Labels: drag and drop, hiding, and more
A few months ago Gmail got some new buttons and keyboard shortcuts to make labeling easier, especially for those of you accustomed to that familiar folder feel. Now we're making some more changes to ...
bringing a bit of twitter to bing
There has been much discussion of real-time search and the premium on immediacy of data that has been created primarily by Twitter. We've been watching this phenomenon with great interest, and listen...
Improving Sharing Through Control, Simplicity and Connection
The power to share is the cornerstone of Facebook. Privacy and the tools for tailoring what information is shared with whom are at the heart of trust. Over the past five years, Facebook has learned ...
Apple already dropping NVIDIA chips?
Apple and NVIDIA may be engaged in a fierce dispute that could exclude NVIDIA graphics chips from future Macs, according to sources reportedly aware of the talks. They claim to SemiAccurate that Appl...
O2 wins Palm Pre exclusive
Network already has Apple's iPhone and move would strengthen its position in UK smartphone market — American gadget group Palm will next week confirm that it has signed a deal with O2 which will see...
GDGT Launches For Non Stop Gadget Action
Last summer we broke the news that Engadget editor-in-chief Ryan Block would team with former editor-in-chief Peter Rojas to create a new gadget startup. Today that new startup, GDGT, launches. Gadg...
Child Porn Is Apple's Latest iPhone Headache
A photo ostensibly showing a 15-year-old nude girl has appeared in an iPhone app, highlighting Apple's inability to safeguard its application store from prohibited content. — The image appears in th...
Q2 2009 Spam Trends
Editor's Note: The spam data cited in this post is drawn from the network of Google email security and archiving services, powered by Postini, which provide email security to more than 50,000 organiza...
Facebook for iPhone 3.0
Facebook for iPhone 3.0 is coming very soon. I can't predict an exact date when I will submit to Apple, but I can say that I am about 98% done. So what's new in this update? — 1. The “new” News Fe...
Pirate Bay's Weird New Business Plan
The new owner of the swashbuckling Swedish peer-to-peer outfit will bundle up the collective Internet bandwidth of its users and resell it to ISPs — When the founders of file-sharing Web site Pirate...
AT&T Problems Can Delay iPhone Voicemail
Ever feel like your iPhone is holding out on you? Not delivering voice mail in a timely manner? Well, I have and now I know why—sometimes AT&T doesn't deliver visual voicemail for days. — That's a...
May The Tweets Be With You
The ecosystem growing around Twitter is something we very much believe in nourishing and supporting. There are lots of really awesome services and applications out there like TweetDeck, TweetMeme, Tw...
‘Accidental Billionaires’ is deliberately careful
This review contains some spoilers about the plot of “The Accidental Billionaires,” but most of them are common knowledge to people familiar with Facebook's history. — There's a reason why there are...
Tech IPO LogMeIn Jumps 25%
Only five U.S. startup companies have gone public this year, down from 86 in 2007, according to data from the National Venture Capital Association, as related by Bloomberg. — Supply, then, is so thi...
Microsoft Starts Officially Tweeting
It's Twitter day at Microsoft, apparently. Not only did the software giant announce that it would start adding tweets to its Bing search results, the company actually started officially using Twitter...
Twitter Grows “Uncomfortable” With The Use Of The Word Tweet In Applications (Updated)
We were just forwarded an e-mail conversation between a Twitter API team member and a third-party developer because the latter was using a UI for its web-based service that was admittedly very similar...
What Went Wrong With Joost?
Joost, a much-vaunted online video startup, today announced that it will offer a white-label video hosting platform, thus entering a crowded market littered with the carcasses of other failed video ho...
What's new in iPhone OS 3.1 beta?
Apple recently released iPhone OS 3.1 beta firmware and SDK to developers. Unless you're a developer I recommend you to not download this firmware and wait for the final 3.1 firmware to be released. ...
Suspicions of Insider Trading Surround Pirate Bay Buyers
Confidence and trust in the BitTorrent community reached a possible all-time low yesterday as news broke that the world's largest tracker, The Pirate Bay, would be sold to the corporate Global Gaming ...
Listening to Mr iPhone
By any measure, he is among the most important figures in technology of the last decade, a major influence on the way we use and interact with computers and mobile phones, a British designer who ranks...
What happened to Research In Motion and where are they going?
I want to start this off by saying I have nothing but love for RIM the company. Probably my favorite tech corporation in the world, they've created an incredibly unique product that practically repla...
Palm Pre gets some Playstation action!
I have recently purchased a Palm Pre. — Naturally the first thing I did was root/jailbreak the device. Second thing I did? Well I threw my Sony Playstation 1 project, psx4all on it! — The Palm P...
Toolbar, now with advanced translation
If you saw this text on a webpage, how would you figure out what it means? — You would likely need to translate manually via our language tools or in Toolbar. Today we're excited to announce that t...
Microsoft's Bing search wins share from Google
LONDON/SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp's new Bing search engine gained U.S. market share in its first month in operation but still trails dominant rival Google Inc, according to data released on We...
Morgan Stanley: Mac shipments on the rise
According to Morgan Stanley's Kathryn Huberty, Apple (AAPL) is the computer maker with the “most upside” as the PC market begins to stabilize after the dismal first quarter of 2009. — There's some g...
4.7 million Firefox 3.5 downloads ... and counting!
It's not been 24 hours yet, and Mozilla's Firefox 3.5 web browser has been downloaded over 4.7 million times. — You can keep an eye on the download stats here. — It doesn't look like Mozilla will ...
Twitter your Flickr
Tweet! Tweet! Tweet! We've launched our Flickr2Twitter integration. — Share your Flickr content either via “upload by email” or feature existing Flickr content in your Twitter stream. — If you'...
Oracle launches Fusion Middleware 11g
Oracle delivers updates to four components of its long-simmering Fusion Middleware 11g portfolio, which is the foundation of its next-generation Fusion Applications — Oracle will unveil a major chun...
Marvel At the Ingenuity of the Chinese iPhoney, iPhone Knockoffs Now Near Perfect
Look at the video below from Dana Stibolt, founder of MacMedics …
Microsoft: We're not gouging Europe on Windows 7 pricing
Company exec denies that higher EU prices stem from antitrust action — Computerworld - A top Microsoft executive today denied reports that European users will pay more for Windows 7 because of the c...
Google CEO bullish on economy
Login or register to post comments — When Kai Rysdall, the host of the public radio program “Marketplace,” introduced the CEO of Google on Tuesday at the Aspen Ideas Festival, he did so by saying, “...
Apple releases minor MobileMe Web service updates
PEOPLE WHO READ THIS ALSO READ: — It may not be MobileMe 2.0, but Apple has applied another shot of elbow grease to its suite of Web services. Continuing MobileMe's slow and steady trend this year,...
Yahoo's Extreme Makeover Confirmed With the Hiring of a New Global Marketing Exec
Last week, BoomTown posted a detailed piece on Yahoo's plans for a massive rebranding and marketing push, which included the hiring of outside consultant Penny Baldwin (pictured here), who was a forme...