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TC50 People’s Choice Winner YourVersion Comes To The iPhone

Last September, YourVersion took the stage at TechCrunch50 as the DemoPit People’s Choice winner, after receiving the most votes from conference attendees. The startup’s goal is fairly simple: to help you find content that you’re interested in, in …

[ More ] February 1st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Web 2.0 |

Apple CEO: Google Wants To “Kill The iPhone”

According to a hearsay report in Wired, Apple CEO Steve Jobs allegedly said the following at an internal town hall meeting for Apple employees coinciding with the launch of the iPad:We did not enter the search business, Jobs said. They entered the p…

[ More ] January 31st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Search Engines |
 

iPhone OS 3.2 Hints at Camera Support in a Future iPad

One of the glaring things missing from the Apple iPad is a camera. Interestingly, though, a source confirmed to Engadget that the iPhone OS 3.2 — the operating system running on the iPad — has several different software hooks that includ…

[ More ] January 31st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Web 2.0 |

Why Bigger Is Better: The iPad And The Arc of Computing

The following guest post was written by Edo Segal (@edosegal).Earlier last week, as the day was coming to an end and I was speaking with my 5 year old at bedtime we shared the highlights of our day. I started by telling him the company that created …

[ More ] January 31st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Web 2.0 |
 

Irony: You Need A Map To Find Google Street View On The iPhone

We came to a strange realization on Friday at SEL headquarters: Google Street View is terribly unintuitive on the iPhone. As Danny Sullivan suggested, you practically need a map to find it. For those of you with an iPhone or iPod Touch who know how …

[ More ] January 30th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Search Engines |

Google Building Touch into Chrome OS?

It’s not an unequivocal “yes,” but an awkward “no comment” from a Google product manager may indicate that touch capability is being built into Chrome OS.At an event in London at Google’s headquarters attended by …

[ More ] January 30th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Web 2.0 |
 

Windows Mobile Finally Checks Out Foursquare

For much of the past year, the major criticism of Foursquare was that it only worked in a few select cities in the U.S. and was basically iPhone-only. In the past few months, both Foursquare itself and a growing core of third-party developers have c…

[ More ] January 30th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Web 2.0 |

Brightkite Expands Product Line-up With Mobile Apps For Nokia, Palm Phones

Popular location-based social network Brightkite has simultaneously released mobile apps for some Nokia as well as Palm smartphones.The release of the apps follows earlier launches of Android, BlackBerry and iPhone applications.

[ More ] January 30th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Web 2.0 |

Microsoft Earnings Beat Estimates Online Services Post Loss, More On Bing And The iPhone

Microsoft had a “blow out” quarter in which it saw $19.02 billion in revenue, a 14 percent increase from $16.63 billion in the same fiscal quarter a year ago. This was largely about the success of PC OS Windows 7. That’s the story:…

[ More ] January 29th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Search Engines |

Google Mobile Image Search Gets Popular Images

The Google Mobile Blog announced that Google has added to their images home page on Android, iPhone, Palm and other smart phone devices a new user interface. When you visit Google Images on those devices, you now see “popular images” an…

[ More ] January 29th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Search Engines |