Apple announced a feature called “FaceTime” today, which leverages your iPhone 4’s front- and rear-facing video camera to initiate video chatting sessions with other iPhone 4 owners right from within your contacts list or even while in the middle of a voice call.
It promises to be “perfectly seamless” which makes sense …
If and when you first started using Gmail, did you have trouble getting used to how replies came into your inbox? I know personally that I missed a few messages here and there until I got used to what Google calls “Conversation View.” And while I wouldn’t go back to the old way, there are still people out there who prefer to see …
Steve Jobs kicked things off at D8 last night and while he didn’t reveal anything we didn’t already know about himself and Apple, he did have a few choice quotes that everyone has been milking for the last 12 hours. The above video is a brief snippet of his chat with Mossberg and Swisher over Flash.
Below are a few choice video …
This can’t be good. Matias Duarte has left Palm for Google.
The now former senior director of human interface and user experience for Palm was the genius behind webOS’s user interface and his departure does not bode well for new owner HP. Google has confirmed with All Things D that Duarte is joining his former Danger cohort Andy …
Nine-year-old Makenzie Melton from El Dorado Springs, Missouri, was chosen as the national winner of this year’s Doodle 4 Google contest, which of course, means her winning doodle is now featured on Google.com.
(More on Techland: It’s Google Doodle Time: Our Geeky Favorites)
Melton’s doodle beat out more than 33,000 submissions …
Hear me out, hear me out. I’m not just calling for cheap smartphones and free service because I’m cheap (I am cheap). Rather, I think a company like, oh, let’s use Google as an example, could provide a viable alternative to expensive phones and even more expensive cell phone plans.
Google makes money by selling targeted …
Apparently we all caught Pac-Man Fever last Friday which is just as serious, if not more serious, than Cat Scratch Fever. It’s nowhere near as serious as a fever wherein the only prescription is more cowbell, but it’s still serious.
The time management experts over at RescueTime.com calculated that over 4.8 million hours were spent
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Oh Google, how do you make so many wonderful things free? I don’t get it! You’re not using all of my non-identifying personal web surfing habits to sell advertising are you? Oh, you are? That’s okay—free Pac-Man!
That’s right, friends. The playable Google Pac-Man doodle that was put up last Friday will permanently be …
Attention Nexus One Owners-
Froyo has been released into the wild but the rollout, as usual, is slow, so here’s a quick way to get it up and running on your Nexus One now. If you have a rooted Nexus One then you’re going to have to wait for folks like Cyanogen to cook up a new ROM based on 2.2.
(More on Techland: Hands-on With …
Today marks the 30th anniversary of Pac-Man. Well, it’s technically tomorrow May 22, which it is in Japan right now, so we’re going with that since it’s a Japanese game. Anyway, the Google Doodles team wanted to do something special and they certainly delivered.
For the next 48 hours you can play Pac-Man on the homepage of …
The Internet is coming to a TV near you.
Google unveiled a new platform today called Google TV at their developer conference in San Francisco that it says “will change the future of television.” Google’s move into the living room should come as no surprise given the amount of time we all spend consuming video through our …
Google just unveiled its new Web-integrated TV platform Google TV, said to be available by fall, 2010. From what we saw during Google’s presentation, the TV will sync directly with all Android devices to allow mobile app access via your TV screen, Internet streaming/browsing and a pretty swanky search function that will scan your TV …