Despite my not-so-great experience with ATT today, the company is getting the iPhone 5 party started early and drumming up excitement, as a countdown timer has replaced its site: If you don’t care about the iPhone 5, you can still enter the site through the tiny log-in link at the bottom. I’m told that...
The Apple Store is down in preparation for iPhone 5 pre-orders. Don’t be alarmed! Apple always switches off its online store before a new product launch. You’ll be able to pre-order the iPhone 5 at midnight Pacific tonight from Apple, Sprint, Verizon, and ATT. ATT’s online store went down earlier tonight. Verizon and Sprint’s stores...
Akamai, the company behind one of the Web’s largest content delivery platforms, is adding more speed to its network after it announced the acquisition of FastSoft, a content acceleration software maker, in an undisclosed deal. The acquisition of six-year-old FastSoft is set to boost the quality of service and performance of Akamai’s cloud-based system, thanks to...
Not a joke, not an imaginary story: Silicon Valley Bank and Coverflow are hosting an event next month that was described in an invite as “American Idol for the geek set.” Now, there’s nothing special about getting a bunch of startup assholes to sing karaoke. (Heck, I hear that the TechCrunch team held not...
There’s no love lost between Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos and Canada’s big Internet providers: “It’s almost a human rights violation what they’re charging for internet access in Canada,” Sarandos said during the Merrill Lynch Media, Communications Entertainment conference in Los Angeles Wednesday. Sarandos was referring to the low broadband caps in place...
The new iPhone 5 has a new screen with new dimensions, and this time making existing apps fill that space and look good isn’t just a matter of doubling dimensions of all assets like it was with the introduction of the Retina display. This time around, the change will require more varied responses, depending...
Hammacher Schlemmer Hammacher’s “Natural Acoustics iPhone Amplifier.” See Also How Google And Android Are Winning The War Against Apple In Mobile Ads How iPhone 5 Might Rescue Apple’s Torpid Mobile Ad Business This Lone Inventor Claims Facebook, LinkedIn, And Amazon Stole His Patent The new issue of the Hammacher Schlemmer catalog has a heavy emphasis...
Email More Pete Souza / White House Money has become the name of the game in the 2012 election cycle. And in Silicon Valley, tech CEOs are flush with cash and ready to fork it over to an array of campaigns and political causes. We’ve taken a look through FEC data from the Center for...
Can ads go as viral as squeal-inducing animal pictures? Social news site Buzzfeed is angling to try and its bet is that its new acquisition, Kingfish, will help it get there faster. The company on Thursday said that it had purchased the small New York startup for an undisclosed amount (in its first acquisition), adding...
There’s more to the ATT version of the iPhone 5 than meets the eye. ExtremeTech’s Neal Gompa sorted through the device’s testing documentation at the Federal Communications Commission and found there are two more 4G frequency bands supported in the North American GSM iPhone beyond those Apple revealed in its official specs. Those bands...