Despite some predictions to the contrary, the iPhone 3GS launched without a portable version of iMovie for editing of clips. Yes, you can scrub and trim video you shoot on the device in the native Camera app, but beyond that, you can’t do much. New app … Read More »
Web
Updated with detail from the Web 2.0 conference: Microsoft is set to announced this morning during the Web 2.0 Summit separate nonexclusive deals with Twitter and Facebook, deals that were first reported by Kara Swisher over at AllThingsD, which would enable … Read More »
Twitter’s U.S. traffic to its main site has slowed, CEO Evan Williams said during a talk at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco this afternoon, but said that the company was launching new things that “will pick that back up.” It’s still unclear … Read More »
Social networking has generally been discouraged in the workplace, with many corporate IT departments blocking access to sites like Facebook and MySpace due to privacy concerns. But these efforts are becoming increasingly futile as our lives continue to converge with social networks, analysts at a Gartner … Read More »
Good news for T-Mobile Sidekick customers. Microsoft today stated that its data recovery and validation phases are completed for some of the lost Sidekick server data. That puts Sidekick users in the warm, liquid goo phase and ready to prep their devices … Read More »
I hear about the “mobile web” a lot, and that makes me think about it all the time. The great NewNet session that GigaOM had yesterday was filled with such great conversation around the mobile web that I had visions of it dancing in my … Read More »
Our bandwidth and the speeds at which we access the web will grow fivefold over the next few years thanks to advances in wired and wireless technology. Not only are we connecting faster, but we’re also doing it from more places thanks to mobile broadband. These … Read More »
Updated: Today we are coming to you live from the GigaOM HQ here in San Francisco, where a group of industry insiders have gathered to peer into the future and discuss what comes next for the web. We will be live-streaming the event starting at … Read More »
With little or no chance of ever being able to make it through the draconian approval process of Apple’s iTunes App Store, Mozilla, the not-for-profit organization behind the Firefox browser, is betting on two major, if emerging, mobile operating platforms: Maemo, Nokia’s new Linux-based operating system, … Read More »
It’s no secret that the Mozilla team is looking to expand from desktops and laptops to handhelds. The Firefox browser is popular on the big screen, but Mozilla’s Fennec is poised to challenge on the small screen. And the company’s prototype synchronization … Read More »
kaChing, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based startup backed by Netscape founder Marc Andreessen and Open Table CEO Jeff Jordan, launched a web site today that aims to be a marketplace where anyone can access talented investors. With kaChing, people can choose to invest their money … Read More »