Sony Plans to Adopt Common Format for E-Books
Paper books may be low tech, but no one will tell you how and where you can read them. — For many people, the problem with electronic books is that they come loaded with just those kinds of restrict...
A flurry of features for feed readers
Since our last big launch, we've been thinking about ways to help our users better share, discover, and consume content in Reader. Today, I'm happy to announce several new features that we hope will ...
Palm Issues Statement Over Palm Pre Privacy Concerns
Today a report surfaced that accused webOS and the Palm Pre of sending end-user information — including location data and what sort of applications were running — back to Palm without end-user consent...
OS X Snow Leopard May Beat Apple's Timetable. On The Prowl In Just Two Weeks?
There's been talk the past couple of days that the latest developer build of OS X Snow Leopard, 10A432, has been designated the “Golden Master” version, meaning it's ready for prime time. Multiple so...
Judge: Microsoft can't sell Word anymore
A Texas judge ruled Tuesday that Microsoft cannot sell one of its flagship products, Word, in the United States because of patent infringement. — You read that right: Microsoft cannot sell Word, the...
Facebook Begins Testing Facebook Lite, A Faster Simpler Version Of The Service
It looks like Facebook has tonight turned on a feature called “Facebook Lite” for some users to test out. We're getting bombarded by tips about it, and some of us are seeing it as well.
A flurry of features for feed readers
Since our last big launch, we've been thinking about ways to help our users better share, discover, and consume content in Reader. Today, I'm happy to announce several new features that we hope will ...
Is a Perfect Storm Forming For Distributed Social Networking?
Maybe it's better to host your own. That's the thinking coming from a growing number of early technology adopters as service after service goes down, sells out or otherwise frustrates the users who h...
T-Mobile HTC Touch Pro2 Review: Wait, How Much?
T-Mobile's take on the HTC Touch Pro2, a 3.6-inch-screened, slide-out-QWERTYed refresh to the company's flagship Windows Mobile phone. — The price: $349 with a 2-year contract, after instant rebate,...
Pixorial Revives Analog Memories (and Resurrects My Mullet)
It would be appropriate to quote a song like Barbra Streisand's “The Way We Were” or even “Memory” from Cats given Pixorial's target market. The video sharing startup launches to the public today and...
Wikipedia approaches its limits
The online encyclopedia is about to hit 3m articles in English - but growth is stalling as ‘inclusionists’ and ‘deletionists’ fight for control — Yet again, Wikipedia is about to break new ground. ...
Google Opt Out Feature Lets Users Protect Privacy By Moving To Remote Village
Web users who choose to move to the desolate village are guaranteed an environment free from Google products and natural light from the sun.
Google File System II: Dawn of the Multiplying Master Nodes
A sequel two years in the making — Increase responsiveness and effectiveness in your organizations — As its custom-built file system strains under the weight of an online empire it was never desig...
After Ten Years In Business, MyWebGrocer Raises $13 Million In Series A
It is not often that a company waits ten years to take its first venture capital. MyWebGrocer, which was founded in 1999, raised $13 million today in a series A investment from the Stripes Group, a p...
Are You a Digital Sharecropper?
Will Work for Praise: The Web's Free-Labor Economy describes how many of today's websites are built by the users themselves: … This raises some disturbing parallels. Are users being turned into digit...
How Do iPhone Users Find New Apps?
AdMob just released some data about how iPhone users discover new apps in the App Store and how they use them once they have downloaded them. According to AdMob, most users download apps from the App...
Unreleased Apple product sighted in California - no images (yet)
There's definitely an unreleased Apple product looming - and while that bald statement is pretty much an eternal truism, product marketing plans for this one are advanced, a report this morning explai...