Twitter for Android: Robots like to share too
When we tweet what's happening around us, we share not only our thoughts, but also web pages, photos, videos, location...anything. Mobile phones are increasingly part of our lives, and we seem to be ...
First Look: iPad Wi-Fi + 3G
At last, the prophecy has been fulfilled: the second half of the coming of the iPad is upon us. I have in my hands (well, on my ottoman as I write this), an iPad Wi-Fi + 3G, which is Apple's somewhat...
Open Letter to Steve Jobs
update 16:00: Steve Jobs answers to my open letter, see below. — Dear Steve Jobs, — Having read your Thoughts on Flash, I could not agree with you more. Flash is not the Web, and I am glad Apple ...
One in eight to cut cable and satellite TV in 2010
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Despite rising cable and satellite TV prices and easy access to streaming TV and movies on the Internet, few consumers have cut the cord. But that looks like it's about to c...
Why it is too late to regulate Facebook
I've seen a lot of angst over the past week about Facebook's moves to open up your data to other applications. — To really understand how huge these changes are I had to get away from Silicon Valley...
Apple To Shut Down Lala On May 31, iTunes.com Launch Impending?
Lala - where music will stop playing ... In a brief message that was just posted on the Lala.com website, Apple has announced that the service will be shut down on May 31st, 2010. Apple will not be ...
Gawker Media seeks legal reversal in Gizmodo search case
Shortly after Silicon Valley police entered the home of Gizmodo editor Jason Chen last Friday armed with a search warrant and walked out with four computers and two servers, Gawker Media raised the is...
NJ Principal Asks Parents To Ban Social Networking
Benjamin Franklin Middle School Chief Says Students Should Be Cut Off From Facebook, Text Messaging — RIDGEWOOD, N.J. (CBS) ― A controversial proposal has students horrified at a Bergen County middl...
Meet the new Firefox Add-ons Manager
It has taken a long time for the Firefox team to come up with a significant update to the Add-ons Manager, but it's finally coming to Firefox.next. It looks and works great and there are a lot of opp...
The real reason why Steve Jobs hates Flash
There has been some ... interesting news from the tech sector this week. — Firstly, the Apple vs. Adobe vendetta gets even nastier, with a public letter from Steve Jobs explaining why Adobe's Flash ...
Why iPad mags cost $4.99 each
Because that's what the market will bear — at least for now — If you buy the digital editions of Popular Science or TIME Magazine on the iPad, they cost $4.99 each — same as on the newsstand. — Ho...
HTML5 Video
There's been a lot of posting about video and video formats on the web recently. This is a good opportunity to talk about Microsoft's point of view. — The future of the web is HTML5. Microsoft is ...
Google Tests Phone Numbers In AdWords Ads
A reader sent us a screen capture of a phone number being listed in the Google AdWords ad text. The phone number is not related to one of Google's click-to-call features and didn't seem to be related...
Google Ventures' Entire Investment Team Finally Revealed
Ever since Google Inc. launched its venture capital arm about a year ago, it's remained furtive about staffing. — The company said in March 2009 that Google Ventures' investments would be vetted by ...
New Chrome fires up geolocation ability
“The geolocation feature is now available in Chrome 5.0.375.25 (Official Build 45690).” — With those words, posted Thursday at the bottom of a Chrome issue tracker item, the developer version of Goo...
iPad 3G video downscaled, blocked over AT&T network
In our early testing, iLounge has learned that some video delivery applications act differently over the 3G network than they do on Wi-Fi. The iPad's built-in YouTube application strips both standard...
The Official Verdict in the stolen iPhone Case
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Sean Parker: Facebook Should Not Have Won, MySpace Blew It
Why did Friendster and MySpace fail where Facebook found phenomenal success? It's not that the site was better marketed, designed or had fancier code, according to Sean Parker, the former president o...
Free Android phones coming to Adobe employees
This will come as little surprise to anyone who followed technology news this week, but let there be no doubt about the preferred smartphone platform at Adobe: it isn't the iPhone. — Adobe confirmed...
Amazon Stabs Penguin in the Throat With Ebook Pricing for Real Books
Amazon? Not playing around with publishers when it comes to ebook deals. Penguin's contract ran out on April 1, so Amazon can't sell their ebooks. So Amazon's cut the price of Penguin's actual hard...
Set Google Voice as Your Skype Caller ID
A Google Voice number, one that rings all your phones, makes good sense as the caller ID number for outgoing Skype calls. Google Voice blocked the verification SMS that Skype needed until recently, b...
Mobile Phone Recovery Continues with Nearly 22% Growth in First Quarter, According to IDC
The worldwide mobile phone market grew 21.7% in the first quarter of 2010 (1Q10), a strong rebound from the market contraction in Q1 2009. Growth was fuelled by increased demand for converged mobile ...
Open is not enough. Time to raise the bar: Interoperable
Last week Elias Bizannes and I wrote a post Assessing the Openness of Facebook's ‘Open Graph Protocol’. — To summarize that post, it's clear that Facebook is making a play to create, aggregate and o...
Facebook's impending fight with D.C. (FAQ)
You probably have a Facebook account—well over 400 million people do. You've probably noticed that the look and feel of your profile have recently changed (again). — And you've probably heard a lot...
Cash cow out of the barn: Adobe shipping CS5
The official debut was two weeks ago, and now Adobe is actually delivering its Creative Suite 5 software to customers. — The CS5 software spans a broad range of uses—image editing in Photoshop, vide...
Google Brings Living Stories to WordPress
Google today announced the release of a Living Stories plugin for WordPress. — Living Stories was Google's “experimental format for displaying news coverage” a two-month-long experiment with the New...
Apple May Be Gunning for Open Source Codecs
The latest indication that Apple is trying to strong-arm publishers to adopt HTML5 and H.264 came today, as Steve Jobs reportedly claimed by email that a patent pool was being assembled to “go after” ...
Denial of Service Don't believe the telecoms. Broadband access in the United States is even worse than you think.
They're Middle Class: A Closer Look at the NYT Poll- Don't Prosecute Gizmodo for Buying …
MSI Android, Windows 7 tablets launching in June, dualscreen delayed until Q4
It looks like ASUS won't be the only Taiwanese manufacturer whipping out new tablets at Computex in early June, and MSI will be joining the party with its Android and Windows 7 touchscreen devices.
Asustek Sees Netbooks Keeping Lead Over IPad-like Devices
Netbook pioneer Asustek Computer believes its popular Eee PC netbook family will continue to attract more buyers than tablet devices such as Apple's iPad. — The two devices serve different markets, ...
iPad 3G Available At 5PM This Afternoon, Retail Stores Closed Between 4PM-5PM to Prep
Just a friendly Cult of Mac reminder that if you haven't already pre-ordered an iPad 3G, and if you aren't already elbowing Greg Packer for elbow room at the front of the 5th Avenue store lines …
Picasa Now Has Twitter, Buzz and Blogger Sharing
Google's photo sharing platform Picasa has received a small update today allowing visitors and album owners to share photos with users on different social networks. — Now, if you visit a Picasa phot...