Engadget
The last time we heard from Ivan Seidenberg, he was letting Sprint know precisely what he thought of it. This go 'round, in a new 'Charlie Rose' interview, the Verizon chief is being entirely more coy. In speaking to recent political happenings, he mentions that the communication coming from the citizens of Iran is "a great (Read More)
Official Google Blog
From building data centers in different parts of the world to designing highly efficient user interfaces, we at Google always strive to make our services faster. We focus on speed as a key requirement in product and infrastructure development, because our research indicates that people prefer faster, more responsive apps. O (Read More)
New York Times
Investors looking for the next technology strong enough to drive a market boom should keep an eye on renewable energy companies, The Associated Press says. (Read More)
TechCrunch
Market research firm The NDP Group has issued a report that says Web users who are active on social networking site Twitter are more engaged with music and, more importantly, tend to be more likely to purchase music online. The firm bases these conclusions on less than 4,000 completed surveys for its quarterly music-acquisi (Read More)
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SPACE.com - PASADENA, CALIF. — The most massive black hole yet weighed lurks at the heart of the relatively nearby giant galaxy M87. (Read More)
: The supermassive black hole is two to three times heftier than previously thought, a new model showed, weighing in at a whopping 6.4 billion times the mass of the sun. The new measure suggests that other black holes in nearby large galaxies could also be much heftier than current measurements suggest, and it could help astronomers solve a longstanding puzzle about galaxy development.
Engadget
Looks like our hopeless optimism might win again. Android lovers who didn't get their hands on the Google Ion (a.k.a. HTC Magic) already can look forward to a summer launch of T-Mobile's version, myTouch 3G. According to the Wall Street Journal citing, the ever-resourceful "people familiar with the matter" group, all the de (Read More)
Engadget
The iPhone Dev-Team (no relation) have been teasing us for a little bit now with what they've been saying is an iPhone OS 3.0-compatible version of yellowsn0w, and tonight in a video presentation they unveiled ultrasn0w, which should let you unlock any iPhone on the market, running any version of the firmware from 3.0 on do (Read More)
Reuters: Lifestyle
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Twitter, the social networking site favored by some celebrities, has gone high-brow with a performance from James Joyce's 1922 novel "Ulysses."
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paidContent.org
Likely feeling left out of the real-time search craze, Facebook said Tuesday evening that it had started testing an update to its search service that includes “up-to-the-minute results” from status updates, notes, and links. The results are broken down into two groups: Those from the accounts of friends and those written by (Read More)
paidContent.org
The shoe has dropped at MySpace and it’s a big one: the News Corp social network is cutting nearly 30 percent of its staff, reducing the domestic staff size to 1,000 from 1,420 as it tries to dial back to a start-up culture—and make money. With no mention of staff beyond the U.S., the official announcement and a memo from C (Read More)
L.A. Times - Technology News
Some say it clung too long to a 'portal strategy' while Facebook kept its focus on social networking and surpassed MySpace in U.S. users.
MySpace is looking to do an about-face.
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Mashable!
If you use a Twitter client like TweetDeck or Seesmic Desktop, odds are you have a number of different searches setup in multiple columns. For example, I have a search setup for ‘mashable’ in TweetDeck that automatically updates to show me each time someone mentions our brand in a Tweet (so be nice!). However, if you don’ (Read More)