In case you didn’t yet realize it, tonight is Halloween. And if you didn’t yet realize it, maybe you don’t have plans yet. If not, as usual, the Internet comes to your rescue [...more]
Last night, a bunch of strange tips slammed our inbox, all talking about the Motorola Sholes (otherwise known as the Tao, or more recently, the Verizon Motorola Droid.) “Motorola just tried to sneak the Sholes through the FCC!” they read, highlighting the fact that in this recent report, Motorola only mentions Sholes by name once – and it’s about as subtle of a mention as can be. But that, in itself, isn’t what seemed strange. [...more]
It feels like just yesterday (er, two days ago) when we first caught wind of Acer’s new, Android-powered smartphone, Liquid . [...more]
I’m here at the Palo Alto Research Center, where the Churchill Club is hosting an interview with Sheryl Sandberg , Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer. Altimeter Group Founder Charlene Li is moderating the discussion [...more]
Blog search engine (and more recently blog/social network advertising network) Technorati has raised a new round of financing – $2 million from existing investors, including Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Mobius Venture Capital . This is, the company says, an extension of their Series D round from June 2008, where they raised $7.5 million at a roughly $35 million valuation. The company has raise a total of just over $32 million to date (much of that at a much higher valuation). [...more]
Here’s the next contestant in the never ending stream of music services, each of which, inevitably, slide into financial disaster at some point. Music service MOG says they’ll launch MOG All Access by Thanksgiving this year [...more]
Following our post about Chrome OS yesterday , it looks like those wily folks at Google have removed the “chromeos” folder from the Chromium build folder . [...more]
In the endless game of cat and mouse that is Apple vs. the jailbreak scene, the cat just put a pretty nasty gash in the mouse’s face. [...more]
Asus , Acer , HTC or BenQ : Taiwan is well-known as a significant player in the global electronics industry, but it’s safe to say the Taiwanese web landscape is still a black box for many of us. [...more]
I removed IE from the desktop, taskbar, Start Menu, and even hid the icon in Windows Explorer. [...more]