Month: March 2010

According to Twitter Developer Advocate Taylor Singletary, Twitter will begin to order search results according to how popular each tweet is, rather than how recent the tweet is. Singletary says, “This is a beta project, but an important first step to surface the most popular tweets for users searching Twitter” in a message to the Developer […]

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This ARM-powered tablet device from Marvell offers students whatever they may need in a slick and light-weight device. Soon, they will announce a pilot program for the device which will run in a struggling US school district. Features include: eReader for Textbooks
Live 1080p HD Content
Full Flash Internet
3D Modeling and Gaming Graphics
Live Conferencing and Social Media For about $99, […]

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In documentation obtained by Joystiq and confirmed by two other sources, it appears that the Xbox 360 will get USB Mass Storage support in an upcoming 2010 update. In the document, a senior developer at Microsoft says, because of “increased market penetration of high-capacity, high throughput USB mass storage devices, a 2010 Xbox 360 system […]

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Pip.io is a web application that allows you to interact with your social network natively, while also integrating other social networks like Facebook and Twitter. It’s basically a social networking operating system, acting as the glue between you and your various social networks. The Pip.io interface is much like the average desktop computer. You can […]

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The popular real estate application Zillow has come to Android today, hoping to duplicate the success of their previous iPhone application. They have added a few new features to the Android offering that should help get the ball rolling. These include data by voice and the inclusion of Google streetview. You can download the App […]

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The latest stable version of Google’s Chrome browser adds the ability to translate web pages on the fly. It also adds a rich set of privacy controls to fine-tune your browsing experience. Keep in mind that this is the latest stable version, so you don’t have to worry about dealing with beta or alpha software […]

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Today, Google announced a new tool that makes it simple for current Microsoft Exchange customers to move into the cloud and switch to Google Apps. Tensions between Microsoft and Google have been mounting in this arena. Each has come out with videos basically going at the other. Microsoft directly down-playing Googles cloud-based services and Google […]

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If this title didn’t make much sense to you, it’s understandable. This story caught me off-guard as well and what Canon wants to do here seems pretty odd. Rather than being happy with an official-looking “canon.com” web address for it’s business dealings, Canon wants to purchase the “.Canon” top-level domain. You’re reading that right, it’s…

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Microsoft unveiled a preview release of Internet Explorer 9 today during their Mix 10 keynote. It aims to support all the latest web standards. You can grab the preview from http://www.ietestdrive.com, unless you happen to run Windows XP. It seems IE9 throws XP under the bus, so those users will have to stick with something […]

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The moment you’ve all been waiting for has arrived. The Google Nexus One phone is now available for AT&T customers. Up until now, it’s 3G technology wasn’t compatible with AT&T and could only be used with T-Mobile and some other carriers. Apparently, AT&T and others use a different frequency, so these customers could only access […]

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PayPal recently overhauled their iPhone App and added a few features to make it much more useful for users. Not only is the redesign visually appealing, but the interface itself has been greatly enhanced. You can get it for free here.
Also benefiting greatly from the release of this new PayPal application is the startup Bump […]

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Springpad is a free web application that wants to help you remember those things you think are important or interesting. It offers a web clipper, a mobile application, and a posting email address to help you save things and keep track of what you have saved before. Everything is automatically organized and enhanced to help […]

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It has been estimated that Apple has already received about 150,000 pre-orders for the device, which will be delivered some time in April. Apparently, this doesn’t even include people who have pre-ordered at their local Apple Stores. The 150,000 number is the people who have pre-ordered the device online. Acording to one source, “Apple stores […]

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Today, during a keynote speech at SXSW, Twitter founder Evan Williams talked about what’s going on with the popular micro-blogging platform. Among other things, Ev mentioned a new set of web frameworks, known as @anywhere, that will allow website owners and brands to better integrate with Twitter via it’s rich API. While there are already […]

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LoKast is an iPhone app by NearVerse exploring a new dimension in location-based technology. There is an ever-growing number of new and already existing applications looking to jump on the location sharing band-wagon. Most are the same concept: simply a way to broadcast your location to your social networks. LoKast takes a different approach, creating […]

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