Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Clutter-Free, Twittified, Binged (and Also Apple-icious): The New MSN Homepage Debuts (Plus Screenshots and the Press Release — The new MSN homepage debuts tonight and you would be completely correct for thinking the recipe Microsoft (MSFT) has cooked up to inform its design ethos-white …
Archive for November 3rd, 2009
Clutter-Free, Twittified, Binged (and Also Apple-icious) … (Kara Swisher/BoomTown)
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
Google’s Music Search Launches Its Artist-Powered Promotion (Jason Kincaid/TechCrunch)
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google’s Music Search Launches Its Artist-Powered Promotion — Last night we broke the story that Google would be teaming with a number of well known artists to launch a promotion for its Music Onebox search, which was released last week. Turns out, it’s launching a bit sooner than we thought … […]
Another Verizon DROID commercial, Stealth, and it’s awesome (Boy Genius Report)
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
Boy Genius Report:
Another Verizon DROID commercial, Stealth, and it’s awesome — Forget the first commercial you saw, this one takes the cake. We’ve been told it should start airing on TV this week. Video is after the break.
MySpace Says Zero Tolerance For App Scams, Changes Terms Of Use (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
MySpace Says Zero Tolerance For App Scams, Changes Terms Of Use — The industry is definitely making big changes to self regulate around social gaming offer scams (complete background here, with updates). Zynga, the largest social gaming company and the worst offender when it comes to scams …
Twitter Now Officially En Español (MG Siegler/TechCrunch)
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Twitter Now Officially En Español — Last month, Twitter noted that it was seeking volunteers to help translate its service into other languages. Today, the first of those is ready to go, as Twitter has formally unveiled support for the Spanish language.
T-Mobile USA down all over the place? (update: yes) (Chris Ziegler/Engadget)
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
T-Mobile USA down all over the place? (update: yes) — We’re getting reports from sea to shining sea this evening that T-Mobile service is down or intermittent on both voice and data — particularly bad timing in light of the recent Sidekick drama. We’ve tested in New York and it’s definitely […]
World of Warcraft ordered to shut down in China again (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
World of Warcraft ordered to shut down in China again — The Chinese version of popular game World of Warcraft is a cash machine for its maker, Activision Blizzard. But the massively multiplayer online game’s fate is up in the air again. — A Chinese government agency …
Cutting back on your long list of passwords (Eric Sachs/The Official Google Blog)
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
Eric Sachs / The Official Google Blog:
Cutting back on your long list of passwords — Does anyone actually like passwords? Most people can’t stand them because they end up having to keep track of a long (and often memorized) list of usernames and passwords to sign into the websites they visit.
Secret copyright treaty leaks. It’s bad. Very bad. (Cory Doctorow/Boing Boing)
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Secret copyright treaty leaks. It’s bad. Very bad. — The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama’s administration refused to disclose due to “national security” concerns, has leaked. It’s bad. It says:
Ribbit Launches Google Voice Challenger (Frederic Lardinois/ReadWriteWeb)
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
Ribbit Launches Google Voice Challenger — Ribbit just announced the launch of Ribbit Mobile. Ribbit Mobile is a cloud-based VoIP telephony service that brings together web-based calling, smart call routing and voicemail transcriptions. — It is hard to look at Ribbit Mobile without comparing it to Google Voice.