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22 Nov 09
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A Friend's Tweet Could Be an Ad (Brad Stone/New York Times) Brad Stone / New York Times:
A Friend's Tweet Could Be an Ad — Tuesday was another typical day for John Chow, blogger and Internet entrepreneur in Vancouver, British Columbia. Mr. Chow treated his 50,000 Twitter followers to a... |
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22 Nov 09
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Apple to release iPod Touch with camera this Spring? (Examiner) Examiner:
Apple to release iPod Touch with camera this Spring? — We have heard from an inside source who claims the camera version of the iPod Touch 3G will be released this Spring. The source confirms to us that the iPod Touch 3G... |
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22 Nov 09
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Twitter.com traffic down? Seesmic.com is +30%/month (Loic Le Meur Blog) Loic Le Meur Blog:
Twitter.com traffic down? Seesmic.com is +30%/month — There are many reports that the traffic from Twitter.com would be going down. We see the opposite on the app side, at least for Seesmic. Seesmic... |
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21 Nov 09
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Oracle $7.4 Billion Sun Takeover May Be Blocked by EU on Competition Issue (Matthew Newman/Bloomberg) Matthew Newman / Bloomberg:
Oracle $7.4 Billion Sun Takeover May Be Blocked by EU on Competition Issue — Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) — Oracle Corp.'s planned $7.4 billion purchase of Sun Microsystems Inc. may be blocked by European Union... |
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21 Nov 09
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Video Demonstrates Wired's Concept iTablet App (Brian X. Chen/Gadget Lab) Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
Video Demonstrates Wired's Concept iTablet App — Who takes Apple's rumored touchscreen tablet seriously? Wired's parent company Condé Nast. Earlier this week, the corporation revealed its... |
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21 Nov 09
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Boycott Microsoft Bing (Nicholas Kristof/Nicholas D. Kristof) Nicholas Kristof / Nicholas D. Kristof:
Boycott Microsoft Bing — Critics have accused President Obama of kowtowing to Chinese leaders, by failing to meet dissidents, toning down his criticisms and delaying a meeting with the Dalai... |
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21 Nov 09
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Smoking Near Apple Computers Creates Biohazard, Voids Warranty (Laura Northrup/Consumerist) Laura Northrup / Consumerist:
Smoking Near Apple Computers Creates Biohazard, Voids Warranty — Unless you've just arrived in 2009 on a time machine, you know that smoking isn't good for you. Did you know, that smoking isn't good... |
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21 Nov 09
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Gmail Creator Thinks Email Will Last Forever. And Hasn't Tried Google Wave. (MG Siegler/TechCrunch) MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Gmail Creator Thinks Email Will Last Forever. And Hasn't Tried Google Wave. — “Email is not going to disappear. Possibly ever. Until the robots kill us all.” - Paul Buchheit,... |
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20 Nov 09
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YouTube pulls a Hulu - yanking API access from Popcorn Hour ... (Richard Lawler/Engadget) Richard Lawler / Engadget:
YouTube pulls a Hulu — yanking API access from Popcorn Hour (Update: Google responds) — Hope you weren't enjoying watching YouTube on the television screen via Popcorn Hour and other set-top boxes, as... |
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20 Nov 09
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Hot Potato Organizes The Stream Around What's Really Happening Now (Erick Schonfeld/TechCrunch) Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Hot Potato Organizes The Stream Around What's Really Happening Now — Yesterday, Twitter changed its organizing question from “What Are You Doing?” to “What's Happening?” But if... |
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20 Nov 09
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Google Chrome OS available as free VMWare download (update: first impressions) (Vladislav Savov/Engadget) Vladislav Savov / Engadget:
Google Chrome OS available as free VMWare download (update: first impressions) — Seriously, how awesome have the past few hours been? Engadget turns the design stakes up to 11, Google finally dishes the... |
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20 Nov 09
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Gameloft says it, others reining in Android plans (Tarmo Virki/Reuters) Tarmo Virki / Reuters:
Gameloft says it, others reining in Android plans — BARCELONA (Reuters) - French mobile phone games company Gameloft said it and other software developers were cutting back investment in developing games and other... |
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20 Nov 09
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Seesmic Ventures Into Mobile With Powerful New Apps For Android And BlackBerry (Leena Rao/TechCrunch) Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Seesmic Ventures Into Mobile With Powerful New Apps For Android And BlackBerry — Seesmic is having a huge week. The startup that develops Twitter and Facebook clients for the web and desktop just unveiled a... |
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20 Nov 09
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Barnes & Noble's Nook Sold Out for the Holidays (Brad Stone/Bits) Brad Stone / Bits:
Barnes & Noble's Nook Sold Out for the Holidays — It's shaping up to a be very merry holiday season for Amazon.com's Kindle e-reader. — Earlier this week, we reported that Sony could not guarantee... |
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20 Nov 09
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Live Images of the New 3G BlackBerry Pearl 9100!! (Kevin Michaluk/CrackBerry.com blogs) Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com blogs:
Live Images of the New 3G BlackBerry Pearl 9100!! — First Live Photos of the new BlackBerry Pearl 9100!! — OoohHHH BaBy!! Any BlackBerry Pearl fans out there? I know... |
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20 Nov 09
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Brizzly Opens To All. And Snatches Someone From Facebook. (MG Siegler/TechCrunch) MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Brizzly Opens To All. And Snatches Someone From Facebook. — Brizzly was first unveiled in private beta at our first CrunchUp event in July, so it's only appropriate that today, the day of our next CrunchUp,... |
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20 Nov 09
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Depressed woman loses benefits over Facebook photos (CBC News) CBC News:
Depressed woman loses benefits over Facebook photos — A Quebec woman on long-term sick leave is fighting to have her benefits reinstated after her employer's insurance company cut them, she says, because of photos posted on... |
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20 Nov 09
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Why Chrome OS will fail - big time (Randall C. Kennedy/InfoWorld) Randall C. Kennedy / InfoWorld:
Why Chrome OS will fail — big time — A lack of flexibility will doom Google's latest ego trip to the dustbin of history — The Chrome OS is here — sort of. This week,... |
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20 Nov 09
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Ballmer: Windows 7 selling like hotcakes (Ina Fried/CNET News) Ina Fried / CNET News:
Ballmer: Windows 7 selling like hotcakes — Windows 7 isn't just getting good reviews, it's also selling well, CEO Steve Ballmer told shareholders Thursday. — Delivering opening remarks at... |
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20 Nov 09
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Can the Advertising Offers Business Find Redemption In Social Networks? (Eric Eldon/Inside Facebook) Eric Eldon / Inside Facebook:
Can the Advertising Offers Business Find Redemption In Social Networks? — The entire social gaming industry has been criticized in recent weeks for running deceptive advertising offers. But how bad has... |
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20 Nov 09
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What Twitter's New Geolocation Makes Possible (Marshall Kirkpatrick/ReadWriteWeb) Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
What Twitter's New Geolocation Makes Possible — Twitter turned on its long-awaited Geolocation API today, meaning that users can opt-in to having their messages annotated with their exact... |
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20 Nov 09
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Jobs to The Little App Factory: Name change "Not that big of a deal" (Daniel Brusilovsky/CrunchGear) Daniel Brusilovsky / CrunchGear:
Jobs to The Little App Factory: Name change “Not that big of a deal” — The Little App Factory seems to have a big problem on their hands. The company received a letter from Baker &... |
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20 Nov 09
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Facebook Named in Federal Class-Action Suit over Scammy Zynga Ads (Ryan Tate/valleywag - Gawker) Ryan Tate / valleywag - Gawker:
Facebook Named in Federal Class-Action Suit over Scammy Zynga Ads — Facebook and Zynga are the defendants in a federal class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday, which seeks upwards of $5 million for social... |
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20 Nov 09
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Want To Try Out Google Chrome OS For Yourself? Here's How. (Jason Kincaid/TechCrunch) Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Want To Try Out Google Chrome OS For Yourself? Here's How. — The public debut of Google Chrome OS today has the press abuzz over the potential of the new web-based operating system. And now that... |
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20 Nov 09
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Apple's Mistake - I don't think Apple realizes how badly ... (Paul Graham) Paul Graham:
Apple's Mistake — I don't think Apple realizes how badly the App Store approval process is broken. Or rather, I don't think they realize how much it matters that it's broken. The way Apple runs the App Store has... |
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20 Nov 09
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Breaking: eBay Completes Skype Sale At $2.75 Billion Valuation (Robin Wauters/TechCrunch) Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Breaking: eBay Completes Skype Sale At $2.75 Billion Valuation — eBay has just announced that it has completed the sale of Skype, valuing the company at $2.75 billion. The investor consortium who is the... |
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20 Nov 09
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Sony Unveils Its Answer to Apple's iTunes (Kenji Hall/Business Week) Kenji Hall / Business Week:
Sony Unveils Its Answer to Apple's iTunes — The tech giant will launch an online store selling music, movies, books, and other downloadable applications for mobile products — Sony (SNE) is... |
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20 Nov 09
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Facebook Common Stock Valuation Jumps 42% to $9.5 Billion (Brian Womack/Bloomberg) Brian Womack / Bloomberg:
Facebook Common Stock Valuation Jumps 42% to $9.5 Billion — Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) — The price of Facebook Inc. stock on exchanges for private companies has jumped as much as 42 percent in the past four... |
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20 Nov 09
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Everything You Need To Know About Chrome OS (John Herrman/Gizmodo) John Herrman / Gizmodo:
Everything You Need To Know About Chrome OS — Until today, Google's Chrome OS has been little more than a wordy concept. Now, finally, we truly know what it is, what it looks like, and how it works. ... |
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20 Nov 09
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New Google News for mobile (Google Mobile Blog) Google Mobile Blog:
New Google News for mobile — At Google, we are committed to giving you a consistent user experience across products and devices, and we really value the feedback you've given us about Google News for mobile. ... |
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19 Nov 09
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SITE NEWS: Droid, iPhone, and Pre: meet the new Techmeme Mobile Today we're introducing Techmeme Mobile, a new mobile version of Techmeme optimized for popular smartphones. Techmeme Mobile loads much faster on phones thanks to a sparser page format in which tabs and "Discussion" links load on demand. In addition,... |
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19 Nov 09
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Droid, iPhone, and Pre: meet the new Techmeme Mobile (Gabe Rivera/Techmeme News) Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News:
Droid, iPhone, and Pre: meet the new Techmeme Mobile — Today we're introducing Techmeme Mobile, a new mobile version of Techmeme optimized for popular smartphones. Techmeme Mobile loads much faster on... |
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19 Nov 09
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Foursquare Goes Global With Launch in 50 New Cities (Jennifer Van Grove/Mashable!) Jennifer Van Grove / Mashable!:
Foursquare Goes Global With Launch in 50 New Cities — Right on the heels of Foursquare's API release, the location-based mobile application and game is announcing another big rollout to cities across the... |
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19 Nov 09
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What's Happening? - Twitter was originally conceived ... (Biz/Twitter Blog) Biz / Twitter Blog:
What's Happening? — Twitter was originally conceived as a mobile status update service—an easy way to keep in touch with people in your life by sending and receiving short, frequent answers to one question,... |
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19 Nov 09
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Google ChromeOS: It's basically a modified browser that runs web apps (Brad Linder/Download Squad) Brad Linder / Download Squad:
Google ChromeOS: It's basically a modified browser that runs web apps — Google is holding a press event to talk about the upcoming Google Chrome Operating System. The company is not ready to release... |
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19 Nov 09
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Google to Offer Live Webcast of Google Chrome OS Update (Google) Google:
Google to Offer Live Webcast of Google Chrome OS Update — What: Live webcast of Google's update on Google Chrome OS, held at its Mountain View, Calif. headquarters. — Why: Google to offer an update on Google... |
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19 Nov 09
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Releasing the Chromium OS open source project (The Official Google Blog) The Official Google Blog:
Releasing the Chromium OS open source project — In July we announced that we were working on Google Chrome OS, an open source operating system for people who spend most of their time on the web. ... |
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19 Nov 09
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ChromeOS Source Code - Where To Download (Alex Wilhelm/The Next Web Appetite) Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web Appetite:
ChromeOS Source Code - Where To Download — Matt Cutts from Google, has made it known that the Chrome OS source code is online, ahead of the planned demonstration this morning. The code, has... |
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19 Nov 09
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AOL: We Need to Fire 2,500 "Volunteers" (Peter Kafka/MediaMemo) Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
AOL: We Need to Fire 2,500 “Volunteers” — AOL, which has already told investors it will spend up to $200 million firing a good chunk of its staff, has now told employees. The company is looking... |
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19 Nov 09
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The Apple Tablet Is Dead (Ian Paul/PC World) Ian Paul / PC World:
The Apple Tablet Is Dead — Apple tablet rumors started verging into the ridiculous Thursday morning with reports that Apple has pushed back the project's launch date yet again. Those same sources are saying... |
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19 Nov 09
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Airline passengers face chaos across US as flight plan system fails (Associated Press) Associated Press:
Airline passengers face chaos across US as flight plan system fails — Dozens of services delayed or cancelled, but assurances given over safety — A problem with the system that collects airlines'... |
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19 Nov 09
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Automatic captions in YouTube (Ken Harrenstien/The Official Google Blog) Ken Harrenstien / The Official Google Blog:
Automatic captions in YouTube — Since we first announced captions in Google Video and YouTube, we've introduced multiple caption tracks, improved search functionality and even automatic... |
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19 Nov 09
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AOL Also Likely to Eye Sale of MapQuest-Is Microsoft a Possible Buyer? (Kara Swisher/BoomTown) Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
AOL Also Likely to Eye Sale of MapQuest-Is Microsoft a Possible Buyer? — Yesterday, BoomTown wrote about AOL's efforts-including hiring investment bankers-to sell its ICQ instant-messaging unit. ... |
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19 Nov 09
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The OS Opportunity - A few weeks ago, in a piece here titled ... (John Gruber/Daring Fireball) John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
The OS Opportunity — A few weeks ago, in a piece here titled “Herd Mentality”, I argued that PC makers who want to succeed should create their own OSes: … Hardware and software both... |
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19 Nov 09
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Apple tablet PC reportedly delayed until 2H10, with OLED model now included (Max Wang/DigiTimes) Max Wang / DigiTimes:
Apple tablet PC reportedly delayed until 2H10, with OLED model now included — Apple reportedly plans to postpone the launch of its tablet PC from an original March launch schedule to the second half of 2010, as the... |
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19 Nov 09
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Livescribe pen gets an app store (Ina Fried/CNET News) Ina Fried / CNET News:
Livescribe pen gets an app store — It took a little bit longer than the company had hoped, but the Livescribe digital pen now has its own app store. — The store, which requires pen owners to... |
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19 Nov 09
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Dash to D.C.! Tech Guru Will Head Gov't Incubator, Digitize Democracy (Gillian Reagan/New York Observer) Gillian Reagan / New York Observer:
Dash to D.C.! Tech Guru Will Head Gov't Incubator, Digitize Democracy — Last February, Anil Dash; the co-founder and “chief evangelist” for Six Apart, the company that creates the... |
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19 Nov 09
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Next-gen Flip camcorder to boast Wi-Fi (Stuart Miles/Pocket-lint.com) Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint.com:
Next-gen Flip camcorder to boast Wi-Fi — EXCLUSIVE: Cisco buy-out sees networking functionality added to popular range — Cisco will launch a new Wi-Fi-enabled Flip digital camcorder to go... |
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19 Nov 09
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AT&T 'hits' back at Verizon's Map for That campaign with an 'ad' of its own (Paul Miller/Engadget) Paul Miller / Engadget:
AT&T ‘hits’ back at Verizon's Map for That campaign with an ‘ad’ of its own — Boy, AT&T sure isn't taking Verizon's Map for That campaign too well. After losing a request for... |
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19 Nov 09
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5 Reasons Why Google Should Not Sell Handsets (David Coursey/PC World) David Coursey / PC World:
5 Reasons Why Google Should Not Sell Handsets — Rumors are once again swirling around the idea that a Google-branded “Superphone” will hit the market next year. How stupid do these people think... |
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