Liz Gannes in Social on December 27, 2011 at 12:28 pm PT
There’s now a body of social search intellectual property that three companies have the rights to use: Google, Facebook and a virtually unknown start-up named Jildy.
News Byte
John Paczkowski in News on December 8, 2011 at 11:35 am PT
Apple’s next generation iPad could debut a month earlier than its predecessor. Industry sources tell Citi analyst Richard Gardner that the iPad 3, or whatever it’s to be called,
will launch sometime in February. That’s a month earlier than Apple showed off the iPad 2, and a month later than the original iPad. As far as specs for the device go, Gardner doesn’t have much to say, though he does believe it will have a display with a resolution significantly higher than that of the current model.
News Byte
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on October 18, 2011 at 4:59 pm PT
Sony’s PlayStation Vita will launch in the U.S., Canada, Latin America and Europe on Feb. 22, missing the critical holiday period by a couple of months. The handheld gaming device, with a five-inch touchscreen and dual cameras, was originally announced at E3 in June and delayed in August. It is expected to be released in Japan by the end of the year. The company said the Wi-Fi model will cost $250; a 3G version will cost $50 more.
Peter Kafka in Media on September 29, 2011 at 11:43 am PT
Here’s all 52 minutes. Almost Jobsian.
Peter Kafka in Media on September 26, 2011 at 12:19 pm PT
Conde Nast, Hearst and Meredith are in for Wednesday’s launch. Time Inc. isn’t, and may not get there for a while.
Kara Swisher in Media on September 15, 2011 at 5:25 pm PT
Whhhheeeeeeeee! Up, up in the sky, its Google’s Flipboard killer, which also might strafe Facebook, too!
Nitrozac and Snaggy in Voices on September 15, 2011 at 9:03 am PT
Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site.
Kara Swisher in Walt Mossberg on August 24, 2011 at 7:51 pm PT
Here’s a video of Walt Mossberg — who perhaps knows the outgoing Apple CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs better than anyone else covering tech — talking about his career. (Also, Mossberg and Jobs chatting it up at the Apple iPad event.)
News Byte
John Murrell in News on August 11, 2011 at 10:48 am PT
This morning,
DARPA’s Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 was successfully launched over the Pacific on its second test flight. It separated from its booster, went into glide mode at the edge of space, bound for Mach 20, and …
nothing. Sadly, much like the first test flight in April 2010, the aircraft stopped sending back data and headed to a watery grave. Hey, if it were easy, it wouldn’t require
advanced research.
Kara Swisher in News on August 10, 2011 at 6:50 am PT
The Defense Department’s secret project agency is launching an aircraft today that does 13,000 miles per hour, or 20 times the speed of sound.
Sweeeet.
