Mashable!:
From disliking on Facebook, to the launch of the Motorola Droid, to the debut of Twitter Lists, it’s been an exciting week in the social media and tech space.Here’s our pick of the top 10 stories this week, from the serious t (Read More)
VentureBeat:
VentureBeat is throwing a new mini-conference and networking event, DiscoveryBeat.DiscoveryBeat addresses one of the biggest conundrums for Silicon Valley’s most dynamic startups and developers: How to get your social game or (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Forget about smart phones and smart computers. Cheap and plentiful sensor chips are making possible everything from smart Band-Aids to smart bottles.NXP Semiconductors, a chip maker that spun out of Philips in 2006, showed of (Read More)
FierceMobileContent:
Big-box retail giant Best Buy announced a retail partnership with Google to install the web services giant's free Google Mobile App on all compatible smartphones, including BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and S60 devices. Google M (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Seesmic just announced the launch of Twitter lists in its browser-based Seesmic Web Twitter client. Earlier this week, Seesmic released the first desktop Twitter client with support for lists. Despite Seesmic's best efforts, (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Earlier this week, Seesmic rolled out support for the new Twitter Lists for its Desktop client. Today, that same functionality comes to its web-based client. And with it comes a bonus: Geolocation support.Now, to be clear, mo (Read More)
VentureBeat:
The posting last Thursday on Craigslist was alarming. Someone was selling a Modern Warfare 2 Xbox 360 bundle, with both a console and a game, for $500. The problem was that Modern Warfare 2, one of the most anticipated games (Read More)
Engadget:
It appears that last night's midnight opening in Manhattan went off like gangbusters, but the situation across the country is a little more subdued this morning with seemingly short lines and easy access to DROIDs at every lo (Read More)
All Points Blog:
The error, found only this week, seems to date back 2001, when precincts in Scott County, Iowa were drawn by hand. This was apparently the first time a voter was turned away from the expected voting location to another. (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Twitter is cleaning up trending topics by returning more relevant results when you look up popular keywords people are tweeting about.One of the neatest little features that grew out of the Twitter phenomenon last year were t (Read More)
TechCrunch:
In the Steve Spielberg movie Minority Report (yes, I make some references to it about once a week), there’s a scene in which John Anderton (Tom Cruise’s character) is walking through an urban retail center and his eye is gett (Read More)
Gizmodo:
It's an interesting question to consider, especially if you use consider just how many Google services you might use: Gmail, Reader, Maps, GTalk, YouTube, Latitude, Calendar, Contacts and oh yeah, Search. Dashboard shows you (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Did you know Princess Leia had a twin sister? And that they sunbathed on Jabba barge's deck, half-naked and oily under the torrid light of Tatooine's twin suns? Neither did I. [Update: ANTHR CLEERER PICTRR AFTRR JUMP!] Here (Read More)
GPS BUSINESS NEWS:
Jean Cherbonnier, CEO at Navx, a provider of content to the navigation industry will be speaking at the Navigation and Location conference taking place in San Jose, California on Dec 1 and 2. (Read More)
GPS BUSINESS NEWS:
GPS Business News interviewed with Frédéric Radigué, vice president sales and partnerships at ViaMichelin. The second part of this video interview (watch part 1 here) is focus (Read More)
FierceMobileContent:
Social-mapping and communication solutions provider Loopt announced the addition of Pulse, a new feature that offers dynamically-generated, relevant local content about nearby locations and events collected from across the we (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Ribbit Mobile is challenging Google Voice as the trusted receiver, organizer, and transcriber of your phone calls and voicemail. How does it stack up to Google's voicemail services? Aside from a few missing pieces, Ribbit loo (Read More)
Engadget:
Dell's finally run its finger along the edge and unhinged the last bit of details for its enigmatic, 0.4-inch-thin Adamo XPS. As it turns out those leaked specs weren't entirely off. We're looking at a LED-backlit 13.4-inch, (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Did you know Princess Leia had a twin sister? And that they sunbathed on Jabba barge's deck, half-naked and oily under the torrid light of Tatooine's twin suns? Neither did I, but I wish I knew when I was 11. It's never too l (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Before David Pogue wrote his review of the Droid, he had trouble deciding what to call the device. He argued that "smartphone" is an outdated label for the iPhone-like devices coming out and so he looked for a new one. Our Ja (Read More)