Google starts showing full page previews in search results
Google is today testing a major new layout to their search results - full page previews of the target site and blue backgrounds behind the search results when you hover over them. Click the image bel...
Trouble In Clever Domain Land: Bit.ly And Others Risk Losing Theirs Swift.ly
Bit.ly, HootSuite (with its Ow.ly service), Ad.ly and perhaps even Smel.ly could well be at risk of having their domain names sudden.ly taken away by the Libyan government. — Ben Metcalfe blogs …
Apple Fan John Gruber: Windows Phone 7 “Really Nice” And Better Than Android
Hey, maybe Microsoft isn't screwed when it comes to mobile, after all. — Windows Phone 7, its forthcoming mobile phone platform, just got a rave review from Daring Fireball's John Gruber …
Twitter's New Search Architecture
If we have done a good job then most of you shouldn't have noticed that we launched a new backend for search on twitter.com during the last few weeks! One of our main goals, but also biggest challeng...
HP to launch new webOS phones in early 2011
(Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co will introduce smartphones in early 2011 using the webOS software it acquired through its $1.2 billion Palm buy earlier this year, a senior company official said on Wedn...
T-Mobile's Passes prepaid data plans leak out
We've been saying prepaid data plans are going to be the next big wave in mobile, and it looks like T-Mobile's getting on board — we were just sent this employee training sheet detailing the upcoming ...
Twitter is not for sale says new CEO Dick Costolo
Dick Costolo, the newly appointed chief executive of Twitter, has told The Telegraph that he has no plans to sell the site, despite his record of selling start-ups to big players. — Costolo, prior t...
Motorola Droid Pro, first hands-on! (update: video!)
Motorola's BlackBerry? The freshly-announced Moto Droid Pro's keyboard feels like it, to be sure, and after trying it out, we believed the Motorola rep who told us they tested comparable speeds of 37...
Google plays coy on Google TV ads, data
SAN FRANCISCO—Two things Google ordinarily loves talking about, ads and data, were not on the agenda during its Google TV launch party. Rishi Chandra, lead product manager for Google TV, deflected qu...
Is your private phone number on Facebook? Probably. And so are your friends'
Uploads from iPhones using the Facebook app will push all your contacts onto Facebook's servers - where they'll be matched against any and everyone. Worried at all? Update: Or how about a random Fac...
The $4 Million Line
I wrote about two startups today that raised angel-sized financing rounds of around $1 million each: Hipmunk and Alphonso Labs. What caught my eye about both deals is this - neither had involvement f...
Digg Tries To Bring Back Inactive Users From The Dead
It looks like Digg is trying to resurrect inactive users, according to an email sent to us by a reader. Apparently Digg sent out the email to users in hopes of trying to get those who are inactive ba...
Facebook Moves Closer to EFF Bill of Privacy Rights
Today Facebook announced three new features that help move the social networking giant closer to satisfying EFF's Bill of Privacy Rights for Social Networking. While EFF continues to have outstanding...
Quebec spammer must pay Facebook $1 billion
$200 U.S. each for 4,366,386 spam emails — More Images » — Montrealer Adam Guerbuez, dubbed The Facebook spammer, has been order to pay to pay $1,068,928,721,46, in Canadian funds which amounts to...
Nice Hobby! Apple TV Reportedly Selling Out In Many Stores
It's nice if you can make a little money with your hobby, don't you think? — Apple (AAPL) seems to have a modest hit on its hands with the new Apple TV box. JMP Research analyst Alex Gauna writes t...
Apple TV and Roku Go Head-To-Head, Here's The Winner
What's better, the new Apple TV or the newly announced lineup of Roku boxes? That's the question I keep getting asked now that both devices are in the market. Over the past week, I've had the chance...
The Future of Google's Street View
The Need for Speed racing game franchise has been around for 16 years, sold over 100 million copies and generated more than $2.7B in revenue. People love to drive fast and they love to race, and it's...
KISS frontman on P2P: “Sue everybody. Take their homes, their cars.”
The bassist and businessman behind the legendary rock band KISS was on hand at the MIPCOM convention in Cannes, France on Tuesday. And Gene Simmons had a message for aspiring entertainers everywhere:...
Special report: The Pentagon's new cyber warriors
(Reuters) - Guarding water wells and granaries from enemy raids is as old as war itself. In the Middle Ages, vital resources were hoarded behind castle walls, protected by moats, drawbridges and knig...
T-Mobile G2 Auto-Reinstalls Stock Android After a Jailbreak
If you were hoping to make any modifications to your T-Mobile G2, my apologies. Because the phone apparently ships with a rootkit that will override any changes you make to Android and reinstall the ...
A Graphic Guide to Facebook Portraits
As a new strain of Social Network fever infects the nation, and you finally decide to share your face with the world, get the lay of the virtual land with our own open graph of portrait types. — Eve...
T-Mobile adding Android WiFi calling support with DEFY and myTouch
T-Mobile USA has announced that it will be bringing WiFi calling to Android, with the VoIP functionality rolling out over the coming months. Powered by Kineto's Smart Wi-Fi app, the feature will allo...
The Wolfram|Alpha App for Android Has Landed
It's here! You can now download the all new Wolfram|Alpha App for Android on the T-Mobile Channel or Android Market for $1.99 (US). — Get answers from Wolfram|Alpha's massive knowledge base in an i...