The Obama presidency is proving to be the hippest, baddest and most connected administration in recent memory.
Facebook town halls, YouTube announcements all color Obama’s strategy in keeping citizens informed – and it’s now complete with an Android app to complement the iPhone version.
The official White House app for Android …
About.me is about to make it even easier to tell people all about you. The site – purchased by AOL at the end of last year – already offers users the ability to make free personalized profile pages with introductions and links to your content and social networking profiles around the Internet.
But according to TechCrunch, it’s about …
Another start-up’s decided to attempt a streaming television service, convinced that it’s found the way around all the legal red tape snarling previous attempts. Here’s the catch: It’s not a cable company.
The distinction may seem minor, but Bamboom thinks it’s important. The New York-based company, currently in “technical beta” …
Are Michigan State Police breaking the law and illegally obtaining private information from cellphones? Apparently, it’ll cost somewhere around $500,000 to find out.
The Michigan chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union has accused the MSP of using devices to extract information from the cellphones of drivers they’ve pulled over …
Wal-Mart is about to get very social indeed. The retail giant has reportedly paid $300 million for Kosmix, the company behind real-time Twitter filter site TweetBeat, medical search engine RightHealth and topic-specific engine Kosmix. The company, founded by Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman in 2005, will be folded into Wal-Mart’s …
Google continues to roll out high-profile investments in renewable energy, announcing today that it’s putting $100 million into a wind farm in Oregon. Shepherds Flat, which is expected to take up around 30 square miles in Arlington, OR, will be the largest wind farm in the world, supplying electricity to around 235,000 homes via Southern …
Netflix may have ignored advice to start selling movies in the past – perhaps because of a rumored agreement with WalMart that prohibits such a move – but that doesn’t mean the company won’t push you in the direction of others who’ll sell you the goods.
The Hacking Netflix blog noticed that a small “Buy Now” link appears on Netflix’s …
Each month we’ll hand test a selection of unique accessories, peripherals and other items of tech merriment to see if they’re worth your time.
Here’s the roundup for April.
Kensington PowerLift Back-Up Battery, Dock and Stand for iPhone
It’s not like iPhone accessories are exactly in short supply nowadays, but Kensington has …
Consider this speculative, but it sounds like Apple may have twiddled a key App Store ranking algorithm to favor “usage” over “total downloads.” If true, the move could be upending for developers uses to banking raw download figures over the actual time spent using or playing with an app.
Word is several iOS developers saw …
Online daters of the world, you can relax a little: there’ll soon be less likelihood that your new crush will turn out to be a registered sex offender in his or her spare time. That’s because Match.com will soon start screening its members against the national sex offender registry, following a lawsuit from a user who claimed she was …
Despite its mythical, mystical, magical status among the tech press, I could care less about the white iPhone 4. But show me some new iOS features, and you’ve got my interest.
That’s why these videos from Tinhte.vn are worth posting. Sure, it shows a white iPhone 4 in action, but it also demonstrates a different version of …
Research in Motion’s Blackberry Playbook tablet got dinged by critics for its reliance on a Blackberry phone for e-mail and calendar support, among other things, but with AT&T, it’s a moot point.
That’s because Blackberry Bridge, an app which connects Blackberry phones to the Playbook tablet, isn’t available to AT&T customers. …
