Don’t listen to the masses. Buy the TouchPad (if you can find one) and enjoy webOS. It’s an amazing OS killed off by natural selection, like a beautiful peacock with a rare and debilitating reproductive problem. It has the swankiness of iOS, the multitasking of Android all built by the folks that started it all, Palm. The Internet is being overran by Android nerds. Don’t listen to them.
Exhausted from a couple weeks in the European litigation ring, Apple has tagged in Microsoft to pick up the fight against Android. And it would seem that the divide-and-conquer strategy is panning out quite nicely for the duo we never thought would be.
Microsoft today filed a suit accusing Google’s betrothed, Motorola Mobility, of infringing on seven of Microsoft’s patents that just so happen to cover Android. Before the U.S. International Trade Commission in Washington, Microsoft requested an import ban on a number of Motorola smartphones.
Comedy Central’s upcoming roast of Charlie Sheen is shaping up to be one of the most anticipated comedy events of 2011. Though details are sparse so far — we hear the list of roasters will be released this week — the network just rolled out this itty-bitty 15-second promo to get our juices flowing for [...]
Nintendo’s recent 3DS price drop seems to have accomplished the goal of moving more units, but rumor has it that Nintendo’s higher-ups aren’t too pleased with the floundering portable as a whole. Among other things, Nintendo is supposedly considering a new hardware revision for the 3DS that downplays its 3D capabilities
Tom Waits promised last week that he’d “set the record straight” about his new album, and here’s the newly straightened record: It’s called Bad As Me, and it’s out Oct. 25. The title track has been released as a single, and is currently available on i…
Japanese accessory maker Security company McAfee released its second quarter threat report today and the language in it is quite frank, “the security industry may need to reconsider some of its fundamental assumptions, including ‘Are we really protecting users and companies?’”…
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The smart money is pouring into Moat, the ad tech startup founded by former Right Media CEO Mike Walrath and brothers Jonah and Noah Goodhart. Ron Conway’s SV Angel led a $1.5 million round, along with Founders Fund, Vast Ventures, Lerer Ventures, and Founder Collective. Walrath and the Goodhart brothers previously seeded the company with $3 million from their funding vehicle, WGI Group.
Moat is attempting to create new ways to measure the effectiveness of online display ads. Its first product is a display ad search engine that just searches display ads so that people in the industry can easily see what campaigns are running online for different brands. Today, Moat is also launching a new brand analytics product that measures attention based on mouse hovers and heatmaps.
