Is Apple About To Shuffle The Headphone Industry Again?
Is Apple (AAPL) in the process of reinventing the way mainstream headphones are designed for the second time this decade? — Ten years ago, I was the only guy on the train wearing earbuds. Thanks to...
Lithium breakthrough could charge batteries in 10 seconds
A new version of lithium battery technology can either provide a higher storage density than current batteries, or can charge and discharge as fast as a supercapacitor, emptying its entire charge in u...
Welcome to Your New Home Page
Last week, we shared our philosophy behind the new updates and changes on Facebook to give you a better understanding of why we make certain product decisions. We explained how we've been mapping out...
Worlds.com CEO: We're ‘Absolutely’ Going To Sue Second Life And World Of Warcraft
Worlds.com CEO Thom Kidrin is putting the entire virtual worlds industry on notice: His company claims the idea of a scalable virtual world with thousands of users is its patented intellectual propert...
Apple orders 10-inch touchscreens for mystery product
Adding fuel to rumors of a so-called “netbook” under development inside Apple, Reuters is now citing its own sources in saying the touchscreens ordered by the company measure 10 inches diagonally. — ...
Valley Exec Twitters Through Home Break-In
(See also: Jon Stewart On Twitter: “I Have No Idea How It Works, Or Why It Is") — A strange man broke into Revision3 COO David Prager's home last night. — Did David call the police? No, he update...
G1 “cupcake” update coming April
The news will mean users of the Android handset will get an onscreen keyboard as well as a host of other features to improve the performance of the handset launched last November.
EBay's PayPal envisions doubling in size by 2011
SAN JOSE, Calif. - EBay Inc.'s name may conjure images of online auctions, but the company is hoping to turn attention to its second-largest business — PayPal — which it expects to blossom significant...
Apple releases iTunes 8.1, Front Row Update 2.1.7
As anticipated, Apple on Wednesday evening delivered iTunes 8.1 with performance enhancements, support for CD imports to iTunes Plus, and new Genius features. Separately, the company also updated its...
Google Reader is your new watercooler
One of the things that we love best about Reader is the ability to easily share interesting items with your friends. In fact, we like it so much that we've been adding bunches of new sharing features...
Making ads more interesting
At Google, we believe that ads are a valuable source of information — one that can connect people to the advertisers offering products, services and ideas that interest them. By making ads more relev...
Privacy Groups Rip Google's Targeted Advertising Plan
Two online privacy groups slammed Google for launching a behavioral advertising program, with one advocate calling Google's plan a privacy “disaster.” — Google's proposal would bring user tracking t...
Zuckerberg gets poked off Forbes billionaire list
A while back we predicted that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was in danger of losing his title as the world's youngest billionaire due to the maddening ascent of teen diva Miley Cyrus. But, Forbes...
Google Checkout fees in 2009
When we launched Google Checkout in 2006, we set out to create a fast, secure online shopping experience for our users. Now in our third year of helping merchants increase sales and attract user inte...
Microsoft Releases Open Tools to Enhance Scientific Research Efforts Building on Science Commons Ontologies
Breakthrough collaboration helps researchers make easier connections on the Web. — The nuggets of information necessary for science to progress are often hard to find …
Truemors: The Rumor Is No Updates in a Month
Truemors is a place to share rumors that you hear. We reviewed the service when it launched nearly two years. Trumeors was started by very popular web personality Guy Kawasaki and was sold to NowPub...
Microsoft Unveils Its Developer Strategy for the Next Generation of Windows® Phones
Familiar tools, large worldwide customer base and transparent policies allow mobile developers to innovate and generate new revenue opportunities with Windows Mobile 6.5 and Windows Marketplace for Mo...
Can Media Take Tips from Twitter? Techmeme's Experience as Case Study
Can media organizations leverage the social web to get story tips faster than they could through traditional methods? A number of news aggregators believe so and are looking to Twitter for tips.
Comcast Now Third Largest Phone Company - Passes Qwest with explosive digital voice growth...
New Image Search Results for Android and iPhone
Today we launched a new Image Search results page for Android, iPhone, and iPod touch in the US, the UK, and Japan. — With the new Image Search results, you can easily scan up to 20 images on a sing...
Media Cloud Leverages Calais to Track News Trends
Media Cloud, a new project from the Berkman Center at Harvard University, has an ambitious goal: It will do the heavy lifting of analyzing stories from thousands of traditional news sources, analyzing...
Facebook Announces Advanced Ad Targeting Features
Today Facebook sent out a message to advertisers notifying them that there are two new features to target users with: language and target location radius. For example if you are searching for people ...
Making ads more interesting
At Google, we believe that ads are a valuable source of information — one that can connect people to the advertisers offering products, services and ideas that interest them. By making ads more relev...
Apple Announces Incredible New iPod shuffle
World's Smallest Music Player Now Talks to You — Apple® today introduced the all-new iPod® shuffle, the world's smallest music player at nearly half of the size of the previous model, and the first ...
Microsoft details app store plans
Microsoft on Wednesday is offering up more details on its would-be rival to the iPhone's app store. — The software maker said it will charge developers $99 a year, plus $99 for each application they...
Nokia latest releases set to hit the top of the charts
Espoo, Finland - Nokia today announced the arrival of new Nokia Music Stores, more Comes With Music launches and three new music devices. The Nokia 5730 XpressMusic, Nokia 5330 XpressMusic and Nokia ...
Apple orders 10-inch touchscreens for third quarter: source
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Apple will take third-quarter delivery of newly developed 10-inch touchscreens from Taiwan, a source said on Wednesday, amid talk the U.S. firm is developing a touchscreen PC.
Visits to Gmail surpass YouTube
For the past two weeks, the market share of US Internet visits to Gmail has been higher than visits to YouTube. Previously, YouTube consistently ranked 10th among all websites by market share of visi...
How Vista mistakes guided changes to Windows development
About a year ago on its Redmond, Washington, campus, a member of Microsoft's Windows Vista team met with a group of journalists to face some tough questions about the OS. — At the time, it was clear...
Nokia fights to hold on to smartphone dominance
Nokia is still by far the No. 1 mobile handset maker in the world, but as competition heats up in the smartphone market, Nokia has become increasingly vulnerable to smaller players such as Apple and R...
Apple ogles location-based iPhone ads
Patent app knows where you are — Free whitepaper - An improved architecture for high-efficiency, high-density data centers — Apple has filed for a patent on a location-based interface that can dis...
MySpace Upgrades Its Music Offerings
It's been six months since MySpace and the four major music labels unveiled their joint venture, MySpace Music, touting it as the premier Web destination to stream nearly every major-label song, free,...
Google Reprices 7.6 Million Employee Stock Options
Google has repriced 7.64 million stock options that had become less likely to enrich its employees given the sharp decline in the Internet search leader's market value during the past 16 months, The A...
Share on Ovi: Qik strengthens its ties with Nokia
It's easy to write off Nokia in the United States, because no one seems to have a mobile device made by the company. But it is still the largest handset maker in the world, and as such, it's a compan...
How Low Can PC Prices Go?
As consumers cut back and the popularity of low-cost netbooks grows, the computer industry could see a sharp drop in prices — When Jim Wahl bought his first computer back in 1995, it cost $2,500. I...
Web inventor warns against third-party internet snooping
Sir Tim Berners-Lee speaks out against collection of users' data by commercial companies — Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the world wide web, today warned MPs and peers that they should not all...
Zappos and Magnify Join Forces to Combine The Thrill Of Retail Therapy With Web 2.0 Video
Online footware and apparel retailer Zappos.com is partnering with video hosting and sharing platform Magnify.net to launch a “BoxBreak” campaign to engage the retailer's customers into building a vid...
Ready for take-off: the state of in-flight internet
Internet access at 35,000 feet is no longer next year's technology. Several dozen planes over the US have broadband over WiFi backed by satellite or ground cell stations, and hundreds more are coming...
Online photo services can give shutterbug lucrative outlet
Brown University medical student Nick Monu supplements his income by selling photographs online. — He uses the “stock” photography service iStockphoto.com, offering generic photos of people and plac...
Facebook Now Available in Arabic and Hebrew
. Ù' . — . . Ù' . — Ù' Ù' . . . . . "" “Ù'” "" . — We're making Facebook available in Arabic and Hebrew—two languages where writing begins at the right-hand side of the page and concludes on the...
The maps you made just got directions
Over the past few months, users have created rich and comprehensive maps in 164 countries around the world. Today with our newly launched feature on Google Map Maker, you can get driving directions i...
Q&A: California lawmaker wants to blur Google Earth
OK, it's California. So we are quite used to the rest of the country rolling their eyes in knowing exasperation at our fads. But often, they turn out to be harbingers of national trends. And so the...