The latest invitation-only webapp to get the geeks excited goes under the snappy name of IFTTT, aka If This Then That.
Think of it as digital duct tape. A Rube Goldberg machine for connecting up all the other web services you use.
The idea is that you set up rules, based on triggers and actions culled from your activity on those …
The success of a TV show is no longer dependent on its official viewer ratings – Twitter and Facebook are increasingly telling producers and advertisers everything they need to know.
I’ve noticed it in my Twitter stream, you must have seen it in yours: Every evening, the big TV show of the night gets a slew of mentions by those …
Apple’s iCloud is just hours away, and the only question the internet is asking is “What is it?”
Follow-up: Apple Debuts ‘iTunes in the Cloud’ (but No New iPhone)
Much-respected Apple blogger John Gruber has a theory, based on whisperings and rumors that have reached his ears: iCloud is nothing short of a new iTunes.
That would …
True story: Once, while aimlessly wandering the aisles of a supermarket and wishing I was somewhere else, I caught myself looking up and to the right.
My eyes were instinctively doing what they do when I need to search my computer: looking for the OS X Spotlight icon in the top-right corner.
I needed to find something in the real …
Nokia’s fighting back in the smartphone wars with something really special: a gold-plated handset.
Take that, Apple. Ha!
The Nokia Oro is plated in 18-carat gold, has a sapphire crystal on the Home button, and comes lovingly wrapped in leather from “one of Scotland’s finest Caledonian herds”.
Inside, it’s basically a C7, runs …
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The rumor mill is in overdrive with the suggestion that Facebook might have done a deal with European music streaming service Spotify. Why would they do that?
Facebook is the undisputed winner of social networking. The more people who spend a lot of time on Facebook, the more money there is to be made.
Music is an excellent way of …
Recently, our own Harry McCracken revealed that even he’d been hit by the Mac malware known as Mac Defender (also known as Mac Protector). Here’s how to remove it from, or avoid getting it on, your Mac.
First of all, let’s clear up some definitions. “Malware” means “stuff that’s bad for your computer”, and this most certainly …
It’s Oprah’s last show. A nation mourns.
A software company in Norway, however, probably breathes a sigh of relief.
Turns out the team at Opera Software, who make a neat little web browser of the same name, have for years been fielding incorrectly addressed emails intended for Oprah Winfrey.
Apple will be using yet another, even smaller, SIM card in its next iPhone in a bid to make the device as a whole smaller and slimmer, a phone executive revealed.
In an interview with All Things D’s Ina Fried, France Telecom‘s CEO Stephane Richard said a smaller SIM was itself a compromise. Apple originally wanted to do away with the …
Twitter has reportedly bought TweetDeck for an estimated $40 million.
London-based TweetDeck has enjoyed huge global success with its Twitter software, first for desktop computers and later for a variety of mobile devices.
TweetDeck appeals to hardcore tweeters who spend lots of their time on the social network. It makes it easy to …
Apple today issued a strongly-worded legal smackdown to Lodsys, the so-called patent troll that issued its own legal threats to a handful of independent Apple iOS developers 10 days ago.
In a letter sent to Lodsys CEO Mike Small, copied to developers, and subsequently leaked to the entire internet, Apple’s Senior Vice President and …
