May 2010
Acer holding global event at end of May, no Chrome OS devices planned...
by 3 others Thinking that early June / Computex will see the launch of Acer's Chrome OS devices? That's what we heard yesterday , but after doing a little digging of our own, our advice is simply, don't hold your breath. A source within Acer has told us that the ...
Sony's NEX3 / 5 cameras priced, June release date leaked?
by 2 others It looks like Sony's having a field day right now in Japan, making its official reveal of the NEX3 and NEX5 cameras, the "ultra-compact" DSLRs with interchangeable lenses we saw back at PMA. The presentation is going on as we speak, and the rumor site...
Motorola Droid solves Lego-encased Rubik's Cube in 24 mind-melting...
by 2 others Oh sure, you've seen your disgustingly hairy cousin solve a Rubik's Cube in 3 minutes and 13.4 seconds, and we've seen quite a few sophisticated robots do it in far less time . But in the latest episode of "Yes, Droid Really Does," we've got Motorola'...
YC-Funded Nowmov: Sit Back, Relax, And Watch An Endless Stream Of...
by 2 others Online video streaming is great. But when it comes to zoning out in front of a flashing screen to kill a few hours, TV has it beat by a long shot — building an interesting playlist of YouTube videos simply requires too much effort. Nowmov , a Y Com...
Internet Explorer market share falls below 60 percent for first time,...
by 2 others NetApplications has just released its browser market share stats for the month of April, and there is something notable here: Internet Explorer has fallen to a "historic low" of 59.95 percent market share, losing about 0.69 points since last month. Go...
Keepin' it real fake: Android iPad KIRF gets Android 2.1, display...
by 2 others Still unsure whether you want that Android iPad KIRF we spotted a couple weeks ago? What if we told you it got a display upgrade to 10-inches and an OS upgrade (to Eclair) to boot? Rocking a 1GHz Cortex A8 processor, 512MB of RAM, a 16GB flash drive, ...
April 2010
Opera Software Acquires Email Service Provider FastMail.FM (Updated)
by 3 others The Norwegian software company has yet to make any announcements of its own, but Opera has acquired email service provider FastMail.FM , according to a message posted on the latter’s company blog. The terms of the agreements are not disclosed, b...
Inhabitat's Week in Green: lights, water, action
by 3 others The Week in Green is a new item from our friends at Inhabitat , recapping the week's most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us. All eyes in the design world have been focused this week on the Milan Design Fair 2010 - the biggest a...
TiVo Premiere is updated and expanded, but is it ready
by 3 others It's not streaking through downtown Dallas remaking Matt & Kim videos just yet but after an uneven start the TiVo Premiere continues to evolve, this time towards something with even more capacity and (hopefully) less lockups. ZatzNotFunny mentions...
MySpace Gets Serious About Events
by 3 others Here’s a ray of product sunshine in an otherwise overcast MySpace world. Tonight they are launching a new MySpace events and calendar platform that integrates technology from MySpace Music, iLike, Social Plan and Facebook Connect ( told you ). I...
3Crowd Raises $6.6 Million For Cloud Management Tools
by 3 others 3Crowd a startup that provides management tools for cloud-based services, has raised $6.62 million in Series A financing from Canaan Partners and Storm Ventures . The startup previously raised an undisclosed amount of angel funding from investors, inc...
March 2010
BlogTalkRadio Raises $1.9 Million
by 3 others Popular podcasting site BlogTalkRadio has raised $1.9 million according to an SEC filing. We’ve confirmed the funding with the startup. BlogTalkRadio, which was founded in 2006 and allows anyone can set up a podcast or “radio talkshow” over ...
Made.com Secures $3.75m To Assault Designer Furniture Industry
by 3 others Made.com , a web-based furniture company, has raised £2.5million from investors to launch its service which connects buyers directly with manufacturers thus cutting out middle men. The backing comes from Lastminute.com cofounder Brent Hoberman now of...
NorthScale’s Data Management Technology Attracts Zynga And Others
by 2 others Under the radar startup NorthScale is publicly launching today with a new data management technology to help web-based companies, particularly startups that deal with large amounts of transactional data. For example, social gaming giant Zynga has been...
HyperDevbox ExZeus Arcade allays fears that Android games are destined...
by 3 others For whatever reason, Android's high-performance Native Development Kit introduced back in the Cupcake days never got a ton of attention despite the subtle hints that it'd give devs the low-level access they needed to create killer, graphically rich, i...
Sony files for 'PlayStation Arc' trademark in Japan -- all but a done...
by 2 others Sony's PlayStation Motion Controller has gone through a few different names during its development, but "Arc" has cropped up far more than any other over the past few months, and it's now looking increasingly like a sure thing. While any official anno...
February 2010
Can Entrepreneurs Be Made?
by 3 others Silicon Valley investors often have a picture in their heads of the type of person who is worthy of funding: young, brash, stubborn, and arrogant. They believe that successful entrepreneurs come from entrepreneurial families and that they start their ...
Nexus One coming to Verizon March 23rd and Vodafone in April?
by 2 others What better way to start your Saturday afternoon than with a pair of Nexus One release rumors. Without further ado, first up comes whispers care of Neowin that the recently-FCC'd CDMA device is launching on Verizon's network March 23rd, perfect timing...
WD's 'Advanced Format' Caviar Green HDD gets benchmarked, minor...
by 3 others Western Digital has yet to actively market its "advanced format" hard drives -- in fact, there's a decent chance you've no idea what we're talking about if you weren't tuned in on December 11th . In short, it's a technology that alters a hard drive's ...
Olympus' SP-800UZ 30x superzoom starts taking pre-orders
by 3 others Thought your decision was made when Nikon's P100 superzoom hit online stores yesterday? You might wanna give Olympus' offering a quick peek as well, as today the SP-800UZ has debuted on Amazon with a similar shipping schedule of three to five weeks. I...
Last Post On Sarah Silverman v. TED
by 3 others This is the last time we write about this, promise. But it turns out that a week before the super-liberal TED crowd was shocked by comedian Sarah Silverman’s repeated use of the word “retarded” on stage (so much so that TED organizer...
Facebook’s Mobile Strategy Condensed Into 16 Minutes (Video)
by 2 others Yesterday, in a session on ‘Mobile Communications 2.0′ at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Facebook’s VP of User Growth, Mobile and International Expansion Chamath Palihapitiya shared the social networking giant’s curren...
MySpace Stream Architect Monica Keller Jumps To Facebook
by 3 others Monica Keller , a MySpace Group Architect who has played a key role in advancing MySpace’s initiatives in activity streams and openness, is leaving the company to join Facebook. Keller announced the news in a blog post this evening. She will be ...
What If…Apple Only Offered the 64GB/3G iPad and Sold It For $499
by 2 others Even though the iPad is still more than a month away from shipping, iSuppli conducted a preliminary itemized parts breakdown. The results aren’t that surprising: Apple’s making a boatload on these things. Suppli concluded that the $499 16G...
Brands Wasting No Time With Google Buzz. This Could Get Annoying.
by 2 others When it came to Facebook and Twitter, it took brands a while to figure out how to take advantage of the social networks. With Foursquare, they have been much faster . But now with Google Buzz, they’re beating plenty of early adopters to it. Sams...
