TomTom iPhone Navigation Makes U.S. App Store Debut for $100
TomTom has officially launched their turn-by-turn GPS navigation system for both U.S. and Canada in the App Store for $99.99. On Sunday, four regional versions of TomTom's app popped up in the New Ze...
Steve Jobs: The man who polished Apple
Chief executive of Apple Inc and owner of Jackling House changed the world and cheated death. So why the paranoia? — For five years the owner of the Jackling House in Woodside, California, has been...
Dell Mini 3i smartphone gets official outing in China
At last, the much rumored Dell cellphone has made its first official appearance. The 3.5-inch 360 x 640 pixel device with capacitive touchscreen was on display in China running the Android-based Open...
Huffington Post and Facebook Go “Social News,” With Connect on Steroids
In an unusually robust collaboration using Facebook Connect, the Huffington Post is launching a feature on Monday called “HuffPost Social News,” which lets readers create a personalized social network...
Twitter tweets are 40% ‘babble’
A short-term study of Twitter has found that 40% of the messages sent via it are “pointless babble.” — Carried out by US market research firm Pear Analytics, the study aimed to produce a snapshot of...
AOL Blossoms as Print Retreats
The office at Ninth Street and Broadway in Manhattan in the former Wanamaker's department store has all of the trademarks of a well-financed digital start-up. Young people eat pizza and chat about ap...
HTC shipments to grow 19% in 4Q09 on launch of HTC Mega and Click, says paper
HTC (High Tech Computer) is expected to see its revenues and shipments grow 11% and 19%, respectively, in the fourth quarter of 2009, buoyed by the launch of Windows Mobile-based HTC Mega and Android-...
Samsung Mobile Innovator Introduces New Widget Site
On August 17th widgets and mobile developers were able for the first time to gain access to the newest Samsung Mobile Innovator (SMI) portal dedicated to TouchWiz widget technology. — Rapid developm...
In the New Data Center, It's Roofs Off and Taxes Down
Data centers can be such touchy things. — Google and Microsoft continue to spar over both their data center designs and how much information they reveal about the inner workings of their vast comput...
If Twitter Consisted of 100 People [Gorgeous Graphics]
What if Twitter only had 100 users? How many would be chatty, how many lazy? — Based on the data from previous surveys - InsideTwitter and the PearAnalytics study - the InformationIsBeautiful blog ...
Preview of Jolicloud: The social Netbook OS
One of the things that has been most-surprising about the advent of Netbooks is that it has become less about the hardware as much as how mainstream operating systems and applications have had to adap...
Apple Event Scheduled for Wednesday Sept. 9-Music, NO Tablet
It has happened every September since 2005, and in a few short weeks it will happen once again. Apple (AAPL) is indeed planning a keynote event for the week of Sept. 7, as reported by my colleague, P...
And Google Said, Let There Be Chrome Bookmark Sync
As promised, Google has just launched bookmark syncing for users on the dev channel of its Chrome web browser. This allows you to keep your browser bookmarks in sync no matter which of your computers...
On the predictability of Search Trends
Posted by Yossi Matias, Niv Efron, and Yair Shimshoni, Google Labs, Israel. — Since launching Google Trends and Google Insights for Search, we've been providing daily insight into what the world is ...
Bing Search Share Rises Modestly In July
Microsoft's (MSFT) Bing gained share i the search market for the second month in a row. A good trend, but nothing that is going to make Google (GOOG) nervous yet. And neutral to modestly negative fo...
Uh Oh: iPhone OS 3.0 Never Fully Deletes Your Emails (UPDATED)
The iPhone is no stranger to gaping security flaws, but this one's a doozy: You know how when you delete emails, you expect them to be, well, deleted? On iPhone 3.0, that's just not how things work. ...