Google today took a step to help answer that question with the unveiling of Google Dashboard, which is designed to let users see and control the copious amounts of data that Google has stored in its servers about them.
“Over the past 11 years, Google has focused on building innovative products for our users. Today, with [...]
Fears that the Internet and other personal technologies are making Americans socially isolated are unfounded, according to a Pew Research Center report released Wednesday.
The study comes to the opposite conclusion: that people who use the Internet, instant messaging, mobile phones, photo sharing sites and social networks benefit from being more likely to have a larger, [...]
When the iPhone OS 3.1 update rolled through town, it brought with it a handful of new features – but it also killed off one, not-so-official feature: unauthorized data tethering on AT&T.
Early this morning, the endlessly ingenious iPhone hacking community released Blacksn0w, a carrier unlock for the iPhone 3G and 3GS. Even if you have [...]
For Bump Technologies, 3 million is a more significant number than 1 billion. The company that famously developed what was the 1 billionth iPhone application downloaded from Apple reportedly raised more than $3 million in its first institutional round of financing.
Smooth move for a company that doesn’t even charge a penny for its primary [...]
British stealth startup Big in Japan has a massive goal: 100 iPhone Apps In a year…..As the number of apps in the App Store rapidly approaches 100,000, the fact that growth is still accelerating is pretty staggering. It’s not hard to see why when app development houses are pumping out dozens of apps in short [...]
Harvard Medical School Launches Swine Flu iPhone App. As the threat of the swine flu (otherwise known as H1N1) pandemic become more serious and President Obama declares a national emergency over the rapidly spreading virus, Harvard Medical School is hoping to help educate people with its new iPhone app. The Swine Flu app, which is [...]
Twitter recently crossed the 5 billion tweets barrier with a Twitter user Robert Sloan managing to post the tweet numbered 5000000000. Now, it certainly does mean it was the tweet number 5 billion, but was it really the five billionth tweet considering there were millions of deleted tweets and of course pre release test tweets [...]
Apple quietly refreshed its iMac hardware lineup. The 20-inch and 24-inch iMac models have now been replaced by 21.5-inch and 27-inch iMac models carrying LED-backlit displays. Apart from new LED display, the new iMacs come with Wireless Keyboard and the all new Magic Mouse. The top end 27-inch iMac offers choice between quad-core Intel Core [...]
Apple seems to have unbanned a previously banned 3G TV iPhone application over the weekend. As of Saturday, EyeTV’s less-than-one-month-old EyeTV 1.0 application had disappeared from Apple’s App Store, after Apple asked Elgato to take out some test code allowing users to stream live TV over a 3G cellular network.
Elgato removed the code as requested, [...]
Wordpress recently launched themes that are optimized for mobile phone, so now mobile phone wordpress users can enjoy the blogging in an effective and optimized way. According to WordPress, there are more than 60 million page views that come from mobile phones per month for WordPress.com blogs. With that kind of traffic, how your site [...]