During both the keynote and a Windows Phone 7 session here at TechEd North America 2010, Microsoft showed off a subtly newer build of Windows Phone 7 that features a few visual changes over the builds we’ve seen not too long ago from Microsoft MIX and certainly its debut at Mobile World [...]
Damnit, a sad day at TechCrunch – we’ve lost one of our own, drawn by the allure of a startup to call his own. TechCrunch research analyst Dan Levine will be leaving us to start his own company as part of the next batch of Y Combinator startups. You’ll hear more about the company, which he is founding with David Fowler, in the coming [...]
According to a job post today, Twitter is looking for a government liaison to serve as a point person for the company in Washington D.C. The staff member will be the first D.C.-based employee for Twitter.The post reads: You’ll be our first D.C. -based employee and the closest point of contact with a variety of important people and organizations looking to get [...]
One of the things rumored to be appearing during Steve Jobs’ keynote at WWDC today was the next version of Safari, 5. That didn’t happen. But Apple occasionally gives us some quiet surprises, and that appears to be the case today as Safari 5 is in fact being released — at least according to a press release.While it’s nowhere to be found on [...]
runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience90435692001'); Today, I had lunch with AdMob CEO Omar Hamoui just before he went onstage at the CM Summit in New York City. The FTC finally approved Google’s $750 miillion acquisition of his mobile ad startup on May 27. He told me about the long ordeal of going through that approval process, [...]
During the TechEd North America 2010 keynote this morning in New Orleans, Microsoft showed off a new build of Office Communicator “14″, the enterprise-equivalent of Windows Live Messenger, and it makes me wish Microsoft would ship a “light” version of Windows Live Messenger for those of us who just want to, dare I say, communicate.Although [...]
A year ago, I did a post highlighting Apple’s awesome-looking App Wall. The wall was a series of Apple monitors set up to show the App Store in a Matrix-like way. Arranged by color, each time an app was purchased, it would pulse. Of course, there were “only” 50,000 apps at the time, and Apple still couldn’t show them all on the display. Now [...]
The Android vs iPhone fight is officially on. The EVO 4G fired the first shot last Friday when it launched nationwide on Sprint. The Android nation rallied behind the 4G super phone, which finally gave the Android nation a reason to be proud of their mobile platform of choice. They loudly pointed out all the EVO 4G's iPhone-killing specs: huge 4.3-inch screen, 4G [...]
Despite all the recent hand-wringing about Facebook’s privacy failures and the company’s attempts to simplify privacy controls in response to the uproar over the past month and a half, there has been no visible impact on Facebook itself. In fact, the mont of May was one of the strongest ones ever for Facebook, as measured by net new visitors. According to [...]
Seattle based RevenueLoan, a new startup founded by Founder’s Co-op, is open for business. Think of them as a friendly loan shark who won’t come to break your legs if you don’t pay up (I don’t think they will, anyway).A lot of startups that have revenue don’t want to raise venture capital because of the onerous terms – lots of [...]
As expected, the iPhone 4 was announced today during Steve Jobs’ keynote at WWDC. Its flagship features are, of course, the extremely high resolution screen, video chat capability with FaceTime, and the sexy new form factor. But there’s more to the 4 than that, and even those seemingly self-explanatory new features deserve a closer look. Let’s see [...]
Among the many announcements made today at Apple’s WWDC was further information on Apple’s iAd platform. At the conference and in a release issued today, Steve Jobs revealed that Apple currently has mobile ad campaigns for AT&T, Best Buy, Chanel, Citi Target, The Walt Disney Studios and a number of other high-profile brands. Another interesting stat: [...]
The future has officially arrived, ladies and gentlemen: El Steve just made a video call to Jony Ive as part of his famous "One more thing" sequence of the Apple WWDC.
Today at Apple’s developer conference (read our livenotes), Steve Jobs announced that the iPhone will new getting a new search engine option: Bing. We heard rumblings of a deal in late May. Currently, Google is the default search engine on the iPhone, which can be changed to Yahoo in the settings. “”We’re adding a third option which is [...]
Today at the WWDC keynote address, Apple CEO Steve Jobs did a bit of tidying up. When talking about the new iPhone OS 4, Jobs noted that they were renaming the OS to be simply “iOS.” This is obviously because the iPhone OS has extended beyond the iPhone and onto new devices such as the iPad. Jobs also had a bit stat to throw out there: later this month, [...]
By Joe Wilcox, BetanewsApple CEO Steve Jobs gave one of his better sales pitches during the Worldwide Developer Conference keynote earlier today. He had to. Gizmodo's iPhone 4 prototype series revealed the major details. Other than the gyroscope, iBooks and iMovie for iPhone, Jobs shared little that wasn't already known or reasonably guessed from Gizmodo's reporting [...]
Today at the WWDC keynote Steve Jobs unveiled the iMovie app for the iPhone. You would be amazed to know that this time around the video on the iPhone will be wickedly useful.
The second biggest news out of San Fran today? The announcement of iPhone OS 4.0, Apple’s biggest improvement to the iPhone OS since, well, 3.0. This new version includes multi-tasking (although backgrounding would be the proper term), app folders, a new version of Mail, and a carrier unlock (Not officially sanctioned by Apple, but available nonetheless).The [...]
Today at the WWDC keynote in San Francisco, Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the newest iPhone — the iPhone 4. Jobs didn’t dance around the fact that the device has been seen before. While he didn’t mention Gizmodo specifically, he did note that, “now, some of you have already seen this.” But he quipped, “believe me, you ain’t [...]
Steve Jobs finally made the iPhone 4 official. He’s probably more glad to see this happen than us with more than a couple iPhone 4s prematurely making their way into journalist’s hands over the last few weeks. But none of that really matters anymore. The iPhone 4 is here.Developing…Read more…
Zynga’s hit game Farmville is coming to the iPhone, says the gaming giant’s CEO Mark Pincus at this morning’s WWDC keynote. This should make the 35 million daily players of Farmville players overjoyed, as now they can create their virtual farms on the go. Oddly, Steve Jobs pronounced Zynga, “Zenya” in the keynote. Twice.The app looks [...]
Kompleksitet er et grundvilkår – og jeg tør ikke sige om det nogensinde har været anderledes? (Henrik Dahl påstår at alle generationer før vores har haft deres egen version af højt tempo – og da han jo er meget klog, skal det jo nok passe!)Men altså – kompleksitet er et grundvilkår. Mange af vores problemstillinger griber ind i hinanden og mange af [...]
Today at the WWDC event in San Francisco, Apple CEO Steve Jobs took the stage for his keynote address. During it, he gave some key stats about three key pillars of Apple’s recent strategy: the iPad, the App Store, and the new iBooks store.First, the key iPad stats:There have been 2 million iPads sold in 59 days.That’s 1 iPad sold every 3 secondsIt’s [...]
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings got up on stage right after Apple CEO Steve Jobs at the WWDC 2010 conference, which we’re liveblogging here. Guess why he was there: there’s a free Netflix app for iPhone on the way, and it’s coming this Summer.It isn’t much of a surprise. I mean, Netflix already has an (amazing) iPad app, and it started surveying [...]
The iPad just sold 2 million units in two months, a pretty huge number for a device with no track record and it does, in fact, get girls interested in you. The device is in 10 countries today and will be in 19 in July. There are also 8,500 native iPad apps available now. There have been 35 million apps download, 17 per iPad.Read more…
Dmitry Shapiro, the founder and CEO of shuttered video site Veoh, is joining MySpace Music today as Chief Technology Officer. Shapiro will report directly to Courtney Holt, President of MySpace Music.In his new role, Shapiro will be “responsible for all aspects of technical developments for the MySpace Music platform”, including new versions of artist [...]
2010 MTV Movie Awards Tweet Tracker [mtv.com] by Stamen Design is a real-time graph of Twitter activity, highlighting the most popular famous people being talked about. In the 'Cloud View', the more popular a specific person is (counted in tweets per minute), the bigger their according headshot will grow. In the 'Stripped View', each person is represented by a [...]
By Jacqueline Emigh, BetanewsNew York, New York U.S.A. After dropping wide hints over the past few weeks about "Web printer" plans, HP started to get a lot more specific today with the launch of three new smartphone-enabled printers. Some questions still remain unanswered, though, including exactly when the WebOS mobile operating system of HP's newly acquired Palm [...]
By the Betanews Staff, BetanewsAs anticipated, Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone 4, at WWDC on Monday, and although we knew most of the details, there were some surprises. Here's what you need to know:1. Design9.3mm thick; 24% thinner than 3GSStainless steel exterior band is an integrated antennaGlass front AND rear2. "Retina Display"325 "ppi" (apparently they are above [...]
It's time. After months of whispers, leaks, lost prototypes, and police raids, it all leads up to this: Steve Jobs' keynote at WWDC 2010.Will the prototype fourth-generation iPhone we've seen so much of be the real deal? Do Steve and co. have any tricks up their sleeves to satisfy their ever more rabid fan base? Follow along as we liveblog every minute of the action [...]
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Windows 7 Officially Released Today - http://bit.ly/2R7Rr6
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Au revoir, mon pays. http://pic.gd/9d7537
Google's New Social Search Is A Big Chess Move Against Facebook http://bit.ly/1DLWbU #twine
Web 2.0 Panel: Humans as Sensors http://bit.ly/2rgre4 #twine
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NASA's Big Bang on the moon stirred up some stuff. http://bit.ly/2V83Mp
Bieijing air quality is improving by some measurement approaches. http://bit.ly/4tZLOT
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