This week Facebook revamped its privacy settings, adjusted its location based services, gunned after Instagram and indicated it was in a rabidly acquisitive mood. Something is up.READ»
Texas Instruments has just outed a chip well ahead of its 2012 availability date, but it's such a hot ticket item it's worth knowing about--because it may enable your tablet PCs of next year to surpass your laptops of this year, with whizbang features like real-time 3-D video.READ»
Word Lens just hit the iTunes App Store and it will amaze you. It can "edit" text seen through the camera in real time, just like in sci-fi movies. Oh, and it also instant-translates foreign text. The world might've just changed.READ»
The digital business intelligence platform, whose latest build launches today, lets you get a read on what countless sites are saying about your brand.READ»
Much fuss has been made about Google's real time search feed, and its flashy new Twitter statuses. But a new user eye-tracking study is calling Google out, and suggests users don't care much for it. The thing is, the study's only ...READ»
We knew how desperate Google was to get some of that live social status sharing action when it signed up Twitter to give it some real time search relevancy. But we didn't know how it would boost Twitter, 'til now. It's a lot. ...READ»
Here's evidence that Microsoft isn't just up for challenging Google in the usual Web-search business, but in other Google areas too: Like Maps. Bing's just demonstrated some upcoming tweaks, and they'll make Google nervous. ...READ»
You're waking up to an Internet a-Buzz with talk about Google's new social sharing experiment. Opinions are mixed, but mainly concern the current version of Buzz. So here's our thought experiment about its future. It's scary.Google's ...READ»
Google, like someone arriving late to a party already drunk and boisterous but with a lot of party favors, is trying to grab some of that Web2.0 social glimmer by polishing up Gmail with Google Buzz. The app, which is integrated ...READ»
Facebook is beginning a roll-out of a redesign to its Web page that places more emphasis on notifications. It'll improve things for users for sure, but it's just the first step of a plan to give Facebook serious Web emailing powers. ...READ»
Google's continuing to refine the way YouTube works, and the latest move echoes something I hinted at yesterday: YouTube is becoming a social net. It now has a tie-up with Facebook so you can see what vids your friends are ...READ»
TwitVid.com is trying a new tack to make its Twitter-friendly video-upload service enticing for users: It's launching a real-time search function. As well as jumping on the real-time bandwagon, it's an attempt to get more people ...READ»
Ah search engine wars--always good to keep the tech savvy amused, and today's fight is really spiky: Google and Yahoo are competing over how to include Tweets in their results. They've got two approaches. But Google's is ...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»
Breathing Earth is a real-time simulation displaying the carbon dioxide emissions of every country in the world, as well as their birth and death rates.
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This is one of the awesomestest and scariestest technology demonstrations I've seen in a long while: Georgia Institute of Technology's students are using CCTV video to map actual vehicles and people into Google Earth. Why is this scary?
There's an interesting article over at The Baltimore Sun, suggesting that real-time reviews from movie-goers after seeing a new film have really got movie studios worried, thanks to the knock-on effect they can have on box office ...READ»
Weeks ago, when Google Wave was first announced, we explained why you should be terrified of it. Now Google's opened Wave up to developers, and their first impressions are being published. Wave, it seems, is a wild ride.
If you've ...READ»
The Bing search engine seems to be coming up with one surprise after another: It expanded Microsoft's share of the browser market slightly last month, and, better yet, it now includes Tweets from Twitter among its search ...READ»
