Will Social Voting Increase Real-World Participation? Foursquare Founder Says Yes
This morning, the new Foursquare Elections page went live. And when the polls open, Foursquare users who check in at polling places around the country will receive an official badge.
The modern tech CEO: Barefoot and 21
Cambridge, Massachusetts (CNN) — Walk into Seth Priebatsch's corner office and you have to step over a racecar mat — the kind little kids use to race toy cars and crash them together. — The obstacle...
Here's The Cloud Computing Company Dell Is Buying: Boomi
Dell has just announced it has agreed to acquire Software-as-a-Service integration company Boomi. Boomi offers an application integration platform that aims to reduce cost and complexity out of integ...
Oracle Buys eCommerce Software Giant ATG For $1 Billion
ATG, provider of eCommerce software and related on-demand commerce optimization applications, this morning announced that it has agreed to be acquired by Oracle for $6 per share in cash, or approximat...
Skyfire iOS browser approved by Apple, converts Flash video to HTML5
A new Apple-approved iPhone and iPad mobile browser from a startup company, set to launch this week, converts video from Adobe Flash to HTML5, though it won't work with Hulu. — The new Skyfire brows...
Exclusive Look: Where The Workers Who Made Your iPhone Sleep At Night
Foxconn's factory in Shenzhen, China, is home to about half of its 420,000 workers. They make many of our gadgets and computers, then walk to dormitories on the 2.1-kilometer-square campus. I got to...
Bing's new social search features arrive today
Today we are completing our deployment of our new social features that we built in partnership with Facebook. We're really excited to get these features in the hands of all our US users. — As with ...
Mobile Snapshot: Smartphones Now 28% of U.S. Cellphone Market
The Nielsen Company today reported that as of the third quarter of 2010, 28 percent of U.S. mobile subscribers now have smartphones, cellphones with operating systems resembling those of computers.
Some MacBook Airs exhibiting screen issues
Some of Apple's newly released MacBook Air models may have display problems, according to both Internet reports and first-hand accounts. — First reported by Cult of Mac over the weekend, some users ...
Microsoft discontinues Bing Maps Silverlight features, looks to HTML5
Microsoft announced on Tuesday that it will discontinue investment in the Bing Maps 3D control plug-in, powered by the company's Silverlight technology. — The Bing Maps 3D control plug-in allows use...
iPad satisfaction hits 95% in October ChangeWave survey, up 4 pts. from May
Apple's “magical” device the first choice of 80% of respondents who plan to buy a tablet — The iPad, which scored a 91% satisfaction rating in ChangeWave's May survey, inched up another four points ...
Coming Soon in Google Docs: Third Party Apps, Cloud Printing and Sync
Google Docs' source code includes a message that reveals some important upcoming features: “Coming soon: Third party applications, cloud printers, and sync devices”. — Cloud printing is a project th...
Mark Zuckerberg Really, Really Wanted to Work With Sam Lessin
Facebook's acquisition of online storage start-up Drop.io last week looks like the standard-issue “acqhire”: Big company buys a small company because it wants its employees, but doesn't really care ab...
Shortages Could Hurt Windows Phone 7 Launch In U.S.
European mobile phone operator Orange is facing shortages of Windows Phone 7 handsets, and is offering vouchers to disappointed customers. The shortages could bode problems for the phone's U.S. launc...
The Worst Android Fragmentation is Yet to Come
At the Android developers website, Google has some ostensibly encouraging statistics: More than three quarters of Android users are now running version 2.1 or higher. — The stats are based on how ma...
Google Settles Over Buzz, Will Establish $8.5 Million Fund To Promote Privacy Education
Google settled a class action lawsuit brought against the company in response to privacy violations surrounding Buzz, its latest attempt at a social product, the company just announced.
AdWords And Google Voice Hook Up To Form “AdWords Call Metrics”
What if AdWords and Google Voice had a love child? That child would probably be named “AdWords Call Metrics,” which is what Google is introducing today. Google is combining the functionality behind ...
Euromillions for the Symbian ecosystem: €22M committed to next generation technologies for Symbian
Under an initiative sponsored by the European Commission (EC), the Symbian platform was this week endorsed by the Artemis Joint Technology Initiative and specifically identified …
SAP willing to pay Oracle $120M for attorney's fees
IDG News Service - SAP would pay Oracle $120 million for “past and future reasonable attorneys fees and costs” under the terms of a joint stipulation filed Monday in connection with the companies' ong...
The 58-inch Multitouch Table For iPhone Is Real [Video]
We covered the Table Connect for iPhone (a 58-inch surface that mirrors your iPhone screen) a few days ago, and now the developers posted a video of the “device” in action: as you can see in the video...
Following Zynga's Footsteps, EA Signs Five Year Deal With Facebook To Use Credits
Following in the footsteps of Zynga, Electronic Arts has just announced that it has entered into a five-year strategic relationship with Facebook. Similar to the Zynga deal, Facebook Credits will bec...
Apple to Extend iTunes Song Previews to 90 Seconds in U.S.
According to Symphonic Distribution, Apple has informed music labels that it is preparing to extend the length of iTunes Store song previews in the United States to 90 seconds for songs that are at le...
T-Mobile roasts AT&T in debut of ‘Largest 4G Network’ campaign
T-Mobile USA tonight is launching a new slogan — and a new attitude — with an advertising campaign that lays claim to “America's Largest 4G Network” while poking fun at the notorious network problems ...
Regarding the Idea of iPad Apps Running on Mac OS X
Dave Winer speculates: … Rene Ritchie even wonders if that's what's going on this week at the private iOS developer meeting in Cupertino. (It's not — that event is a Game Center summit.) — There's ...
Google's Biggest Mistakes According to Marissa Mayer
Google's Marissa Mayer has been with Google since 1999 and is one of its first twenty five employees. Needless to say she's one smart cookie and in another life, could quite easily slot in neatly as ...
Dell plans cloud computing acquisition and tablet PC push
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Dell Inc, the world's No.2 PC maker, will announce an acquisition related to cloud computing on Tuesday, its chief executive said, while ramping up its tablet PC line to compete ...
Introducing Chalk: A fun little browser-based app for iPad inspired by our new office
My favorite thing about the 37signals office are the 4 team rooms. Team rooms are where people can work together uninterrupted without disturbing anyone else. These team rooms are equipped with big ...
Coming Soon in Google Docs: Third Party Apps, Cloud Printing and Sync
Google Docs' source code includes a message that reveals some important upcoming features: “Coming soon: Third party applications, cloud printers, and sync devices”. — Cloud printing is a project th...
Apple Increases Tablet Share to 95 Percent as Android Slips
Apple Inc. increased its market share in tablet computers to 95 percent in the third quarter, while Google Inc.'s Android operating system slipped, according to researcher Strategy Analytics. — Glob...
Google Emails All U.S. Gmail Users About The Buzz Settlement — And To Say They're Not Getting A Dime
And To Say They're Not Getting A Dime — By now you may have heard that Google today settled a privacy lawsuit filed by a group of Buzz users. What's sort of odd though is that Google actually emaile...
AppleCare protection plans now transferable to new products
Apple has made changes to its policy regarding the transferability of AppleCare Protection Plans, a source told BGR. Starting immediately, an Apple customer will have the ability to transfer AppleCar...
Apple's $52 Billion Piggybank Disappoints Investors
Nov. 2 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc.'s piggybank, stuffed with $51 billion in cash and investments, is earning a lower return than a typical U.S. savings account. Some investors say Steve Jobs should put ...
iOS 4.2 Beta: Indicator of a Future All-Cloud Apple?
In an article today on AppleInsider, Josh Ong details changes in the upcoming iOS 4.2 software update. One small detail caught my eye: There's an option to enter an Apple ID username and password in ...
SCVNGR Goes Global and Becomes the First Service to Use Google's Places API
SCVNGR is a location-based service with apps for the iPhone and Android that wants to add a “game layer on top of the world.” Starting today, the company is getting closer to this goal, as it is goin...
Apple slashes Mac mini prices (in Europe, US follows?)
Apple has cut €100 off of the European price of the Mac mini — the price cut is trans-European, it is also available at the UK store. — The Mac mini — now equipped with an HDMI port among other deli...
Anatomy of blekko's press launch
But if you want to be in the Monday morning press, a writer's story needs to be done and ready by Sunday.
Tippr Launches White Label Group-Buying Platform
When it comes to group-buying, Groupon is clearly the market's Goliath, with 20 million subscribers, over $160-million in venture financing and a market value of more than $1 billion. So how do you c...
Sony confirms PlayStation Phone, sort of
In a maddeningly vague pair of conference calls with analysts, Sony executives seemingly acknowledged last Friday that they were working on products that will address the “light gamer” segment of the ...
Rebellious Coders Home In on Apple TV Hacks, App Store
Apple calls the Apple TV a “hobby” because it isn't a big seller. But for a bustling community of hackers, jailbreaking and tinkering with the set-top box is the real hobby. — The recent release of...
Bang! Publishers Say Giant Web Ads Have “Stopping Power”
Bigger really is better! — So say Web publishers who have been running supersized, don't-you-dare-look-away-from- me ads for the past year. — Even better, the ad sellers insist-they have scientifi...