Sprint’s LTE rollout isn’t exactly barreling ahead, but on Wednesday it did launch LTE in its sixth major market Baltimore, a city with a certain degree of symbolism. Three years and 11 months ago, Sprint launched the country’s first commercial mobile WiMAX service, Xohm, in Baltimore, setting off the 4G race. LTE obviously won...

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Following moves that began last October, when Google began allowing Google Apps users access to Google+, the company announced today several more features which are aimed at pushing Google-branded social experiences deeper into the business world. Specifically, the company is rolling out support for restricted sharing options, video meetings integrated with other Google products...

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Laughing Squid via Flickr See Also Silicon Valley’s Favorite Hacker Hangouts Are At Risk Of Being Shut Down VOTE NOW: Help Us Choose The World’s Best Design School This Startup Is Going To Change The Way You Plan Events With Your Friends Forever Just a little more than a year ago, Justin.tv co-founders Emmett...

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Native app usage has been edging just ahead of mobile web usage among U.S. smartphone owners in the last few months, but when it comes to the category of travel, mobile web use all but disappears off the map. According to figures out today from Nielsen, 95% of all mobile traffic for travel-related content comes...

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Audiobooks.com today announced free Android and iOS apps that allow the downloading and streaming of audio books on Android phones and tablets, as well as iPhones, iPod touches, and iPads. You can download the apps for free from the Apple App Store and the Google Play store. While the apps are free to download, you...

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Amazon’s New York-based book publishing imprint, which is headed by publishing industry vet Larry Kirshbaum, has signed a deal with Ingram to distribute its ebooks to other retailers, paidContent has learned. Amazon has confirmed the news. The deal, with Ingram’s digital distribution arm CoreSource, will make the ebooks available to Amazon competitors like Barnes...

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Consumer Watchdog this morning announced that it has won the right to oppose Google’s recent record $22.5 million settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) because it allows the Internet search and advertising giant to deny violating an earlier privacy consent agreement. In a statement, the non-profit organization points out that U.S. District Court...

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Windows’ position within the business marketplace is shifting. Witness this year’s VMworld conference in San Francisco. VMworld is the virtualization Mecca — and this year’s show could herald a new era for VMware competitor Microsoft: the post-Windows era. News from a virtualization conference might not seem too relevant to Windows, but VMware’s announcement Tuesday of its new Horizon...

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We first covered same-day hotel-booking app HotelTonight way back in early 2011, when it launched initially for iPhones. Well, a lot has happened since then. It hit Android last summer, before being rolled out for iPads earlier this year, which geared it up nicely for its first tentative steps outside of the US market,...

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AP Dr. David Kass Warren Buffett and the Facebook IPO Warren Buffett Terminates Credit Default Swaps Insuring $8.25 Billion of Municipal Bonds Changes to Berkshire Hathaway’s Portfolio During the Second Quarter of 2012 At the Berkshire Hathaway (BRK) annual meeting on May 5, 2012, Warren Buffett stated (in response to a shareholder question): “We...

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