Earlier this week, Google Offers added new personalization features to figure out what you like by asking what types of offers you’d like to receive, and where exactly you hang out the most. The first section focuses on things to do, places to go, shopping, health beauty and services. The second portion is all...
As millions of consumers line up outside of Apple’s retail stores around the world this weekend to purchase the iPhone 4S, the rumor mill that feeds speculation over the company’s next big product release is already churning forward. Next up is the iPad 3, which is expected to be released early next year. The...
Now deep into its product cycle, the Xbox 360 continues to sell better than its chief rivals, the Playstation 3 and the Wii. Microsoft, who found new legs for its aging console in the Kinect, is quite content over the fact. They recently called the Xbox 360 ‘on a serious roll.’ The console moved a...
This morning, I woke up at 5:30 to begin my great iPhone 4S adventure. I’ve never had an iPhone before, just a Blackberry, so I wasn’t sure what to expect. I can’t even say I was excited. I waited four hours in a few-hundred-person line at the Apple Store on 14th and 9th Avenue...
I spend a rather ridiculous amount of time watching foodie shows. Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, The Best Thing I Ever Ate and shows like them are my guilty pleasure, and just about the only reason I’d ever consider paying for cable again. Given that I also travel quite a bit for my job with...
Editor’s note: The following guest post was written byMrinal Desai, an early employee of LinkedIn who is also co-founder of CrossLoop and addappt. You can follow him on Twitter. Like many, I am absolutely amazed by Siri, the talking assistant on the iPhone 4S. It was the one thing that really stood out for me during the launch...
The Google trio in a StreetView car. Image: Google See Also: Google Should Spin Off Its Robot-Car Division And Give The Engineers A Piece Of The Action Human Driver Crashes Google’s Self Driving Car* ERIC SCHMIDT: “Our Computers Drive Your Car Better Than You Do When You’re Drunk” On Google’s Q2 earnings call in...
You remember Handy Light, right? It was a flashlight app, with a built-in “feature” that would allow you to tether your iPhone via your carrier’s data service. Well, Handy Light got Apple’s screws turned down on it pretty quickly, but it appears that we now have another contender in PayUpSucker. PayUpSucker is a trash...
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According to a new post by Google VP of Product Bradley Horowitz, on the official company blog, Google is delivering the death blow to several more products and services, including its code search engine, Buzz, Jaiku, iGoogle features and the University Research Program for Google Search, the latter which provides API access to Google...