Stalqer Peers Into Your iPhone For A New Level Of Location-Based Creepiness
Foursquare and Loopt have put location-based social networks on the map, and have potentially created a viable business model as well. Now there's a new kid on the block, called Stalqer, which best d...
Making search more musical
Every day we get millions of search queries about music. You want to know more about your favorite artists, find that new album or iconic song or figure out the name of that tune stuck in your head. ...
Google Redefines GPS Navigation Landscape: Google Maps Navigation For Android 2.0
If you weren't sure about switching to an Android phone in the near future, this might put you over the edge. Google Maps Navigation is an absolutely killer app. And it is only available for Android...
Facebook Platform: A Roadmap for the Future
At Facebook, we focus on providing our developer community with simple building blocks to speed innovation and create an environment where small teams quickly push new products that can rapidly disrup...
Exclusive Picture Of Unlaunched Apple Tablet (circa 1990)
Yeah ok it isn't that Apple Tablet. But this is a picture, taken around 1990, of the Apple Pen Mac, a little known and never launched Apple tablet project. As far as we can tell there is no other im...
Microsoft And Yahoo Delay Signing Search Deal
Microsoft (MSFT) and Yahoo (YHOO) have delayed signing their search deal, Yahoo told the SEC in a filing. — In their original Juy 29 agreement, Yahoo and Microsoft said they would sign finish negoti...
Pound the Quality
“If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither on your side, pound the table.” —Legal Adage — Much of the current hype ...
Confirmed: Netflix Streaming Coming To The Wii Very Shortly
Last week I received some images that showed Netflix streaming on a Wii console. I didn't run with the story at the time as I didn't know if the images were legit and it's taken me until today to con...
Microsoft's ‘Signature PCs’ show its vision of computing perfection
People visiting Microsoft's new store in Scottsdale, Ariz., have started noticing something interesting, apart from its shameless similarities to Apple's retail outlets. The computers on display in t...
Google tells FCC it's still blocking calls, but fewer of them
Google told the Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday that it's still blocking some high-cost phone calls, but its engineers have figured out a way to reduce the phone numbers affected to few...
Want 50Mbps Internet in your town? Threaten to roll out your own
ISPs may not act for years on local complaints about slow Internet—but when a town rolls out its own solution, it's amazing how fast the incumbents can deploy fiber, cut prices, and run to the legisla...
Operating Systems Offer New Choices in PC Shopping
Now that both Microsoft and Apple have finally shipped the new versions of their operating systems, Windows 7 and Snow Leopard, respectively, it's time for my annual fall computer-buying guide. — Th...
Smart-grid money could assist broadband
IDG News Service - U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday unveiled $3.4 billion in grants to update the nation's electrical grid, but the benefits could reach to the broadband sector as well, one comm...
Apple stores upgrading from Windows-based EasyPay to iPod touch
Multiple sources have noted that Apple will be transitioning its retail store EasyPay handheld checkout systems from Windows-based PDA devices to iPod touch hardware for the 2009 holiday season.
Apple releases Magic Mouse software updates
Today, Apple released updates for both Leopard and Snow Leopard enabling the OS to use the multi-touch capabilities of standalone versions of the Magic Mouse. — The updates, which weigh in at 64 and...
PlaySpan Study Shows Growth In Virtual Goods Marketplace
Virtual goods are booming and there are various startups who are capitalizing on this growth by facilitating the exchange and e-commerce around these goods. PlaySpan, which powers micro-payments acro...
Google's Eric Schmidt on What the Web Will Look Like in 5 Years
Google CEO Eric Schmidt envisions a radically changed internet five years from now: dominated by Chinese-language and social media content, delivered over super-fast bandwidth in real time. Figuring ...
The TwitterPeek is Real? Cmon! No, seriously?
As a “connected gadget guy” I had heard a few rumors that Peek (the company blissfully unaware that people generally do like BlackBerries, and I don't much care that it's on Oprah's list - the future ...
Is the BlackBerry Doomed?
Apple's astounding 4th quarter fiscal results (reported Oct 19th) and its climb past $200 per share comes in stark contrast to Research in Motion's (RIM) earnings reported September 25th. Their stock...
How GeoCities Invented the Internet
A garish collection of home pages paved the way for blogging, social networks, and the rest of Web 2.0. — On Monday, Yahoo put GeoCities out of its misery, shutting down the last remaining pages on ...
Mobile Phone Software Company Not Pleased With Courgette, Sues Google
Red Bend, a VC-backed mobile phone software developer, is taking Google to court over alleged infringement of a patent it holds. — In its legal complaint filed earlier this week in Boston's district...
Facebook challenges financial regulators: FINRA
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Social networking sites like Facebook and LinkedIn raise “serious new challenges” for financial regulators, the head of the largest U.S. independent securities regulator said on T...
My Treadmill Is Twittering! The Next Frontier for Connected Devices: The Gym
Netpulse announced last night it had raised $3.1 million in Series A funding led by Javelin Venture Partners to bring interactive media to gyms. We were curious about the idea of connected fitness de...
Did AMD's former CEO reveal confidential secrets in Galleon insider trading case?
Former Advanced Micro Devices chief executive Hector Ruiz allegedly shared confidential secrets about his company to a trader involved in the Galleon insider trading scandal, according to the Wall Str...
SAP: Enterprise software market ‘difficult’; Emerging markets weak
SAP's third quarter was a mixed bag. Earnings were a touch better than expectations, but revenue and the outlook disappointed investors. Meanwhile, SAP said the software market showed “signs of stab...
Nokia-Apple row may last more than 1 year
* Has Apple licensing deal, not based at full iPhone price — * Sees quick deal unlikely in Nokia-Apple legal battle — * Sees royalty base one of key issues in Nokia-Apple deal (Adds details from A...
Vdopia Adds $4M for iPhone Ads
Vdopia, a profitable iPhone advertising platform, has raised $4 million in Series A funding from Nexus Venture Partners. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company, which only launched in the U.S. in March,...
Augmented Reality App Shows Recovery.gov Funding Near You
Want to see who got part of the hundreds of billions of dollars in Recovery.gov funds near you? Now you can point your iPhone 3Gs or Android phone in any direction and see the closest recipients, tha...