Stay Connected with Free Airport Wi-Fi from Google this Holiday Season
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced that it is working with airports across the country as well as Boingo Wireless, Advanced Wireless Group, Airport Marketing Income and others to provide free ...
Google Latitude, now with Location History & Alerts
Since the launch of Google Latitude earlier this year, we've been getting a lot of feature requests. One of the most popular ideas was for Latitude to keep track of location history, allowing you (bu...
Motorola Probably Sold 100,000 Droids in Challenge to IPhone
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) — Motorola Inc. probably sold 100,000 Droid phones in their first weekend on the market, a sign that the handset maker is recovering even though it still trails Apple Inc., an anal...
Google hopes to remake programming with Go
Google software luminaries including Unix co-creator Ken Thompson believe they can help boost both computing power and programmers' abilities with an experimental programming language project called G...
LinkedIn works with Twitter, and vice versa
Today we're announcing a partnership between LinkedIn and Twitter - and new features that we think are going to make both Twitter and LinkedIn more powerful for you. These new features will be rollin...
Bringing the Best of Web Video to You at Bing Videos
Turn off the lights (literally), share with your friends and kick back...you are about to see the latest Bing videos experience. — Starting today and rolling out over the next few days Bing videos w...
“Kindle for PC” Now Available
The Free Application for Reading Kindle Books Available on the PC Today for Readers Around the World — Latest Kindle application brings more than 360,000 Kindle books, including New York Times Bests...
How Much Is Twitter Worth? Less Than You Think
Twitter, the San Francisco-based micro-messaging startup, recently raised about $98 million dollars from T. Rowe Price, Insight Venture Partners, Spark Capital and Institutional Venture Partners, valu...
For now, ‘illegal’ Apple billboard dropped
A controversial Apple billboard has come down, leaving many questions and some large whales in its wake. — This weekend, Planet Storage on Traveler Street removed its iPod Touch sign and revealed to...
Typekit Launches its Cloud-Based Web Font Service
Typekit takes a cloud-based approach to fonts on the web, serving up an extensive library of designer fonts that be incorporated into a site simply by dropping in a line of code. We first wrote about...
Intel introduces a digital book reader that reads aloud to the blind
Ben Foss grew up with dyslexia, a learning disability so severe that his mother had to read books to him throughout his school years, all the way through college. Now 36, he is spearheading the launc...
Android Market: Agree to new terms or we unpublish your app
Google informed developers today that their distribution agreement for the Android Market is changing. If developers do not accept the new agreement within 30 days, their applications will be removed...
Nokia N900 begins shipping!
GLOBAL - Today sees the first batch of Nokia N900 handsets boxed up and shipped out on their maiden voyage into wild. The N900 has been the most discussed device we've ever reported on here at Conver...
AOL: Small Layoff Today, a Voluntary Buyout and, Then...the Big One
Essentially-although AOL is located in New York and not California-it's going to be like tremors before the Big One at the online company today, as about 100 employees are laid off. — Sources said t...
Apple IDs the next-generation iPhone
Cupertino wakes up to NFC? — Evidence is growing that Apple plans to embed NFC into the next iPhone, but can Steve Jobs sell the technology that no one else seems to want? — For the last few month...
Hundreds of Facebook Groups Hacked
A hacker, or group of hackers, has found a back door into taking over Facebook groups, and is now doing so, claiming it to be a public service. It has taken over up to 300 different Facebook groups s...
We Know Hollywood Is This Dumb. Et Tu, Netflix?
Back in August, we wrote about the Hollywood movie studios conspiring to keep new release DVDs away from services like Netflix and Redbox for as many as 30 days after their release. The idea behind t...
Cough into your mobile phone for instant diagnosis
Your mobile phone may soon be able to diagnose respiratory illnesses in seconds when you cough into it. — Software being developed by American and Australian scientists will hopefully allow patients...
Twitter user ‘S**t My Dad Says’ gets CBS deal
Twitter sensation S**t My Dad Says is headed to television. — CBS has picked up a comedy project based on the Twitter account, which has enlisted more than 707,000 followers since launching in Augus...
NVIDIA CEO shows off mystery tablet, makes zero statements about mystery tablet
You think maybe the cats at NVIDIA are a little hot to trot on the tablet concept? Not only did Mike Rayfield (the company's general manger of its mobile division) spout off on a “3G capable touchpad...
Expect Caffeine after the holidays
Back in August we mentioned a developer preview of Caffeine, which is new technology that improves our indexing infrastructure. The feedback on Caffeine has been very positive, so we're ready to move...
Blu-ray discs get Managed Copy; hardware support nonexistent
After four years in the oven, “managed copy” is done—and boy, is it a stinker. — “Managed copy” has been slouching its way toward our living rooms for years now, but the technology that can make bac...
Blockbuster to Rent Movies on SD Cards, but Why?
Blockbuster is piloting a new movie-rental program that allows customers to load movies onto SD cards and play them back on mobile phones and TVs equipped with SD readers. — Perhaps conceived as a o...
The Wisdom Of AdMob's Founder Omar Hamoui
Google Inc.'s announcement that it will buy AdMob Inc. for $750 million brought a media spotlight on Accel Partners, an investor in both AdMob and Playfish Inc., which said today it will sell to Elect...
Motorola marks a milestone with the announcement of its first Android-powered device in Canada
Motorola Milestone(TM) delivers the experience you've always wanted on a mobile device with the world's thinnest QWERTY slider — Motorola Canada today announced it will bring its first Android …
Samsung launches bada open mobile OS
Samsung today entered into the mobile OS arena with bada. The software, whose name is based on the Korean for “ocean,” is designed to be open and will compete directly against rivals like Android or ...
Security firm chokes sprawling spam botnet
Mega-D no more — A botnet that was once responsible for an estimated third of the world's spam has been knocked out of commission thanks to researchers from security firm FireEye. — After carefull...
VESA Standardizes Mini DisplayPort — Could Lead to Thinner Netbooks, Notebooks
Could Lead to Thinner Netbooks, Notebooks — The rise of the netbook helped bring reasonable computing power to smaller packages. While that's good, one of the downsides is trying to cram all the exp...
Did Microsoft Windows 7 download tool violate the GPL?
Microsoft has pulled an update tool for Windows 7 from the Microsoft Store site after a report indicating that the tool incorporated open-source code in a way that violated the GNU General Public Lice...
Tethering to iPhone still coming, AT&T says; no date set
AT&T has promised tethering for the iPhone for a year — Computerworld - AT&T today reiterated its plans to offer tethering on the iPhone, but again gave no date when that might happen — more than a ...
OffiSync Adds Google Sites Support to Target Microsoft SharePoint
Gunning for Microsoft SharePoint, OffiSync Nov. 10 launched a paid version of its Microsoft Office plug-in that lets users access their Microsoft Office documents from the Google Sites wiki.
Best Buy to sell a $249 notebook this holiday season
Need a dirt cheap and somewhat underpowered notebook? Best Buy has you covered with a $249 Acer laptop. Netbook, what? — The exact model will be revealed tomorrow, but at least the key specs have ...
Netflix streaming officially hits PS3 today
If you are one of the hoards of PS3 owners that were excited by Netflix announced streaming would be coming to the game console, today is the big day friends. Netflix has announced that its streaming...