Alex Zaharov-Reutt / iTWire:
Microsoft's Bing boings into life - early — No, you won't need to go to Google to find Bing - all you need to do is to visit Bing.com where you'll find that Bing is now in beta. — Although Microsoft wasn't set to launch Bing into life until June the 3rd, it seems as though someone …
Rene Ritchie / The iPhone Blog:
Apple Now Charging to Re-Download Apps on the iPhone? — UPDATE: Per comments below, this only seems to be effecting some users and only on 3.0 Beta firmware. We've also added a poll in the forum so we can see what everyone thinks. Take a moment to vote, betas can and do change...
Seth Weintraub's blog:
iPhone's Safari Browser to include Geolocation — I can't believe I missed this. Even worse, it looks like just about everyone did (OK, not everyone). I just checked a GPS-enabled webpage page, below, on a 3.0B5 iPhone's Mobile Safari and Boom! The webpage checks the GPS coordinates of the iPhone and returns a result.
Motoko Rich / New York Times:
Preparing to Sell E-Books, Google Takes on Amazon — Google appears to be throwing down the gauntlet in the e-book market. — In discussions with publishers at the annual BookExpo convention in New York over the weekend, Google signaled its intent to introduce a program by that would enable publishers …
Homeless across country find you don't need street address to have presence on Internet.
Joe, Ben, and I had a great time at BarCamp in Sioux Falls today. It was a small group – about 15 people – but there were some great presentations.
Like most San Franciscans, Charles Pitts is wired. Mr. Pitts, who is 37 years old, has accounts on Facebook, MySpace and Twitter.
I saw this on Z District blog, but wanted to post it here, it’s a funny scene by the very funny comedian Jerry Seinfled joking about BlackBerry users on The Tonight Show with Conan ...
Hannover - Video editing has long since moved beyond the Windows-and-Macs-only realm. Amateur filmmakers can enjoy a wide range of free Open Source software available for Linux as well.
From Google Wave to Susan Boyle, social media has been in full swing this week.
Barack Obama created the group Close Guantanamo! 6 people have joined. Mitch McConnell created the group KEEP TERRORISTS OUT OF AMERICA!@!190 people have joined.
Perhaps taking a step back to save the big bombs for E3, the week's recap seems to have slowed down considerably. We do, however, still have a roundup of iPod Touch, iPhone games for you to check out.
Microsoft was definitely on a roll the week before E3, coming out with their own "leaks" and surprises. A new Zune is on the way, as well as a new TV/video service for Xbox Live.
Instead of thinking about making better IM and Email, Google Wave developers thought about the conversation as the model and looked at what users really need.
June — now officially dubbed the month of the mobile — is almost upon us and among the myriad of exciting new handsets that will debut or at least become official this month is the Nokia N97.
A screen in a public bicycle lending site in Zamora, Spain was hacked to display porn for hours and hours, resulting in loads of Iberian titters and even more Iberian… well.
The world woke this morning to the sight of some of screens from the iPhone 3.0 firmware, proving that we must remain vigilant every single day until WWDC next week.
Filed under: Humor, OS, Odds and endsBeing the Disney-Pixar fanatics that we are, my wife and I went to see Up Saturday night (in Disney Digital 3D, of course) at our local theater.
Over 100 contestants competed in a seven hour (!) King of Fighters XII tournament in Hollywood yesterday, and when the smoke cleared, one winner was awarded a stately paper crown.
sizzle
31 May 2009