Apple iPad

Tijdens de voorstelling in San Francisco demonstreert Jobs -in traditionele jeans en zwarte trui- het nieuwe toestel dat voor Apple een vierde pijler moet worden, naast de Mac, iPod en iPhone. De iPad is iets breder dan een A4-blad en lijkt op een grote versie van de iPhone. (more…)

TechCrunch

Popular technology blog Techcrunch has been hacked and is currently down with all but a message noting that the site has indeed been compromised. (more…)

Apple iTablet: the obvious name?

With all the recent talk about the iSlate, iPad, iSlab, whatever… doesn’t it seem like the obvious candidate for the name of Apple’s rumored tablet computer is being completely overlooked? (more…)

Apple Logo

There has been a lot of speculation as to what Apple’s rumored tablet will look like and how it will work. One analyst is now speculating on how much potential revenue the device, expected to be announced next week, could bring the Mac maker. (more…)

Apple Inc shares reached their all-time high on Thursday as excitement builds over the expected release of its tablet

Although Apple has never acknowledged that a device exists, anticipation is peaking as the company enters the new year. (more…)

Is Firefox Approaching 50% Market Share?

At least in one large region of the world, the answer is “yes”.

The folks at Gemius have been kind enough to aggregate their individual country data (e.g., www.en.ranking.pl/) into a single view across their entire sample – a sample totaling more than 60 Billion page views each month. (more…)

The Real Live Search – Bing API experiment

Wouldn’t it be cool if search engines were as fast as you could type and actually showed you results as-you-type? As I found out this evening with jQuery in one hand and JSON in another, not only is it possible but turns out to be just as cool as I imagined. (more…)

Gmail

Good thing Gmail is out of beta. It is now the third largest Web mail service in the U.S. In July, Gmail nudged past AOL Email with 37 million unique visitors compared to 36.4 million for AOL, according to comScore estimates. (Gmail is the orange line in the chart below). That puts Gmail within sight of the No. 2 player, Windows Live Hotmail, which has 47 million unique visitors. After that there is a wide gulf separating Yahoo Mail and its 106 million monthly unique visitors. (more…)

Blu-ray, set for a big Christmas

Toshiba has applied for membership of the Blu-ray Disc Association, with the electronics giant behind the rival HD DVD format finally confirming that it is about to introduce Blu-ray products. (more…)