Apple's App Store Director Sells His Own Fart Apps
Apple has long been an icon for quality products, but its overflowing iOS App Store is a crapshoot: Nuggets of quality are buried in a vast, steaming heap of inanity. In fact, the man who oversees th...
Spotted: Facebook Location In Action. Meet Facebook Places!
We're sitting here in the waiting room at Facebook waiting for the supposed location event to start. Facebook won't say officially what the event is about, but it seems like everyone knows. And now ...
Verizon to Put Live TV on the iPad
Verizon unveiled a series of new video applications today, including an upcoming iPad app that will allow FiOS subscribers to watch the same linear programming that is available on their TV screens on...
Skype Loses Engineering Chief Before Offering
After just a month as chief development officer at Skype, Madhu Yarlagadda has left the company for personal reasons, a company spokesman said on Wednesday. — Mr. Yarlagadda's responsibilities at Sk...
Google launching a Chrome OS tablet on Verizon, goes on sale November 26
The title pretty much says it all on this one, folks. — Yes, our source tells us that Google is building a Chrome OS tablet. It's real, and it's being built by HTC. No surprise there, since HTC ch...
What It's Like To Suddenly See Your Bank Account at Negative $900,000 Thanks to PayPal
This morning, 24-year-old web developer Derek Lanphier started seeing fraudulent charges on his PayPal account, adding up to about $3,000. Then, moments later, his bank account balance was at -$888,8...
The Iterative Web App: New Stacked Cards Interface for Gmail on iPad.
In April 2009, we announced a new version of Gmail for mobile for iOS and Android. Among the improvements was a complete redesign of the web application's underlying code, which allows us to more rap...
Microsoft's Arc Touch Mouse revealed?
It's not official until Microsoft says it is, but the image above of the rumored Microsoft Arc Touch Mouse was just snagged off a German online store. Amazingly, the mouse arches its back for comfort...
For the Class of 2014, No E-Mail or Wristwatches
Every year the administrators at Wisconsin's Beloit College put together a list of information about incoming freshmen that is shared with the school's professors. It's not a list of student names, o...
Site crashes as iPhone fans make 130,000 pre-orders
KT Corp., the exclusive provider of the iPhone in Korea, said Wednesday that the number of people who made pre-orders for Apple's iPhone 4 surpassed 130,000 in the first 13 hours of registration. — ...
The Tragic Death of Practically Everything
Wired Editor in Chief Chris Anderson is catching flack for the magazine's current cover story, which declares that the Web is dead. I'm not sure what the controversy is. For years, once-vibrant tech...
Email Sucks. 5 Time Saving Tips.
My stats: — 938 unread work emails. — 1002 unread personal emails. — The madness has to stop. What was once a 30 minute annoyance is now my full-time job. Here are 5 time saving tips: — #5: ...
Toshiba to launch Android tablet PC in September-October
Toshiba will launch its first tablet PC model featuring Nvidia's Tegra 2 processor, Android operating system and a 10-inch screen in September-October 2010, with global shipments until the end of 2010...
‘Powered By Bing’ Shows Up On Yahoo Search Pages—In Size 8 Font
In Size 8 Font — Microsoft's Bing search engine isn't getting much branding play on the “powered by Bing” Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) search result pages, which are making their debut this week. Do a search ...
The Problems With Google House Ads
[Note: This blog post has taken me 7 months to write, so I'm glad to be sharing it finally. I am cross-posting it to Search Engine Land.] — Introduction — Many publishers run “house ads” to self-...
Facebook Status Gets Auto-Suggest
Facebook has begun automatically suggesting links to Facebook pages, groups, interests and even other users this morning, offering a drop-down list of suggestions as you type. — The feature is remin...
Iris Scanners Create the Most Secure City in the World. Welcome, Big Brother
We've all seen and obsessively referenced Minority Report, Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Philip K. Dick's dystopian future, where the public is tracked everywhere they go, from shopping malls to wo...
Zemanta now available on WordPress.com
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Google TV plan is causing jitters in Hollywood
Many worry that Silicon Valley will upend the entertainment industry just like the Internet ravaged the music and newspaper industries. — The two men leading Google TV believe technological innovati...
Now You Can Search For Google Docs From Within Gmail (And It Catches Typos, Too)
Google may be synonymous with search, but some of the search functionality in its Apps products is sadly lacking — if you want to search for something in Google Docs, Calendar, or Gmail, you've had to...
Mobile Flash Fail: Weak Android Player Proves Jobs Right
I'm the last person on earth who wanted to believe Steve Jobs when he told Walt Mossberg at D8 that “Flash has had its day.” I took it as nothing more than showmanship when Jobs shared his thoughts o...
Who, What, When, and Now...Where
If you're like me, when you find a place you really like, you want to tell your friends you're there. Maybe it's a new restaurant, a beautiful hiking trail or an amazing live show. — Starting today...
Investors Chide Michael Dell
SAN FRANCISCO — Dell's shareholders delivered a sharp rebuke of Michael S. Dell, the company's founder and chief executive, when a fourth of the investors withheld support of Mr. Dell in a recent vote...
Plastic Surgeon Was Texting in Car Before Fatal Crash
Dr. Frank Ryan, plastic surgeon to Heidi Montag and other celebrities, was sending a Twitter message about his border collie just before his fatal car accident, his ex-girlfriend tells PEOPLE. — “He...
The Iterative Web App: New Stacked Cards Interface for Gmail on iPad.
In April 2009, we announced a new version of Gmail for mobile for iOS and Android. Among the improvements was a complete redesign of the web application's underlying code, which allows us to more rap...
VEVO Goes Mobile! Introducing VEVO for iPhone and iPod touch
The wait is over! We are thrilled to announce today that our VEVO iPhone (including iPhone 4) and iPod touch App is available now FREE for download at the iTunes store (US & Canada). — Brought to y...
Wired Says ‘The Web is Dead’ — On Its Increasingly Profitable Website
On Its Increasingly Profitable Website — Chris Anderson will generate plenty of chatter with his “The Web is Dead” Wired cover, foretold here previously. Fair enough; that's what a smart magazine ed...
If German Homes Can Now Opt Out Of Google, Then How About People?
Google made their “opt out of street view” service live in Germany today, giving select Germans until September 15th to exclude their properties from being mapped when the Street View service launches...
RIM Shops for Mobile Ad Network
Under pressure in the increasingly competitive wireless market, BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. is shopping for a mobile advertising network, people familiar with the matter said. — In rece...
Apple won't change antenna for Verizon iPhone, says expert
Dismisses talk of coating or change in design for possible CDMA iPhone — Computerworld - If an iPhone does appear on Verizon, don't expect Apple to change its antenna design, an expert said today.
Confirmed: Facebook Rolling Out A New Slimmer, Sexier Like Button
Though it has only been out for a few months, it seems as if Facebook's Like button is all over the web. And despite some initial backlash, a lot of people seem to like it (see what I did there?).
Millennial Media: Android OS Grew By 47 Percent In July, iPad Requests Up 327 Percent
Mobile ad network Millennial Media is releasing its monthly mobile mix report today. According to Nielsen, Millennial's ads reach 63 million of a total of 77 million mobile web users in the U.S., or ...
Ray Kurzweil does not understand the brain
There he goes again, making up nonsense and making ridiculous claims that have no relationship to reality. Ray Kurzweil must be able to spin out a good line of bafflegab, because he seems to have the...
Swipely Opens to Public, But Are People Ready to Broadcast What They Buy?
The social shopping network Swipely, in private beta for three months, is opening up to the public today. Users upload credit and debit card information so the site seamlessly records where they're “...
Skype's Chief Development Officer Leaves Amid TechCrunch Comment Fiasco
Madhu Yarlagadda, who joined Skype as Chief Development Officer last month, has left the company. Generally speaking executives don't leave a startup as it jumps into the IPO process, and they certai...
T-Mobile G2 gets a teaser site, will be network's first HSPA+ phone
It's called the G2, it'll run Android, and it's T-Mobile's first phone to ride those wannabe-4G HSPA+ airwaves. Those are the facts we have. As to the speculation, a previous roadmap leak and T-Mobi...
Swedish Pirate Party to Host Wikileaks Servers
The Swedish Pirate Party has agreed with Wikileaks to host several new servers and provide the site bandwidth for free, it said on Tuesday. — The servers will be up and running in a few days, and wi...
Apple awarded patents for Slide to Unlock, keyboard letter pop
In the fast-changing world of smartphone design, often the most valuable thing that a company can own is a patent for a specific feature they've invented. No matter how seemingly trivial the design f...