Microsoft has shared with the world the current status of Mango: It’s up to the company’s manufacturing partners to get it out; Microsoft now has its hands off. Even more, the company claims to have delivered the product early. Mango, the first important update to the Windows Phone platform, was due before this year’s...
Daily Archives: August 19, 2011
Mozilla Labs Makes Its Experiments Easier to Follow
Mozilla makes the popular browser Firefox but the organization has a whole lot of other projects as well. The Mozilla Labs website has long been a tangle of different projects that were hard to find and hard to keep track of. Today, Mozilla Labs announced that it has launched a new version of its...
More Kickstarter success: PadPivot hitting Best Buy and Future Shop
Kickstarter-backed iPhone, iPod and iPad accessories really seem to have a knack for doing well post-funding, and the PadPivot I reviewed early this month is a perfect example. Creators Bernie Graham and Jim Young just announced via email that the PadPivot will be available at Best Buy and Future Shop beginning in September. The...
A deal for Clearwire could be a wireless tipping point
Sprint is reportedly in talks with Comcast,, Time Warner Cable and Brighthouse Networks to raise the up to $600 million that Clearwire needs to transition to a Long Term Evolution network. Clearwire, the nation’s largest WiMAx network said earlier this month that it plans to build out an LTE network if it finds the...
The State of the Word is Strong at WordPress
WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg has given his 2011 State of the Word address, and the state of the word is strong. Nearly 15% of the world’s websites are powered by WordPress, up from 8.5% last year. For every 100 new active domains in the U.S., 22 of them run the popular open-source blogging software....
Watch YouTube Videos With Your Friends Using Google+ (GOOG)
Google+ users can now watch YouTube videos with up to 9 of their friends in a live Google+ Hangout, and can comment on the video as it plays. Google already had this feature for live YouTube events, but yesterday the company quietly added the feature for all YouTube videos. It’s another great example of...
How The LA Times is winning with social media
Surprisingly, newspapers are paving the way for using social media effectively. That theory has come true, as a recent case study published by the Nieman Journalism Lab shows how the LA Times has embraced social media alongside a smart SEO strategy, to bring its traffic numbers through the roof. It’s implemented a new social strategy that...
Apple’s “Inaccurate Evidence” Debacle, Part 2: Smartphone Edition
Apple has again submitted what the blogosphere is calling “inaccurate evidence” in its case against Samsung. A photo found on page 77 of Apple’s complaint to the Hague district court in the Netherlands shows the Samsung Galaxy S next to the iPhone 3G. And guess what! Apple screwed with the dimensions once again. But...
Apple releases iOS 5 Beta 6, iTunes 10.5 Beta 6, Xcode 4.2 DP 6 and Apple TV iOS beta 5
Apple has today released the sixth version of its iOS 5 beta to developers. The new version offers some stability improvements and bug fixes and is the third version of Apple’s beta software to be delivered over-the-air to devices, a new feature that Apple touted at WWDC as part of its new ‘post-pc’ strategy....
This robot will help rescue trapped miners (and he looks just like Wall-E!)
This time last year, 33 miners were trapped 2300 feet below the Atacama Desert in Chile for 70 days. After a mining accident, first responders typically work against the clock to assess the situation, watching out for poisonous gases, flooded tunnels, explosive vapors and unstable walls and roofs before being able to save the...