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According to the Radio Advertising Bureau, radio advertising in the United States topped $16 billion in 2012. While it was much bigger before the expansion of cable television and the advent of digital, it’s still a thriving, profitable business. That said, the success of radio in the US is (and always has been) inextricably linked Continue Reading →

Last summer, Google announced a loan program for its backpack-like Street View Trekker cameras for organizations that want to help the company create imagery of interesting places. On Thursday, it launched the first collection of these images in cooperation with the Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau (HVCB). This is probably the ideal collection for all Continue Reading →

Vine on Thursday announced an update to its Rules and Terms of Service that prohibits explicit sexual content. The Twitter-owned app says the change will affect less than 1 percent of its users. “As we’ve watched the community and your creativity grow and evolve, we’ve found that there’s a very small percentage of videos that Continue Reading →

Microsoft finalized its upcoming Windows 8.1 Update recently, but the company appears to be sharing it a little early on Friday. While the software maker is expected to release the update officially in April, Microsoft has only detailed a few of the features in the update and has not yet provided an official release date. Continue Reading →

Service at restaurants can be decidedly slow. But for those of you who frequent Buffalo Wild Wings, relying on the waitstaff to place an order could soon be a thing of the past. The company has revealed that, after a successful pilot program, it’s going to put tablets on each one of its tables, with Continue Reading →

On Thursday, the developers of an app called LIVR began cold-calling tech writers. The pitch was fun! A social network you can only access when you’re drunk, thanks to a breathalyzer accessory. If it seems like the platonic ideal of SXSW catnip, that’s because it was engineered to be exactly that. LIVR is a hoax. Continue Reading →

Twitter, the microblogging service that held an initial public offering last year, paid $36 million to acquire 900 patents from IBM according to a filing. The agreement, which was was signed in December and announced in January without financial details, resolved a dispute that prompted IBM to write to Twitter about possible infringement of at Continue Reading →

Motorola on Friday announced it is offering yet another discount for the Moto X: students can now grab an off-contract device for just $339 (compared to $399 off-contract or $49 with a new two year contract). Furthermore, the Moto Maker customization tool now has a College Collection design gallery, featuring pre-configured color combinations as well Continue Reading →

Streaming-music service Beats Music is opening up some of its programming to outsiders, with the goal of proliferating the new $120-a-year subscription player in the broader online universe. “If you’re willing to pay $100 a year for music, which in my experience for all the world’s music is a tremendous bargain, you should have access Continue Reading →

This story just keeps getting weirder. As Dorian Nakamoto, the man fingered by Newsweek as Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious creator of bitcoin, was leading reporters around Los Angeles on a wild goose chase and giving his story to the AP, a message appeared on an Internet message board, which simply said “I am not Dorian Continue Reading →