RT @google: Tweets and updates and search, oh my!
At Google, our goal is to create the most comprehensive, relevant and fast search in the world. In the past few years, an entirely new type of data has emerged — real-time updates like those on Twitt...
New Google Music Service Launch Imminent
Google will soon launch a music service, we've heard from multiple sources, and the company has spent the last several weeks securing content for the launch of the service from the major music labels....
A New Tune for Facebook Gifts
We're continuing to enhance the Facebook Gift Shop so you have more ways to express your appreciation for the people in your life. A couple months ago, we took a first step by testing new types of gi...
BlackBerry Bold 9700 (Onyx) Now Official
RIM's new flagship device, the BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) (NSDQ: RIMM) Bold 9700, has been officially announced. If you've been following the latest leaked videos and pictures, you'd already know a fair...
Web 2.0 Summit: Marissa Mayer Shows Off Social Search, Results From Your Social Networks
At the Web 2.0 Summit today in San Francisco, Google's Marissa Mayer unexpected came on stage to unveil a new product. She first announced that Google has also reached a deal with Twitter …
B&N's Nook Is A Kindle Killer: 5 Reasons Why
Barnes & Noble's new Nook e-reader is the e-reader that competitors must now beat. So long Kindle 2, it was nice knowing you, but a better reader has come along. And just in time for the holidays, t...
How The iPhone Is Blowing Everyone Else Away (In Charts)
Yesterday at the Web 2.0 Summit, Morgan Stanley Internet analyst Mary Meeker did her annual data dump slide presentation, this year focusing on the growth prospects of the mobile Web. As usual, there...
Time Warner cable modem/router major security hole
If you're a Time Warner/Road Runner internet customer, and are using a SMC8014 series cable modem/wifi router combo. You should be aware of a serious security hole that allows anyone to access your p...
MySpace: A place for musicians... and their friends
It appears to be Music Wednesday on the Internet. On the same day that reports began circulating that Google and Facebook will launch a host of new music features, News Corp's MySpace is turning up t...
Is Microsoft Poised to Integrate Twitter Into Bing?
According to sources, Microsoft is close to striking a nonexclusive data-mining deal with Twitter to integrate the microblogging service's full feed into its results of its Bing search service. — Ne...
New BFFs Verizon, Google agree on net neutrality, except for wireless
In a joint statement with Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam said he agrees with the FCC's push to codify existing net neutrality guidelines and handle violations on a case-by...
Ellison Said to Meet With Kroes to Sway EU Over Oracle's Takeover of Sun
Oct. 21 (Bloomberg) — Oracle Corp. Chief Executive Officer Larry Ellison met with European Union Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes for negotiations over the company's acquisition of Sun Microsyste...
The Wall Street Journal — now for ‘professionals’
now for ‘professionals’ — The Wall Street Journal, ever on the hunt for new ways to please its readers and new ways to make money (and what, we ask, is wrong with that?), will launch a new, pricier v...
Dell Streak 5-inch 3G Android MID leaks [Update: Video!]
After Dell CEO Michael Dell confirmed that the company's Android smartphone would, in fact, make it to the US - albeit with some changes from the original Chinese model - details of a second Android-b...
Amazon: Windows 7 is ‘the biggest pre-order product of all time’
Windows 7 has beaten boy wizard Harry Potter to become the biggest pre-order product of all time in the UK, says Amazon. — The UK arm of the retail behemoth adds that the new operating system sold m...
Mobile Social Network Wars: Loopt Acquires GraffitiGEO
Loopt, the New Enterprise Associates and Sequoia-backed mobile social network, has acquired a relative newcomer to the scene - Y Combinator startup GraffitiGEO. Multiple sources have confirmed the ac...