According to a tweet from Digg co-founder Kevin Rose, Google is working on a Facebook competitor to be called Google Me. But while the search giant has every reason to want to do such a thing, the odds of it actually succeeding are extremely small. Read More »
Archive for June 2010
RapidShare used to reward users for generating traffic with hugely popular free downloads, but the one-click-hoster is now revamping its offerings to move into a different direction: Content owners will be able to sell files, making it essentially possible to launch download stores powered by RapidShare. Read More »
Best Buy has plans to sell mobile broadband under the store’s banner. Best Buy Connect will offer 3G and 4G connectivity in a variety of tiered service plans ranging from 250 MB to 5 GB limits per month. Sprint is rumored to be the service provider. Read More »
Tesla has upped the ante on its IPO. According to an update posted this morning with the SEC, Tesla plans to sell 13.3 million shares tomorrow, up from the 11.1 million shares previously planned for the initial public offering. Read More »
Apple today announced iPhone 4 sales of 1.7 million units in the first three days, beating last year’s record of 1 million iPhone 3GS handsets in the same time frame. Handset improvements surely helped drive record sales, but so did good marketing and AT&T. Yes, AT&T. Read More »
Sleep happens to be one of the most important things that we do each day. How we sleep affects our memory, learning ability, mood, and health. Too little sleep can have negative effects that will last us throughout the day and interfere with our work. Read More »
Hoping to stop Apple’s iPhone 4 momentum, the Android camp has ramped up the release of new smartphones, some of them powered with large, high-resolution 4-inch screens, super fast processors and other powerful features. Samsung and Motorola are leading the charge. Will they succeed? Read More »
Amazon’s new iPad and iPhone apps let users play audio and video clips within select book titles. The online retailer currently only offers about a dozen titles with such multimedia enhancements, but the update could mean that the next Kindle will support video playback as well. Read More »
Tesla Motors, the electric car startup scheduled to debut in public trading on Tuesday, could deliver the biggest IPO for a U.S. car company since Ford Motor. It will also reveal the degree of public confidence in electric vehicles at this early stage of the market. Read More »
The new Nokia N8 has the dubious distinction of being both the first and the last N-series handset to run Symbian^3 — new high-end devices will run on MeeGo. A product strategy in constant transition isn’t one that will attract developers or customers to Nokia. Read More »
Combine App Engine with Google Voice and you’d have a powerful — and extensible — communication platform that supports both a basic set of features for ordinary users, plus the ability to build custom softswitch applications using App Engine to control them. Read More »
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