Do you remember FeedBurner? Uh-huh. That one. Yep. Yeah, right.
In the wake of the FTC approval coming down the ‘pike for Google’s [GOOG] deal to acquire AdMob, Google changes its main page to include a functional online Pac-Man game in place of its customary Google logo. This commemorates Pac-Man’s 30th anniversary, and curiously, the game map spells out “Google”… So if you’re in the [...]
As of a few minutes ago, it appears that YouTube [GOOG] has returned from the depths of unavailability to once again provide its video content to the masses. While it may be a bit too soon to tell if this is a momentary blast of access, as part of a longer period of intermittent system [...]
People who have been looking forward to browsing the various YouTube [GOOG] videos today have been confronted with the ominous “Http/1.1 Service Unavailable” message, which often accompanies a Web service outage or access blockage. This condition has been present for the past several hours, and there is thus far no further information about the severe [...]
Microsoft [MSFT] and Nokia are finalizing an agreement to augment Nokia (particularly Symbian/S60-based) phones and smart devices into becoming viable business-grade devices, or even components in functional corporate meshes.
You may have seen the TV commercial for this thing by now. It starts out interestingly enough, with talk about how it is time to get liberated, with imagery of people doing different things, and what appears to be vacation spots that you may like to try and venues that you would like to see.
Sprint [S] has finally released a press announcement concerning the Palm [PALM] Pre launch: June 6, 2009 is the official release date. The earlier speculation about the launch date appears within the range, and it sounds like the pricing is in line with other current smartphones offered by other carriers. A lot of people, myself [...]
The Setup “Is it worth it to produce software for [name-a-mobile-device]?” “I’ve heard that I would get screwed by [name-a-mobile-manufacturer] if I develop for them and try to port to [name-another-mobile-manufacturer]… is it true?” Over the past several months, since the advent of the iPhone 3G and its competitors, I’ve received plenty of E-mail from [...]
A Little Bit: A few hours ago, Time Warner [TWX] announced the ousting of CEO Randy Falco and COO Ron Grant from the helm of AOL, LLC, replacing them with Tim Armstrong, lately of Google [GOOG] as one of its SVP’s. The tenure of Falco and Grant has been marred with a tremendous amount of [...]
A lot of people have had serious misgivings about relying upon Google’s [GOOG] online apps, and given its dominance of online advertising and the perpetual “beta” status of many of its apps and services, it is inevitable that negative matters would reach a fever pitch. Here’s a post by a blogger who has experienced a [...]