Apple has reportedly entered into a partnership with the foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) for the manufacture of its next generation mobile processors, according to DigitTimes’s industry sources. TSMC will use its 28nm and 20nm processes to produce Apple’s upcoming A6 and, presumably, even A7 processors. The Taiwanese foundry is reported to have...
Daily Archives: September 15, 2011
Five sites to keep track of your fall TV favorites
The fall TV season is starting, which can only mean one thing: Utter confusion. Not only are networks constantly switching around the on-air schedule of existing shows, but Fox decided to make things even more complicated by delaying the availability of its shows online until eight days after they air on TV — except...
Facebook’s Subscribe Button & Public Social Networking
The new Facebook subscribe button is a little confusing at first glance (and second and third glances!). Facebook has a reputation for clunky design, so that isn’t a surprise. What Facebook’s Subscribe Button Is (In Plain English) How to access the Subscribe button:The Subscribe button is not live by default, so you have to...
Line2 Now Has 50,000 Paying Customers, Launches On iPad
Back in September 2009, I wrote about Line2 — a startup that offers similar functionality to Google Voice, but with a focus on catering to businesses and ‘prosumers’ (it offers easily-accessible phone support among its included features). At the time, the company was getting off to a difficult start: it took Apple three months to initially...
Advertising Network Longboard Media Takes In $6 Million
Ad network Longboard Media is announcing $6 million in Series A funding today, from Level Equity. Managing the ad inventory for over 30 online properties including thefind.com, shop.com, overstock.com, buzzillions.com and become.com, Longboard Media likens itself to a “Glam Media” for e-commerce sites. Longboard Media has been profitable since it was founded by former eBay employees Scott Engler and Jim Barkow in 2008, and...
How Google Warps Time to Keep Its Computers Running
It would be nice if time just marched along in an orderly fashion, one second after another, each of equal length, 31,556,926 times per year, but that’s not the way the world works. Years are actually a bit shorter than we pretend they are, so we invented little tricks – algorithms, if you will...
New York Times: iPhone 5 Announcement Is "Weeks Away" (AAPL)
The iPhone 5 announcement is coming “within weeks,” according to the New York Times’ Nick Bilton, citing an unnamed Apple Employee. Today’s iPhone chatter was higher than usual after a bunch of iPhone 5 case images snuck on to the accessory maker Case-Mate’s website. The cases hint at a completely new design for the...
First RWW Live Chat: The Changing Nature of Storage Virtualization
As I mentioned in the post announcing this series, we are going to be doing three live chats as part of the ReadWriteWeb Solution Series. The first live chat will be focused on The Changing Nature of Storage Virtualization at 10 a.m. PDT on Sept. 20. This live text chat system is a new...
Facebook’s IPO Delayed Because They Missed Revenue Targets, Says Bearish Analyst–But Analysis Doesn’t Make Sense
(Hamadeh attributed this knowledge to “sources within the company.” Our own sources within the company did not report this.) And now Hamadeh’s saying that when Goldman Sachs sold a private-placement for Facebook last year, it promised clients that the company would do at least $4 billion of revenue this year. And yet Facebook’s revenue...
Microsoft Excises Flash And Plugins From Metro Internet Explorer In Windows 8
Microsoft has confirmed its commitment to a separate and separately-optimized ecosystem in Metro by announcing via the ever-interesting Building Windows 8 blog that IE10 in Metro will not support plug-ins. This includes Flash, of course, which gives the announcement the same flavor, if not the same substance, as Apple’s famous rejection of that particular...