Google Sync: Now with push Gmail support
Earlier this year, we launched Google Sync which allows you to synchronize your Gmail Contacts and Google Calendar with your iPhone, Windows Mobile, and S60 devices. Today, we're adding Gmail support...
Google Has A Solution For Internet Explorer: Turn It Into Chrome
People hate IE6; they've made that abundantly clear on the web. Unfortunately, plenty of people are still stuck using it for reasons such as their work not letting them upgrade. So Google is doing s...
Courier: First Details of Microsoft's Secret Tablet
It feels like the whole world is holding its breath for the Apple tablet. But maybe we've all been dreaming about the wrong device. This is Courier, Microsoft's astonishing take on the tablet. — C...
Yahoo Goes Live With New Search Format
Yahoo has now gone live with its new search format. There's nothing radical or “game changing.” However, there are some nice upgrades and improvements. Most prominently, it features a new left colu...
Amazon.com to Sell Groceries to All of Seattle While Heeding Webvan Lesson
Sept. 22 (Bloomberg) — Amazon.com Inc., saying it's learned from the mistakes of supermarket-delivery failures, is expanding its fresh-grocery business to the entire Seattle metropolitan area in the n...
USB-IF Sides With Apple, Spanks Palm in iTunes Sync Spat
The USB Implementers Forum, the industry group that oversees the universal serial bus standard, has finally responded to Palm's claim that Apple is “hampering competition” by repeatedly disabling the ...
Parties seek Google Books hearing delay; new deal brewing
The parties involved in the Google Book Search settlement have asked a federal court to postpone an October hearing to approve the proposed settlement while they work out a new deal — When the Depar...
NetFlix Everywhere: Sorry Cable, You're History
It had taken the better part of a decade, but Reed Hastings was finally ready to unveil the device he thought would upend the entertainment industry. The gadget looked as unassuming as the original i...
Apple Battles Entrepreneur Over ‘Pod’ Trademark
We assure ourselves that words will never hurt us, but they can cost a lot of time and money when it comes to trademark battles. Take the story of Daniel Kokin, who is continuing to fight Apple over ...
HP unveils Skyroom video collaboration tool
SAN FRANCISCO—Looking to take advantage of tightened corporate travel budgets, Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday showed the latest tech to come out of its labs, called Skyroom. — Unveiled together with Int...
Windows Live lost $560m in FY09
Microsoft this morning gave Wall Street analysts new information about some recent behind-the-scenes reshuffling of its business groups. In the process, the company provided details about the financi...
Friday's Avalanche of Apps
At the end of last week we saw a massive number of App approvals on the iTunes App Store. This resulted in a over 1300 apps (of which over 300 were games) appearing in one day alone. We had heard Ap...
Five Stars Dominate Ratings
This graph fascinated us and so we wanted to share. It shows the number of videos that receive specific star ratings: one star for when you loathe something, five for when you love it. Judging from ...
Best Buy and Verizon Jump Into E-Reader Fray
The budding market for electronic reading devices is about to get two powerful new entrants: Best Buy and Verizon. — On Wednesday, iRex Technologies, a spinoff of Royal Philips Electronics that alre...
Paul Allen's Digeo sold for $20m
The assets of Kirkland-based Digeo Inc., a home-entertainment technology company backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, are slated be sold for $20 million to ARRIS Group Inc. under an agreement an...
Yahoo's Bartz: Microsoft Deal Was “Very Clever”
Say this about Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz: She promised to answer any and all questions at a New York press conference today, and she delivered! The event, which was meant to highlight Yahoo's new $100 mi...
Deutsche Telekom Said to Be Talking With Clearwire to Expand U.S. Networks
Sept. 22 (Bloomberg) — Deutsche Telekom AG is in talks to gain access to airwaves controlled by Clearwire Corp. and MetroPCS Communications Inc. as the German company seeks to expand U.S. networks, sa...
“I Am Not A Reporter!”
Clearly stung by recent attacks over conflicts of interest, the NYT's technology columnist David Pogue used a podcast interview Sunday …
Picasa Gets Face Recognition, Built-in Google Maps
I can never quite tell if Google considers its free Picasa image organizer/editor to be a Major Google Product-it doesn't update it all that often, or promote it as energetically as it might. But it'...
Intel gets into the App Store game - but where does Silverlight fit in?
Intel has announced its Atom Developer Program including a new app store. The idea is to encourage a flow of applications that are well suited to netbooks, rather than general desktop applications th...
AT&T notifies iPhone users of impending MMS launch
Wireless carrier AT&T began sending out text messages this week letting iPhone users know that multimedia messaging capabilities will be available on Friday, Sept. 25. — The free message sent from A...
Clay Shirky and accountability journalism
NYU Professor Clay Shirky published an essay, “Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable”, that suggested that journalists needed to radically rethink the assumptions that have made market-supported new...
Lightroom pulls further ahead of Aperture
The past couple of years at this time (see entries for 2007, 2008), independent research company InfoTrends has surveyed professional photographers* about their choices of raw image-processing tools. ...
Twitter's Stone says no ads in 2009
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Twitter has no plans to put advertisements on the popular microblogging site this year, co-founder Biz Stone said on Tuesday, amid a growing push for the 2-year-old Internet se...
Store Discord May Result in Employee Walk-Out
Apple's retail stores carry the company's brand and culture around the world, but really, each location has its own personality based largely on the management staff. Now, staffers at the Alderwood M...
Sprint opens its network to Android developers
Even though it's only got one Android device in its roster so far, wireless network operator Sprint today announced that it is turning over its network and product services to Android developers throu...
Interview: Brightcove CEO Jeremy Allaire: 'We're Not For Sale'
“The company is not for sale,” Brightcove CEO Jeremy Allaire told me in London on Tuesday, despite rumor, tweeted last week, that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) would buy the video platform for up to $700 millio...
Gelato brings real-time search to online dating
Online dating, meet the social network, meet real-time search. — That's essentially the elevator pitch of Gelato, an early-stage start-up that's presenting at the DemoFall 09 conference in San Diego...
12Seconds Launches New iPhone App: Video Voicemail for Twitter and Facebook
12seconds just launched 12mail, the company's newest iPhone app. 12mail is basically a video messaging app with a focus on person-to-person video messaging for Facebook and Twitter.
How Pizza Hut App Got Role in Latest iPhone Spot
Chain One of Few Marketers to Receive Apple's Endorsement on TV — CHICAGO (AdAge.com) — Pizza Hut's iPhone app will be featured in an Apple-sponsored iPhone commercial breaking tonight. The pizza c...
Google Sync: Now with push Gmail support
Earlier this year, we launched Google Sync which allows you to synchronize your Gmail Contacts and Google Calendar with your iPhone, Windows Mobile, and S60 devices. Today, we're adding Gmail support...
Under new management...yours
Next week, we will launch what will be Yahoo!'s single-largest global integrated marketing campaign ever. I gave a sneak preview today as part of Yahoo!'s presence at Advertising Week in New York Cit...
Netflix's Impending (But Still Avoidable) Multi-Million Dollar Privacy Blunder
In my last post, I had promised to say more about my article on the limits of anonymization and the power of reidentification. Although I haven't said anything for a few weeks, others have …
The Nielsen Company and Facebook Form Strategic Alliance
Industry Leaders to Use Nielsen Products to Help Marketers Better Measure Online Advertising Impact and Realize Greater ROI — NEW YORK & PALO ALTO, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—The Nielsen Company and Fac...
Microsoft acquires the technology assets of Interactive Supercomputing (ISC)
Today, I'm very excited to announce that Microsoft has acquired the technology assets of Interactive Supercomputing (ISC), a company that specializes in bringing the power of parallel computing to the...
Linus Torvalds: ‘Linux is bloated’
Linus Torvalds, founder of the Linux kernel, made a startling comment at LinuxCon in Portland, Ore., on Monday: “Linux is bloated.” While the open-source community has long pointed the finger at Micr...
AT&T takes the phone out of iPhone
Three weeks ago, I got a call on a friend's iPhone while in the middle of a desert; cell phone coverage had come to Burning Man. By contrast, several calls I made last night to my parents from my San...
Web-Based Productivity Suite Zoho Launches Forum Tool Zoho Discussions
Web-based productivity suite Zoho is launching a brand new product today called Zoho Discussions. Zoho lets any business, individual or organization create public or private support forums where empl...
Oracle CEO sees long slog for U.S. economy
Billionaire Oracle CEO Larry Ellison doesn't expect the U.S. economy to significantly improve until halfway through the next decade - a gloomy scenario he dubbed an L-shaped recovery. — “The America...
Samsung Opens the Door to PC-Level Performance on Mobile Devices with 1GHz Low-power Application Processors
TAIPEI, Taiwan—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a world leader in advanced semiconductor solutions, today introduced two new 1GHz ARM® CORTEX™-A8 based …
Bank Sends Sensitive E-mail to Wrong Gmail Address, Sues Google
A Wyoming bank sent an e-mail containing sensitive customer data to the wrong Gmail account, and now wants Google to reveal the identity of the account holder who received the data. — According to a...
Apple makes lame attempt at placating App Store developers
Apple has made a new resource available to iPhone application developers called the App Store Resource Center intended to assist devs in steps such as app submission and managing applications once the...
Acer's F1 smartphone launching ‘within weeks’
Acer has confirmed that its F1 smartphone will be launched next month. — Little has been heard about the device since Acer first spoke about its development back in March. However, the firm has sin...