Via Pretty Daises on Flickr David Pogue, the New York Times’ personal technology columnist, just crushed Apple’s Maps. He writes, “Maps is an appalling first release. It may be the most embarrassing, least usable piece of software Apple has ever unleashed.” He says that while the maps are beautifully designed, they’re so buggy, inaccurate,...
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Wallace Ugulino on flickr RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Google Inc.’s head of operations in Brazil was detained by the country’s federal police Wednesday after the company failed to heed a judge’s order to take down YouTube videos that the court ruled violate Brazilian electoral law. The detention came as another court ordered YouTube...
In a piece detailing Apple’s troubles with its new Maps app, The New York Times’ David Pogue outs that Google is bringing Street View to its mobile web app. The sharp eyes of Christian Zibreg at iDownloadblog picked this detail out of the article. The revelation comes in a passage about Google’s mobile app,...
ICM Registry, the company behind the pornographic .xxx sponsored top-level domain (sTLD), plans to launch a search engine designed solely for it. The goal is simple: drive more traffic to .xxx websites while also giving porn watchers a more enjoyable search experience. The service has a decent chance to become an alternative to Google...
There are plenty of examples where bloggers, celebrities and sports people will post sponsored tweets for brands or companies they are representing. The reward is usually megabucks or a free toy to keep when endorsing whatever the product is in question. Kellogg’s has done away with the guessing about what is sponsored and what...
Anywhere in the world, the fastest way to make anything popular is to ban it. Certainly Iran, which actually is an Internet infrastructure provider and which has by far the largest Internet using population in the Middle East, undoubtably knows that. So when Iran is handed a gold mine like The Innocence of Muslims,...
A new job posting from Barnes Noble indicates that the Nook e-reader will be tied into the Microsoft platform, including Windows, Office and the company’s Bing search engine. It’s an indication that e-books mean more than just another item to sell; they’re now a broader part of the content ecosystem. To date, little has...
Google’s Data Liberation Front keeps adding new ways for Google users to get their personal data out of Google’s services and back into their own hands. The latest addition to Google Takeout is YouTube videos. You can now download all of the original, full-quality videos you’ve uploaded to YouTube and take them elsewhere whenever...
YouTube is looking to expand its role in the mobile music space, making the site’s music videos discoverable by artist and genre on mobile devices, according to a recent job posting on LinkedIn. The Google-owned video site is currently looking for a Technical Program Manager to “launch a mobile music video product,” and it...