The Google Phone Is Very Real. And It's Coming Soon
The debate over Droid v. iPhone rages on, but lots more Android surprises are on the way. Get ready for the Google Phone. It's no longer a myth, it's real. — The next “super” Android device will a...
Nokia dropping Symbian from N-Series by 2012
This evening, at the official N900 meet-up in London, the Maemo marketing team revealed that Nokia plan to drop Symbian from the entire ‘top end’ N-Series range of handsets in favour of Maemo by 2012....
A tale of two Diggs
NEW YORK—You had two options if you wanted to hang out with Digg founder Kevin Rose at the Web 2.0 Expo conference this week: head over to the lobby bar of the trendy Standard Hotel on Monday night, w...
AT&T loses first legal battle against Verizon ads
AT&T has lost the first battle in a legal war against Verizon Wireless to force the company to stop showing advertisements that compare its 3G wireless network coverage with Verizon's coverage. — A ...
Why imeem Really Sold Out
This morning news broke that MySpace, the second-largest social network that's currently reinventing itself as a music destination, was buying imeem, a free online music service that has been remixed ...
American Express Acquiring Steve Case's Revolution Money For $300 Million
Another big deal in the next-generation consumer financial products space. — American Express (AXP) has just announced the acquisition of Steve Case's startup Revolution Money for $300 million.
Next-gen Flip camcorder to boast Wi-Fi
EXCLUSIVE: Cisco buy-out sees networking functionality added to popular range — Cisco will launch a new Wi-Fi-enabled Flip digital camcorder to go on sale in the early half of 2010, Pocket-lint has ...
Hulu Steps Into Music With EMI and Norah Jones
Hulu, the joint online venture between NBC, Fox and ABC that mostly offers free TV shows and movies, is about to start singing a different tune: music videos. — On Wednesday the company plans to ann...
Phishing scam hits Mac users - stay safe online
We received word this morning of what could be a brand new phishing attack that's in circulation at present - an email which purports to relate to a recent Apple retail transaction and asks for detail...
TweetPhoto CEO Says Too Much In Interview, Gets Fired. And That's Just The Beginning...
Facebook v Ceop
Facebook is under fire this morning, accused of neglecting its responsibility to help to keep young internet users safe. — The charge comes from Jim Gamble of the Child Exploitation and Online Prote...
iPhone you control my car - if it is a Mercedes-Benz
There's an App for that, at least if you drive a Mercedes-Benz (like a certain handicap-parking, barcode license plate having CEO we know), which has teamed up with Hughes Telematics to offer a new sy...
Inside “MinWin:” the Windows 7 kernel slims down
As Windows 2000 was being developed in the second half of the 1990s, Microsoft was firmly focused on building in as much functionality as possible, in a play to push Novell Netware aside and establish...
comScore Releases October 2009 U.S. Search Engine Rankings
comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. In October 2009, Americans conducted 14.3 ...
MySpace Signs Agreement To Acquire iMeem
On Monday we broke the news that MySpace was in late stage negotiations to acquire music service iMeem. Those negotiations are now concluded, we've heard from multiple sources, and an agreement has b...
Library in a Pocket
With Amazon's Kindle, readers can squeeze hundreds of books into a device that is smaller than most hardcovers. For some, that's not small enough. — Many people who want to read electronic books ar...
Dash to D.C.! Tech Guru Will Head Gov't Incubator, Digitize Democracy
Last February, Anil Dash; the co-founder and “chief evangelist” for Six Apart, the company that creates the most popular blogging software in the world; was visiting his family in India for the first ...
Location Is The Missing Link Between Social Networks And The Real World
Imagine a world where you sit at your computer and you never go outside. Where you never see another human being. This is the world that sites like Google and Facebook want you to live in.
An Early Look At IE9 for Developers
We're just about a month after the Windows 7 launch, and wanted to show an early look at some of the work underway on Internet Explorer 9. — At the PDC today, in addition to demonstrating some of th...
Google Squeezes LexisNexis and Westlaw Hard
Google's Uncle Sam service is arguably a more effective way to find information from various US government entities. I heard a couple of years ago that Google was indexing the content on various stat...
Norwest Closes $1.2 Billion Venture Fund
Norwest Venture Partners (NVP), one of the most respected funds in Silicon Valley, says that it's closed NVP XI, a $1.2 billion fund that will invest in diverse sectors and geographies. NVP, which re...
Ordnance Survey maps to go free online - at last
PM to open access to 2,000 data sets in victory for Guardian's Free Our Data campaign — The government is to explore ways of making all Ordnance Survey maps freely available online from April, in a ...
South Korean regulator approves iPhone
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea's telecommunications regulator cleared the way Wednesday for the launch of Apple's iPhone, amid reports the hit device could reach consumers by the end of this month. ...
Can you be liable for your tweets?
(CNN) — In a case that would have been impossible even five years ago, bad-girl rocker Courtney Love is being sued for libel by a fashion designer for allegedly slamming the woman on Twitter. — The ...
“Streams of Content, Limited Attention: The Flow of Information through Social Media”
[This is a rough unedited crib of the actual talk] — Citation: boyd, danah. 2009. “Streams of Content, Limited Attention: The Flow of Information through Social Media.” Web2.0 Expo. New York, NY:...
A Brave New Web Will Be Here Soon, But Browsers Must Improve
The great promise of HTML5 is that it will turn the web into a full-fledged computing platform awash with video, animation and real-time interactions, yet free of the hacks and plug-ins common today.
What Do Murdoch's Customers Think About His Pay-Wall Plans and Google-bashing?
Simon Dumenco Surveys News Corp. Websites for Reader Comments — As a sort of companion piece to “Why News Corp. & Murdoch Won't Quit Google,” an analysis published in this week's Advertising Age …