Google Images Instant: Image search gets Instant with Google Images Instant
Google Images Instant: Michael Hart puts together Google Images Instant in less than 2 Hours — Earlier we wrote about the awesome Google Maps Instant Search developed by Michael Hart, that gets you ...
Instant Search in Google Chrome
Google Chrome will add support for instant search, the feature released this week by Google. An early implementation is already available in Chrome Dev Channel and in Chrome Canary build. You can en...
Mixed messages from Google: is Android ready for tablets?
Google's Android mobile operating system was designed for smartphones, but it is increasingly being adopted by consumer electronics companies to power a range of new devices, including tablets and e-b...
Twitter by the Numbers
Yesterday I gave a talk at UC Berkeley as part of Twitter's recruiting efforts (known as @TwitterU). I was asked to put together a tech talk, so I wanted to use this as an opportunity to de-mystify T...
The slow death of Dopplr
Once the darlings of the UK startup scene, Dopplr has dwindled inexorably ever since it was bought by Nokia a year ago — Founded in Finland early in 2007, Dopplr was the great white, beautiful hope ...
Cydia Acquired Rock Your Phone [Rock.app]
If you have a iPhone / iPodTouch / iPad and have jailbroken it, you might have heard about Cydia & Rock. For folks who are not aware of Cydia Store & Rock.app Stores, these are two store for 3rd part...
INTERVIEW-Garmin mulls future of smartphone unit
* Says PND market volumes to fall 5 pct/yr over couple yrs — * CFO sees market share gains similar to Q2 continuing — * Sees very slow fall in avg PND sales price in 2011 — * ‘Very difficult’ to...
“YouTube Instant” Dude Can't Go to Work for Chad Hurley, Because He's Already Working For Mark Zuckerberg
There are lots of ways to become famous on the Internet. It took Feross Aboukhadijeh three hours of coding. — When he was done, he had built “YouTube Instant,” a great riff on Google's (GOOG) own I...
Google search index splits with MapReduce
Welds BigTable to file system ‘Colossus’ — Exclusive Google Caffeine — the remodeled search infrastructure rolled out across Google's worldwide data center network earlier this year — is not based o...
Facebook Launches Page Discovery “Browser”
Facebook has launched a new way to “Discover Facebook's Popular Pages” called Browser. It shows icons of Pages that are popular in a user's country, but factors in which Pages which are popular among...
Switched On: Why the digital hub died
Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology. — A decade ago at Macworld Expo, Steve Jobs provided a rare look into the vision guiding Apple. Breaking with naysa...
Patent Office Admits the Truth: Things Are a Disaster
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, under its new director, David Kappos, has finally begun to seriously address transparency of information with a new data visualization dashboard. The big lesson?
Instant Search in Google Chrome
Google Chrome will add support for instant search, the feature released this week by Google. An early implementation is already available in Chrome Dev Channel and in Chrome Canary build. You can en...