Introducing Google Social Search: I finally found my friend's New York blog!
Your friends and contacts are a key part of your life online. Most people on the web today make social connections and publish web content in many different ways, including blogs, status updates and ...
Bill Keller: Apple Tablet ‘Impending’
Bill Keller may have casually mentioned that Apple's not-officially-happening-but-clearly- happening tablet computer is imminent and that the New York Times are working to bring content to it. — Ear...
MacFarlane special loses Microsoft
Microsoft has yanked its sponsorship off Fox's upcoming Seth MacFarlane comedy/variety special. Fox still plans to air “Family Guy Presents: Seth and Alex's Almost Live Comedy Show” on Nov. 8, but wi...
Netflix Movies Stream to Sony's PlayStation 3
Next month, the 9 million U.S. owners of Sony's PlayStation 3 game consoles will have another entertainment option available to them: streaming movies and TV shows from Netflix. — The long-awaited a...
What's Next: Sony Ericsson posts Rachael announcement date - now officially confirmed!
Sony Ericsson have just launched the “What's Next?” campaign website and there's no doubt it's about the announcement of Rachael, which according to the site will happen on the 3rd of November. — Ho...
Verizon Storm2 on October 28th, BlackBerry OS 5.0 for original Storm out now
If you have an original Storm purchased through Verizon then first, our condolences. At the risk of rubbing it in (since you're still on contract) we have to tell you that the second generation Storm...
Barnes & Noble Won't Sell Nook To Go In All Stores
Its 700-plus U.S. stores should give Barnes & Noble an edge in the contest for e-reader dollars but many won't be selling the actual Nook on site. Instead, I was told as a customer, the booksellers w...
Will There Be an Android App Boom Soon?
With a number of Google's Android OS-based smartphones on the horizon, developers are devoting significant resources to the mobile platform, which will result in a boom in Android apps, according to r...
Twitter And Y Combinator Team Up For Startup Stream Access
This past weekend, Twitter co-founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone spoke at Startup School. Before they took the stage, they met up with Y Combinator's Paul Graham and came up with a great idea: A de...
Verizon preps fourth quarter device barrage; Droid will ‘stimulate demand’
Verizon delivered a solid third quarter courtesy of its wireless business, which added 1.2 million net customers excluding acquisitions. The company also said it is set up for the fourth quarter with...
HTC Launches Multi-Million Dollar Ad Campaign About ‘You’ To Become Household Name
HTC may be the most successful cellphone company you've never heard of. — At least that was the headline three years ago when the Taiwanese-based company was getting serious about establishing itsel...
MacBook Pros to receive new Quad-core processors in coming weeks?
An Applesana forum poster (via Applesfera) is reporting that the new Mac OS 10.6.2 OS build 10C531 contains the following references to new MacBook Pros: — Current MacBook Pros are Version 5_5.
Palm Pixi Will Cost $99, Available Nov. 15 On Sprint
Sprint Nextel just announced that the new Palm Pixi will go on sale for $99 on Nov. 15. The Pixi is a smaller, skinnier answer to Palm's Pre. It's basically a souped-up version of its Centro device,...
Microsoft, Google and the Bear
Excuse me for repeating a hoary old joke: … This succinctly describes the relationship when it comes to smartphones between Google (the camper with the running shoes), Microsoft (the other camper) and...
Has AT&T Wireless data congestion been self-inflicted?
We've all heard or read stories about how iPhone usage has overloaded the AT&T Wireless network but it's likely at least some of their problems are the result of configuration errors specifically, con...
Ebooks helping surge in library members
E-books are helping libraries attract a flurry of new members, as readers embrace digital novels. — After years of library membership declining and fears that the public no longer wanted to borrow b...
Memories of Friends Departed Endure on Facebook
I'm facing an anniversary soon: I will have worked at Facebook for four years. I was originally drawn to the company for the opportunity to help build a technology that enables people to model their ...
Mystery HTC Android Handset Has a Name and a Carrier
So do you remember the post we did on a certain mysterious HTC Android device that we've never seen before? — Well after doing some research I'm 90% positive as to what this phone is... Its the HTC...
IT leaders trust Microsoft more than Google, 2-to-1
Microsoft has a long history with CIOs. Google is one of the most trusted brands on earth. TechRepublic's CIO Jury ruled on which one IT trusts more. — Google has gotten much more aggressive about...
Salesforce And Adobe Partner To Offer Flash-Based Applications In The Cloud
With all of its SaaS offerings, Salesforce.com is consistently integrating with other forms of cutting edge technologies, such as Twitter, Box.net, and more to offer clients more diverse and appealing...
Jeff Bezos, Spark Capital, Bet on Aviary, a Web-Based Would-Be Adobe
Last week, Jeff Bezos made $2 billion in one day, courtesy of a massive spike in Amazon shares. What will he do with the extra dough? — Perhaps plow it into more start-ups like Aviary, a Long Islan...
GeoCities' time has expired, Yahoo closing the site today
We always imagined how this might end: GeoCities would finally take down all of the animated “under construction” signs, and we'd hear one last Midi file to the tune of horns playing taps. — Instead...
Twitter ‘costs British economy £1.38bn’
Social networking websites such as Twitter are costing British businesses £1.38 billion a year in wasted time, a survey claims. — More than half of office workers use sites like Twitter and Facebook...
Tilera debuts chip with 100 computing brains for vast data centers
Networking chip maker Tilera is debuting a chip today with 100 computing brains. It believes that this hydra beast will be able to improve the computing power of data centers while reducing their pow...
85,000 reasons why Apple's iPhone isn't going to be disrupted
There's nothing geeks love more than to argue mobile phone platforms. Here's Matt Blaisdell saying that apps weren't key to iPhone's success. That's true, but now that Apple has apps the world has c...
Sony optical disc drive unit being investigated by DOJ
The U.S. Department of Justice has requested information from Sony regarding its optical disc drive business in what could be the start of an investigation into the industry. — The U.S. Department o...
The E-Reader Explosion: A Cheat Sheet
By almost any imaginable definition, last week was the newsiest ever in the still-new world of e-book readers. We witnessed the unveiling of Barnes & Noble's ambitious Nook. We got more details abou...
TomTom car mount now available at US Apple store for $120
The Tomtom iPhone mounting kit is now available in the US Apple Store. We still think it is exploitation of iPhone customers when a full Tomtom can often be had for less than the $120 Apple Store pri...