Apple bans protective screen film from Apple Store
Apple has banned protective screen film from its retail and online stores, iLounge has confirmed with several separate companies, a policy that will affect both cases and individual film packages begi...
Nexus One from Google Coming to Sprint; Availability Date Announced Soon
Nexus One(TM) is planned for the Sprint Mobile Broadband Network with twice the network coverage of AT&T and ten times the network coverage of T-Mobile, both by square miles; Expands Sprint's Android(...
FTC Member Rips Into Google's Privacy Efforts
Several major U.S. Internet companies, including Google and Facebook, need to “step up” and better protect consumer privacy or face tougher penalties from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, a commissi...
Mobile ‘apps’ a $17.5 bln market by 2012: study
SAN FRANCISCO — A study released on Wednesday indicated that the market for mobile device software programs should rocket to 17.5 billion dollars (US) within three years. — Downloads of mobile appli...
Google and Partners Seek a Television Foothold
Google and Intel have teamed with Sony to develop a platform called Google TV to bring the Web into the living room through a new generation of televisions and set-top boxes. — The move is an effort...
Twitter, SXSW, and Building a 21st Century Business
So, how was your week? Mine's been interesting. In case you haven't heard, I interviewed Twitter CEO Evan Williams at the keynote at this year's South By Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Conference on M...
New MacBook Pro, Air and Mac Pro pricing potentially leaked by Apple ads and online store (updated)
Could this be another example of online advertising presaging the onset of a hardware upgrade from Cupertino? Apple's ads on Australian tech pub PC Authority have been spotted displaying …
Now it's easy to switch to Google Apps from Microsoft® Exchange
Today we're making it a lot easier for customers of Microsoft Exchange to go Google with Apps. Google Apps Migration for Microsoft® Exchange is a new server-side tool that migrates your company's ema...
Gesture Search now available for Android 1.6
Since we launched Gesture Search on Android Market two weeks ago, I've seen quite a bit of feedback. For example, some of you have requested Gesture Search for earlier versions of Android, as well as...
AOL Sets Up $10 Million Venture Fund To Back Local Startups
AOL (NYSE: AOL)—which is doubling down on its own local efforts—is now setting up a $10 million venture capital fund to invest in the local space. The company cites the “increasing number of startups...
G.M. Tinkers With Augmented Reality System for Cars
The navigation element of General Motors' enhanced vision system could help drivers find their destination by pointing to an exact building. — In foggy or dark conditions, the system helps define th...
URL Shorteners Slow Down The Web - Especially Facebook's FB.me
It's hard to imagine a Web sans URL shortening services nowadays but you can rest assured that they're here to stay - for better or worse. Question is: how do the likes of bit.ly, TinyURL and Goo.gl ...
Blockbuster Brings New Releases to Android, Windows Mobile Phones
Blockbuster is bringing its OnDemand service to both Windows Mobile and Google Android phones, starting March 24th with the launch of the T-Mobile HTC HD2 smartphone. On that device, Blockbuster cust...
How Privacy Vanishes Online
If a stranger came up to you on the street, would you give him your name, Social Security number and e-mail address? — Probably not. — Yet people often dole out all kinds of personal information o...
Complaints Against Yelp's “Extortion” Practices Grow Louder
Yelp has been hit with another lawsuit, the third in a matter of a few weeks. Similar to the previous complaints, this lawsuit filed by Boris Levitt, the owner of Renaissance Furniture Restoration in...
new bing maps application: worldwide telescope
About 2 years ago, I posted the announcement of Microsoft Research's WorldWide Telescope (WWT) - a project to map out the stars, planets, solar systems and anything not on the Earth (see WorldWide Tel...
Apple adds social networking, iPhone features to iWork.com
Apple on Wednesday added a few new features to its iWork.com Web site, including the ability to share documents on social networking Web sites. — With the enhancements, users of iWork.com can now sh...
Foursquare Notches 100,000 New Users In 10 Days
Foursquare's SXSW push has paid off. The company just tweeted that it gained 100,000 new users in the last ten days. — That suggests that Foursquare has around 600,000 users now. (The NYT reported...
Firefox 3.0 reaching end of the line
A few months later than expected, Mozilla is calling it quits for version 3.0 of its Firefox browser. — “There will be no more updates for Firefox 3.0.x,” Mozilla said Tuesday in a meeting planning ...
Google's Traffic Is Giant, Which Is Why It Should be Your ISP
Everybody knows Google is one of the net's big kids, but how big is it exactly? — Well, as Arbor Networks measures it, if Google were an ISP, it would be the third largest in the world and the faste...
Palm Grasps at Relevance Ahead of Earnings
The news Thursday from Palm will be bad. — We know that because the company pre-announced its earnings a few weeks ago. The company's credibility problem from both a marketplace and managerial pers...
Latest Version of Google Chrome Adds Auto-Translation and New Privacy Features
Google just launched a new stable version of Google Chrome, the company's increasingly popular browser, which introduces a number of new features and more advanced privacy controls.
Google Maps for Android: Search 'n Swipe, Latitude Widget, and More
Making sense of a fast paced and changing world is difficult under the best of circumstances, but when you're on the go, it's even harder. With the new Google Maps for mobile 4.1, we're introducing a...
Yahoo! to Acquire Citizen Sports
Strengthens Social Strategy by Combining the Power of the No. 1 Online Sports Destination with the Web's Most Popular Social Sports Company — As part of its ongoing commitment to be the center of pe...
AS-Troyak Exposes a Large Cybercrime Infrastructure
Last week, RSA and other security professionals noticed a sudden halt in the activity of an upstream Internet connectivity provider named “AS-Troyak”, thus causing several major malware-hosting networ...
Free wiki hosting company Wikia to let you create your own question and answer sites
Wikia, a site which allows anyone to create their own free wiki page, has announced a new service, Answers from Wikia, that will enable anyone to create their own question and answer sites as well.
Hacker Disables More Than 100 Cars Remotely
More than 100 drivers in Austin, Texas found their cars disabled or the horns honking out of control, after an intruder ran amok in a web-based vehicle-immobilization system normally used to get the a...
Google Italy & Privacy: Not What You Might Think
Reading through Italian news coverage of the Google Italy case, another picture emerges. User privacy may well be at issue, but not in the way you probably think. I grew up in Italy and now research...
Mobile ‘apps’ a $17.5 bln market by 2012: study
SAN FRANCISCO — A study released on Wednesday indicated that the market for mobile device software programs should rocket to 17.5 billion dollars (US) within three years. — Downloads of mobile appli...
Google Maps for Android: Search 'n Swipe, Latitude Widget, and More
Making sense of a fast paced and changing world is difficult under the best of circumstances, but when you're on the go, it's even harder. With the new Google Maps for mobile 4.1, we're introducing a...
Gesture Search now available for Android 1.6
Since we launched Gesture Search on Android Market two weeks ago, I've seen quite a bit of feedback. For example, some of you have requested Gesture Search for earlier versions of Android, as well as...
A Rift at Amazon on E-Book Prices
Amazon.com has threatened to stop directly selling the books of some publishers online unless they agree to a detailed list of concessions regarding the sale of electronic books, according to two indu...
Motorola Droid's Android 2.1 update to be rolled out OTA starting Thursday
And just like that, we now have the date for the official Motorola Droid's Android 2.1 update. It was just approved today and will be rolled out in batches of 250,000 starting this Thursday, March 18...
Now it's easy switch to Google Apps from Microsoft® Exchange
Today we're making it a lot easier for customers of Microsoft Exchange to go Google with Apps. Google Apps Migration for Microsoft® Exchange is a new server-side tool that migrates your company's ema...
PayPal Wants To Go From 1000 To 2000 Employees In Asia - This Year
PayPal has seen the future, and apparently it lies out East. The eBay company has just announced plans to double its presence in the Asian-Pacific region by the end of 2010, and made a couple of othe...
LinkedIn for iPhone 3.1: Better, Stronger, Faster.
Chatroulette Is 89 Percent Male, 47 Percent American, And 13 Percent Perverts
This is a guest post by Robert J. Moore, the CEO and co-founder of RJMetrics, an on-demand database analytics and business intelligence startup. His last guest post was an analysis of Twitter user da...
Motorola CLIQ XT comes to T-Mobile for $129.99
Your hopes, dreams, and deepest desires for a keyboardless CLIQ have finally materialized today now that Motorola's CLIQ XT has reached T-Mobile shops across the country. Interestingly, yesterday's l...
Canadian Movie Pirate ‘maVen’ Sent To Jail
Half a decade ago ‘maVen’ was one of the most active movie release groups on the Internet, known for distributing high quality ‘Telesync’ versions of major blockbuster titles. In the summer of 2006 ‘...
new bing maps application: worldwide telescope
About 2 years ago, I posted the announcement of Microsoft Research's WorldWide Telescope (WWT) - a project to map out the stars, planets, solar systems and anything not on the Earth (see WorldWide Tel...
Waledac botnet ‘decimated’ by MS takedown
Up to 90,000 zombies freed — Communications within the notorious Waledac botnet have been “effectively decimated,” thanks to a novel takedown approach that combined court actions with a variety of t...
Where Marries Geo-local App With the Web
After having seen tremendous success with its geo-local app, Where, the Boston-based uLocate Communications today rebranded itself as Where. The company also launched a new web site that allows mobil...
Digg redesign ‘will not dilute appeal’
CEO Jay Adelson says that the new Digg website will allow users to focus more effectively than ever on what's of interest to them — The forthcoming revamp of Digg, the social news curation website, ...