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Yearly Archives: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010

Apple working on "iGroups" social media application

Mar 18, 2010

Apple Inc. has filed documents with the United States Patent and Trademark Office that show the Cupertino company is working on a social media app for the iPhone called "iGroups.'' This is Apple's...
We're addicted to social media, even in bed

Mar 18, 2010

How addicted are we to social media and text messaging? According to a new survey, 48 percent of social media users check or update Facebook and/or Twitter after they go to bed and 56 percent feel...
Messy details emerge from Viacom, YouTube lawsuit

Mar 18, 2010

Viacom Inc.'s billion dollar legal battle with YouTube got messier on Thursday, as the federal judge in the three-year-old copyright infringement case unsealed documents revealing sensitive corporate...
Yelp slapped by more legal challenges

Mar 17, 2010

Yelp Inc.'s legal challenges continue to pile up, with a San Francisco business filing the third class action complaint in recent weeks and nine additional firms joining an earlier lawsuit. The...
Why Google is not worried about Nexus One sales yet

Mar 16, 2010

Flurry, a mobile analytics firm, is reporting that Google's Nexus One has sold just 135,000 units in its first 74 days, a far cry from the 1 million iPhones and 1.05 million Droids that sold in the...