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Cyber Sex on Google Wave: Proceed With Caution

Click to viewAll this time I thought people weren’t using Google Wave because it was generally unwieldy. But after watching this I finally understand: people don’t use Google Wave because it’s specifically unwieldy, for cyber sex. [College Humor]

Tech News Brian Barrett Mar 2

Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: Gone In the Blink of an Eye Edition

In today’s Remainders: disappearing acts. TigerText, a new iPhone app, makes your illicit text messages vanish; an official HTC video shows you how to disassemble an HD2; Intel’s new Convertible Classroom netbook makes its keyboard go “Poof!” and more. Grrrr Incriminating text messages, as a thing, aren’t going away any time soon. That is, unless…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Mar 2

How Apple and Google’s Romance Turned To Hate

Apple has sued Google’s phone manufacturer for infringing on 20 iPhone patents. Not so long ago, Apple and Google were a nice couple. Then, everything went to hell. https://gizmodo.com/apple-sues-htc-for-infringing-on-20-iphone-patents-the-5483632 The romance began with the iPhone, even while we didn’t know about it in 2006. Back then, Steve Jobs invited Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt to his…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Mar 2

Did HTC’s Dog Just Die or Something?

I dunno, their Twitter account seems real sad or something, like it could use a hug. [Twitter]

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 2

AT&T Ditches Google For Yahoo Search on Motorola Backflip

AT&T’s first Android phone won’t ship with Google Search. Instead, The Motorola Backflip‘s home screen will sport a Yahoo Search widget, and its browser will run Yahoo searches by default. Yep. I think that’s what they call a burn. https://gizmodo.com/at-t-finally-gets-android-motorola-backflip-arrives-ma-5474574 It’ll be the first Android device of any kind with Yahoo as the main search…

Tech News Brian Barrett Mar 2

Now Google Holds a Location-Based Advertising Patent

Apple may be the current get-the-patents-then-sue-other-people-for-them guy, but Google’s loading up on their own too, and this time it’s for a subject that they really love: Advertising. https://gizmodo.com/apple-sues-htc-for-infringing-on-20-iphone-patents-the-5483632 This six-year-old patent contains details like finding where you are, adjusting the content of an ad, how (and how much) advertisers will pay for it and various…

Tech News Jason Chen Mar 2

The Apple Patents Cockpunching All Smart Phones: An Illustrated Guide

Here’s an illustrated guide to the 20 iPhone patents that Apple’s suing HTC over. They’re kind of a doozy. https://gizmodo.com/apple-sues-htc-for-infringing-on-20-iphone-patents-the-5483632 Click to viewTo look at the specific claims, check out the full Delaware District Court and International Trade Commission filings. If you want to view the entire cockpunch on one page, click here. https://gizmodo.com/the-apple-patents-cockpunching-all-smart-phones-an-ill-5483689 U.S.…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Mar 2

Car Locator Android App Makes $13,000 a Month

It may not be the $1m that Tapulous brings in each month for its Tap Tap Revenge series of iPhone apps, but independent developer Edward Kim is understandably pleased with his $13,000/month from the Car Locator Android app. https://gizmodo.com/kids-tell-your-career-advisor-you-want-to-make-1m-a-m-5431048 He’s seen 70,000 downloads of the free app, but 6,950 of the paid-for version. Kim originally…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Mar 2

Topeka, Kansas Changes Name in Attempt to Get Google’s Gigabit Fiber

Bill Bunten is the mayor Google, Kansas—formerly known as Topeka, Kansas. He signed a proclamation temporarily renaming the city in an effort to convince Google to make Topeka a test site for a gigabit fiber Internet connection. https://gizmodo.com/google-wants-to-test-gigabit-fiber-internet-for-up-to-5-5468670 According to Bunten, he hopes that changing the city’s name for the entire month of March “would…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Mar 1

Paintings For Satellites: Rooftop Art Targets a Google Earth Audience

Artist Molly Dilworth doesn’t want to waste time showing off her work in stuffy studios. Instead, she’s taking her paintings to the rooftops, with vast pieces specifically designed to be viewed by Google Earth’s satellites. There was a similar (though a smidge more lowbrow) attempt at something similar a couple of years ago, when a…

Tech News Brian Barrett Mar 1

Inside the Excruciatingly Slow Death of Internet Explorer 6

It’s the bane of Web designers everywhere, and it makes most modern Websites look broken and horrible. So why are 20% of web surfers still using it? Today was supposed to be a great day for the Web. As of March 1, 2010, Google will no longer support Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 browser-a decade-old dinosaur…

Tech News Popular Science Mar 1

Firefox’s Chrome Ceiling

A disheartening chart from Ars Technica, if you’re a Firefox booster: That gentle downward slope indicates Firefox might never reach 25 percent marketshare. Why? Because companies with money care about browsers now. Or, in a word: Chrome. Chrome is the only browser that gained marketshare from January to February, bouncing .41 percent to 5.61 percent.…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 1

Google Picks Up Picnick Image Editor to Make Picasa Better

One of the more straightforward acquisitions Google’s made in a while, they’ve just bought the online image editor Picnick. Given Google’s past acquisition strategy—turning Grand Central into Google Voice, Writely into Google Docs—the logical expectation is that it’ll get merged into its already excellent Picasa photo managing app. [Picnick]

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 1

Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: Wishful Thinking Edition

In today’s Remainders: wishful thinking. Nikon fans hope they’ve stumbled on a viral campaign for new cameras; magazine companies hope their slick new ads will keep you buying magazines; Google CEO Eric Schmidt gets pranked in 1986, and more. Follow the Signs Camera geeks are getting excited over some mysterious cards that have been showing…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Mar 1

Choose One: The Archos 7 and Archos 8 Home ‘Tablets’ Each Cost $200

Archos has never made bad products, but their PMPs have definitely grown less relevant over the last few years. But now? Now two Android-wielding Archos Home Tablets will each cost only about $200. The Archos 7 Home Tablet is pretty much just a refresh to their existing Archos 5 Internet Tablet—it’s a 7-inch touchscreen Android…

Tech News Mark Wilson Mar 1

Google Must Delete Raw, Uncensored Street View Photos Within Six Months In UK, Or EU Regulators Will Be Mighty Unhappy

After villagers chased the Street View cars away in Buckinghamshire, England, it became pretty obvious last year that a lot of Brits were unhappy having their houses and streets documented online. Now, European regulators have told Google they must delete the raw images obtained by the streetcars within six months. Google currently updates Street View…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Mar 1

In The Future, Your iPhone Will Be A Universal Translator

Google recently unveiled a smart-phone app that can translate German text into English just by scanning it. And even though we’re a long way from Hitchhiker-like Babelfish, the universal translator of Star Trek lore is closer than you think. At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Google revealed a German-to-English text translator that utilizes Google…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Feb 28

Haleron iLet Mini HAL Is a Modest Tablet With a Modest Price

If the iPad seems extravagant and the JooJoo’s sordid past turns you off, the 7″ Mini HAL might be up your alley. It’s no powerhouse, but at least you’ll be able to say you own a tablet. Updated. Scam alert! The 600MHz VIA CPU isn’t blazing fast and the 7″ touch screen isn’t luxuriously wide.…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Feb 27

All U.S. Android Phones Reportedly Getting the Bump to 2.1

We recently heard that Android 2.1 was on its way to the Droid, but now sources tell AndroidandMe that all U.S. Android phones will get Android 2.1 firmware in coming months, though some will require a wipe to upgrade. Updated. https://gizmodo.com/droids-android-2-1-update-full-of-multitouch-and-some-5466971 As we’ve heard is the case with the Droid, some niceties like animated wallpapers…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Feb 27

Nexus One Coming to Verizon March 23?

Yesterday we heard that a CDMA version of the Nexus One was approved by the FCC, and now Neowin has word from an anonymous Google employee that the Google phone will land on Verizon on March 23. That’s the day the CTIA wireless convention kicks off and it’s less than a month away; Perhaps a…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Feb 27

Cyber Sex on Google Wave: Proceed With Caution

Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: Gone In the Blink of an Eye Edition

How Apple and Google’s Romance Turned To Hate

Did HTC’s Dog Just Die or Something?

AT&T Ditches Google For Yahoo Search on Motorola Backflip

Now Google Holds a Location-Based Advertising Patent

The Apple Patents Cockpunching All Smart Phones: An Illustrated Guide

Car Locator Android App Makes $13,000 a Month

Topeka, Kansas Changes Name in Attempt to Get Google’s Gigabit Fiber

Paintings For Satellites: Rooftop Art Targets a Google Earth Audience

Inside the Excruciatingly Slow Death of Internet Explorer 6

Firefox’s Chrome Ceiling

Google Picks Up Picnick Image Editor to Make Picasa Better

Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: Wishful Thinking Edition

Choose One: The Archos 7 and Archos 8 Home ‘Tablets’ Each Cost $200

Google Must Delete Raw, Uncensored Street View Photos Within Six Months In UK, Or EU Regulators Will Be Mighty Unhappy

In The Future, Your iPhone Will Be A Universal Translator

Haleron iLet Mini HAL Is a Modest Tablet With a Modest Price

All U.S. Android Phones Reportedly Getting the Bump to 2.1

Nexus One Coming to Verizon March 23?

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