Tag archive: wall street journal

According to an article posted by the Wall Street Journal earlier today, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has found that texting while driving increased from 2009 to 2010. The NHSTA performs this study each year by watching intersections and stoplights for anyone that's operating a smartphone or other handheld device to send text messages in addition to other functions like reading and typing email, watching… Read More

On the heels of the iOS 5 update for Apple's lineup of mobile devices, Apple also quietly rolled out an update for the Apple TV. Version 4.4 of the Apple TV operating system offers AirPlay mirroring, the ability to wirelessly mirror content displayed on the iPad 2 or iPhone 4S and view the images or other type of media on a high definition television. Users will also be able to view other applications on the big screen including games… Read More

According to a story published today in the Wall Street Journal, Google-owned YouTube is finishing up preparations on premium video channels for the streaming video site. Ideally launching in the first half of 2012, these premium channels are themed by topics such as sports and fashion. YouTube plans to pay up to a few million dollars for content and providers are already starting to work on content creation over October and November. In… Read More

Embattled online poker giant Full Tilt Poker has struck back at U.S. federal prosecutors, who Wednesday accused the gambling site of being a “global Ponzi scheme.” “While the government has obviously taken issue with the underlying activities of FTP, under any reasonable interpretation, the world-wide operations of the online cardroom are not a so-called Ponzi scheme,” said Ian Imrich, attorney for Full Tilt owner and… Read More

According to CouponHQ, Both Groupon and LivingSocial lost a bit of revenue over the month of August. Laying blame at Hurricane Irene for the decrease in purchases and number of deals, Groupon fell by 4.8 percent and LivingSocial by 1.8 percent. However, revenue also declined for the companies in July. While Groupon's average cost of a deal has risen over August, the number of Groupon vouchers sold is down by 14 percent. The average cost… Read More

The Wall Street Journal tapped into its naughty side today with a feature about how the Internet is effectively killing off “pornography” provided by cable and satellite television service providers. Because pornography is so readily available for free online, reports WSJ's Sam Schechner and Jessica E. Vascellaro, fewer customers are subscribing to video-on-demand and pay-per-view adult content. While this fact likely seems… Read More

Google is now allowing publishers to choose top stories to highlight within the Google News section. The new Editors' Picks section started as a Google Labs experiment last year and Google has been actively working with more than 20 major publishers on perfecting the new content feed. Publishers get to decide what stories, videos or audio clips are going to be displayed in the feed and send that information to Google with a special RSS… Read More

On August 15 before the fall television season begins, Fox Broadcasting is shifting to an 8-day exclusivity window and preventing consumers from watching the latest episode of House or The Simpsons for free. According to the Wall Street Journal, consumers will be forced to wait for a bit over a week to catch up via online video on services like Fox.com and Hulu. However, subscribers of Hulu Plus and Dish Network will be able to see the latest… Read More

Over the weekend both Kobo, an e-book retailer, and the Wall Street Journal stopped selling content through their iOS apps, along with Barnes & Noble, Amazon and Google Books. The changes suggest Apple is cracking down on direct sales in apps, which is against Apple's rules and further solidifies iTunes' iron grip on content distribution within the Apple ecosystem. Apple's rule in question came in February, when the… Read More

It's safe to say Rupert Murdoch is having a bad month. A couple developers have created free tools to help consumers stay away from websites owned by the Murdoch media empire. A Firefox add-on called MurdochAlert creates a warning when users are loading one of  100+ sites.  For instance, if a user lands on Fox News, an alert bar appears to warn the user of the “potential computer security risks of accessing Murdoch-controlled… Read More

On Tuesday, Foursquare announced a partnership with five daily deal sites including LivingSocial, Gilt Groupe, Zozi, AT&T and BuyWithMe, according to the Wall Street Journal. Foursquare is also actively negotiating with Groupon to integrate its feed into the daily deals. When a user checks into a restaurant or shopping store, they will be presented with a daily deal based on location. Foursquare gets revenue from the sale of each deal, but… Read More

Mere hours after the Wall Street Journal unveiled its own version of WikiLeaks, a service called SafeHouse that allows whistleblowers to submit sensitive news to the newspaper's reporters, researchers say that the “secure” service is anything but, reports Forbes. SafeHouse invites readers to share information relevant to “fraud, abuse, pollution, insider trading, and other harms,” and says it offers them the ability… Read More

The Wall Street Journal is looking to give WikiLeaks some competition. The publication has launched SafeHouse, which encourages readers to share information concerning “fraud, abuse, pollution, insider trading, and other harms.” Boasting a secure upload system that will encrypt its contents and keep tipsters anonymous, SafeHouse wants to become a mecca for controversial insider information. “If you have newsworthy contracts, correspondence,… Read More

The rumors of a new, less expensive iPhone are true, reports the Wall Street Journal. The device — which is codenamed “N97″ — will be roughly half the size of the iPhone 4, weigh “significantly” less, and sport an “edge-to-edge” screen. The smaller iPhone will also include voice-based navigation, a virtual keyboard and cost roughly half the price of the current iPhone. Apple currently sells the iPhone to… Read More

Earlier this year researchers from Intel, Penn State, and Duke Universities put some Android application makers in hot water, claiming their programs transmitted users' private data to advertising services without permission. Now, research commissioned by the Wall Street Journal has tested 101 popular mobile applications for both Android and Apple's iOS platform, and the results are not encouraging. The Wall Street Journal claims… Read More