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NFL Brings (Some of) the Super Bowl to Tablets

Lauren Goode in Media on February 1 at 8:37 am PT

If you’re one of those football fans who likes to watch — and rewatch — key plays after the game, this app’s for you.

Engine Yard CEO John Dillon Talks About Competing Against His Old Company, Salesforce.com

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on February 7, 2011 at 7:00 am PT

When Salesforce.com acquired Heroku last year, no one was more surprised than Engine Yard’s John Dillon.

Apple Hits New Milestones: 10 Billion Apps Downloaded, 160 Million iOS Users and More

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 22, 2011 at 11:30 am PT

Apple said today its App Store has hit more than 10 billion downloads worldwide, equating to roughly 62 apps for each one of its 160 million iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users.

Cisco Security Survey Finds Windows Vulnerabilities And Spam Decreasing

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on January 20, 2011 at 6:40 am PT

Still no rest for the weary computer security professional. Smartphones and tablets are coming to the office and creating new opportunities for trouble.

Hulu Rolls Out a Highlights Show–”The Morning After"

Peter Kafka in Media on January 17, 2011 at 11:27 am PT

Miss last night’s Golden Globes? Hulu has a summary, along with everything else you missed on TV last night. But maybe you’re better off reading about it.

D@CES Highlights Video: Nvidia’s Jen-Hsun Huang

Kara Swisher in D at CES on January 14, 2011 at 9:01 am PT

Our next highlights video from our D@CES event last week is of Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang. Huang talked about how mobile is about to see super-duper-duper smartphones and also touched on the chipmaker’s legal battle with Intel, which was settled earlier this week.

D@CES Highlights Video: Microsoft IE's Dean Hachamovitch

Kara Swisher in D at CES on January 12, 2011 at 9:01 am PT

Our next highlights video from our D@CES event last week is of Microsoft Internet Explorer chief Dean Hachamovitch. Here’s Walt Mossberg’s interview with him, during which they focused a lot on privacy issues on the browser and the Web.

D@CES Highlights Video: Twitter CEO Dick Costolo (¡Olé!)

Kara Swisher in D at CES on January 10, 2011 at 1:01 pm PT

Yes, like a digital Heidi Klum, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo did declare that BoomTown’s outfit was “matador casual” at the start of an interview I did with him at D@CES last Friday. But we talked about a lot more than that, in a lively discussion about the future of the microblogging phenom.

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Amazon Brings the Kindle App to Windows Phone 7

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 5, 2011 at 7:06 am PT

Amazon’s Kindle app now works on at least 11 different platforms with the addition of Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 today. The apps allow you to start an e-book on one platform, and then continue reading it where you left off on another. Features include the ability to synch bookmarks, notes and highlights. Yesterday, Amazon also confirmed that in addition to supporting the iPad, it will tailor the apps for upcoming Android and Windows-based tablet computers. At this point, it’s clear Amazon sees value in supporting all platforms. Rather than be discriminating, it’s trying to sell as many books as it can on as many platforms as a customer may want to read them.

Palm: Those Were the Videos, My Friend, I Thought Roger McNamee Would Never End (Up Selling)

Kara Swisher in News on April 12, 2010 at 5:27 am PT

With rumors flying hither and yon about the sale of Palm–likely to an Asian company, such as HTC or Lenovo–BoomTown is getting all misty for those days of hope that the little innovative smartphone pioneer might actually prevail against the giants. Not for the creepy lady in the advertising for the Pre, mind you, but everything else. Thus, here are three videos in which the dream was still alive at Palm.

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