Google Realtime Search: a new home with new tools
When we first introduced our real-time search features last December, we focused on bringing relevance to the freshest information on the web. Our goal was to provide real-time content from a compreh...
Dell Matches HP's $1.6 Billion Bid For 3PAR - 3PAR Accepts
Dell announced this morning that 3PAR has accepted its increased offer to acquire the storage company for $24.30 per share in cash, or approximately $1.6 billion, net of 3PAR's cash. — Dell had prev...
Netflix App Now Supports iPhone and iPod Touch
As promised, Netflix has finally updated their App Store app [iTunes Link] to support the iPhone and iPod Touch in addition to the iPad. … Netflix originally launched the app for the iPad-only and lat...
Social From the Ground Up
At Facebook, we are huge believers in what a small dedicated team with a unique perspective can accomplish. We've already seen how a group of startups who built social interactions into the core of t...
Gmail users place 1M calls in 24 hours
It looks like Gmail users are already taking advantage of the cheap calling that Google launched yesterday. The company announced via Twitter that there were 1 million calls placed from Gmail in 24 h...
Apple's Attention to Detail
In July 2002, Appled filed a patent for a “Breathing Status LED Indicator” (No. US 6,658,577 B2). They described it as a “blinking effect of the sleep-mode indicator in accordance with the present in...
Smaller iPod nano without click wheel could be unveiled at Apple event
Rumors of a “significant redesign” of Apple's iPod nano have surfaced, suggesting the company could introduce a smaller device with no click wheel at its event next week. — Shaw Wu with Kaufman Bros...
Exchange ActiveSync to arrive on Hotmail on Monday
REDMOND, Wash.—One of the features promised as part of the latest update to Hotmail will arrive next week, CNET has learned. — In an interview here on Thursday, Microsoft's Dharmesh Mehta told CNET ...
Microsoft To Pay More Than Half A Billion Dollars To Jump-Start Windows Phone 7
Editor's note: The following guest post is by Kim-Mai Cutler. — Nearly four years after Apple launched the iPhone and two years after Google open-sourced the code for its Android operating system …
Why Google Has No Game
A few weeks ago, I wrote Pandas and Lobsters: Why Google Cannot Build Social Applications, a post that dissected why Google doesn't get social. Since then, Google appears to have stepped up its effor...
Diaspora Three Weeks Away From Unveiling Open-Source Facebook Alternative
Remember Diaspora? You'll be forgiven if you don't. Since they received a lot of hype as the open-source “Facebook Alternative” this past May, they've been quiet. In fact, they hadn't given any upd...
Developer of Tablets Loses Apple as Customer
SAN FRANCISCO — Apple severed ties with a small Silicon Valley design firm that for nearly a decade had helped with the development of some of its products, after the firm showcased its own prototype ...
Mophie and Intuit partner to create Complete Card Solution for iPhone, try to make Square look square
Who knew that credit card processing would be the new hotness for smartphones? The Square mobile payment system has been making waves by letting small businesses receive credit card payment directly ...
Am I mayor yet?
We made a quick yet long-awaited tweak to our apps today. When you're getting close to winning a Mayorship (within 10 check-ins), you'll now see how far away you are from ousting the current Mayor. ...
ITunes Music Update: Think Social, Not Streaming
When will Apple launch a cloud-based version of the iTunes music service that lets you stream your songs to wherever you are, whenever you want? — Probably not at Apple's newest product launch next ...
Cisco To Acquire ExtendMedia In Bid To Ramp Up Its IP Video Services
Cisco this morning announced its intent to purchase privately-held and venture-backed ExtendMedia, a provider of software-based Content Management Systems that helps media companies and network operat...
Power Diggers React To New Version of Digg (video)
Yesterday the big news wasn't that Lindsay Lohan is out of rehab. The real news was that the new version of the social news site Digg launched to the public. Alex from Next Web has an overview of th...
The March Of Twitter: Analysis of How And Where Twitter Spread
To answer that question I created a visual history of Twitter's growth, feeding data from Dharmesh Shah (developer of TwitterGrader.com) into OpenHeatMap to produce an animated visualization of the se...
Charges Settled Over Fake Reviews on iTunes
SAN FRANCISCO — Savvy Internet users know that glowing online reviews of things like books or restaurants can't always be trusted. But federal regulators are giving notice that if you stand to gain f...
Facebook: Actually, there are 44 million active monthly users of our iPhone app, not 104 million
Yesterday, the internet collective noticed that Facebook was claiming some astonishing monthly active user figures on its respective app fan pages. At the time, Facebook was showing …
Cell Towers For the Home Work Best in Worst Sites
If you have lousy cellphone reception in your house, you may have wished you had a cellular tower nearby. Well, now you can buy your own and plant it right inside your home. Verizon (VZ), Sprint (S)...
The ABCs of E-Reading
New Devices Are Changing Habits. People Are Reading More, Even While in a Kayak — People who buy e-readers tend to spend more time than ever with their nose in a book, preliminary research shows. ...
Over 88% of Hulu Plus Content is Already Available for Free on Hulu.com
A new analysis of all the content available on Hulu Plus reveals that over 88% of all the full-length TV program episodes available in the $10/mo subscription service are already freely accessible on ...
Has Google Purged Places Of Yelp? All Signs Point To Yes.
Well, this is curious. — From our checks, it seems like Google has completely omitted Yelp reviews from Google Places. As you may recall, Yelp has been frustrated by Google's recent decision to pum...
Digg's Matt Van Horn leaving for start-up Path
Matt Van Horn, business development director at social news site Digg, is departing for Path—the ultra-stealthy start-up co-founded by former Facebook executive Dave Morin and Napster co-founder Shawn...
MPEG LA: H.264 Streaming Will Be Free Forever
MPEG LA is announcing today that it will continue to offer a royalty-free license for the H.264 video codec for video sites that offer free video streams to consumers “during the entire life of this (...
Google's Nine Year Shopping Spree, Illustrated
For those that remember when Google Voice was GrandCentral ... Other than missing Like.com's acquisition on August 20th and having the DoubleClick grab plotted when Google revealed its intent to acqui...
Google's Orkut Tweaks Point To Google Me
Google has made some changes to the features at Orkut, the company's lackluster social network, that could suggest the direction the search giant is going with its overall social efforts, which report...
Yahoo Revs Up Its Local Content Efforts
Over the last year, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has talked repeatedly about the importance of both local content and local advertising. But, while the company has announced local ad partnerships with Gannett ...
Social From the Ground Up
At Facebook, we are huge believers in what a small dedicated team with a unique perspective can accomplish. We've already seen how a group of startups who built social interactions into the core of t...
Apple's Attention to Detail
In July 2002, Appled filed a patent for a “Breathing Status LED Indicator” (No. US 6,658,577 B2). They described it as a “blinking effect of the sleep-mode indicator in accordance with the present in...
Apple Doesn't Target Markets. It Targets People
It's fascinating to watch enterprise adoption of Apple technology given its apparent disdain for this market. According to The Wall Street Journal, businesses are tripping over themselves to justify ...
The March Of Twitter: Analysis of How And Where Twitter Spread
To answer that question I created a visual history of Twitter's growth, feeding data from Dharmesh Shah (developer of TwitterGrader.com) into OpenHeatMap to produce an animated visualization of the se...
Gmail calling takes off, but not without bumps
Google's Gmail “Call phone” link in the e-mail program makes it easy to place free calls — for now — within the United States and Canada. — More than 1 million calls were placed from Gmail's free ca...
An Overdue Update
Since August is nearly over, it is time for an update and answers to some questions. We have been coding. We have Diaspora working, we like it, and it will be open-sourced on September 15th. — We ...