Google’s new Hotpot service aims to leverage the data the company has on 50 million places of interest around the world to serve you personalized recommendations for businesses in your area. The company bills Hotpot as “a local recommendation engine powered by you and your friends.”
You’ll need to do a little priming first, as Hotpot …
In the never ending battle of Microsoft versus Apple, score one point for the PC giant. Many consumers thought that Microsoft was making bold claims when they said the Kinect would outsell the iPad by moving over 1 million units in 28 days. Kinect sold that amount in about 1/3 of the time – just 10 days.
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Over at TIME.com, you’ll find my new Technologizer column. It’s about Bing, Blekko, and the whole idea of competing with Google–and in it, I mention how dangerous it is for a new company to set itself up as a Google rival, or to be perceived as a Google killer. I mention Cuil, the definitive failed Google killer. But there’s another …
Google CEO Eric Schmidt took the hot seat at the Web 2.0 Summit yesterday, and wasted little time showing off his company’s next-generation “Nexus S” Android phone.
On the surface it appears to be a Samsung Galaxy S phone (which would explain the “S” moniker), while Schmidt demonstrated a built-in near field communications (NFC) …
The Beatles have hit iTunes.
The “Beatles Box Set” is priced at $149 and features “all of the band’s studio albums as well as the Past Masters collection.” Single albums are also available for download at between $13 and $20 each.
I’d be very interested to see how well these albums sell. I can’t imagine too many people have been …
Recently released for iPad and iPhone, Comcast’s free Xfinity TV app allows you to browse TV listings and schedule remote recordings directly from your device. The real kicker is the ability to use your iPhone or iPad to change the channels on your cable box, though.
Setup entails entering your Comcast.com account credentials in …
Tuesday could mark the end of a long-standing impasse between Apple and EMI.
According to unofficial reports, Steve Jobs will announce the debut of The Beatles catalog on iTunes at Tuesday’s press event, also rumored to be the reveal of a Web-based iTunes library. The Wall Street Journal reported that a deal was finally struck …
With Facebook’s new messaging service announcement, comes news of a new relationship. It looks like Mark Zuckerberg has ‘friended’ Microsoft.
As the Facebook ‘non-email’ rolls out over the next few months, Microsoft’s Office Web Apps will enable users to access Word, Excel and PowerPoint docs inside the Facebook browser …
Recent murmurs of a November 21 ship date and $650 price tag for Samsung’s 7-inch Galaxy Tab have officially been confirmed by AT&T.
AT&T will sell the Galaxy Tab for $650 with no contract on November 21st. The company currently offers two data plans: $15 per month for 200MB, and $25 per month for 2GB.
Let’s update the Samsung …
For months, there have been rumors that Facebook was working on turning the inboxes of its 500 million-plus users into a full-blown e-mail service. Today, Facebook founder/CEO Mark Zuckerberg formally unveiled the subject of the rumors–code-named “Titan” and officially named simply “Facebook Messages”–at an event in San Francisco. And …
We will never forget whatever Apple’s announcing tomorrow, according to the teaser text on the company’s website. “Ah, November 16th. The day Apple launched iTunes for the web,” we might say in the year 2056. That’s not to say that Apple’s launching iTunes for the web, but a web-based version of iTunes would certainly be a relatively big …
Ever wondered what the inside of a tablet looks like? The fine folks at iFixit recently tore the new Samsung Galaxy Tab apart to reveal a big, fat battery surrounded by a C-shaped logic board that handles everything else.
As computer components get exponentially smaller and faster all the time, gadgets’ weight and thickness are still …
