator and TechStars Demo Days, and indeed just about every one of the hundred or so investors in the room is a frequent presence at those events.
Kara Swisher in D8 on June 11, 2010 at 10:15 am PT
Since Microsoft will be officially unveiling its Project Natal at the Electronic Entertainment Expo gaming show next week in Los Angeles, take a preview gander of it in action at the eighth
D: All Things Digital conference recently.
At E3, the software giant will give the innovative gesture-based controller for the Xbox a spanking new name and will likely announce other related features.
Peter Kafka in Media on January 12, 2010 at 12:06 pm PT
No surprise: A study financed by Yahoo says that Yahoo ads helped a customer sell more stuff. A big surprise: The same study says the ad only works on people born before Woodstock.
John Paczkowski in News on December 4, 2009 at 7:00 am PT
The male ego is a fragile thing. The last thing you want is a phone that challenges it with an effeminate form factor and pantywaist performance specs. As a guy, you want a phone that doesn’t emasculate you every time you whip it out. Otherwise, you might become insecure and resentful. Evidently, that’s the conceit of Verizon’s latest ad for the Motorola Droid, which touts it as a HE-MAN super-smartphone over Apple’s prissy iPhone.
Peter Kafka in Media on November 12, 2009 at 5:00 am PT
If you’re someone who gets paid to market to people who use YouTube, there’s a good chance you already know about TestTube, the site’s suite of experimental services. The rest of us will find interesting novelties, like “Insights for Audience”: A nifty way to find out what people like–or unlike–you are watching.
Peter Kafka in Media on October 22, 2009 at 6:52 am PT
It’s easy to get the impression that everyone uses Twitter. And many people do! But new statistics indicate that four of five Web users are still Twitter-free. Worth keeping in mind as Google and Microsoft start plugging tweets into search results.
