The Facebook Effect: Foursquare Had Its Most Signups Ever Today
Leading up to Facebook's location announcement, there were two schools of thought. Either you thought Facebook Places was going to destroy Foursquare. Or you thought that this new service would help...
We've Moved to Facebook
It's been an exciting year at Hot Potato. Since going live last November, we've been inspired and energized by your reaction to the service and people's appetite for socializing around activities and...
Tweet Button Bookmarklet: Share links from any page
Last week, we announced an easy-to-install and lightweight Tweet Button that allows publishers to make it easy for users to share a link to their content on Twitter. Thousands of sites have implement...
Facebook Places: The Real Target Is Yelp
Most of the attention paid to Facebook Places, the new location feature that the social network launched on Thursday, has focused either on the privacy implications of the service, or on the impact th...
Jobs: Software Update to Address iOS 4 Performance Issues on iPhone 3G ‘Coming Soon’
A new email from Apple CEO Steve Jobs appears to confirm that the company will soon be issuing a software update to address issues with the iPhone 3G's performance under iOS 4.
Google TV demo shows off Dish Network integration, universal search (video)
For those still wavering over the possibility of dropping a few Ben Franklins on something rocking the Google TV logo this fall, maybe the best idea is to get to know this new flavor of Android a bit ...
LG Readies Tablet, Optimus Smartphones
SEOUL—LG Electronics Inc., which was late to the smartphone game, said it plans to launch 10 more smartphones and sell five million devices by the end of the year in a scramble to compete with rivals....
It's Official: Google Acquires Like.com
It's official. Google has acquired Like.com. In a post on Like.com's homepage, the company's CEO and Founder Munjal Shah writes that the visual search engine has been bought by Google. We originall...
Auto-Tune the News Hits the Billboard Top 100
Online video stars The Gregory Brothers continue making strides towards world domination. Their latest hit Auto-Tune the News single, Bed Intruder, debuted at number 89 on the Billboard Hot 100 today...
A smartphone retrospective
This is what high-end smartphones looked like in 2007: — Smartphones were an established consumer-electronics market with devices that people thought were pretty cool, but often frustrating and with...
Creep Executive Officer
In a weekend WSJ interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Schmidt said: … Nick Carr, quoting the above, quips: … But Carr doesn't even mention the oddest part of the WSJ interview: … I've been thinking...
Will $1 Per Gigabyte NAND Resuscitate Solid State Drives?
After two years of inflated prices, NAND flash memory at the end of 2010 is set to return to the key $1 per gigabyte level considered a key threshold to drive adoption of Solid State Drives (SSD), but...
Zynga in Hot Water with San Francisco City Attorney Over ‘Mafia Wars’ Marketing
The San Francisco City Attorney's office is going after social-gaming company Zynga — maker of such popular Facebook applications as FarmVille and Mafia Wars — for what it calls an “illegal and action...
German Guy Wants to Photograph Those Buildings People Want to Exclude from Google Street View
Spiegel reports that German photographer and IT consultant Jens Best wants to personally take snapshots of all those (German) buildings which people asked Google Street View to remove.
webOS developer spots device with Retina-matching resolution in logs
A few weeks ago, we told you about a foursquare application developer that discovered traces of webOS 2.0 in their application logs. While the information would have been very hard to fake, it would ...
Digg's Founder Kevin Rose Says New CEO, Website Are Both About a Week Away
Digg Inc., the Web service that lets people rate news stories, is about a week away from hiring a new chief executive officer and will soon overhaul its site to make the content more relevant to users...
State of the Art: OpenDNS Simplifies Life for Web Users
I'm about to make your life better. No need to thank me. — But first, a warning: On the way to understanding how your life will get better, you'll have to read about some technical, fairly arcane t...
T-Mobile G2 again, this time with less Mr. Blurrycam
So we just got a second batch of T-Mobile G2 shots dropped in our mailbox — and this time, you can get a much better look at the inner workings of the carrier's version of the upcoming HTC Vision. [L...
The Future of Internet Search
print recommend Send link clip secure rights — NEW YORK - Imagine that Googling an address gave you a list of the closest buildings, ranked by distance. Not exactly what you were looking fo...
The Fading Glory of the Television and Telephone
One day you're the brightest star in the galaxy. Then something new comes along — and suddenly you're a relic. It's a turn of fate that awaits sports heroes, movie stars, political leaders. And, ye...
ICANN asks Demand Media for answers after report
IDG News Service - The group responsible for managing the Internet's domain name system is asking Demand Media's eNom division for answers following complaints from Internet security groups. — ENom,...
Trojan-ridden warning system implicated in Spanair crash
Cascading fail — Malware may have been a contributory cause of a fatal Spanair crash that killed 154 people two years ago. — Spanair flight number JK 5022 crashed with 172 on board moments after t...
When Attorneys General Attack
Earlier this year Topix CEO Chris Tolles got the call no one wants to get - that they are under investigation by a government entity. Two attorneys general, one of which was deep into his senate run,...
Infoaxe raises $3M to make online bookmarks obsolete
Infoaxe, a startup that helps helps users find better search results based on their Web history, just announced that it has raised $2 million in a first round of funding. — The Sunnyvale, Calif. com...
Advertisements Coming Soon to e-Books
It won't be long before we start seeing ads in e-books, a business professor and a former book editor wrote in a Wall Street Journal editorial today. — Growing e-book sales and the opportunity for t...
HTML5 Raises New Security Issues
As HTML5 enhances the Web, so too will it bring new vulnerabilities, security experts warn — IDG News Service — When it comes to new security issues, the security team for the Firefox browser have t...
U.S. Customers Are Tablet-Hungry, and Not Just for the iPad
Surveys reveal that a substantial chunk of U.S. customers plan to buy a tablet in the next year, and it's not necessarily going to be an iPad. — Fourteen percent, or 27 million U.S. online consumers...
Textbooks Up Their Game
Inkling Adapting College Best Sellers for iPad, Capitalizing on Interactive Features — Maybe the iPad will move digital college textbooks out of theory and into practice. — Although electronic boo...
Chrome 6 Beta May Hint at Mythical Chrome OS Tablet
The latest beta of Chrome 6 is out, and its menus havw been optimized for touch—complete with buttons for copying, pasting, as well as zooming in on a page. Could this be a taste of what the rumored ...
FleshDrives pitch plug-and-play adult content
“Hundreds of adult movies in the palm of your hand” is the motto behind New York-based FleshDrive, a new company selling USB thumbdrives filled with porn. The small devices are targeted at busy trave...
Facebook Feels Unfriendly Toward Movie It Inspired
LOS ANGELES — At the New York Film Festival next month, Hollywood will unleash “The Social Network,” a biting tale of the Silicon Valley giant Facebook and its founder Mark Zuckerberg. — Now Faceboo...
Hey Verizon, Whoever Made This Is Going To Hell
Verizon, Verizon, Verizon ... So this is what you're doing instead of going after the iPhone? You guys must think we're so stupid. — You've based your latest mcgarrybowen-produced “Rule The Air! ca...
Smartphone App Market Reached More Than $2.2 Billion In The First Half Of 2010
Research2guidance, a Berlin-based research organization specialized in all things mobile, recently forecasted the worldwide smartphone application market to reach $15 billion by 2013.
Nokia just bought mobile analytics firm Motally
Nokia has just announced that they've acquired mobile analytics firm Motally, which currently has only 8 employees. Financial details have not been disclosed, and I doubt you're going to hear about t...
Qualcomm to invest US$2 billion to set up Mirasol display plant in Taiwan, say sources
Qualcomm MEMS Technologies plans to invest a total of US$2 billion to set up a 4.5G production plant for Mirasol displays at the Longtan site of Central Taiwan Science Park (CTSP), according to market...
An In-Depth Look at the Google TV Interface
Google TV will include a podcast directory, giving users the ability to subscribe to shows and have future episodes show up in the same list as their DVR recordings. That's one of the takeaways of an...
Google Runs out of Nexus Ones for developers
Google scrapped its plan to sell the Nexus One through its own store in July, six months after trying to rewrite the phone market's rules. With Android developers, though, to whom Google still sells ...
Best Buy To Focus On Tablets For Holidays
Best Buy is known for stocking thousands of electronic gadgets. To date, that assortment has included just one tablet computer-Apple's iPad-but that will change in coming months, Forbes has learned. ...