Amazon Amazon Kindle is Retailer's Best-Selling Product of All Time Amazon still won't disclose the exact number of Kindle sales, but it is saying today that the third generation of its Kindle e-Book reader is now the Internet retailer's best-selling product of all time, even selling more than the last Harry Potter book, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows." So how many is that? "Millions," says Amazon. More than… Sarah Perez View comments
Apple "Untethered" iPhone Jailbreak Out Now The hacker coalition known as the iPhone Dev-Team has released a new jailbreak for iPhone 4, iPod Touch 4G and iPad users running - an updated version of redsn0w. What's so special about this update? It has, at long last, delivered the much-anticiapted "untethered" jailbreak which means that after jailbreaking your iPhone, you can reboot the device… Mobile Sarah Perez View comments
Google iPhone to Android: One Week with the Nexus S After 30 minutes of frantic searching, I found my iPhone. Under four inches of water. In a pond. Sunken deep into the sandy bottom. The story of how it got there isn't all that interesting - it involves chasing a squealing toddler running towards the water's edge - I never even heard the quiet sploosh at the time, when the phone slipped out of my… Mobile Sarah Perez View comments
Cartoons Cartoon: 140 Characters, Without Possibility of Parole As 2010 dies down, a lot of us are looking back over the past year. This cartoon was inspired - indirectly - by one of the year's less-reported stories: the collision between the informal, off-the-cuff culture of Twitter and the rigid world of law. That conflict runs the gamut from totalitarian regimes to liberal democracies: In China, Cheng… Play Rob Cottingham View comments
2010 in Review Top Trends of 2010: Privacy The rise of Facebook as a truly mainstream social network was a big story this year. An interesting question is, how much of Facebook's success was directly related to its loosening of privacy controls at the end of 2009? That move created both a backlash and a huge bump in users as 2010 unfolded. The issue of privacy has come to the fore again… Richard MacManus View comments