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If you watched a YouTube video this year, you contributed to YouTube surpassing 1 trillion views in 2011. But before you pat yourself on the back or shake your head in digust, let’s see if your viewing habits match those … Continue reading →

Amazon is extending its aggressive holiday push with a special deal for last-minute shoppers: free two-day shipping on Kindle products. U.S. customers have until 8 p.m. PST on Dec. 21 to buy a Kindle and receive it in time for … Continue reading →

Cablevision and Verizon have speedily settled a lawsuit in which the former charged Verizon with running misleading ads about the speed of its broadband service. Cablevision, the fifth-largest cable TV provider by subscribers, sued Verizon on Dec. 6, charging that … Continue reading →

It’s been a notable year for Web outages. From Netflix going down at extremely inopportune times, to Amazon Web Services’ multi-day breakdown in the spring, Internet services are still seemingly as unreliable as ever. SmartBear Software just published its list … Continue reading →

It’s been a notable year for Web outages. From Netflix going down at extremely inopportune times, to Amazon Web Services’ multi-day breakdown in the spring, Internet services are still seemingly as unreliable as ever. SmartBear Software just published its list … Continue reading →

Keyboards and mice may seem like clunky artifacts of the past within the next five years, pushed aside in favor of the ultimate user interface: the human mind. That’s according to IBM, which just published its “5 in 5″ forecast: … Continue reading →

I like to install as few things on my PC as possible. That’s why when TweetDeck released an app for Google Chrome in Dec. 2010, it was an epiphany. No need to run another program in the background. Simply flick … Continue reading →

Facebook officially finished moving into its gleaming new headquarters on Monday as a final group of employees reported for work at the company’s recently acquired Menlo Park campus. As Facebook prepares for an IPO reported to be coming as early … Continue reading →

Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. Today, we’re looking at three particularly interesting stories. Google Invests $94 Million in Solar … Continue reading →

The year 2011 was especially prosperous and successful for Amazon, partly due to the company’s popular Kindle ebooks, but also because Amazon introduced its first Android-based tablet, the Kindle Fire. Just five days after Amazon announced the new tablet in … Continue reading →