Archive for March 12th, 2009
Google Also Likes To Use FriendFeed For R&D; Reader Gets Conversations
By Jason Kincaid, Techcrunch It looks like Facebook isn’t the only site to draw inspiration from FriendFeed. Google Reader has just launched a new feature that gives users the ability to comment on items that have been shared by their friends, allowing them to hold conversations focusing on each individual story. In other words, it [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )iPod touch 2G Jailbroken by iPhone Dev Team
By Chris, Mobilewhack The iPhone Dev Team has jailbroken the iPod touch 2G and it’s all free for you to use. You can always get that $15 NitroKey Slipstream iPod touch 2 jailbreak solution but why not get the free version instead? From what we hear, NitroKey uses the Dev Team’s code and the team [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Telefonica to Bring the Pre to Europe and Latin America
By Chris, Mobilewhack We don’t have all the details yet but it looks like Telefonica has scored the deal of the year with Palm. The Spanish carrier will bring the Pre to Spain this year but the deal doesn’t stop there. The carrier also operates in the UK as O2 and in Latin America as [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Web App Directory Go2Web20 Gets a Major Upgrade
By Erick Schonfeld, Techcrunch If you like to research web apps, one of the original directories of Web 20 apps just got a whole lot better. Go2Web20 just launched a major redesign in beta. It is an information aggregator for Websites and apps, collecting data from as many open sources as possible, akin to what [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Facebook’s Real-Time Homepage Goes Live Today
By Jason Kincaid Today Facebook is rolling out the update to user homepages that brings a new look, enhanced filter system, and most importantly, realtime updating. Real-time updates are Facebook’s response to Twitter, which has been able to thrive on offering users immediate updates from their friends and favorite celebrities (Facebook’s original News Feed took [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )T-Mobile G2 to be launched at CTIA?
By The Boy Genius, BGR This isn’t based on any tips or ninja-related information, just more like logical thinking, we guess. But, is there anyone out there that thinks T-Mobile USA wont be announcing the T-Mobile G2 at CTIA? We nailed the April release date back when we scooped the G2 — we even got [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )iSynth Brings Microsoft’s Powerful 3D Photo Viewer Photosynth To The iPhone
By Jason Kincaid, Techcrunch iSynth (iTunes Link) is a new application that brings Microsoft’s impressive Photosynth 3D photo viewer to the iPhone. Photosynth stitches together user-submitted photos of the same subject, allowing users to ‘fly-through’ the area by clicking on each successive photo. The technology works best in places and events with many user-submitted photos [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Vodafone UK to Launch Samsung Ultra-Touch S8300 on March 19
By Chris, Mobilewhack Samsung Ultra-Touch S8300 is one of the most promising phones announced by Samsung this year. It has a 2.8 inch WQVGA touchscreen AMOLED display, 3G support, an 8 megapixel camera with LED flash and video recording, A-GPS, FM radio, 80MB of internal memory upgradeable to 16GB via microSD and lots of other [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Radar for iPhone finds Flickr support
By Greg Kumparak, Mobilecrunch Heres an idea: If you’re looking to build up your social site’s user base, add support for a popular, similarly focused (but not directly competitive) social site to your network’s iPhone application. It may sound crazy (who wants to promote someone else’s brand?), but that’s exactly what Radar, a social network [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )TechFuga Updates Its News Aggregator. Now, With Twitter Search!
By Erick Schonfeld, Techcrunch Tech news aggregator TechFuga has some new features this morning, including a new news clustering algorithm, easier-to-read graphics, more news sources, and better news search. The one feature I really like is that it now searches Twitter, in addition to all of the news sources it keeps track of. For instance, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Apple Introduces New iPod Shuffle
By Brian, Mobilewhack The Apple iPod shuffle, the usual starting device for people to get into the iPod craze has long been forgotten due to the various iPod variants introduced in the market. Today, Apple announced the launch of the new iPod shuffle, the world’s smallest music player at nearly half of the size of [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Sony’s Maguire: UMD ‘wasn’t brilliant’ for third parties
By Justin McElroy, Joystiq.com One of the most important classes in blogger college is Learning to Decipher Executive Quotes 101. So, for example, when Sony responded to Dave Perry’s claims of a UMD-less PSP 2 with a, “Can’t comment either way,” we knew that meant, “We’re not ready to announce that yet, but yeah, totally.” [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Google Now Lets You Target Ads At Yourself
By Erick Schonfeld, Techcrunch.com Google is wading into behavioral ad targeting in a big way today. It will start placing cookies on consumer’s browsers to collect information about their interests whenever they visit sites that show AdSense contextual ads. Then it will show ads targeted to those interests to the same person as he or [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Facebook Developers Getting Antsy Over Verified Apps Program
By Michael Arrington, Techcrunch Facebook’s Verified Apps program, first announced in Summer 2008, is a way for trusted application developers to be separated from the pack. But the program is yet to launch, and perceived delays and a lack of communication by Facebook is making some developers who signed up for the program a little [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Packard Bell drops “dot” netbook in favor of new
By Donald Melanson, Engadget Well, it looks like Packard Bell’s “dot” netbook just didn’t capture that trademark Packard Bell flavor the company was looking for, as it has now officially ditched the netbook in favor of a new, as yet unannounced model. As you may recall, the dot was essentially just an original Acer Aspire [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Finally GrandCentral To Launch As Google Voice.
By Leena Rao, Techcrunch GrandCentral, a phone management service that first launched in 2006 and was acquired by Google for $50+ million in 2007, hasn’t been in the news much lately. Other than a few good natured jabs at their marketing gimmicks and coverage of outages, that is. Get ready for that to change as [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Wacom Intuos4 pen tablet spotted by Mr. Blurrycam
By Donald Melanson, Engadget There’s not exactly much official word about this one just yet, but it looks like Wacom could have a little surprise in the offing for pen tablet enthusiasts, with some seemingly legit pics of the hereto unannounced Intuos4 now surfacing courtesy of our old friend Mr. Blurrycam. Unfortunately, ‘ol Blurry didn’t [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Questionable Microsoft Chart proclaims IE8 is the fastest browser
By Lee Mathews, Downloadsquad There have been a lot of speed claims lately when it comes to web browsers – when Apple released Safari 4, I put half a dozen options through the paces to see who came out on top. IE8 didn’t appear in my chart, because it handled the benchmarks so badly that [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )MSI VX600
By Brian, Mobilewhack MSI unveils another great laptop for mobile computing enthusiasts with the MSI V600. Boasting of an ECO engine, this latest laptop offering from MSI promises to be a powerful notebook that any mobile computing individual would love to have. Specs: • Intel Core 2 Duo Processor • SIS 672DX+SIS 968 Chipset • [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Nokia 5030
By Brian, Mobilewhack In what is perhaps the most affordable and basic phone among the three new releases of Nokia, the Nokia 5030 is the first phone to carry an internal FM radio antenna. The one touch FM radio and channel selection keys on the side of the device ensure the product lives up to [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Nokia 5330 XpressMusic
By Brian, Mobilewhack Another phone that has come out together with the Nokia 5730 is the Nokia 5330 XpressMusic phone. This phone is the ideal for music lovers and active in the social networking scene via mobile access. The standard 3.5mm jack offers crystal clear sound for any headphones, and the extended battery life gives [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Nokia 5730 XpressMusic
By Brian, Mobilewhack The Nokia 5730 XpressMusic is the first music-optimized phone to offer a full QWERTY keyboard for easier messaging. The real highlight for the Nokia 5730 is the Homescreen for XpressMusic. This provides access and dynamic information on music, people, games, email and calendar. The Homescreen features an improved contacts bar with up [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )The Periodic Table of Typefaces
By Brad Linder, Downloadsquad OK, look. I can think of a thousand better ways to organize fonts than by creating a spoof of the Periodic Table of Elements. But none of them are quite as cool. The Periodic Table of Typefaces covers a number of major fonts and includes information about the family and classification [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Manage fantasy sports teams from your iPhone with Y!Fan
By Jay Hathaway, downloadsquad I might be the only writer at Download Squad who’s excited about this, but baseball season is just around the corner. That means fantasy baseball leagues are drafting now. Like a lot of sports dorks, my fantasy site of choice is Yahoo. Although they’ve improved their web interface over the years [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Last.fm music downloader
By Martin, Ghacks.net There are several ways to listen to music online. One of the popular music community websites is last.fm which does provide extensive options to listen to music online by offering custom music radios. Users can tune into those radio stations on the last.fm website and listen to their favorite music genres there. [...]
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