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Google Launches Chrome to Phone and Voice Actions At their mobile event yesterday, Google launched two features for mobile that aim to make life easier and illustrate the changing landscape of the web. Chrome to Phone and Voice Actions both enhance and extend your mobile device. Chrome to Phone makes it easy to shift things from [...]

Facebook is set to launch an official live streaming video channel called Facebook Live. Today at 3PM PST (6PM EST), actress America Ferrera will visit Facebook headquarters and use Facebook Live to talk about her new movie, “The Dry Land,” a Sundance Film Festival entry.
The new Facebook Live channel will incorporate Facebook’s real-time Live Feed [...]

Our phones are capable of doing so many things, many of which we haven’t a clue about because we haven’t worked that out yet. If we really sat down and thought about how hard it is to execute some of the simplest things on our phones, we might be amazed. In order to simplify how [...]

Twitter is set to release a set of buttons for web publishers that will make it easy for visitors to share content on Twitter. The buttons are simple to install, just copy/paste a single line of code. You can choose a Javascript version, an iFrame, or a custom setup. They come in 3 different sizes: [...]

After just announcing a partnership with Comcast called DVDsByMail, which gives Comcast customers a discount on renting Blockbuster’s 95,000 movie titles and TV shows through Blockbuster’s Netflix-like “by-mail” service, Blockbuster has just launched a game rental service that Gamefly should be worried about.
The landscape of the consumer entertainment industry seems to be constantly changing. Netflix [...]

Twitter recently began testing their User Streams API. This is the full real-time Twitter fire hose pointed directly in your face. If you follow a decent number of people, the batch method that Twitter now offers becomes quite annoying. While you’re looking at one tweet, 300 new ones instantly bury it. Don’t bother, you aren’t going [...]

In a deal that is sure to shake up the world of premium TV, Netflix has signed a deal that will give them exclusive access to stream Epix content on its pay service. Netflix may start streaming titles from Paramount, Lionsgate and MGM on September 1st. The specifics haven’t yet been disclosed, but the LA [...]

The highly anticipated Motorola Droid 2 handset from Verizon may be coming sooner than you think. An Engadget reader from NC noticed his local Best Buy displaying Motorola Droid 2 dummy phones. The pricing information showed the phones running at $199 or $599 without a contract. This is pretty typical for phones of this caliber, [...]

Skype filed a registration for Initial Public Offering (IPO) today, filing a form S-1 registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The number of shares and price range are yet to be determined, but Skype is looking to raise $100 million in the IPO according to the paperwork. According to their press release:
Goldman, Sachs [...]

We have already talked about the iPhone potentially coming to Verizon, but it looks like these rumors are getting some teeth. Bloomberg reported the Apple phone would be launched on Verizon’s network next year. Now, we have more concrete evidence that this may be the case. According to TechCrunch, Apple has shown their hand by [...]

Google Denies Net Neutrality Deal
About 2 days ago, the NYT broke a story about Google and Verizon making a back-room deal which would have a serious effect on the network neutrality debate. It was reported that Google, who had come out in favor of the FCC’s direction regarding net neutrality, would turn a blind eye [...]

Alternet reports that a group of influential Digg users have been caught using their powers for evil. The group consists primarily of conservatives and their goal has been to bury any stories they consider “too liberal” to promote their own conservative ideals. The group has been active for more than a year, operating multiple accounts, [...]

Google has agreed to buy Slide for $182 million in a deal that will be announced Friday. According to TechCrunch, this is only one piece of the puzzle in Google making moves to create a “serious social gaming and apps strategy to counter Facebook.”
Slide is one of the pioneers of social gaming on sites like Facebook [...]

The NYT article regarding conversations between Google and Verizon is mistaken. It fundamentally misunderstands our purpose. As we said in our earlier FCC filing, our goal is an Internet policy framework that ensures openness and accountability, andincorporates specific FCC authority, while maintaining investment and innovation. To suggest this is a business arrangement between our companies is entirely incorrect. Google and Verizon, two of [...]

Google Wave was definitely a crowd pleaser at its launch last year. The hype was absolutely ridiculous. Speculation about whether it was going to kill email, Facebook, Twitter, or cure cancer abounded. Invites were a hot commodity as Wave remained private and you were the man if you had any. Now, according to the Official [...]