Jenna Wortham Nyt News Service

At a press conference in downtown Manhattan on Tuesday, executives from AT&T and Research In Motion, makers of the BlackBerry line of smartphones, introduced the BlackBerry Torch, the company's first phone with both a touch screen and a slide-out keyboard."Today,...

DailyCandy, an online newsletter, keep its subscribers in the local loop on everything from new boutiques to the latest trendy food truck coming to their city. But until now, that insider information has  been delivered only via e-mail to their...

Facebook introduced a long-anticipated service called Places on Wednesday that could help the company tap local and small-business advertisers and sharpen its competition with Google. Facebook's Places borrows heavily from location-based social networks like Foursquare and Gowalla, which allow users...

Moments after Facebook introduced a new feature called Facebook Places on Wednesday that allows its users to share their location and find their friends, advocates raised flags over online privacy.The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California cited concerns over...

Moments after Facebook introduced a new feature called Facebook Places on Wednesday that allows its users to share their location and find their friends, advocates raised flags over online privacy.The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California cited concerns over the new product, saying Facebook neglected to include several crucial priva...

Facebook introduced a long-anticipated service called Places on Wednesday that could help the company tap local and small-business advertisers and sharpen its competition with Google. Facebook's Places borrows heavily from location-based social networks like Foursquare and Gowalla, which allow users to check in at places and broadcast their locatio...

DailyCandy, an online newsletter, keep its subscribers in the local loop on everything from new boutiques to the latest trendy food truck coming to their city. But until now, that insider information has  been delivered only via e-mail to their inboxes.On Thursday, the company is introducing a new application for the mobile phone called...

At a press conference in downtown Manhattan on Tuesday, executives from AT&T and Research In Motion, makers of the BlackBerry line of smartphones, introduced the BlackBerry Torch, the company's first phone with both a touch screen and a slide-out keyboard."Today, AT&T and R.I.M. are introducing the best BlackBerry device ever," said Ralph d...

By now, plenty of traditional media companies have hopped on the social media bandwagon, pumping out news updates on Facebook and Twitter. But do those companies have the time and resources to work yet another Web outlet into their daily routine?Mark Coatney certainly hopes so. Mr. Coatney, a 43-year-old journalist, is the latest hire at Tumblr, a ...

After college, most people do their best to avoid having to pull any more all-nighters. But for some, even after graduation, the wee hours of the morning are the most productive. That is what led Amber Lambke and Allan Grinshtein to start a group called the New York Nightowls, a sort of study hall for entrepreneurs, freelancers and software develop...

Facebook, the social network created in the dormitories of Harvard six years ago, said on Wednesday that it now had 500 million members.The company has grown at a meteoric pace, doubling in size from a year ago and pushing international competitors aside.Each month, Facebook says, more than 30 billion photographs, links to Web sites and news articl...

Courtney Purvin got a shock when she visited Facebook last month. The site was suggesting that she get back in touch with an old family friend who played piano at her wedding four years ago. The friend had died in April.

The combination of the biggest cellphone carrier in the United States and Apple's smash-hit phone would certainly be a powerful one. And it would be a major challenge to AT&T, which has been the exclusive carrier for the phone since its debut in 2007.But Verizon could decide that it does not actually need the iPhone, thanks to its deepening tie...

Back in the 1990s, typing out "hello" on most cellphones required an exhausting 13 taps on the number keys, like so: 44-33-555-555-666.That was before the inventor Cliff Kushler, based here in Seattle, and a partner created software called T9, which could bring that number down to three by guessing the word being typed. Now there is a new challenge...

Apple said on Wednesday that it and its partners took more than 6,00,000 orders on Tuesday for its new iPhone 4, which will be released next week. AT&T, its wireless partner in the United States, said it was suspending preorders for the phone."It was the largest number of preorders Apple has ever taken in a single day and was far higher than we...

At a press conference in downtown Manhattan on Tuesday, executives from AT&T and Research In Motion, makers of the BlackBerry line of smartphones, introduced the BlackBerry Torch, the company's first phone with both a touch screen and a slide-out keyboard."Today,...

DailyCandy, an online newsletter, keep its subscribers in the local loop on everything from new boutiques to the latest trendy food truck coming to their city. But until now, that insider information has  been delivered only via e-mail to their...

Facebook introduced a long-anticipated service called Places on Wednesday that could help the company tap local and small-business advertisers and sharpen its competition with Google. Facebook's Places borrows heavily from location-based social networks like Foursquare and Gowalla, which allow users...

Moments after Facebook introduced a new feature called Facebook Places on Wednesday that allows its users to share their location and find their friends, advocates raised flags over online privacy.The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California cited concerns over...

Moments after Facebook introduced a new feature called Facebook Places on Wednesday that allows its users to share their location and find their friends, advocates raised flags over online privacy.The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California cited concerns over the new product, saying Facebook neglected to include several crucial priva...

Facebook introduced a long-anticipated service called Places on Wednesday that could help the company tap local and small-business advertisers and sharpen its competition with Google. Facebook's Places borrows heavily from location-based social networks like Foursquare and Gowalla, which allow users to check in at places and broadcast their locatio...

DailyCandy, an online newsletter, keep its subscribers in the local loop on everything from new boutiques to the latest trendy food truck coming to their city. But until now, that insider information has  been delivered only via e-mail to their inboxes.On Thursday, the company is introducing a new application for the mobile phone called...

At a press conference in downtown Manhattan on Tuesday, executives from AT&T and Research In Motion, makers of the BlackBerry line of smartphones, introduced the BlackBerry Torch, the company's first phone with both a touch screen and a slide-out keyboard."Today, AT&T and R.I.M. are introducing the best BlackBerry device ever," said Ralph d...

By now, plenty of traditional media companies have hopped on the social media bandwagon, pumping out news updates on Facebook and Twitter. But do those companies have the time and resources to work yet another Web outlet into their daily routine?Mark Coatney certainly hopes so. Mr. Coatney, a 43-year-old journalist, is the latest hire at Tumblr, a ...

After college, most people do their best to avoid having to pull any more all-nighters. But for some, even after graduation, the wee hours of the morning are the most productive. That is what led Amber Lambke and Allan Grinshtein to start a group called the New York Nightowls, a sort of study hall for entrepreneurs, freelancers and software develop...

Facebook, the social network created in the dormitories of Harvard six years ago, said on Wednesday that it now had 500 million members.The company has grown at a meteoric pace, doubling in size from a year ago and pushing international competitors aside.Each month, Facebook says, more than 30 billion photographs, links to Web sites and news articl...

Courtney Purvin got a shock when she visited Facebook last month. The site was suggesting that she get back in touch with an old family friend who played piano at her wedding four years ago. The friend had died in April.

The combination of the biggest cellphone carrier in the United States and Apple's smash-hit phone would certainly be a powerful one. And it would be a major challenge to AT&T, which has been the exclusive carrier for the phone since its debut in 2007.But Verizon could decide that it does not actually need the iPhone, thanks to its deepening tie...

Back in the 1990s, typing out "hello" on most cellphones required an exhausting 13 taps on the number keys, like so: 44-33-555-555-666.That was before the inventor Cliff Kushler, based here in Seattle, and a partner created software called T9, which could bring that number down to three by guessing the word being typed. Now there is a new challenge...

Apple said on Wednesday that it and its partners took more than 6,00,000 orders on Tuesday for its new iPhone 4, which will be released next week. AT&T, its wireless partner in the United States, said it was suspending preorders for the phone."It was the largest number of preorders Apple has ever taken in a single day and was far higher than we...