Explore a whole new way to window shop, with Google and your mobile phone
What if you could decide where to shop, eat or hang out, with a little help from local Google users? — It might take you a while to ask them all, so to make it easier we've launched a new effort to ...
Hands-on with the JooJoo
CNET snagged the first journalists' demo of the new JooJoo (formerly CrunchPad) Web slate on Fusion Garage CEO Chandra Rathakrishnan's San Francisco media tour. Quick impressions: yeah, this is a rea...
Your First Look at Nook: The Technologizer Review
In retrospect, it was probably inevitable. Bookselling behemoth Barnes & Noble has spent much of the past decade and a half duking it out with online archrival Amazon.com. So when Amazon unveiled it...
Boxee shows off beta version with improved interface
At an event in Brooklyn on Monday, Boxee showed off the upcoming beta version of its media center application for OS X, Windows, Linux, and Apple TV. The Boxee software, based on the open-source XBMC...
Yahoo! Introduces Ad Interest Manager
Provides Consumers with Greater Transparency and Control over Their Online Advertising Experience — Today Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) released a beta version of a new consumer tool called Ad Interest ...
Hyperlocal Aggregator Outside.in Raises $7 Million From CNN, Others
Time Warner's CNN is taking a stake in hyperlocal aggregator Outside.in—the latest example of a big media organization making a play in the hyperlocal space. CNN is getting a share of Outside.in as p...
Google CEO Eric Schmidt Joins Twitter (With An Awful Name)
Back in March, Google CEO Eric Schmidt caused a little controversy when he was quoted as thinking of Twitter (and the other micro-messaging services like it) as a “sort of poor man's email systems.” ...
Journalism and Freedom
Government assistance is a greater threat to the press than any new technology. — Printer — Friendly — We are at a time when many news enterprises are shutting down or scaling back. No doubt yo...
VMware developing dual OS smartphone virtualisation
Work and home phones apps and calls will run on the same handset at the same time via virtualisation — VMware has flagged smartphones as the next platform in the evolution of virtualisation, but at ...
Sometimes eight screens are better than one
Back in June of 2008, some of my fellow engineers and I got to thinking: how could we recreate the experience of seeing the impressive imagery from our geo products in a more seamless way? We scroung...
AT&T releases Mark the Spot, a network failure reporting tool
Poor AT&T, it must be tired of being tied to the whipping post and constantly flogged in the media for its abysmal network performance. To address its network woes, AT&T has released a new iPhone app...
Publisher Lays Out Plan to Save Newspapers
When Axel Springer, the founder of the German newspaper publishing business bearing his name, laid the cornerstone in 1959 for a high-rise headquarters in Berlin only steps away from the tense line se...
Zappos Tries a Printed Catalog
A company that could be the model for Internet retailing success is peddling goods by paper as well as by pixels. — Zappos.com, the online seller of shoes and other merchandise that was recently acq...
Nvidia Ion 2 reportedly lands orders from Acer
Nvidia has reportedly landed orders for Ion 2-based chips designed to support Intel's upcoming (Pineview) Atom N450, N470, D510 or D410 CPUs and related (Tiger Point) chipsets from Acer, according to ...
Comcast's NBC deal could be roadblock for Apple's subscription hopes
While Apple is rumored to be working with TV networks on a subscription plan for shows on iTunes, Comcast's intent to purchase NBC could prevent such a deal with one of the big four U.S. broadcast net...
Pearltrees Beta Launches on Wednesday: Will Let You Archive the Links You Share on Twitter
At this year's LeWeb conference, Pearltrees will launch the beta version of it's bookmarking and curation service. In this beta, Pearltrees will introduce some interesting features for Twitter users.
Vevo's “Hulu for Music” Gets a Prelaunch Boost: EMI Adds its Clips (But Not Equity) to the Mix
Vevo, the “Hulu for music videos” site that launches tomorrow, just got a bit bigger: In addition to clips from owners Sony (SNE) and Universal Music Group, the site will also offer EMI Music Group's ...
Yelp finds you food on Android
Frequent Yelp users will be pleased to see a Yelp for Android app take its place in the Android Market on Monday. Be forewarned, however, that the app contains the minimum services from Yelp.com in t...
iRobot launches educational program
iRobot Corp. today announced that it has launched a new education initiative called SPARK (for “Starter Programs for the Advancement of Robotics Knowledge"). — The object of the initiative is to hel...