Google milks animated doodle mystery on Twitter
For a dozen years, Google Inc. has been occasionally swapping its everyday logo for a “doodle,” a sketch celebrating holidays, inventions, artists and sporting events, and showcasing designs from contest-winning studentsContinue reading
Google’s Music Service to Launch by Christmas
Apple may get a nasty surprise this holiday season; rumors are swirling that Google’s Andy Rubin is planning on a holiday-season launch for the search behemoth’s new music download service.Continue reading
One Million Calls Placed From Gmail in 24 Hours
If you’re as big as Google, there’s no such thing as a small product launch. So when Google introduced voice calls into its webmail service Gmail, essentially launching a Skype …Continue reading
Apple iTV launch in September will ‘change everything’
I have heard from sources within Apple that the company will launch its all-new iTV set top box, powered by the iOS operating system, in September for $99 a very good …Continue reading
Google and Verizon Tablet Shipping for Holiday Shopping Season
The tablet that Google and Verizon have been working on now has a reported launch date: this year’s Black Friday.
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PayPal hopes to make micropayments easier online
PayPal wants to make it easier to buy low-cost digital goods online, whether it’s a single article on a news website or virtual items in a video game.Continue reading
iPod refresh coming sooner than expected
A report from Brazilian news site MacMagazine says Apple’s annual refresh of its iPod line is little more than a week away. Citing “a reliable source within Apple,” MacMagazine pegs …Continue reading
Panasonic introduces 3-D camcorder for consumers
The problem of what to watch on a 3-D TV will be yours to solve with Panasonic’s camcorder for families to film birthdays, baby’s first walk and weddings, all in 3-D.Continue reading
Twitter warns of possible World Cup traffic-related outages
Twitter, which has suffered a series of outages this week, warned Friday that there could be more problems amid heavy World Cup traffic. Jean-Paul Cozzatti, a Twitter engineer, said on the Twitter blog that the micro-blogging service’s problems this week were due to an internal network being over-capacity.
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Safari 5 aims to simplify Web reading
Apple launched a new version of its Web browser this week. Safari 5 claims to be faster than its predecessors, and it aims to make the online reading experience clutter-free and less stressful.Continue reading
