Palm Pre to arrive on Sprint on June 6
Sprint has announced today that the Palm Pre will be available on June 6. Sprint announced that it will be available nationwide in Sprint stores, as well as at Best Buy, Radio Shack, and select Wal-M...
Microsoft Expected to Debut Updated Search Engine at D: All Things Digital
The long-awaited upgrade to Microsoft's search engine will soon make its debut. — Sources with knowledge of the situation said the company is expected to demonstrate it at our D: All Things Digital ...
Google Searches for Staffing Answers
Concerned a brain drain could hurt its long-term ability to compete, Google Inc. is tackling the problem with its typical tool: an algorithm. — The Internet search giant recently began crunching dat...
Facebook CEO says IPO a few years out
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg hopes to eventually take his company public but said it won't be for a few years, and stressed that the world's largest online social network is in no...
Microsoft's My Phone Service Beta Open for Public
Previously available in limited invitation-only beta, Microsoft has upgraded its My Phone web portal and opened its service to public. The free My Phone service will enable people to access, manage a...
GPS system ‘close to breakdown’
Network of satellites could begin to fail as early as 2010 — It has become one of the staples of modern, hi-tech life: using satellite navigation tools built into your car or mobile phone to find yo...
Facebook Turns Down $8 billion Valuation Term Sheet, Claims 2009 Revenues Will Be $550 million
In the last couple of weeks Facebook received and turned down a term sheet for a new $200 million venture round of funding that would value the company at $8 billion, we've learned from a source …
Google Street Views Takes to a Tricycle
Google Maps Hard-to-Reach Areas Using a Tricycle. — Google is mapping the world one street at a time. However, some of those locations are not conducive to cars, let alone the Google Street Views v...
Five Things Wolfram Alpha Does Better (And Vastly Different) Than Google
Wolfram Alpha is not a search engine. Perhaps it will one day become one, but currently it's exactly what its tagline says: a computational knowledge engine. However, it looks like Google, it provid...
The Race to Provide Wi-Fi at 30,000 Feet
SOME airlines are rushing to offer Wi-Fi Internet connections in their domestic aircraft cabins, but none are talking about the space squeeze. — On an AirTran Airways Wi-Fi demonstration flight that...
Flock 2.5 social web browser adds more Facebook and Twitter features
Flock is a web browser that's based on Mozilla. But what really makes it stand out is the integration with social networking services including Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Flickr, and YouTube.
Dell launches “touch-screen” netbooks for students
Netbook computers for web browsing and emailing are taking off like wildfire, and now Dell has thrown its hat in the ring with a netbook for students. — The new Dell Latitude 2100 has a 10.1-inch sc...
Want to Fool Apple's App Store? Plant an Easter Egg
Despite Apple's reputation for being a notorious gatekeeper with its iPhone App Store, there's a way to sneak in content such as porn, profanity or potentially malicious code, with no hacking required...
Apple Earbuds and static electricity
Symptoms — It's possible to receive a small and quick electrical (static) shock from your earbuds while listening to iPod or iPhone. — Products Affected — iPhone Accessories, iPod, iPhone, iPod ...
Pandora Media Founder Sees Reaching Profitability for First Time Next Year
Pandora Media Inc., the free online- radio service that generates playlists based on users' musical preferences, aims to be profitable next year for the first time since the company started in 2000, f...
LG Display Unveil World's Thinnest 42″ 47″ 1080p LCD TV Panels
Copyright © 2009 DisplayBlog. Visit the original article at http://www.displayblog.com/2009/05/18/ lg-display-unveil-worlds-thinnest-42-47 - 1080p-lcd-tv-panels/. — Update Here is some updated info...
Why is Apple Rejecting PhoneGap-Built iPhone Apps?
PhoneGap is a very interesting development platform for mobile applications that lets developers build apps that work for multiple devices, including the iPhone, using only HTML and Javascript. That ...
Mogulus Goes Generic: Now Called LiveStream
If you want to convey that you're a generic vendor of live-streaming services, then sure, why not change your name to LiveStream. Just forgive us if, having known your company for two years with the ...
Microsoft outs two new BlueTrack mice, keyboard
Microsoft grew its lineup of BlueTrack-based devices today with two new mice as well as the first combo kit with the technology. The Wireless Mobile Mouse 6000 is the first of the blue laser mice to ...
MySpace Is In Real Trouble If These Page View Declines Don't Reverse
We've all been closely watching the total user number for MySpace and Facebook and trying to predict the date that MySpace's last stronghold will fall - no. 1 in U.S. social networking users.
Doctors and Medical Students Embrace Smartphones
To his frustration, Steven Schwartz often encounters patients who have no idea what each of the pills they've been popping is called. — “But usually they can tell you what it looks like,” the George...
Glympse: A Hassle And Worry-Free Way To Share Your Location, Minus The Social Network
We've all been there. You're late for a meeting with friends, stuck in traffic and unsure of when you're actually going to arrive. You call them with updates like “well, I'm closer now, but still no...
Turning Out The Lights: NebuAd
(Note: We're keeping an ongoing tally of venture-backed company shutdowns this year as VentureWire reports on them. See the list below. Look for these postings under the title, “Turning Out The Ligh...