TileStack is in private beta with plans to launch at the end of summer. It originally demoed at the MacWorld Expo back in January. You can sign up on this page in the meantime. I’ve also embedded a demo of it in action after the break.
Back in days of yore I took a two-week course [...]
The technology itself will undoubtedly remind you of Facebook Chat, the instant-messaging feature that the social network launched earlier this year. It’s controlled through a menu bar at the bottom of the site, and will let members know which of their friends are also logged on. The catch is that the window can also pop [...]
But if the company’s spectrum strategy in the U.S. is any indication, Qualcomm could be preparing to build a mobile TV network in Europe. A few years ago, Qualcomm quietly began acquiring spectrum licenses for the analog TV channel 55, which by law must be vacated in February 2009 when broadcasters must switch to digital [...]
A mobile telecommunications analyst told Reuters that MTS aims to sell 1 million iPhones within two years, and that total sales by the top three carriers over that two-year period are expected to hit 3.5 million units.
Also at WWDC in June, Jobs said he expected Apple to sell 10 million phones this year.
Official sales of [...]
While Microsoft, Nokia, and others paid untold sums of money to have the biggest and brightest booth at the Web 2.0 Expo, in a quiet part of the show floor, one of my favorite DIY sites Instructables.com essentially stole the show.
Ignoring boring pamphlets or forgettable swag, the company brought a laser etching machine and offered [...]
Ubuntu tops Linux distribution survey
(Credit:
Open Source Census, 2008)
The data on Ubuntu’s amazing adoption, however, is nigh impossible to dispute, looking at the data.
It is glaringly clear (and made doubly so by corroborating surveys) that in the war of the community Linux distribution, Ubuntu is king, with 46 percent of those surveyed on Ubuntu’s Gutsy [...]
Apple has settled a patent-infringement lawsuit over the visual voice mail system used in the iPhone by signing a license for the technology in question.
Apple has been forced to pay up to use the iPhone's visual voice mail feature.
AOL and Vonage had already signed deals with Klausner before it came after Apple and AT&T, [...]
“We have slowed our head count growth for a couple of reasons, but the biggest reason is it began to feel like we really didn’t have a good sense of what people were doing,” Schmidt said in an interview with CNBC. “The systems in the company,Stainless Steel Bracelets, literally who’s doing what, what are they [...]
Felix Nadar is one subject among hundreds from the Smithsonian Institution now visible at Flickr.
The Smithsonian Institution has begun adding historical photos to The Commons, Flickr’s project to host publicly held images.
Flickr launched The Commons with the Library of Congress in January. It’s also drawn interest from the Powerhouse Museum, which joined The Commons in [...]
Google’s top brass are meeting Monday to figure out a response to how Microsoft’s new overtures toward Yahoo affect Google’s potential ad deal with Yahoo.
Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, speaking to reporters at a Google Zeitgeist event in the U.K., said he’s meeting with co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin on the matter, according to [...]
