Color to Get Major Update, Fix ‘Loneliness’ Problem
Color, the dynamic photo-sharing app that made a splash with its launch yesterday, is already hard at work on the next version of its app. The update will directly address user criticism about the ap...
The Wisdom of Friends (and Others Too)
Friends are often the best source of advice when you're trying new things: Where should I go to dinner? How do I go buy a car? What new music should I check out? Friends know your tastes, and you h...
RIM CEO Basically Admits That Android Support Is There To Check The “Lots Of Apps” Box
Research In Motion officially announced today that its forthcoming BlackBerry PlayBook tablet would support Android apps. — (No, not apps for the new Android 3.0 “Honeycomb” apps designed for tablet...
Google begins testing Google Music internally
Google has begun testing Google Music internally, a sign that the much anticipated service is nearly ready to launch. — Google employees have begun a process commonly referred to in Silicon Valley a...
“Copy and paste” update status
Hello again. As you might have heard, yesterday we kicked off our “copy and paste” update, which comes with a bunch of improvements for your phone. Today I want to briefly explain where we are in th...
Amazingly, MySpace's Decline Is Accelerating
Between January and February 2011, says Comscore, worldwide unique visitors to MySpace declined by a staggering 14.4% from 73 million visitors to 63 million visitors. It's about half of the audience ...
Google's former ad man joins Twitter
While we wait to find out if Jack Dorsey really is returning to Twitter full-time, here's some other personnel scoop from the micro-messaging juggernaut: — Satya Patel has quietly stepped down as a ...
How friend clusters could make Facebook intimate again
For a so-called social utility, Facebook has been getting more and more useless. At first, Facebook friend overload was an early-adopter problem for overnetworked Silicon Valley insiders. But now, f...
Only 9% (and falling) of US Internet users are P2P pirates
In its 2010 annual report (PDF), recorded music's global trade body said that the industry would “struggle to survive unless we address the fundamental problem of piracy.” Just how “fundamental” a pr...
Samsung sees a Retina Display in your tablet future, and perhaps glasses-free 3D
Samsung gazed into its crystal ball today, and what did it see? The pixel density of tablet screens drastically increasing. Yes, while Apple may not have managed to cram a screen into the iPad 2 wor...
Microsoft Just Put A Hardware Guy In Charge Of Its TV Business
Microsoft has put a hardware veteran in charge of its interactive TV business, suggesting that the company is working on an answer to Google TV and Apple TV. — Tom Gibbons headed Microsoft Hardware ...
More on Facebook Deals: Will Include Only Social Experiences, May Use Credits
A test version of the new Facebook Deals product will launch shortly, as has been reported and assumed for some time. — NetworkEffect spoke to Facebook and people familiar with Facebook's plans abou...
Apple 50% Sales Growth May Continue Through 2012 on Mobile Boom
Apple Inc. (AAPL) can keep posting sales growth of more than 50 percent in the next two years as a mobile applications boom fuels demand for devices such as the iPad, said the chief executive officer ...
Boom! Walgreens Buys Online Retailer Drugstore.com For $409 Million
Drugstore juggernaut Walgreens this morning announced that it will acquire online retailer Drugstore.com in a transaction with a total enterprise value of approximately $409 million. — As a result o...
Venture Capitalists May Hate AngelList, But They're Still Using It
AngelList, a sort of social network that brings entrepreneurs and investors together to talk about and fund deals, is more controversial than the average Joe might think. But one thing's clear, top t...
YouTube Now Helps You Make Movies...Without A Camera
By now you're undoubtedly familiar with the incredible amount of footage that's uploaded to YouTube — the current count is 35 hours of video uploaded every minute. And with video cameras integrated i...
Textbook Renter Chegg Becomes More Social
Chegg is known as the Netflix of college textbooks. The Silicon Valley start-up, which has raised more than $200 million in debt and equity, allows students to rent costly college textbooks, rather t...
Samsung Apps Pass 100 Million Downloads In Ten Months
Samsung has announced that downloads across its mobile and TV application stores have surpassed the 100 million barrier, reaching the milestone within ten months. — The Samsung Apps service launched...
Data Science Toolkit Brings Big Data Analysis to the People
Pete Warden has been analysing big data on the cheap for years, and he wants you to be able to do the same: Warden, who got famous for scraping 220 million Facebook profiles, unveiled his Data Science...
US hacker denies fleeing justice
The hack of the PS3 lets owners play “homebrew” applications on the hardware — The American hacker who unlocked Sony's PS3 has denied fleeing the country to avoid legal action. — George Hotz, also...
Boxee iPad app will stream to your PC or Mac
EXCLUSIVE: Boxee bod confirms details on Pocket-lint — On Tuesday, we posted a story about a new Boxee iPad app and how it could offer Apple AirPlay streaming to the Boxee Box. — Well, VP of Marke...
Google Said to Face Possible Antitrust Probes by Ohio, Wisconsin Officials
Google Inc. (GOOG), operator of the world's biggest search engine, faces possible antitrust probes by Ohio and Wisconsin over its business practices, according to a state official and a person familia...