The iPad App Derby Gets Under Way
It can be difficult to write software for a gadget without being able to touch it. But that has not stopped developers from rushing to create applications for the Apple iPad. — For small start-ups ...
Experiment to show hotel prices on Google Maps
Google Maps is often one of the first stops travelers make to find and compare hotels. Today we started experimenting with a new feature, visible to a small portion of users, to help make that proces...
Palm keeps pushing, announces Pixi Plus and Pre Plus for AT&T “in the coming months”
Palm may be down, but they're not out just yet. Following the launch of the Pre and Pixi on Sprint last year and their respective Plus editions on Verizon back in January, Palm has just announced …
Google set to announce China site closure
Google could reveal as early as Monday the closure of its Chinese search engine and its plan for the rest of its China operations, according to a person familiar with the situation. — The US interne...
My6sense Intros Attention API for Hyper-Relevant Web
Content is coming at us from every direction in the form of streams, from blogs to tweets to social networks. These streams are combining to become information waterfalls of noise from practically ev...
Intel and AMD update desktop CPU lineups
Intel and AMD have both recently updated their desktop processor lineups and will launch several new CPUs including six-core and low- voltage processors, according to sources from motherboard makers. ...
DEMO: InVisage's QuantumFilm enables gorgeous camera phone pictures
InVisage is one of 65 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Spring 2010 event taking place this week. These companies do pay a fee to present, but our coverage of them remains objecti...
Windows Phone 7: Microsoft's exercise in self restraint
Thank God for Apple — Mix10 The key difference between Windows Phone 7 and Windows Mobile is not Silverlight, the Windows Marketplace lock-in, nor the disallowing of native-code applications. — Ra...
Why @ Is Held in Such High Design Esteem
NEW YORK — The French and Italians have nicknamed it the “snail.” The Norwegians have plumped for “pig's tail,” the Germans “monkey's tail,” and the Chinese “little mouse.” The Russians think of it ...
The Man Corporations Love and Xenophobes Hate
During my recent trip to India, I flew down to Bangalore for one reason: To meet N.R. Narayana Murthy. Murthy is the co-founder, executive chairman and former CEO for 21 years of Infosys, the first I...
Why Google Made BitTorrent a Success
BitTorrent has emerged as the dominant filesharing protocol in recent years. Hundreds of millions of computers have a BitTorrent client installed and torrent sites are among the most frequently visit...
AT&T to soon unveil Android-powered Dell Aero
Well, that was unexpected. Tacked on to the news of the Palm Pixi Plus and Pre Plus finding their way to AT&T was a passing mention that AT&T would soon be pulling back the curtains on an Android-pow...
DoubleClick Lead Architect Launches Search Retargeting Platform
Ad retargeting typically conjures up images of display ads, but one seasoned ad executive has developed a retargeting platform based on search. — Magnetic Founder Josh Shatkin-Margolis will launch M...