Google May Offer Buzz Independently From Gmail
Google says it may allow people to participate in Google Buzz without having it integrated within Gmail, in addition to offering a combined Gmail service. That may be a welcome move from users of bot...
Apple's top 10 issues: AT&T, the App Store, and ... computers?
John Gruber, author of popular Apple-focused blog Daring Fireball, just finished his presentation at the MacWorld conference in San Francisco, where he walked through what he sees as Apple's top 10 is...
New: Google Maps Labs
When Google wants to test new features, they call them Lab experiments, and make them opt-in. Now, following many other services, Google Maps received a Lab icon. Click the green flask at the top of...
Amazon Wants To Give A Free Kindle To All Amazon Prime Subscribers
In January Amazon offered select customers a free Kindle of sorts - they had to pay for it, but if they didn't like it they could get a full refund and keep the device. It turns out that was just a t...
Announcing Google Chart Tools
A good chart can tell a story, such as depicting when you get home on Saturday night by plotting your tweet patterns along the week. — A good chart can take an elusive concept and clarify it in a vi...
The iPad that launched a thousand apps
Data gathered in January show a rush of new projects on the iPhone operating system — Click to enlarge. Source: Flurry Analytics — Measured by the number of applications available for each type o...
Microsoft halts Windows Update distribution of security fix after blue-screen reports
Microsoft has removed one group of patches it released as part of this week's Patch Tuesday — MS10-015 (KB977165) - from its Windows Update service until it can investigate reports by some users that ...
Meet the guys behind Pocket God
Their pygmy-killing iPhone game is the unlikely winner of this year's “Best App Ever” award — Dave Castelnuovo and Allan Dye. Photo: Spencer Brown — It started as a week-long “sprint project” — a...
Wanna hear what the cops are saying? There's an App for that....
This ingenious little app lets users alert others about emergency broadcast streams as they happen using text messages.
Microsoft Acquiring RIM May Be Bad Idea, Says Analyst
Microsoft is reportedly interested in purchasing BlackBerry maker Research In Motion, but such an acquisition could have negative consequences for Microsoft, an analyst says. Both Microsoft and RIM s...
Thoughts On Buzz
Reece asked me in the comments the other day what I thought about Buzz. I told him I hadn't had the time to turn it on and play with it. I did that later in the day and have been using Buzz for a co...
Obama Is Hiring a Twitterer
Calling all job-seekers: President Barack Obama is looking for an official Twitterer. … The Democratic National Committee's “social networks manager” job description says the position entails maintain...
Wi-Fi rides to wireless networks' rescue
Good old Wi-Fi could be the fix to an impending explosion of data on wireless networks. — Nearly three years after Apple introduced the game-changing iPhone, wireless operators around the globe are ...
TED 2010: Wired for the iPad to Launch by Summer
LONG Beach, California — Wired Magazine Editor-in-Chief Chris Anderson announced at the Technology, Entertainment and Design conference on Friday that the publication would be releasing its content fo...
Mobile Payment Service Square Simplified On Video
Remember that awesome video that was made for the Twitter iPhone app Birdhouse last year (if not, watch it)? Well, that guy, Adam Lisagor (aka LonelySandwich) is back at it again, this time for the m...
Chip-and-PIN is broken
Noted security researcher Ross Anderson and colleagues have published a paper showing how “Chip-and-PIN” (the European system for verifying credit- and debit-card transactions) has been thoroughly bro...
Extreme Scale Computing
Supercomputing has been a major part of my education and career, from the late 1960s when I was doing atomic and molecular calculations as a physics doctorate student at the University of Chicago, to ...
Microsoft Reorganizes Marketing Team, Appoints Chief Creative Officer
Taps Gayle Troberman for Post; Several Execs Also Gain New Roles — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Microsoft has reorganized its central marketing group and among the changes is the naming of a chief creativ...