Nuts: Twitter Inventor About To Launch His Next Project, Code-named Squirrel
Almost immediately following Twitter coming back from a planned downtime this afternoon, co-founder and current Chairman Jack Dorsey sent out a tweet letting his followers know that he was, “Getting r...
Microsoft Facebook Application for Windows Mobile Phones Step-By-Step Overview
Back at CTIA 2009 Microsoft made several announcements of which one was the creation of a new Facebook application for Windows Phones. Luckily I was able to test this application and the article belo...
What Marissa Mayer said about Google and Twitter
There have been a couple of posts today speculating about what Eric Schmidt and his team said about Twitter at a company press event in Mountain View, Calif., on Thursday. I have the verbatim text, w...
Why Raising The Pay Wall May Be An Impossible Dream
The worsening advertising climate is forcing many publishers, facing only modest online gains after a decade of digital investment, to consider charging for content. News Corp is considering a strate...
Joking Or Not, Official Or Not, Facebook Needs To Grow Up
It's sort of funny when Facebook's Randi Zuckerberg takes her frustration out on a club bouncer by saying (it has now been removed) it would be “a huge bummer if their facebook pages “accidentally” we...
Facebook platform developers could see $500M in revenue this year
A growing number of game makers on Facebook are making money from virtual goods — from poker chips to virtual clothes that users can buy or earn while playing gaming applications with their friends on...
Google Chrome ads on TV
A couple of months ago, the Google Japan team produced a fun video to demonstrate how clean and simple our Google Chrome user interface is. After releasing this video on the web, we got lots of posit...
Wikipedia hoax points to limits of journalists' research
A sociology student placed a fake quote on Wikipedia, only to see it show up in prominent newspapers, revealing that a lot of the press doesn't go much further than most 'Net users when it comes to re...
SugarSync Gets Free Version
We first mentioned SugarSync over a year ago, and the online backup service has been growing in both size and services since then. Those folks don't seem to ever stand still and have apps to keep you...
Asus Eee PC T91 launching by June!
The Asus Eee PC T91, the first touchscreen convertible netbook from the Taiwanese tech giant, will be twisting its way over to the UK within a month, and we now know how much for. Read on for the ful...
Ex-Googlers Try To Create A Better Travel Guide With Nextstop
Are you looking for the best beer bars in the world, good places to make out in San Francisco, or where to go on the Big Island in Hawaii? A travel recommendation site called nextstop mixes social re...
iPlayer uncovered: What powers the BBC's epic creation?
During peak hours, BBC iPlayer pumps out 12GB of data every second, and seven petabytes of data every month. It's insanely popular on Apple's iPhone — but mostly after midnight — and the next version...
Analyst: Google will start walking away from bad AdSense deals like MySpace
Are the days of silly AdSense deals with the likes of MySpace and AOL over for Google? Bernstein analyst Jeffrey Lindsay seems to think so. The analyst upped his price target to $600 for Google shar...
User Interface & Design - east vs west
A few weeks ago, Claire Miller from the NYT stopped by our office. We talked about about a bunch of stuff. — One thing that often comes up when I speak with reporters is the east vs west topic. Ho...
Microsoft search to be powered by open source
Microsoft for years has been warning the world not to use open-source software. Apparently, its Kumo search team didn't get the memo. — Kumo will weigh heavily on open source. — (Credit: Screensh...
Search Goes Real-Time With Scoopler. Twitter Dominates Results.
There's a new trend that starting to sweep the web: Real-time. Everyone wants access to information as it happens instantaneously. FriendFeed recently went real-time and now Facebook is starting to ...
AT&T and Verizon: Is the smartphone growth train slowing?
J.P. Morgan analyst Mike McCormack raised a bit of a ruckus with a downgrade of AT&T and Verizon largely based on “on deteriorating wireless fundamentals, specifically in the higher value postpaid sub...
Q&A: FBI agent looks back on time posing as a cybercriminal
In September 2008 police began arresting alleged members of Dark Market, an underground Internet forum for buying and selling credit card data used for identity fraud. The sting wouldn't have been po...
Elgato Video Capture records analog video to MPEG-4, H.264
Elgato on Friday introduced Elgato Video Capture, a new device that enables Mac users to transfer analog video to H.264 or MPEG-4 video files. It costs $100. — Elgato Video Capture includes a USB 2...
YouTube May Be Solving Its Ad Problem - Slowly
YouTube is the world's biggest video destination. But it has yet to generate a penny of profit for Google (GOOG), which paid more than $1.6 billion for the site in 2006. — That's because the site i...
Obama and Twitter: White House Social-Networking
The first tweet the White House Twittered was not about the weather. It had nothing to do with how the President was feeling, what he was doing or what he wanted for lunch. The First Dog, Bo, failed...
Preparing for Windows 7 with the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor
When a new version of Windows is released, people either upgrade their existing PC or purchase a new PC with the latest version of Windows already pre-installed. For the people who want to upgrade th...
Apple opens developer forums to Snow Leopard discussion
Signaling an new open approach to its operating system development plans, Apple has announced new threads for discussing the forthcoming Mac OS X Snow Leopard operating system on the developer forums ...
Craigslist Competitor OLX Scores $5 Million For Online Classifieds
OLX, the Craigslist for the rest of the world, has raised $5 million in funding from from Nexus Capital India. The company raised $13.5 million in Series B funding in April 2008 from General Catalyst...
ZeusTracker and the Nuclear Option
One of the scarier realities about malicious software is that these programs leave ultimate control over victim machines in the hands of the attacker, who could simply decide to order all of the infec...