In-house Radio.app in the works for iPhone and iPod touch
We've just received a tip that an iPhone radio.app is being developed in-house by Apple for use on the iPhone and iPod touch. From what we know, the app will be allowed to operate in the background l...
Introducing Google Building Maker
[Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog] — Some of us here at Google spend almost all of our time thinking about one thing: How do we create a three-dimensional model of every built structure on...
iMovie update reveals new Apple video format
Like most companies, Apple periodically releases software updates for its applications, fixing minor issues. However, an iMovie update released on Tuesday revealed a brand new video format the compan...
Bloomberg Wins Bidding For BusinessWeek
Bloomberg LP, the global financial data and news empire created by New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, is the winning bidder for BusinessWeek. — Terms of the offer will not be disclosed by Blo...
Invite a friend to Google Voice
(Cross-posted from the Google Voice Blog) — Since the debut of Google Voice, our early users have shared lots of feedback that has led to some exciting new features, like the ability to receive SMS ...
Apple shipping iPhone 3GS' resistant to jailbreaking?
To be perfectly honest we're surprised it took this long. Reports are surfacing that Apple is now shipping a new bootrom with the iPhone 3GS that is resistant to the 24kpwn exploit used by the Dev-Te...
Help us nail spammers
Today we've added another tool to our spam fighting toolbox that will give users the ability to flag bad accounts on Twitter. — Folks can now help us conquer spam by calling our attention to a profi...
New in Labs: Got the wrong Bob?
Posted by Ari Leichtberg, Software Engineer and Yossi Matias, Head of Israel Engineering Center — When's the last time you got an email from a stranger asking, “Are you sure you meant to send this t...
Yahoo Class Action Settlement May Lead to Lower Domain Parking Earnings
New advertising option excludes parked domain names. — The settlement of a class action lawsuit against Yahoo may result in lower pay-per-click revenue for parked domain names. — The lawsuit was b...
The Carter-Ruck school of viral marketing
How to ensure maximum publicity for your new gagging order — Marketing experts were stunned today at the success of media law firm Carter-Ruck's high profile ‘gagging order’ campaign, designed to ge...
Microsoft Taps ‘Family Guy’ to Help Sell Windows 7
Inks Branded-Entertainment Deal With Seth MacFarlane for Commercial-Free Variety Show on Fox — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — To sell people on the merits of its latest operating system, Windows 7, Microsof...
Facebook Now Has 30,000 Servers
A look at the fully-packed racks inside a Facebook data center facility. — How many servers does Facebook have? For some time now, the stock answer has been “more than 10,000 servers,” a number the...
A First Glimpse Of Chrome OS In The Flesh
Following our post about Chrome OS yesterday, it looks like those wily folks at Google have removed the “chromeos” folder from the Chromium build folder. Too bad. But luckily, before they did, TechC...
As Facebook Nears 100M U.S. Visitors, Twitter Falls Further Behind In The Rear-View Mirror
Although Facebook recently admitted that Twitter was in its rear-view mirror, it appears that Twitter may be moving out of eyeshot. September's U.S. comScore data has just been released and it appear...
Skype In Negotiations To Acquire Gizmo5
Litigation-beleaguered Skype is in negotiations to buy peer-to-peer VoIP startup Gizmo5, say multiple sources. The price tag is said to be in the $50 million range, but the deal is far from consummat...
Researching username, password change problems
We're currently researching reports from users who are locked out after trying to reset their passwords or change their email address or user names. This seems to affect new users as well as long ter...
Trillian for iPhone: Two months later, still no response from Apple...
It's been 60 days since our initial and only submission to the App Store.
Nokia tells all on Booklet 3G: $299 with a 2-year contract on AT&T
Nokia, AT&T, Best Buy and Microsoft are all holding hands and singing the same song about Nokia's Booklet 3G today. The good news is that the device will be subsidized by AT&T, at $299 with a 2-year ...
Silicon Valley Lives
Barney Frank spares venture capital. — Printer — Friendly — In a rare bit of good news from Washington, the investment model that created Intel, Apple and Google will be allowed to exist. Accor...
Weinstein Co. selling controlling stake in exclusive social networking site
Looks like it's not a small world after all for the Weinstein Co. — The film and entertainment company, which has been shedding staff in the wake of restructuring its operations, is selling its majo...
Making It Easier to Build with Facebook
Many websites are looking for ways to integrate Facebook Connect, such as commenting using Facebook identity or showing visitors their Facebook friends' recent activity. Companies like DISQUS offer w...
Flickr Co-Founder Caterina Fake on the Value of Viral Loops [Exclusive Q&A]
This interview was conducted during research for my book, Viral Loop. You can read an excerpt here at Fast Company, or find out what your friends are really worth by installing the Viral Loop widget.
Microsoft's Sidekick/Pink problems blamed on dogfooding and sabotage
Additional insiders have stepped forward to shed more light into Microsoft's troubled acquisition of Danger, its beleaguered Pink Project, and what has become one of the most high profile Information ...
OpenMoko branches out with new $99 WikiReader device
With the unfortunate downfall of the company's phone business, OpenMoko is looking for some slightly greener pastures. Its first new device hardly seems to hail from the same high-end Linux places th...
Is EA Going to Buy Zynga or Playfish in Social Gaming Bid?
In recent weeks we've been hearing rumors about gaming giant EA looking to acquire social gaming companies — specifically Zynga and Playfish. Both social gaming companies have denied the rumors, so a...
Google Wave's Little Secret: It Already Works On The iPhone
Google Wave, the search giant's latest experiment in post-email communications, is hardly out the gate, with some of the first 100,000 private beta testers still waiting for their invites. (I just fi...
In Latest Deal, Cisco Buys Starent for $2.9 Billion
Another week, another $3 billion acquisition for Cisco Systems. — On Tuesday, Cisco announced that it would pay $35 a share or $2.9 billion for Starent Networks, which makes products that help wirel...
Disney's Retail Plan Is a Theme Park in Its Stores
LOS ANGELES — The Walt Disney Company, with the help of Steven P. Jobs and his retailing team at Apple, intends to drastically overhaul its approach to the shopping mall. — At a time when many retai...
Introducing Google Building Maker
[Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog] — Some of us here at Google spend almost all of our time thinking about one thing: How do we create a three-dimensional model of every built structure on...
ViVu Raises $3 Million For Online Video Conferencing Platform
ViVu, an online video conferencing platform, has raised $3 million in Series A funding led by Inventus Capital Partners, with Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Quest Venture Partners and entrepreneur Bill Carr...
Sweden's Internet broken by DNS mistake
Last night, a routine maintenance of Sweden's top-level domain .se went seriously wrong, introducing an error that made DNS lookups for all .se domain names start failing. The entire Swedish Internet...
Acer's First Windows 7 Netbook: Aspire One D250
Acer has unveiled a new version of its Aspire One netbook running Windows 7 and plans to put it on sale simultaneously with the new operating system's debut next week. — The Aspire One D250 has a 10...
Factual: Parting The Curtains Of The Invisible Web
This year, we've seen several ambitious new efforts to mine and make searchable the vast part of the web that remains largely hidden to search engines—often referred to as the deep, hidden or invisibl...
Major Blogs Can Lose 90% Of Their Value If Founders Go: Huffington, TechCrunch, Gawker, Drudge
The author was a member of the board of directors of TheStreet.com from 2000 to 2005. One of the major concerns of the board was what would happen if Jim Cramer left the company …
Now This is How the iPhone Should Handle Multitasking
I really hope someone at Apple sees these concept interfaces from Ocean Observations. They've taken the best elements of the Pre's card system, combined them with Cover Flow, and created an awesome v...
Sue or Sign: EMI Trades Lawsuit for Deal with Music Startup Grooveshark
Well, look at that: EMI Music Group, which had been working on a licensing deal with music startup Grooveshark but ended up suing it instead, now has a licensing deal with Grooveshark, after all.
HP brings touch to the mass market with new laptops and desktops
Hewlett-Packard is launching a series of new products today, including some long-awaited touchscreen laptop computers. — The highlight of today's 10 product introductions are laptops with multi-touc...
Gist unveils iPhone app: Managing contacts on the go
Just last month, Gist unveiled a new online service that allows users to peruse emails, Tweets, news stories and other information. Now, the Seattle startup is bringing that power to iPhone users. —...
Fetch as Googlebot and Malware details — now in Webmaster Tools Labs!
now in Webmaster Tools Labs! — The Webmaster Tools team is lucky to have passionate users who provide us with a great set of feature ideas. Going forward, we'll be launching some features under the ...
Twitter can't be gagged: online outcry over Guardian/Trafigura order
While the Guardian could be prevented from reporting, Twitter couldn't: Trafigura was the most used word on micro-blogging site this morning — Trafigura, a London-based oil trader connected with dum...
Crowd Around the Couch! TiVo and BLOCKBUSTER Bring Hit Movies to a Living Room Near You
BLOCKBUSTER(R) is also the newest place to purchase TiVo DVR boxes, helping to give consumers one more way to bring home the box that does it all — Starting today, broadband connected TiVo® DVR subs...
Ooyala gets $10M more for online video
Ooyala, a video startup founded by a group of former Googlers, has raised $10 million in a third round of venture funding. — The Mountain View, Calif., company sells its technology to companies that...
Sir Tim Berners-Lee Looks Back: the “//” in Web Addresses Was Unnecessary
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Asked what he would have done differently in creating the Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, says in this video that the double slash, the “//” after the colon in Web addresses, was unnecess...
Apple's iPhone will be available from every UK mobile operator
The Apple iPhone will soon be available from all five of Britain's mobile phone operators. — The hugely popular phone hit the headlines last month when Orange and Vodafone broke into O2's exclusive ...
Who needs a key? IPhone app unlocks and starts car
A California company Tuesday will announce an iPhone application and car receiver that will enable users to lock, unlock and remotely start their car with the phone rather than the car's key fob. — ...