Now Microsoft’s Director of Consumer and Online in the UK predicts that the same turmoil is going to hit the television industry in the next few years. And unless the TV business “aggressively move its content online” and builds “a critical mass of content that the traditional buyers of airtime will understand and buy into,” [...]

Amazon has launched a new endeavor that integrates traditional IT infrastructure with its EC2 cloud service. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud allows IT to connect to an isolated set of AWS resources to a datacenter using a VPN connection. Minus all the acronyms, that means that Amazon has created a hybrid cloud that can work securely [...]

The Apple iPhone App Store has been a lightning rod for criticism and controversy: a race to the bottom for app prices, FCC investigations, and strange app bannings just to start. It’s gotten so bad that Apple VP Phil Schiller has been doing damage control. Now an important figure has entered the debate: the developer [...]

We know Steve Jobs is back working as Apple’s CEO. We also are fairly confident that the company plans to launch an Apple Tablet device soon, although likely not at an upcoming event in early September. And now, we have one of the more concrete reports to-date about the importance of the device to Apple… [...]

There seems to be a growing belief in Hollywood that Twitter is becoming an increasingly important component of box office success. The so-called “Twitter effect” either sees a movie’s opening weekend numbers increase or decrease on Saturday and Sunday based on the 140 character reviews coming out from early viewers on Fridays. The Twitter effect [...]

What if Twitter only had 100 users? How many would be chatty, how many lazy? Based on the data from previous surveys – InsideTwitter and the PearAnalytics study – the InformationIsBeautiful blog has constructed these gorgeous graphics showing the Twitter community represented as 100 people… Tweet This Post

As much as we love to experience Twitter through desktop apps like TweetDeck and Seesmic and mobile apps like UberTwitter and Twitterrific, it’s still Twitter’s web interface that dominates in terms of overall popularity. A study published this week by Rapleaf looked at the most recent 20 tweets from 4 million different Twitter users, and [...]

From blogger unmaskings to social media bans, it’s been an interesting week in the social realm.We also brought you a wealth of resources to help you do more online, from spicing up your GMail signature to combating annoying Facebook notifications. Without further ado, here are the top 10 social media stories this week. Tweet This [...]