Apple's iPhone 4.0 software to deliver multitasking support
Apple this summer will go a long way towards silencing critics and catering to one of the most prevalent demands of its iPhone user base, when it introduces a multitasking solution through the handset...
Web 2.0 versus Control 2.0
The fight for free access to information is being played out to an ever greater extent on the Internet. The emerging general trend is that a growing number of countries are attemptimg to tighten thei...
In stock nearby? Look for the blue dots.
Vic Gundotra, VP of Engineering, demonstrated last December a preview version of Product Search for mobile with local inventory, which lets you see right in your search results whether items are in st...
What's Happening—and Where?
and Where? — Every day, millions of tweets are created. These little bursts of information are about anything and everything—they make Twitter a hub for discovering what's happening right now, anywh...
Hard drive evolution could hit XP
Hard drives are about to undergo one of the biggest format shifts in 30 years. — By early 2011 all hard drives will use an “advanced format” that changes how they go about saving the data people sto...
Why I'm Skeptical of the FCC's Call for User Broadband Testing
Greetings. The FCC has issued a call for Internet users to test their broadband connections and report the results back to the FCC for analysis. — After inspecting the associated site and testing t...
Mexico's Carlos Slim knocks Bill Gates off his top billionaire perch
Bill Gates is no longer the world's richest man. The Microsoft co-founder was knocked out of the top slot in Forbes annual ranking of the top billionaires. — So who is the richest?
Skype Deliberately Crippling Functionality of iPhone and WinMo and Verizon Apps?
There's something anti-competitive afoot in the ‘VoIP over 3G’ space this year. Let me run you through a timeline, and see if you can't spot the dirty pool: — Skype has had a highly functional VoIP ...
Opera Mini 5 Beta Now Available For Android
Sure, Opera Mini may (or may not) already be the most popular mobile browser in the world — but why stop there? Following up on the Android release of Opera Mobile 4 just over a year ago, Opera has j...
HTC Incredible out in the wild once more, Verizon color scheme alive and well
Android Forums is alight today with fresh HTC Incredible chatter — a phone every Android fan on Verizon is desperately waiting for — and we've managed to glean a few more pictures and possible specs o...
Chatroulette Map: Not So Anonymous Anymore
Whenever people mention the random webcam site, Chatroulette, it inevitably leads to talk of how there are certain less-than-desirable webcam chat partners on the service. Some would wager that the g...
Mozilla begins testing Account Manager for Firefox to simplify web logins
Mozilla's developers are busily crafting all kinds of features for future versions of Firefox — Jetpack's no-restart add-on functionality,out of process plugins, a bigger, badder JavaScript engine.
Facebook v Daily Mail
On the one hand, you have what many regard as Britain's most influential daily newspaper; on the other, a social network with more than 400 million members and global reach. The Daily Mail and Facebo...
JooJoo hits the FCC, reveals NVIDIA Ion, 3G card
Well well. We'd always suspected that the JooJoo tablet was hiding something extra to run HD video and Flash, and it's just hit the FCC with full documentation and a teardown confirming that there's ...
Finally, a Major New Reason to Use Blogger: Easy Custom Templates
At this point, blogging has been around so long that there's nothing extraordinary about almost anyone-from an eleven-year-old to a grandma-having his or her own blog. One basic thing about blogging,...
Why Google Android is winning
The global smartphone market is still RIM's to lose, with Apple in the pole position to profit from its mistakes. But new ComScore data on the U.S. smartphone market suggest that both should be worri...
Pink Floyd win EMI court ruling
Pink Floyd tracks may be removed from digital music services like iTunes after a High Court ruling went against record label EMI. — The band's latest record deal, signed before services like iTunes ...
eBooks: B&N eReader for iPad Coming Soon
We've been getting lots of questions from customers, so we wanted to confirm that we will soon be adding a new B&N eReader for iPad - continuing to fulfill our promise of providing consumers any book,...
Why Digg Digs Cassandra
Digg, the San Francisco-based social media company, is dropping MySQL and instead betting its future on Cassandra, an open-source data store. It's just the latest sign of the growing popularity of th...
JooJoo revamps interface ahead of launch, adds local video playback — and changes color
and changes color — The JooJoo tablet's launch date might have been pushed back a month while Fusion Garage sorts out issues with the capacitive touchscreen, but it looks like the extra time has give...
OpenGL 4.0 comes out to play
With Microsoft becoming increasingly marginalized in areas like mobile media, DirectX is becoming less of a must-use toolset and more of a gaming-specific one. The other side of the coin is, of cours...
Kevin Rose: ‘My Foursquare data will tell my life story’
Foursquare is reaching a tipping point, says Kevin Rose, co-founder of Digg and Foursquare investor — “Foursquare felt very much like Twitter did a few years ago. When people think of Twitter, they...
doubleTwist's iTunes Alternative (That Works With Android) Adds Podcast Support
Over the last six months, doubleTwist, the iTunes alternative that lets you manage your music, videos, and photos, has really been stepping up its game. In October the company integrated an Amazon-po...
Evri Acquires Radar Networks In Semantic Search Consolidation
After shopping itself around to all the major search engines, Radar Networks finally found a buyer in another semantic search startup. Today, Evri is announcing that it will be acquiring Radar Networ...
Why did Nick Denton truncate Gawker's RSS feeds?
Yesterday, Gawker Media truncated its RSS feeds, and former Gawker editorial honcho Lockhart Steele immediately tweeted that “the only thing that excited me about Gawker's RSS truncation was picturing...
Meet Ubuntu Linux's new CEO (Q&A)
LONDON—Jane Silber has been chief executive of Canonical for 11 days. — But she's no outsider swooping in to take over Ubuntu Linux's corporate sponsor. She joined Canonical in June 2004, two month...
Behind The Scenes Of Apple's iPad Launch
New details about the books and apps that will run on the tablet computer. — In the run-up to the April 3 launch of Apple's iPad tablet computer, all appears calm. But behind the veil that obscures...
Betaworks Raises $20M From Intel, Others
Betaworks, a New York City-based Internet company, has raised $20 million in new venture funding, according to company executives. Intel Capital and previous investor RRE Ventures led the current rou...
Verizon promises first 4G handset for next summer, foretells end of unlimited data plans
Alright, you ultrafast mobile broadband zealots, whip out your calendars and draw a big red tick around the middle of 2011. Verizon's CTO Anthony Melone has identified next summer as the carrier's re...
Forrester's New Blog Platform Is Live!
As many of you will know, Forrester has been bust building its new blog platform and last night it went live. We hope you like the new look and feel, and all of the new tools (e.g. “Polls” and “Most ...
The Secret Lives Of Objects: StickyBits Turn Barcodes Into Personal Message Boards
Every place and object in the world has a secret past: who lived there, who passed by, who touched it. The secret lives of objects are filled with such details. If only you could make them talk.