The iTunes Store appears to be suffering downtime and other issues today. The service is at best slow, at worst not loading for some and delivering error messages for others.
It’s rare for Apple’s media store — which recently celebrated an amazing 10 billion downloads— to suffer from technical difficulties, but it seems it has fallen [...]
MashBash SXSWi 2010, Mashable’s annual event at the SXSW festival in Austin, is less than 1 week away! Here’s a checklist for those wishing to attend:
1. RSVP on Eventbrite and the Facebook event page so your friends know you’re coming.
2. Add yourself to Austin Realtime, our growing directory of attendees and their social [...]
Our full review of the Motorola Backflip should be up in a few days, but a few words of wisdom in the mean time: Don’t buy it. Between its crazy form-factor and the hidden trackpad tucked on the back of the display, everything we took as merits at face value have devolved into novelties.
Worst of [...]
What do you get when you mix a Unicorn and a Nexus One? I’ve got no idea - but if you put an iPhone and Furby together, you get a Xachi pet. Announced last week at the American International Toy Fair, a Xachi (pronounced “ZAH-chee”) Pet is an iPhone-controlled toy. It looks kind of like [...]
Read more »Tilera, a company that develops multicore processors, has raised $25 million in series C funding from Broadcom Corporation, Quanta Computers and NTT Financing. This brings Tilera’s total funding to $64 million
Tilera says the funding will be used to expand sales operations and for product development. Founded in 2004, Tilera designs multicore embedded processors for [...]
The marriage of brand advertising and free content is facing peremptory annulment. There is no shortage of punditry around “the death of the media company” and whether it is a just dessert or a societal travesty. But that’s looking at it from the media company and consumer viewpoint – what do advertisers think [...]
Read more »As has been made abundantly clear to me over the past two weeks, just about every location-based service is planning big things for the SXSW festival, which starts later this week in Austin, Texas. A few of the players have already started rolling out small changes, such as aesthetic upgrades. But a new, subtle update [...]
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