Jul 31
When Yahoo Japan announced that they would be partnering with Google, entering into a deal that would put Google in a dominating position in Japan’s search market, Microsoft was understandably bothered. Aside from the fact that Microsoft, one of Google’s primary competitors in the US search market, had partnered with...
written by Easton Royce
Jul 31
Google and the CIA have both set their sites on an analytics firm created by a former Swedish Army Ranger. Google Ventures and In-Q-Tel, the CIA's investment arm, have given money to analytics firm Recorded Future. The sum of money given to Recorded Future wasn't released but it is less...
written by Easton Royce
Jul 31
Neowin reported yesterday that the HTC Desire Froyo update was imminent, now, it has been announced that European owners of unlocked HTC’s Desire will soon be receiving Android 2.2 (Froyo). This follows reports of some Droid X’s receiving the latest version of Android from 28 July.
Users of the desire can...
written by Easton Royce
Jul 30
We’re all very interested in learning more about Microsoft’s plan to respond to Apple’s iPad, and during a speech given at Microsoft’s Financial Analysts Meeting, CEO Steve Ballmer shared some more on Microsoft’s strategies for slate computing. Crushing the dreams of some, Ballmer revealed that there isn’t currently a slate-version...
written by Easton Royce
Jul 30
The YouTube team has today confirmed that videos uploaded to the popular video sharing service can now be as long as 15 minutes, allowing those uploading videos 5 more minutes of length than before.
Previously users were only allowed to upload videos of a length up to 10 minutes, with Google...
written by Easton Royce
Jul 30
The current Labor run Australian Government has announced that it is expanding the proposed NBN (National Broadband Network) by a further 300,000 homes and businesses, in hope of winning next months August 21st election.
The opposition, Tony Abbot, is against this project, as his party predicts it will cost as much...
written by Easton Royce
Jul 30
Hours before doors open to Apple Stores and all the major carriers here in Canada, Rogers, Fido and Bell all released prices for the iPhone 4, including special price promotions for data plans.
Rogers has confirmed that the iPhone 4 (black) 16GB will retail for $159 and the 32GB model will...
written by Easton Royce
Jul 30
Neowin has just learned from an inside source close to Google that they are hard at work on the successor of the Nexus One, dubbed the Nexus Two.
Although not too much information has been revealed about the Nexus Two, the tipster has revealed Google is going to release it within...
written by Easton Royce
Jul 30
When Nintendo announced their new portable glasses-less 3D system (3DS) at E3, it was expected that they might at least hint at a price or release date. That didn’t end up panning out. However, we may soon be getting that information. N4G via Connected Consoles claims that Nintendo UK Marketing...
written by Easton Royce
Jul 30
Reuters reports that Google is entirely blocked in China today, with only a very small percentage of users able to access the web service. As a result, Google shares have plummeted by 1.4 percent, and Baidu, China's largest search engine operator has seen a 3.5 percent increase.
According to Google's mainland...
written by Easton Royce
Jul 30
According to a report by TechDay, the iPhone 4 may not be available in New Zealand after Vodafone pulled all information from their website this morning, and the devices are not available in stores as of yet, even though the launch was announced for this Friday.
Vodafone had previously said that...
written by Easton Royce
Jul 30
Mobilebeat is reporting that a rogue Android wallpaper app has been collecting personal data and sending it off to a site in China, as discovered by mobile security firm Lookout as part of their App Genome Project.
Lookout found the dodgy wallpaper application as part of the Genome project, where they...
written by Easton Royce
Jul 30
Following hot on the heels of news that the HTC Desire and other devices are receiving Froyo soon, it's been pinned by Engadget that the HTC Evo may also get the Froyo update as soon as tomorrow, though they say the date may not stick.
Engadget's gotten hold of internal slides...
written by Easton Royce
Jul 30
Microsoft said on Thursday that it's currently readying an Internet Explorer 9 public beta for September.
According to sources familiar with Microsoft's plans the software giant was originally targeting late August for the public beta but this date slipped slightly. Although Microsoft officials didn't confirm the exact date for the public...
written by Easton Royce
Jul 30
According to the UK's Information Commissioner Office (ICO), Google did not collect any personal details when collecting data from wifi networks for their location based services. Google was cleared of the charges after the ICO reviewed some of the data that was captured from unsecured networks and found nothing significant...
written by Easton Royce
Jul 30
After information surfaced yesterday that Apple is investigating sluggish performance on the iPhone 3G when running iOS 4, a Neowin reader posted what could be a quick and easy fix and the best part is, it actually works.
To remedy the sluggish performance (or at least one cause of it)...
written by Easton Royce
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