Analysis: Which URL Shortening Service Should You Use?
URL shortening services are experiencing a renaissance in the age of Twitter. When every character counts, these services reduce long URLs to tiny forms. But which is the best to use, when so many a...
The iPhone Gold Rush
IS there a good way to nail down a steady income? In this economy? — Try writing a successful program for the iPhone. — Last August, Ethan Nicholas and his wife, Nicole, were having trouble makin...
New Palm Pre apps underscore Apple's iPhone limitations
While third-party apps are being trumpeted as the iPhone's strength, key Palm Pre demos this week were designed to highlight their restrictions by taking advantage of those precise things that Apple w...
Google's Plan for Out-of-Print Books Is Challenged
SAN FRANCISCO — The dusty stacks of the nation's great university and research libraries are full of orphans — books that the author and publisher have essentially abandoned. They are out of print, a...
DiggBar Digs up Bitter Nostalgia Among Critics
Digg's new URL-shortening feature is aggregating as much controversy for the popular web site as it is traffic. — Critics are taking aim at the structure of DiggBar — a toolbar appearing at the top ...
The VC walking dead: Extended edition
[Update: Warburg Pincus LLC has been taken off the list of the walking dead. The data did not reflect the $15 billion fund it closed last April.] — A couple weeks ago, Dan Primack of PE Hub blogged...
Portable Ubuntu Runs Ubuntu Inside Windows
Windows only: Free application Portable Ubuntu for Windows runs an entire Linux operating system as a Windows application. As if that weren't cool enough, it's portable, so you can carry it on your t...
Opera wins chorus of approval
The death of Opera Software has been predicted many times, but the Norwegian internet browser company continues to steadily grow its niche position in a market dominated by Microsoft's Internet Explor...
[JSAP] Japanese Researchers Double Green Phosphorescent OLED Efficiency
A Japanese research group succeeded in making an OLED device using a green light-emitting phosphor material and achieving a very high light-emitting efficiency of 210lm/W. — The research group …
Next-gen iPod touch, iPhone to support low-power 802.11n
Wireless radio component specifications contained within beta distributions of iPhone 3.0 firmware reveal support for a new chip enabling low power 802.11n that's bound for Apple's third-generation iP...