In honor of the Year of the Rabbit, Google Chrome announced its newest beta release today, which features a new version of the V8 JavaScript engine that’s proven to be 66 percent faster than the version in Chrome 9.
In addition to JavaScript that’s as fast as a bunny rabbit and GPU-accelerated video, Chrome 10 also simplifies a user’s …
February 18, 2011 –
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Sucks for him: He always got the bananas. It’s all about the star.
Legend has it that if you look closely at Colbert’s background on the Colbert Report you’ll see a picture of Dr. House. The show …
These days, it seems like everybody wants to be famous, or at least relatively Internet-famous. Google was probably banking on that idea, at least a little bit, when it announced its “Demo Slam” competition last October. The publicity stunt of a competition, for which it appears the only reward will be lots of Internet fame, asked users …
In an effort to personalize your search experience, Google announced they have launched an update to Google Social Search. The updated feature will find content that your connections on your public or private Google profile have shared and point it out with your search results. The company promises it will be available for everyone by …
There’s nothing strange about creating a focus group to learn about your product even if you chose people outside the target demographic. Letting them sample the product fits within the paradigms of normal research. Recording their reactions still isn’t out of the ordinary.
However, the minds behind EA Games, communications agency …
Is there anything that Google doesn’t do?
Google Docs announced this week that it’s rolling out a new organizational tool for all those bridezillas called Google Weddings, just in time for Valentine’s Day.
Despite its corny nature, Google Weddings could actually be a really useful tool–it allows users to do everything from plan …
February 11, 2011 –
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Just saying, he should jam with Keyboard Cat.
He dun goofed with the wrong lady. [via Gawker]
In David Pogue’s NY Times article “It’s Not the Online Coupons. It’s the Psychology,” he argues that it’s the idea that you’ll save a bunch on things that you could potentially want more than the actual savings that makes social buying seem great. It’s what made Groupon the fastest-growing Internet company in history, gaining a $1.5 …
Before you use that copyrighted image on your blog you might want to think twice: It could cost you up to $150,000. Still, if you’re willing to take the risk because you think you won’t get caught since a lot of people are doing the same thing, one law firms is on to you. They know how the troll the web and are using the power of viral …
Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz left a pretty good gig at Facebook two years ago to start his own company, Asana. After two years under wraps, TechCrunch finally got the big reveal yesterday. The response? Moskovitz didn’t leave Facebook for naught–Asana could actually be a huge hit.
The startup’s premise is that people need a …
As soon as 2012, the way we navigate the Web could be an entirely different beast. Top-level domains like .com and .net — which, according to the Washington Post, comprise about “half of the world’s 202 million Internet addresses” — could soon be a thing of the past.
In 2008, the judicious board that makes up the Internet …
Napster. KaZaA. LimeWire. All three of these existed in the glory days of illegal music pirating. But new research shows that the good ‘ol days of copping the latest Britney tracks from someone’s library are as good as over.
A P2P file-sharing study (PDF) conducted by Envisional shows that out of all the media we share (illegally) on …
