I'm excited to announce that i'm going to be participating in the first Mozilla Drumbeat Festival on the Future of Learning, Freedom and the Web, in Barcelona, Spain this November 3-5.Mozilla, the creators of the open-source ...READ»
Emptying your email inbox isn't nearly as fun as playing a game of "Tetris," but it's the same activity: you delete or reply to messages faster than new ones arrive. New browser extension 0Boxer adds that element of gameplay to email drudgery for Gmail users.READ»
Microsoft's venerable Internet Explorer has been known as Internet Exploder for some time, due to its sluggishness and out-of-date feature set. But the new IE9 beta is netting millions of downloads. Is the curse finally broken?READ»
The Redmond-based search engine launched its user rewards scheme today, cunningly titled Bing Rewards. But Microsoft takes loyalty seriously -- shunning users of Google, Firefox, and Apple.READ»
This weekend, TechCrunch published a rumor that Facebook is secretly working on a new smartphone platform--the "Facebook Phone." After a somewhat cagey response from Facebook, we can make a guess at what this all means.READ»
Think about your iPhone's New York Times or Facebook app. They don't feel like an installed program--they're much less clunky--nor a website, which is anything but native. Apps are some lighter in-between. Now Microsoft is trying to bring that same concept to Windows 7.READ»
Google Instant promises to save you up to 5 seconds every time you search the Web, but you'll only see those savings if you know how to take advantage of its new real-time mind-reading. Here are the must-know keyboard shortcuts for ...READ»
Google Chrome is two years old, and with the new sixth stable release, it's got new features like form autofill and extension syncing, plus a new, sleeker look.READ»
Firefox Home isn't the introduction of Mobile Firefox (aka Fennec) we've been waiting for, but it is a pretty great tool for iPhone users who use Firefox on their PCs. READ»
While you were sleeping, innovation was not crying in court after being informed it was to spend time in chokey. Instead it was poring over data received courtesy of an FOIA request, picking the right smiley face, and then facing ...READ»
Cisco today announced the Cius, a 7-inch Android tablet with some pretty advanced teleconferencing capabilities. It could well become indispensable to business users.READ»
As the tech giants are ramping up their cloud-based music streaming services--HP last week bought Melodeo, Apple has Lala (although as yet there is no clue as to what they're going to do with it) and both Microsoft and Google have ...READ»
The security hole revealed 114,000 iPad 3G subscriber email addresses, including the ones for such illustrious names as Rahm Emanuel and Diane Sawyer. But is this really such a big deal?READ»
How many man-hours were wasted on GoogleDoodle Pac-Man? According to calculations by the RescueTime blog, 4.8 million, with a very large price tag for employers.READ»
Today at the I/O conference, Google introduced WebM, a new open-source web media format that's backed by many of the industry's web giants--though not Apple.READ»
Google's annual developer conference Google I/O kicks off today in San Francisco, we're on site with live coverage of the opening keynote as it happens. Watch the live video stream on YouTube in one window, and join me, Kevin ...READ»
Online privacy is at worst an illusion, and at best harder to come by than ever--and it's making headlines every day. Facebook's under fire for everything from its labyrinth of confusing privacy settings to apparently banning ...READ»
Chrome is snatching Web browser marketshare left and right, and the newly released beta version should keep users migrating from Internet Explorer and Firefox. It's the fastest version yet in a browser already known for speed.READ»
Microsoft may be being all cocky about video codecs in Internet Explorer 9, but the reality is that the browser's share of the market is on the slide. Slowly, since it's just fallen below 60%, but it's still downwards. Net ...READ»
You're about to go on vacation, so you dutifully set up the classic "Out of the office, will reply to your message when I get back" email auto-responder. While that auto-reply gives you a socially acceptable pass to do nothing ...READ»
What? Microsoft and Apple seeing almost eye-to-eye on something? Yes...it's true and concerns a bit of a hot topic on the Web at the mo: Video standards. After Jobs' Adobe take-down, MS has said it'll only support H.264 video in ...READ»
This one slipped under the radar a bit, but it's pretty huge news: YouTube just put up its first five movies for paid rental, with more to come. Is Google entering the movie rental business now?READ»
