Call phones from Gmail
Gmail voice and video chat makes it easy to stay in touch with friends and family using your computer's microphone and speakers. But until now, this required both people to be at their computers, sig...
Adobe updates Web-based Photoshop, no longer demands membership
Now approaching its third year online, Adobe's Web-based photo editing suite Photoshop Express underwent a significant redesign which launched Wednesday. Adobe Photoshop Express Editor, Organizer, an...
Digg Version 4
I'm excited to announce that today we opened up the newest version of our Digg platform. We've been working hard on this next evolution of Digg (what we've been calling “v4") and everyone here is rea...
Android Battery Test Reveals Droid X Lasts Longest, AMOLED Handsets Trail
Ever since the first Android phone appeared, we've been developing a battery test that would accurately gauge their endurance, and lend some objective data to our anecdotal tests.Finally, we've come u...
New Kindle Leaves Rivals Farther Back
Too bad there's not a reality TV show called “America's Most Freaked-Out Tech-Company Meetings,” where you watch classic panicked board meetings. For example, when the Apple employee left an iPhone 4...
Thoughts After Y Combinator Demo Day
There's lots of motion in the ocean in the early stage investing world. TechCrunch has a write-up on the companies that presented at Y Combinator's demo day yesterday. I had several of my own though...
Slide's Max Levchin Becomes a VP of Engineering at Google
Max Levchin, who was the chief executive of Slide and a PayPal co-founder, has landed a new title at Google as a vice president of engineering, we've confirmed with the company. It's the latest leade...
SCVNGR's Secret Game Mechanics Playdeck
Some companies keep a playbook of product tips, tricks and trade secrets. Zynga has an internal playbook, for instance, that is a collection of “concepts, techniques, know-how and best practices for ...
Call phones from Gmail
Gmail voice and video chat makes it easy to stay in touch with friends and family using your computer's microphone and speakers. But until now, this required both people to be at their computers, sig...
Facebook Follow: The Twitter-Eater, The Preemptive Google Me-Killer
Up until a few months ago, I was using Facebook the same way I was using Twitter. That is, I was allowing anyone to follow me. But it was different. With Twitter, anyone can follow me without my ap...
Apple blocks iPhones from green ranking scheme
Scheme rates handsets on factors such as ecological impact of raw materials, manufacturing process and energy efficiency — • iPhone app pitches climate change science against scepticism — Apple ha...
3 Colombian teens on Facebook hit list killed in past 10 days
The hit list on Facebook gave the people named three days to leave the town of Puerto Asis, Colombia, or be executed — (CNN) — Three teens who were on a 69-name hit list posted on Facebook have been...
Defense official discloses cyberattack
Now it is official: The most significant breach of U.S. military computers was caused by a flash drive inserted into a U.S. military laptop on a post in the Middle East in 2008. — In an article to b...
Android Revenue - Advanced Task Manager
Background — “Advanced Task Manager” is an Android application I created in February 2009. At that time, it was needed mainly to kill running services that a number of applications spawned but neve...
Amazon: New Kindles Selling At Record Rates, U.S. Store Now Has Over 670,000 Books
Amazon has announced today that more “next generation Kindles were ordered in the first four weeks of availability than in the same timeframe following any other Kindle launch, making the new Kindles ...
Hey, Digg — This 17-Year-Old Knows What You Are Thinking
This 17-Year-Old Knows What You Are Thinking — Hard-core Digg users and fans of the link-sharing site — the so-called “Digg Nation” — spend a lot of their time trying to push their favorite links to ...
Is this Microsoft's new Internet Explorer 9 interface?
Microsoft has delivered four developer previews of Internet Explorer (IE) 9 so far, but has yet to show off the new interface for its next-generation browser. That is expected to happen on September ...
Phone to console real time gaming coming to Windows Phone 7
In a surprisingly information-packed interview at Microsoft's X'10 event in Toronto, RGBFilter managed to get the Microsoft rep, Greg Milligan, Mobility Solutions Manager. Microsoft Canada to admit t...
GameCrush Is Crushing It. Investors Agree.
San Francisco based GameCrush is part happy hour at the local bar, part old school “900 chat line.” Users come to the site to play games with others, and there's a video/audio cam. The only hitch is...
Ad Firm Sued for Allegedly Re-Creating Deleted Cookies
Specificmedia, one of the net's largest ad-serving and tracking companies, has been hit with a federal lawsuit accusing the company of violating computer intrusion laws by secretly re-creating cookies...
Is Facebook About To Use ARM Chips In Its Data Centers? No!
For any geek — or anyone who pays attention at all to the fortunes of big tech companies — it was a truly tantalizing rumor. Too bad it turned out to be untrue. No, Facebook is not planning to switc...
Orkut Now Encouraging Users to Project Different Personas to Different People
The Google-owned social network Orkut is not well-known in the U.S., but it's extremely popular in India and Brazil - that is, until Facebook started catching up. But Orkut just announced a new featu...
Mobile Maps Are Moving Indoors To Pinpoint Specific Items On Store Shelves
One of the biggest limitations to GPS is that it doesn't work indoors. Your phone might be able to navigate you to the front door of the mall, but finding the store, much less the box of Rice-A-Roni ...
StreetSpace Sues Google, Nokia, Apple, Mobile Ad Networks For Infringement Of Location-Based Ads Patent
StreetSpace is a company you probably haven't heard of, but it's not a so-called “patent troll” seeking to cash in on unimplemented intellectual property.
Third-party iPad clamshell keyboard case revealed in FCC filing
A new third-party iPad peripheral coming soon to the U.S. will turn Apple's touchscreen tablet into more of a traditional laptop form factor, with a clamshell case that provides tactile input via an a...