Google ‘faces Street View block’
Google's plans to launch a mapping tool in the UK could be referred to the Information Commissioner. — Street View matches photos of locations to maps, including passers-by who were captured as the ...
iPhone 3G lines start at the Apple Cube... one week early
So we heard some really over-eager folks have decided to get a jump on the iPhone 3G line — a really, really big jump. Obviously, we had to head down and see if it was true... and it is. Right now, ...
Announcing: New Google C++ Testing Framework
We all know the importance of writing automated tests to cover our code. To make it easier for everyone to write good C++ tests, today we have open-sourced Google C++ Testing Framework (Google Test f...
On Day Care, Google Makes a Rare Fumble
Two months ago, Google held a series of secret focus groups with employees who have children in Google's day care facilities. The purpose was to gauge their reaction to the company's plan to raise th...
Matias Duarte, designer behind Sidekick and Helio, now developing Palm's next-gen UI
So we heard from a very reliable source that mobile user interface guru Matias Duarte — who you may know as the man behind the Sidekick and Helio UI / user experiences — actually left Helio late last ...
BSA slams EC's ‘narrow-minded’ interoperability vision
EIF 2.0 draft ruffles some proprietary software feathers — An open standards row is brewing between the EC and a lobbying group for software multinationals over a proposed European framework on inte...
Merchants angry over getting yanked by Yelp
Four years ago, Geri Rebstock started using Yelp, a popular site for consumers to review local businesses and services. She critiqued her favorite veterinarian, a neighborhood print shop and an acupu...
eBay Australia ditches PayPal scheme
eBay Australia has given up on its attempt to force virtually all payments through its subsidiary PayPal. — The move proved hugely unpopular with users and had to be put on hold while it was investi...
I Can Has Cheezburger CEO allergic to cats
Consider this: Ben Huh runs a site that takes submissions of stupid cat pictures with pidgin English captions written across them. That site, I Can Has Cheezburger, pulls about 2.2 million pageviews ...
What's in the Works at Strike.TV
Looking for more details on Strike.TV, the network of 40-plus online video series from the Hollywood pros? We're not sure exactly what's happening tomorrow, the supposed launch date, but we dug up so...
Finally, A Windows Mobile Facebook App!
For users of the Windows Mobile platform, visiting Facebook while on the go meant loading up the mobile web page in their device's browser. Meanwhile, Blackberry users have had their own downloadable...
Iran Now to Kill Bloggers - Follow That, China!
In its never-ending pursuit of complete elimination of dissent, Iran is introducing a law to murder bloggers. Cyrus Farivar, preparing an story of The World radio program, sent us a note with a link ...
YouTube ordered to reveal its viewers
NEW YORK (AP) — Dismissing privacy concerns, a federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the popular online video-sharing service to disclose who...
The Problem With Identi.ca Is That It Is Not Twitter
The launch of Twitter clone Identi.ca earlier this week caused a bit of a blogstorm because it appears to have a solution to Twitter's all-too-regular downtime. (That problem has reached comical prop...