We wondered if makers of GPS navigation apps and systems should worry about Google's rumored efforts toward free turn-by-turn nav just the other day. And guess what--it's all true, and Tom Tom, Navigon, and the rest should be ...READ»
If you're curious about Verizon's new Droid, don't be. Don't even read this post. Just go hibernate, and dream that by spring Verizon will have a better Android option.
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It's not that the ...READ»
Microsoft is talking to MySpace about a music partnership, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The deal may mean a leap-frog in popularity for MSN's music portal. MySpace's music site is second only to AOL's with 27 million ...READ»
Everyone loves the iPhone--today. It does two things extremely well: calling and email. To date, no other device can top it. But by this time next year, that may not be enough. And Android will be waiting in the wings.
Google and ...READ»
We understand how Apple's insanely successful App Store has inspired many copycats in the smartphone industry, and even beyond. But here's a bit of a head-scratcher: Google Wave, the company's new Internet conversation aggregator, is ...READ»
Parking lots are the antithesis of sustainability--cold, hard seas of concrete and (mostly) petroleum-fueled cars. But they don't have to be that way, as Dell and Envision Solar recently showed us. Envision completed a renewable ...READ»
Earlier we reported that Google was abandoning Tele-Atlas to begin collecting its own mapping data. Now Forbes is reporting that personal navigation companies are afraid that Google will begin making its own PND software, undercutting ...READ»
Mozilla, the creators of the Firefox browser, just dropped a preview of an experimental project that will integrate IM, Twitter, Facebook, email, and more into one user experience. It's called Raindrop, and it sounds a heck of a lot ...READ»
Shelters should provide a relationship between architecture and place. That's the premise of the Design it: Shelter competition, which asked designers to submit a 3-D shelter meant for any location in the world. Inspired by Frank ...READ»
Shelters should provide a relationship between architecture and place. That's the premise of the Design it: Shelter competition, which asked designers to submit a 3-D shelter meant for any location in the world. Inspired by Frank ...READ»
Microsoft has a new video on the YouTubes that mocks Apple's App Store. Or means to. Inadvertently, it seems, it attempts to mock any number of companies--Google, Apple, Palm, Blackberry--for making good smartphones that run good ...READ»
Update: Marissa Mayer, Google's Vice President of Search Products and User Experience, has just announced that the search giant has "reached an agreement with Twitter to include their updates in our search results." Bing has won what ...READ»
We've heard suggestions like it before, but apparently Microsoft is now very close to securing a connection to Twitter's digital data stream to get live Tweet search powers into Bing. Google's execs will surely be foaming at the mouth ...READ»
An iPhone-trashing video that promotes Motorola's Droid phone has surfaced on the Web, and it teases with a few details about the device. But as more Droid data pops up, there's another surprising rumor: Verizon's testing a CDMA ...READ»
Haters of Google Street View could always go off-road and take relative solace in the belief that they’d disappeared between the Google Map grid lines. Until Now. READ»
We know Google's desperate to get its paws on real-time social networking data, but it's apparently just pulled off a surprising move in exactly that direction: It's enabled real-time comment searching in YouTube. Now if their ...READ»
Google has made waves in the greentech world with its multi-million dollar geothermal and solar power investments, its plans to build a wave-powered data center, and its proclamation that it wants to make clean energy cheaper than ...READ»
Google formalized its plans to launch an online store to deliver e-books to any kind of gadget. Google Editions, as it's called, will open for business in the first quarter of 2010 and compete directly with Amazon.READ»
Forget Google's slow-updating Streetview. Forget even high-tech satellite imagery. Atlanta's plans to become the World's most mapped city involve good old volunteer boots on the ground, part of a large Mapathon project this ...READ»
Update: Google posted
a message at 2:45 a.m. Pacific Time to the Postini Support Panel and help
forum, explaining that the delayed mail issue was resolved and that no mails
were deleted. They also ...READ»
Yesterday we reported that Google its competitors may be grappling to become leaders in hyper-local mapping. Google's approach: ditching map-data provider Tele-Atlas for its own super-detailed map data, some of which, the company ...READ»
With the downturn in the economy, numerous people are talking about
starting a new business or company. Whether it’s a technology startup
or new restaurant idea, I’ve heard of more and more people meeting to
brainstorm and ...READ»
The keeper of Google's homepage told an audience of shocked graphic designers that the company trusts user testing data over the intuition of its own designers.READ»
