$2.99 Minimum Paid App Price at BlackBerry App World!
WOAHHHHHH... Hold your Horses! After RIM updated their BlackBerry App World website tonight, they also updated their Developer FAQ which now includes a chart that details the pricing tiers for apps. ...
Samsung's Nano-powered Q1EX UMPC loses its QWERTY, gains 4.5-hour battery at the FCC
Meet the latest iteration of the Samsung Q1 handheld: the NP-Q1EX. First spotted at CES in January, Sammy's going back to its UMPC roots by ditching the split QWERTY in favor of a clean …
Google's Schmidt: I Didn't Diss Twitter
Eric Schmidt explained on CNBC tonight that he didn't mean to insult Twitter when he said it was a poor-man's email system. What he meant, he says, was that people are going to want to use all their ...
FACEBOOK BLINKS, COPIES TWITTER, STILL GETS IT WRONG.
From the Facebook Blog comes the admission that they are having to change their model and copy Twitter: … Translation - we're copying Twitter's real time stream. … Translation: By 2009 it was clear no...
Exclusive: First Real Photos of the BlackBerry 9630!
FINALLY!!!!! What you're looking at above are the first real photos of the BlackBerry “Niagara” 9630. As you can see, this CDMA full-QWERTY BlackBerry is looking sweet and very much has the appearan...
It's Time To Start Thinking Of Twitter As A Search Engine
At a dinner tonight with a friend the conversation turned to Twitter. He just didn't get it, and he's certainly not the first person to tell me that. Specifically, my friend didn't understand the ma...
D.C. Tech Chief Headed For White House Slot
President Obama plans to announce today that Vivek Kundra, chief technology officer for the District, will be the federal chief information officer, according to two administration officials. — It's...
Twitter - The New Parasite Host on the Block
I hate twitter. But as long as twitter pages continue to rank in Google for everything under the sun, you're a fool if you're not using twitter accounts for parasite hosting. — For you new kids, pa...
User info stolen from music site
The music streaming service Spotify has been targeted by hackers. — The Swedish company says people's personal details, including e-mail addresses, dates of birth and billing addresses, were all sto...
Sky News realises news breaks first on Twitter, not TV - Creates a Twitter Correspondent
TechCrunch has been saying for a long time - at least since November last year - that Twitter is an emerging source of news. Recent tragic events have only served to emphasise this.
Game Over for GameStop?
GameStop (NYSE: GME) probably doesn't see Toys “R” Us as much of a competitor in video game retailing, but that is about to change. — Toys “R” Us is starting to buy and resell used games in a few te...
Twitter Has Potential Buyers Atwitter
As the microblogging service explodes in popularity, the suitors are lining up. Facebook has already made a play—others will likely follow — The microblogging service Twitter has caught on with eve...
Amazon's Apple Deal: Kindle Cannibal?
Customers may have less incentive to buy a Kindle, now that they can download e-books onto the iPhones and iPods they already own — A new tool that lets consumers download digital books onto Apple d...
Windows 7 on the HTC Shift
There have been two activities that have become the norm across the world of technology blogging in the last couple of years: unboxing, and loading Mac OS X onto netbooks. As a person who is lucky en...
Global Warming May Get Its Very Own Top Level Domain
I'm deadpooling this .ECO top level domain right now. Not because it's global warming/eco related, there's plenty of money being thrown around to support just about every crazy green idea out there. ...
Shazam looks for ways to get more people to share music
If you've seen an iPhone commercial on TV, you've probably also seen Shazam. If you hold your handset in the air while music is playing, the application tries to identify the song for you. — Althou...
Seen In the Wild
I was reading a piece on Venturebeat, on Kutano. And this ad was at the bottom. — This is an ad? — Yep. Innaresting. Four years ago (God, yes, I've been writing for more than that, er, ummm.......
Tipping points
Ideas are everywhere, but how do we know which ones actually work? At Google, we put a lot of stock in both the wisdom of crowds — the idea that lots of people responding to a given question can coll...
Bulk Data Downloads: A Breakthrough in Government Transparency
As those of you who follow my tweets know, I spent last week out in Washington, D.C. meeting with various folks, attending Transparency Camp, and giving a couple of talks. One of the more interesting...
Microsoft Windows on a mainframe?
Mantissa software supports Windows on IBM System z mainframes — Software that for the first time lets users run native copies of the Windows operating systems on a mainframe will be introduced Frida...
Offbeat Name? Then Facebook's No Friend
What Caitlin wanted did not seem that hard. She had signed up for Facebook after she married, as Caitlin Shaw. Now, to make it easier for old friends to find her, she wanted to add her maiden name. ...
Lamond Not Telling Whole Story, Say Sources
Pierre Lamond, the legendarily successful Sequoia Capital partner, caused tongues to wag earlier this week when he abruptly announced that he was leaving the firm to join Khosla Ventures, just down th...
The Browser Platform Wars
I was chatting recently with the founder of a high-profile startup that is making strategic use of Mozilla technology. “People keep telling me that WebKit is the future,” he complained. “Have we mad...
Twitter Begins Rolling Out Search and Trends
Twitter appears to be in the process of rolling out its integrated search feature with a search box and a trends button appearing on some user profiles today. While the feature is not yet available t...