Gizmodo:
Google and the Phantom Town of Argleton...10 Years of Steve Jobs' Apple Product Unveilings...AT&T's Foray Into In-Car Satellite TV Goes Miserably Wrong...Robots Will Soon Learn How to Smell Fear For ages, map makers have pro (Read More)
TechCrunch:
When the iPhone OS 3.1 update rolled through town, it brought with it a handful of new features – but it also killed off one, not-so-official feature: unauthorized data tethering on AT&T.Early this morning, the endlessly inge (Read More)
CIO.com - News:
Exchange 2010 ships next week, facing more heat than ever from Google Apps and other hosted offerings. Here's a look at one CIO's decision-making process and the five key reasons why he chose on-premises Exchange 2010. (Read More)
Gizmodo:
I still can't believe the TwitterPeek exists. It's a portable device that only does Twitter. Seriously, who the hell would spend $200 on this? Am I crazy here? The original Peek, which just runs email, is something I would ne (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Blacksn0w, child of overserious shadow-lurker GeoHot and brother of equally straighforward jailbreak app Blackra1n, is now available, and should make unlocking your late-version iPhone 3G or 3GS a dead-simple process. Before (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
CompareMyDocs makes it easy to compare multiple revisions of a document and to compile a final version based on these revisions. The site, which launched today, can handle Word documents and rich-text files. You simply select (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Since 2005, Apple stores have been ringing up purchases with wireless handheld point-of-sale terminals. This always felt a little odd, partly because spent a lot of money without even seeing register, but mostly because the d (Read More)
Gizmodo:
A year ago, Android was an unfinished OS for nerds, bursting with potential. With Android 2.0, it's evolved into something sleeker, more refined and focused—but still something not quite human. Over the last year, Android's e (Read More)
Official Google Blog:
Does anyone actually like passwords? Most people can't stand them because they end up having to keep track of a long (and often memorized) list of usernames and passwords to sign into the websites they visit. Website owners h (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
These days, everyone wants to build their own iPhone applications, but not everyone knows how write the code necessary in order to create them. Fortunately, there are now a number of tools that allow non-developers the abilit (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Inspired by the big head mode in retro video games, Eric Testroete created this trippy papercraft self portrait for Halloween last weekend. The geometric look uses 370 individual paper triangles, and here's how he did it: Th (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
In the Web 2.0 heyday, Netvibes had that star appeal that few companies ever experience. Their platform for creating personal dashboards rocketed in growth.Web innovators sang its praises. But you know the story. Netvibes str (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
When most of us hear the words, "For as little as 50 cents a day..." our brains conjure up solemn images of Sally Struthers. For as little as 50 cents a day MixMatchMusic is offering starving and made musicians a chance to re (Read More)
TechCrunch:
A couple weeks ago, a friend of mine came to me with a problem. The British distribution company handling his music video for was shockingly backwards in its formatting, and was asking for a Real Media encode of the video. Th (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Fresh on the heels of Firefox's latest beta, Google has also just released a new beta build of their Chrome web browser. In addition to a number of speed improvements, the most exciting thing about today's beta release is the (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Apple's apparently pitching to networks a subscription plan that would deliver all your TV shows through iTunes for $30 a month, with the goal of launching it next year. But don't hold your breath on it happening yet: Peter K (Read More)
Official Google Blog:
(Cross-posted from the Public Policy blog)Last week I joined several industry experts to speak at a cyber security panel on Capitol Hill organized by Congresswoman Yvette Clarke and sponsored by the Committee on Homeland Secu (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Physicist Axel Mellinger travelled 26,000 miles and pieced together over 3,000 individual images to create this, one of the most stunning panoramas of our galaxy every assembled. Piecing together 3000 individual photographs, (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
The next version of popular web dashboard service Netvibes will push "near real-time" updates from feeds to the browser, a dramatic change in how the service works. Those feeds will be served up along with the standard suite (Read More)
Official Google Blog:
(Cross-posted with the Google Mobile Blog)Google Search by voice has grown up quickly. Some might say that search by voice has matured from a toddler to a tween. It's certainly been traveling across the English-speaking world (Read More)