Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on January 18, 2011 at 3:38 pm PT
Katie takes a look at Quora, a question-and-answer site that encourages thoughtful—even long-winded—discussions.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 5, 2011 at 11:56 am PT
Amazon today released preliminary plans for its Android Appstore, which will likely do a better job of merchandising and selling apps than Google has.
Think of it as the equivalent of iTunes for Android.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 15, 2010 at 7:40 am PT
The hacking incident that affected McDonald’s appears to have wider implications for users of scores of other Web sites, and it may be connected, though indirectly, to the weekend attack on Gawker.
Peter Kafka in Media on December 13, 2010 at 10:56 am PT
It takes something pretty catastrophic for Nick Denton to apologize in public. So mark this one down: The Gawker Media owner says he’s “so very sorry” about the hacking attack that exposed some 1.5 million of his readers’ passwords.
News Byte
Peter Kafka in Media on December 12, 2010 at 12:47 pm PT
Have you left a comment on one of Gawker Media’s sites? If so, you should change your password there, and on any other sites where you’ve used the same login/password combination, as soon as possible.
Gawker says its “user databases appear to have been compromised” by hackers. More background from
Mediaite and
The Next Web.
Ina Fried in Mobile on December 8, 2010 at 6:15 pm PT
So, dialing in to a conference call can be pretty painful, right? Trying to enter all those numbers, switching back and forth to the calendar app from the dialer. Well, Plantronics has an app for that.
Kara Swisher in News on December 2, 2010 at 2:10 am PT
LastPass, a cross-platform password manager and form filler, has acquired the social bookmarking and browser synchronization service Xmarks.
The San Francisco-based Xmarks has been in the midst of some tumult of late, as it closed down in September and then quickly opened back up again in an effort to keep its service running for a large group of active users and to find a new home.
Kara Swisher in News on November 3, 2010 at 10:55 am PT
BoomTown arrived late to the Facebook mobile event for the press due to traffic related to the parade for the San Francisco Giants’ World Series victory–and where I would much rather be right now.
Go Giants!
In any case, I am here in the cafeteria of Facebook again, where the company continues its attempts to take over the known digital universe before Google does.
The latest parry: Single sign-on!
Kara Swisher in News on August 31, 2010 at 8:00 am PT
Today at 8 am PT, Twitter will turn on OAuth for user authentication, which would seem like something only nerds should care about.
In fact, everyone should.
With third-party apps no longer given access to Twitter passwords, in this highly unprotected digital world, the consumer is a little bit more protected.
