Kara Swisher in Media on October 24, 2013 at 8:00 am PT
Press one for a much-needed overhaul of the service that still lives in 1999.
Lauren Goode in News on January 11, 2012 at 4:57 pm PT
Inside the CES Lost & Found booth, the iPhone is the hot ticket — among other … non-tech-related items.
Kara Swisher in Mobile on September 3, 2011 at 3:10 pm PT
After much mishegas, here is the San Francisco Police Department report on yet another missing Apple iPhone prototype.
Insert joke [here].
News Byte
John Paczkowski in News on August 31, 2011 at 1:34 pm PT
You’d think that after
last year’s humiliating iPhone 4 prototype caper, Apple would have taken extraordinary precautions to protect pre-release versions of future iPhones taken into the field for testing. Evidently not. The company has lost another prototype iPhone. And like the one that preceded it, this one too was lost in a bar.
CNET has the scoop, and the company is declining comment. Apple should really begin requiring signed sobriety pledges from anyone given a prototype.
Peter Kafka in Media on May 13, 2011 at 1:53 pm PT
Reed Hastings says he’s interested in funding shows that the TV networks don’t want to pay for anymore. So here’s a candidate: NBC’s “The Event.” Doesn’t seem likely, but then again, neither did “House Of Cards.”
John Paczkowski in News on March 30, 2011 at 9:12 am PT
Another messy spill for BP. The energy company has lost a laptop containing the personal information of thousands of people who filed claims related to last year’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Liz Gannes in Social on December 13, 2010 at 12:00 am PT
Although World Cup tweeting caused record high volume and infrastructure demands on Twitter, the most-discussed topic on Twitter this year was actually the Gulf oil spill, said the San Francisco-based company tonight.
Peter Kafka in Media on December 8, 2010 at 9:08 am PT
A familiar trade for Netflix: It gets more content for its Web streaming service, but agrees to wait longer to show off some of it. Want to watch TV shows that ran yesterday? Go somewhere else.
Peter Kafka in Media on December 6, 2010 at 3:30 am PT
Hulu is a great place to see shows that just ran on TV. Is it a good place to see Internet shows that talk about shows that just ran on TV?
Stay tuned!