Making URLs shorter for Google Toolbar and FeedBurner
This morning, we launched updated versions of the Google Toolbar and FeedBurner that offer a new URL shortening service from Google called the Google URL Shortener. We mentioned our URL shortener as ...
Exclusive: first Google Phone / Nexus One photos, Android 2.1 on-board
Well here you have it folks, honest-to-goodness pics of the Google Phone... AKA, the Nexus One. As you can see by the photos, the design of the device is largely similar to those we've seen, but the ...
Oracle Makes Commitments to Customers, Developers and Users of MySQL
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) has engaged in constructive discussions with the European Commission regarding the concerns expressed by the Commission about the Oracle/Sun Microsystems transaction, and in part...
TeliaSonera first in the world with 4G services
Today, as the first operator in the world, TeliaSonera launches 4G services commercially to customers in Stockholm, Sweden and Oslo, Norway. — “We are very proud to be the first operator in the worl...
Apple apologizes for iMac delays
Apple on Sunday apologized to customers amid reports of shipping delays of its recently introduced iMac computer. — “The new iMac has been a huge hit and we are working hard to fulfill orders as qui...
Cloud apps, big city: LA goes Google
This fall we've seen lots of government agencies decide to make the switch to cloud computing, joining the many businesses already using Google Apps for email and collaboration at work. Today we'd li...
Marissa Mayer: An omnivorous Google is coming
Marissa Mayer, Google's vice president for search products and user experience, shares her unparalleled insights into the future of internet search engines. — The next big breakout area for Google i...
HTC Legend not a legend anymore
ai.rs blog Exclusive — As we promised, we bring you more info on HTC Legend. In fact, we present you exclusive crystal clear image of the upcoming Android phone from HTC. We suppose it will replac...
Socializing your feed with Twitter
Sometimes you reach across the hedgerow to share with your nearby neighbors. Other times, members of the household move away and yet you can't keep from calling to remind them to wear a hat and such ...
App Watch: Exploiting the iPhone Lock Screen
Most iPhone app developers work with Apple to get their products in the iPhone App Store, submitting software for the company's approval. But a community of maverick developers sidesteps that process...
Barnes & Noble Nook torn down and rooted — but still respected
but still respected — Barnes & Noble might be pitching the Nook to the literary set, but it turns out the Android-based dual-screen reader is pretty hacker-friendly as well: both the OS and filesyste...
Spinvox nears £92m takeover
SPINVOX, the troubled technology firm, is close to accepting a $150m (£92m) takeover offer from an American rival. — A sale to Nuance Communications, the speech-recognition group, could be announced...
Fuse: What Your Next Touch Phone Is Going to Feel Like
Fuse is what Synaptics—who probably made the trackpad you're swirling your finger on, and maybe your phone's touchscreen—says the next generation of touch phones will be like: You'll be squeezing, tou...
Can TiVo Reinvent Itself?
DVR Pioneer Needs Help — Fast — From Cable Operators to Survive — TiVo president and CEO Tom Rogers says he doesn't run a DVR company. — This is odd, since TiVo is synonymous with the digital vide...
U.S. Web Users Spent Just Over 66 Hours on the Computer in November
The Nielsen Company today reported November 2009 data for the Top Parent Companies/Divisions and Top Web Brands, as well as average Internet usage. — Top 10 Parent Companies/Divisions for November 2...
iPhone Users Urged to Take Down AT&T
Apparently, AT&T CEO Ralph de la Vega's recent remarks concerning the carrier's plans to “incentivize” mobile data hogs to cut back on their usage rates aren't sitting well with AT&T customers. Shock...
Microsoft Blatantly Steals From Startup? - Plurk Stunned and Confused
I am not sure what to make of this one. Plurk, a very promising social networking startup is claiming that Microsoft (you read that right), has been involved with “blatant theft of code, design, and ...
Hackers declare war on international forensics tool
Microsoft's COFEE decaffeinated — Hackers have released software they say sabotages a suite of forensics utilities provided for free by Microsoft to hundreds of law enforcement agencies across the g...
Location's Social Paradox
There's an absolute eruption of activity around location-based services right now. Companies are getting funded left and right, new ones are popping up daily, and certain ones are seemingly starting ...
Announcing bit.ly Pro
Today we're pleased to announce a new service: bit.ly Pro. The Pro service provides custom short URLs powered by bit.ly. Publishers and bloggers will be able to use their own short domain names to p...
Author Grants Exclusive E-Book Rights to Amazon
Ever since electronic books emerged as a major growth market, New York's largest publishing houses have worried that big-name authors might sign deals directly with e-book retailers or other new ventu...
Find people faster with LinkedIn's new faceted search
Here at LinkedIn, we believe that people search is one of the most valuable new areas of search technology. Late last year, we announced the launch of the new people search platform, rebuilt from the...
The Wall Opens A Bit More: Facebook To Publish User Updates To Twitter This Week
A lot has been said recently about Facebook's decision to re-write its privacy rulebook to encourage users to be more open about what they share. Privacy implications aside, at least it appears that ...
Expanding the Cloud - Amazon EC2 Spot Instances
Today we launched a new option for acquiring Amazon EC2 Compute resources: Spot Instances. Using this option, customers bid any price they like on unused Amazon EC2 capacity and run those instances f...
Cloud apps, big city: LA goes Google
This fall we've seen lots of government agencies decide to make the switch to cloud computing, joining the many businesses already using Google Apps for email and collaboration at work. Today we'd li...
New Guardian iPhone app
Want to view the Guardian in double quick time, with slicker graphics and better clarity on your iPhone? Well there's an app for that...
Seagate launches world's thinnest hard drive for laptops and netbooks
Seagate Technology is announcing tomorrow its Momentus Thin drive, the world's thinnest 2.5-inch hard disk drive for the smallest laptops and netbooks. — The device can also be used in backup device...
Is Apple Taking the Internet Seriously Now?
Apple's always been a particular kind of company, obsessed with experiences, controlling them, end to end. But those they've always been centered around the traditional desktop. Until Apple bought L...
Huffington Post's New Ad Revenue Stream: Twitter Feeds
Marketers Can Pay to Add Tweets, Comments Alongside Readers' Own — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The Huffington Post has started offering marketers the ability to inject their own paid comments among reade...
Microsoft China Blatantly Rips Off Microblogging Service Plurk
Microblogging startup Plurk may not have become hugely popular in these parts, where Twitter rules the lands, but it has been making strides in Asia. Recently, the fledgling company has gotten a fear...
Google advertises Chrome with giant UK newspaper ad (Update: Billboard ads too)
[UK] Google is advertising its Chrome browser using a wrap-around cover on today's Metro newspaper in the UK. — The ad's front page, continuing the theme of the video ad Google launched last week, d...
TwitVid gets a real-time search engine, analytics
TwitVid, a free video host for Twitter, is launching two new, useful features on Monday. The first is a real-time search engine that will let users sort through videos both on TwitVid and YouTube. T...