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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 »

Microsoft Inks Twitter, Facebook Data Mining Deal

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 »

Sidekick Data Restoration, Round One: Contacts

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 »

The Mobile Web is Dead

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 »

What Comes Next for the Web?

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 »

If You've Got the Money, KaChing's Got the Investors

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 »

Coming Soon: A Mozilla App for the iPhone

Earlier today when I interviewed Mozilla CEO John Lilly onstage at the Play conference, an annual confab organized by the students of the Haas School of Business at the University of Berkeley, he hinted that the company was going to launch a brand new … Read More »

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Google said this week it might buy a big company “every year or two,” targeting “some accelerant that it would provide for revenue, some major, major user base that we did not currently have access to.” What’s surprising isn’t that Google is thinking this way, … Read More »

When you think of smartphone platforms, the usual players come to mind. Windows Mobile, Android, WebOS and iPhone are the major players currently. Windows Mobile 6.5 just launched recently, and Android is evolving at  a rapid pace. Palm is continuing to improve WebOS in the Pre … Read More »

On Monday, Oct. 19th, today’s leading web entrepreneurs, thinkers and scientists will gather at the GigaOM office here in San Francisco for a special event that we will stream live: a discussion about what comes next for the web. Attendees will include Caterina Fake (co-founder, … Read More »

Google’s announcement that it will launch Google Editions, its e-book publishing platform, next year, may have gotten a lot of attention among publishers and e-book enthusiasts, but it’s more than just a Kindle killer. While Google’s plan to offer readers access to 400,000-600,000 … Read More »

Facebook has been hit with public outcry over some of the changes it’s made to the social networking site over the years, but the real risk, according to comments made by Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg at a Churchill Club event in Palo Alto, Calif., on … Read More »

As I flipped through my morning news flow today I stumbled across an article about a 12-year-old who overspent on iTunes songs, and had to pay back a $65 balance on the $100 she spent on her Mom’s credit card. The point of the … Read More »

Skimble, a web site that helps you plan and track your outdoor activities and workouts, hopped on the Twitter train today with the release of a feature that lets you tweet your activity to its site. It joins a growing group of exercise-focused … Read More »

WebWorkerDaily is a “must stop” site for me every day. Sure, I am a web worker, but I find they have so much good information for anybody who is online a lot. I was thrilled to see this morning that they have compiled some of their … Read More »

Shares of Akamai got a nice little bump earlier this week, partly due to rumors that Google was interested in buying the company for its CDN business. But does such a deal actually make sense? Not really. Yes, CDN (Content Delivery Network) technology could help Google deliver … Read More »

TweetDeck has released an updated version of its desktop application that includes features aimed at helping users get the information that matters most to them. The app, which helps you manage your Facebook, Twitter and MySpace accounts by letting you organize updates from those … Read More »

Many early reviews of Google Wave show it to be a noisy environment — waves of content and interaction crashing all around. I’ve kept my usage of it to a minimum by standing near the shore, so I haven’t experienced the riptides … Read More »

The Wi-Fi Alliance today issued a new standard to augment Wi-Fi, called Wi-Fi Direct, that turns a Wi-Fi chip into a mini access point. The technology allows your Wi-Fi gadgets to talk to one another without having to get on a network, and enables … Read More »

Aardvark today expanded its answer service beyond its iPhone and instant messenger application offerings with the launch of Vark.com, a social search web site. Unlike Yelp and Yahoo Answers, Aardvark’s service lets you tap into your social graph to get answers to your … Read More »

ViVu said today that it’s received $3 million in Series A funding for its virtual video webcast and collaboration platform, pressuring rival offerings such as Citrix’s GoToMeeting and and Cisco’s WebEx. The round was led by Inventus Capital Partners; Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Quest Ventures … Read More »

First there was open source. And now, here comes open data. Or that’s what Gil Elbaz thinks. He’s returning to the startup arena with a new Los Angeles-based company called Factual, which is building its business around the concept of open data. It wants … Read More »

A growing number of early-stage deals and general optimism in the technology industry helped push venture capital investments up 14 percent in the third quarter of this year, to $6.1 billion from $5.3 billion in the prior quarter, according to a report released today from … Read More »

The inadvertent loss of all data on the Sidekick servers and devices has certainly questioned the viability of storing important data on the web. The situation has generated some good discussion around the need for redundant data. I think reader Dave said … Read More »

Arthur Levinson, former CEO and chairman of Genentech, has resigned from the Google board. He is going to remain on the Apple board, however. Levinson, Apple and Google had been under fire for the presence of Levinson on the boards of both companies. His … Read More »

So instead of a relaxing weekend, Sidekick owners had a frustrating one. Saturday ended on a bang as the Sidekick servers lost all of the user data. That, in turn, translated into Sidekicks with little to no user data. Contacts? Gone. Appointments? … Read More »

The latest Android update, version 1.6, now includes a Quick Search Box widget. Like any other widget, you simply add it to a home panel so it’s always available, or you can hit the search hardware button on your device. Taking a cue from the … Read More »

The past week was one of the best eBay has seen in a long time. AT&T said it will soon allow VoIP calls over its 3G network, a move that will boost Skype’s allure as eBay moves to sell it. And a federal appeals court … Read More »

Not a day goes by when I don’t shake my fist at the computer in frustration; the recent explosion in web-based information has turned search into an activity akin to climbing a mountain. Which is why when I saw Searchtabs, a browser add-on, for the … Read More »

When Canada’s Silverorange started developing ClusterShot, a web site through which people can upload and sell their photos online, in May of 2008, it was nothing more than a side project members of the 14-person web development firm worked on in the evenings … Read More »

Facebook accounted for nearly 60 percent of all U.S. visits to a social network in September, nearly tripling over the same month last year, according to the latest stats from web traffic intelligence company Hitwise. By comparison, MySpace, which took the No. 2 slot, saw … Read More »

Adobe Photoshop.com hit the iPhone as a free install from the iTunes App Store today. The software (iTunes link) provides only the basics for editing, but ties into Adobe’s online service that I stumbled upon during my 60-day web challenge … Read More »

I’m in agreement with James that WebKit is arguably the best basis for a mobile browser today. Apple, Google, and Palm have embraced it, while Research In Motion appears to have “bought” it for future BlackBerry builds. But why then does … Read More »

Lately I’ve been using my netbook when on the run, so I hadn’t noticed that I recently lost a very key bit of functionality. I’m talking about Google Gears and its utter lack of support for Mac OS X Snow Leopard. I … Read More »

Twitoaster, which threads conversations on Twitter, is launching its open API today, allowing developers to integrate the service within their applications so that their users won’t have to piece together disjointed tweets. So far, Tweepz, a web site that lets you search … Read More »

NeighborGoods, a web site that lets you share stuff with people in your neighborhood, today is launching publicly in its first city, Los Angeles. It’s somewhat of a cross between Facebook and Craigslist. For example, if you need to borrow a power drill for a … Read More »

Phanfare, a subscription-based video and photo archival service, has paired up with Hewlett-Packard to offer an updated version of its Photon application for the iPhone and iPod touch, and it’s available starting today for free in the iTunes App store. The new version of Photon … Read More »

About three years ago, Rashmi Sinha and her husband Jonathan Boutelle, along with Amit Ranjan, started a company that was going to let users share PowerPoint presentations over the Internet, much in the same way as YouTube gave people an easy way to share videos. … Read More »

In its first big move to implement the stricter ad guidelines it introduced this summer, Facebook recently suspended applications that served advertisements with deceptive content within them. The apps were suspended without warning, leaving developers confused as to why Facebook took this action and didn’t … Read More »

Adobe today unveiled a new version of Flash in an effort to expand support for the popular technology beyond the traditional Internet to mobile phones, netbooks, set-top boxes and other connected consumer devices. Flash Player 10.1 will run on platforms including Google’s Android, Research In … Read More »

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