Twitterrific, TweetDeck and Destroy Twitter: 1st Victims of Twitpocalypse?
The Twitpocalypse, while an amusing concept in principle, may not have passed uneventfully. Twitterrific, the popular Twitter app, has now confirmed (on Twitter) reports from our readers that its iPh...
No browser in Windows 7 in EU
European buyers of Windows 7 will have to download and install a web browser for themselves. — Bowing to European competition rules, Microsoft Windows 7 will ship without Internet Explorer. — The ...
Facebook Nabs The Man Who Engineered Google AdSense For Many Years
Facebook has just hired Greg Badros, a Google Senior Director of Engineering, we've learned. Badros joined Google in early 2003 and has worked his way up the chain since then. At Facebook, his offic...
Snack time with the new iGoogle for Android and iPhone
We like iGoogle because it lets us “snack” on interesting information all day long. We can read a little bit of news here and there, glance at finance portfolios, take a look at the weather forecast,...
Andreessen and Horowitz Complete Raising Dough for $300-Million Venture Fund-Let the Seed Investing Begin!
Even in the midst of a tough investing environment, Silicon Valley legend and serial entrepreneur Marc Andreessen (pictured here) and his longtime investing partner Ben Horowitz …
Palm Pixie Is Real, But May Never Come To Market
Lots of excitement today over a second Palm WebOS device now that the Pre has launched. The only problem is that none of this is news. We broke the story about the device, code named Pixie, on April...
Sorry, There's No Way To Save The TV Business
The traditional TV industry—cable companies, networks, and broadcasters—is where the newspaper industry was about five years ago: — In denial. — There are murmurings on the edges about how longsta...
Safari 4 Downloads Top 11 Million in Three Days
Apple® today announced that more than 11 million copies of Safari® 4 have been downloaded in the first three days of its release, including more than six million downloads of Safari for Windows. Safa...
Against real-time: Facebook to sort of bring back the old site design
Facebook is backing away from its March site redesign, a source tells me. That's the redesign the one that focused users' homepages on a quickly updating “stream” of status updates — and was trying t...
How Facebook Uses Your “Skipped” Webmail Contacts
Yesterday, Facebook suggested two people to me through its “Suggestions” feature which usually includes friends of friends, co-workers and people I used to go to school with. The odd thing about thes...
WWDC+Palm Pre = Rollercoaster Week
Haven't blogged in quite a while thanks to exams and whatnot, but this week I've been in San Francisco for Apple's World Wide Developers Conference with a sizable group of other Irish developers. And...
Tax Man's Target: The Mobile Phone
The use of company-issued mobile phones could trigger new federal income taxes on millions of Americans as a “fringe benefit,” spurring efforts by the wireless industry and others to kill the idea. —...
Bands ‘better because of piracy’
The rise of illegal downloading has been good for the music scene, helping to create a generation of exciting new acts, according to US band Fleet Foxes. — File-sharing has been the scourge of recor...
Video of the Archos 9 pctablet
Here is a HD quality close-up look at the Archos 9 PC tablet device as shown at the Archos Event in Paris which was also live streamed and which is now available as a recording at — Videos of the Ar...
Best Buy to offer Apple's iPhone 3G S with insurance
Those who want added protection for their new iPhone 3G S units on launch day will have the option of queuing up at Best Buy to purchase both Apple's device as well as a rare accident insurance plan, ...
Analysis of the Green Dam Censorware System
Scott Wolchok, Randy Yao, and J. Alex Halderman — Computer Science and Engineering Division — The University of Michigan … Introduction — Accordingly to recent news reports (NYT, WSJ), the Chine...
Twitter Sells $3 Million Of Computers For Dell
Who knew that Dell had 600,000 Twitter followers? In any event...the company has apparently tweeted its way to $3 million in sales over the past two years, including $1 million in the last 6 months. ...
Nikon D300s LCD screen leaked?
Should I say BREAKING NEWS: I just received this - a picture of Nikon D300s LCD screen? — The image was taken from an official Nikon USA site. Note also the date: May 14, 2009 - this picture is new...
Scribd: An E-Book Upstart with Unlikely Fans
Digital book site Scribd is wooing big publishers by offering greater control and more revenue than Amazon — Watch the Video... Last year author Bob Seidensticker flagged his publisher, Berrett-Koe...
Daily Show Rips The New York Times
The Daily Show does a much better job than I did ripping the New York Times. … (Here's the video on Comedy Central, for our international friends). — Crunch Network: CrunchBase the free database of ...
Doom hack. I've gotten PRDoom running on the device.
The Palm Pre's rootfs, based on openembedded, had directfb …
Your Facebook business name: Already reserved?
Facebook employees and tech journalists aren't the only ones whose names have been reserved ahead of the big Facebook vanity URL land grab that will open up at midnight Eastern time Saturday morning. ...
Flowgram Was Cool. Now It's Dead
Well, this is a bummer. Flowgram, a promising startup that launched last July, is a goner. — The service let users create screencasts with live websites, and the early beta users really liked it: …...
Who's afraid of a digital world? The World Copyright Summit
The world's rightsholders gathered in Washington this week to discuss copyright in all its variegated glory, but the event was essentially about one topic: how do we survive in a digital world?