Twitter Acquires Posterous
Twitter just announced that it has acquired Posterous, the popular minimalist blogging service. Posterous' services will remain up and running for the time being and the company's blog promises to...
View ArticleMozilla Postpones Tomorrow’s Launch of Firefox 11 to Fix Potential Security...
It's been just about six weeks since the last Firefox release and version 11 was scheduled to be released tomorrow, but Mozilla just announced that users will have to wait a little bit longer for the...
View ArticleCamera+ 3: The Best iOS Camera App Just Got Better – And You Can Now Use it...
Camera+ is probably the most popular iOS camera app around. Today, taptaptap, the developers of Camera+, launched the latest version of their app ($0.99) and it's a major step forward for what was...
View ArticleFirst Come, First Serve: Google I/O Registration to Open March 27th at 7am PT
Google I/O is Google's premier annual conference for developers and last year, the event sold out in less than an hour. After postponing the event and expanding it to three days, Google just announced...
View ArticleNot Delayed: Firefox 11 Still Coming Later Today
Yesterday, Mozilla announced that it would delay today's planned launch of Firefox 11 for a few days in order to scrutinize a potential security issue and to avoid issues with Microsoft's Patch Tuesday...
View ArticleSpotify Launched in Germany Without Key Licensing Deal
Spotify, the popular streaming music service, launched in Germany today. The company had been planning this launch for a while and had already been operating a German-language version in Austria since...
View ArticleGoogle Adds 11 More Deal Sites to its Google Offers Network
Google has been quietly expanding its network of parters for its daily deals service Google Offers since it first launched last year. Today, the company is announcing that 11 new partners are joining...
View ArticleWhat to Expect from Firefox in 2012: SPDY, Quiet Updates, Better Web Apps
Last year, Mozilla managed to get Firefox back on track. While the long delay of Firefox 4 gave competitors like the up-and-coming Google Chrome a chance to gain quite a bit of market share, Mozilla...
View ArticleReadWriteWeb’s COO Sean Ammirati Leaves to Start Birchmere Labs Seed & Studio...
ReadWriteWeb, which was acquired by SAY Media late last year, just saw its first departure after the acquisition. The site's COO Sean Ammirati today announced that he is leaving RWW to start Birchmere...
View Article77% of U.S. Teens Now Own Cell Phones, Most Send at Least 60 Text Messages...
About three quarters of U.S. teens (77%) now have a cell phone. This number is, according to a new report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, up slightly from September 2009 (75%). Looking...
View ArticleFord to Open Palo Alto Research Lab this Summer
Car manufacturers are slowly but surely morphing into technology companies and it's not just upstart manufacturers like Tesla who are trying to piggyback on Silicon Valley's deep pool of engineering...
View ArticleGoogle Launches Street View-Based Travel Guide to Japan
Just in time for the cherry blossom season in Japan, Google today launched what it calls a "new visual travel guide" for the country. This new interactive guide, which Google created in cooperation...
View ArticleBrowserQuest: Mozilla Launches Massively Multiplayer HTML5 Game Experiment to...
Mozilla, in cooperation with French developer Little Workshop, launched a new MMORPG called BrowserQuest today to demonstrate what developers can do with HTML5, WebSocket, Canvas and other advanced web...
View ArticleGoogle Moves Its Hangouts API Out Of Preview
Google has been very conservative about releasing APIs for Google+ and may not even release a full read/write API for its social network before the end of this year. The one API the Google+ team has...
View ArticleGoogle Releases Version 1 of its Go Programming Language
Go, the increasingly popular programming language Google first announced in late 2009, is now available in its first stable version. This release also marks the first time that a native support for Go...
View ArticleGoogle Spell Up Chrome Experiment
This is pretty cool: a browser-based game that helps you improve your English using nothing but voice recognition (so it should be good for your pronunciation, too). Works best with Chrome, of course.
View ArticleGoogle Now For iOS Keeps Getting Smarter
Android users already know about this, but with the latest update to the Google Search app for iOS, Apple users now also get to enjoy this feature. When Google realizes that you have an upcoming trip...
View ArticleThe new Yandex browser sure looks interesting
The Yandex team launched an alpha version of its new browser today and there are plenty of interesting design ideas here. Overall, it feels like a bit of a hybrid between Safari and Opera Coast. I...
View ArticleHoloLens is the most exciting project to come out of Microsoft in years
I’m a jaded tech blogger, but Microsoft’s HoloLens project is without doubt the most exciting project to come out of Redmond in years. After years of talk about augmented reality, this may be the first...
View ArticleTwitter Acquires Posterous
Twitter just announced that it has acquired Posterous, the popular minimalist blogging service. Posterous' services will remain up and running for the time being and the company's blog promises to...
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