It's time to put on the Swami hat and predict just what we have in store for 2010 and beyond. Considering all of the movement in the gadget world in the past few months, I'm fairly sure most of this going to be accurate. [...more]
The mobile version of Bing launched alongside the regular site this past summer worked well but lacked some of the bells and whistles that rivals like Google offer in their mobile experience. [...more]
European startup Cloudmade , which offers data and tools to developers and OEMs for mapping and navigation applications, isn’t the only company to get hit hard by Google’s new disruptive Navigation product . But they aren’t reeling out of control either. Cloudmade CEO Juha Christensen sent us an email that he distributed to partners yesterday. [...more]
The Le Web conference in Paris always has a surprise or two for attendees. Last year, author Paulo Coelho spoke about how he uses social networking to spread word about his books, and how he encourages people to download pirated copies of his work. This year, Her Majesty Rania Al Abdullah , Queen of Jordan, will be on stage [...more]
I upgraded three computers to Snow Leopard a couple of months ago, and one of them, a newish iMac, is s till a brick . [...more]
Over the last few weeks there has been an increasing amount of buzz about an unannounced Motorola smartphone due to come out some time between late October and early December. [...more]
Apple has just announced that it will now support in-app purchasing for free applications on the App Store. [...more]
Google Wave, the search giant’s latest experiment in post-email communications , is hardly out the gate, with some of the first 100,000 private beta testers still waiting for their invites. (I just finally got mine today, two weeks after launch). But Google Wave already has a few secrets [...more]
Litigation-beleaguered Skype is in negotiations to buy peer-to-peer VoIP startup Gizmo5 , say multiple sources. The price tag is said to be in the $50 million range, but the deal is far from consummated. Other potential buyers may be looking at the company as well. [...more]
The whole world was bullish on iTunes LPs when they were announced ; I called it a black eye for the majors, whose CMX format has yet to be popularized. [...more]