A curated selection of the day's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web.
Yesterday, Living Social sold more than 1.1 million $20 Amazon gift certificates for $10 each, earning the daily deals site more than $11,000,000 in sales in less than 24 hours. (LivingSocial) The Nintendo 3DS handheld will go on sale in the U.S. on March 27 for $249, right in line with some analyst predictions. As Fortune reported MORE JP Mangalindan, Writer - Jan 20, 2011 8:58 AM ET
A curated selection of the day's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web.
HP and Palm may introduce three models of the PalmPad, a tablet aimed squarely at taking down the iPad, at this January's CES. All three will run a new version of Palm's WebOS, and a fourth student edition, will be showed off later on. Other features will include: a weight of 1.25 lbs., a USB 3.0 MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Dec 22, 2010 6:00 AM ET
A curated selection of the day's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web.
Hot on the heels of layoffs comes news that Yahoo is shutting down eight products, including MyBlogLog, Yahoo! Picks, AltaVista, Yahoo! Bookmarks, Yahoo! Buzz and Delicious. Meanwhile, other products like Fire Eagle and Yahoo People Search will be merged, and Yahoo! Alerts and Yahoo! Calendar will be turned into features which will presumably be implemented elsewhere. MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Dec 17, 2010 8:27 AM ET
Every day, the Fortune staff spends hours poring over tech stories, posts, and reviews from all over the Web to keep tabs on the companies that matter. We've assembled the day's most newsworthy bits below.
At All Things Digital's D: Dive Into Mobile last night, Android creator Andy Rubin revealed he and Nokia have discussed the idea of adopting Android as one of many alternatives for the handset-maker. Rubin also whipped out MORE JP Mangalindan, Writer - Dec 7, 2010 6:47 AM ET
For the second time in three weeks, an analytics firm jumps the gun
"Apple's App Store Soars Past 300,000 Apps," reads the headline posted Thursday on the website ReadWriteWeb and picked up by SlashGear and GottaBeMobile.
Sound familiar? Perhaps that's because two other prominent tech news sites -- MacNN and VentureBeat -- reported that Apple (AAPL) had passed the same milestone nearly three weeks earlier, on Oct. 16.
Who's right? As near MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 5, 2010 6:44 AM ET