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| Can Twitter Save My Name Is Earl?
May 20, 2009 at 7:47 pm
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|   If you're a comedy fan, then you may already know that the NBC sitcom My Name Is Earl was canceled yesterday. The show, which just finished its fourth season, unexpectedly got the axe just as another NBC comedy, Chuck, was saved by its fans. Well, in just about 24 hours, fans of the show have harnessed social media to organize a campaign to convince NBC to reverse its decision and bring the show back. The core of the campaign centers around a new TwitterTwitter reviews account, @EarlTwitition, which already has nearly 6,000 followers as of publishing.  Jonathan Ross has helped reveal to Twitter users that deleting a post from the micro-blogging service doesn't actually remove the post completely. Ross, a British television...  Starbucks already has a strong presence in social media. The company's Twitter account has more than 180,000 followers, its Facebook Page has nearly 1.5 million fans...  Here's one of those stories that's just kind of eerie and sad. About 13 hours ago, hip hop artist Dolla signed up for Twitter. He sent out a couple of tweets and presumably left to go to the Beverly Center in Los Angeles.  Jumbuck Entertainment is one of the largest providers of messaging apps to wireless carriers in the world. The company claims 15 million users of its various chat applicatons in Australia, the Pacific Rim, Europe and the Americas.
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| Strap In: Mozilla's Jetpack May Be The Next Step In Browser Extensions
May 20, 2009 at 7:42 pm
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|   Mozilla has unveiled a new project from its Labs division called Jetpack that gives us a taste of how Firefox might begin extending web functionality in years to come. While the project is still quite early in development, it seems to be taking the form of a streamlined extension system, allowing web developers to introduce new features to the Firefox browser using web-based tools and requiring only a minimal amount of effort on the user's part.  Vertical price-fixing has been OK under US law since 2007, meaning manufacturers can set a minimum price for retailers to carry their products. However, eBay feels that...  A screenshot has popped up online that's claimed to detail part of an upcoming Nokia operating system for internet tablets. Called "Maemo Harmattan", the image reveals...  Online shopping and selling is just plain popular. There is a reason why so many people prefer to sell on eBay or Amazon. It's easy and it's simple. Yet the time and resources needed to open up stores on these online destinations can be extensive.
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| Choose the Right Fruits and Vegetables to Cure What Ails You
May 20, 2009 at 7:30 pm
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|   Looking to speed up your post-surgery healing? Reach for a pineapple. Protect against sunburn? Eat a red bell pepper. Lower "bad" cholesterol? It's mango time. David H. Murdock, who owns and chairs Dole Food Company, has categorized what he calls "33 of the healthiest foods on Earth" according to the ailment they help treat.  Google admits they've so far lost the real-time search battle to Twitter, Kindle for iPhone updates, and you get a reminder that most of the time it's best to skip the funny forward. Mozilla has unveiled a new project from its Labs division called Jetpack that gives us a taste of how Firefox might begin extending web functionality in years to come.  Mike Gallagher, who runs the video game industry trade group, has to worry about a lot of things as the big game trade show, E3, approaches in a couple of weeks. Among them is a legal battle with the Terminator himself.
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| Tech Struggles to Predict American Idol Winner
May 20, 2009 at 7:28 pm
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|  The Internet has spoken: The "American Idol" race is too close to call. The hit reality TV show holds its 2009 season finale on Wednesday night, when either Adam Lambert or Kris Allen will be crowned as winner. Biz360, a company that measures blog and other social media chatter for companies, has been turning its technology into an "Idol" predictor in recent weeks. Measuring both the volume and tone of coverage, it accurately predicted that Matt Girard, Allison Iraheta and Danny Gokey would be voted off the show, in that order.  South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster is the target of a federal lawsuit filed by Craigslist. The classified site wants a restraining order barring him from bringing charges over its adult listings.  Last week, BoomTown paid an economically-minded visit to the Redwood City, Calif. offices of BillShrink, a Silicon Valley start-up aimed at helping consumers find cheaper prices on gas...  Stats are everywhere these days. From ballot measures to the economy to health issues to baseball - there are statistical points and counterpoints enough to confuse almost any topic.  Nice buzz for mobile social networking startup Loopt: The company got name-checked on last night's "Gossip Girl" season finale, meaning hundreds of thousands (millions?)...
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| Yahoo adds voice search for iPhone - the 100-word review
May 20, 2009 at 7:03 pm
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|   Yahoo's voice search feature, which I've been test-driving on my BlackBerry, is now available in the company's free iPhone app, too. It works surprisingly well for the specific use cases on which Yahoo focused. It's targeted at travelers searching for flight numbers, locations, Web site names, and local restaurants or businesses  Firefox only (Win/Mac/Linux): So you've taken a look through Wolfram Alpha's impressive computational knowledge engine and find yourself using it constantly? Save time with a Firefox search plugin to make it easier to search.  Not enough space on your iPhone for all your music? Need more storage for your tiny netbook hard drive? ZumoDrive promises to solve conundrums like these by keeping your files in the cloud but making them accessible in real-time...  iPhone only: Email n' Walk overlays an email composition window on top of the view from your iPhone's camera, so you can type out an email and watch where you're going.
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| Remains of the Day: Skip the Funny Forward Edition
May 20, 2009 at 7:00 pm
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| Google admits they've so far lost the real-time search battle to Twitter, Kindle for iPhone updates, and you get a reminder that most of the time it's best to skip the funny forward.  Twitter cofounder Biz Stone wants us to know that Twitter isn't as opposed to advertising as it sounded earlier this week. Enough to write an entire blog post explaining...  The version of Java that Apple currently includes with Mac OS X contains a critical security vulnerability that has gone unrepaired for months and may put Mac OS X users at risk, Mac security software developer Intego said Wednesday.  My nine-year-old daughter knows how to Google. And as someone who just today accidentally landed on a porn site after typing what he thought was the URL for a sporting-goods store, I realize it's time to take steps.  When it comes to websites and applications that use geo-aware technologies, like GPS, to add location-based data to your experience, we've typically referred to them as location-based services (LBS).
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| Game industry trade group chief gets ready to party and take on the Governator over violent games
May 20, 2009 at 6:58 pm
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| Mike Gallagher, who runs the video game industry trade group, has to worry about a lot of things as the big game trade show, E3, approaches in a couple of weeks. Among them is a legal battle with the Terminator himself. As head of the Entertainment Software Association, Gallagher is at odds with California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger over a legal battle over violent video games that could be headed to the U.S. Supreme Court.  California's failed attempt at regulating the sale of violent video games to minors is back in the news as the Governator has announced that the state is taking its case to the Supreme Court.  Walmart is not getting into used games... yet. But e-Play wants to put a used-game kiosk at a store near you so you can easily trade in your games. We speak to the CEO of the company, and explain why this is a surprisingly good idea.  It's good to step back and get a good look at the various cross-currents in the games landscape. Over the last few weeks I've been surrounded by game developers at the...
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| Olympus Stylus-7000 Point-and-Shoot Camera
May 20, 2009 at 6:45 pm
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|  The Olympus Stylus-7000 ($300 as of 5/15/09) is a handsome compact camera that features a 12-megapixel resolution, a 7X optical zoom (37mm to 260mm), and a large, 3-inch LCD. Because it's so light (less than 5 ounces), you can slide it into your top shirt pocket and barely notice that it's there. And when it's time to shoot, an array of intriguing features will help you capture the moment. Google admits they've so far lost the real-time search battle to Twitter, Kindle for iPhone updates, and you get a reminder that most of the time it's best to skip the funny forward. Looking to speed up your post-surgery healing? Reach for a pineapple. Protect against sunburn? Eat a red bell pepper. Lower "bad" cholesterol? It's mango time. David H. Mozilla has unveiled a new project from its Labs division called Jetpack that gives us a taste of how Firefox might begin extending web functionality in years to come.
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| Twitter Cofounder: Of Course We Like Ads!
May 20, 2009 at 6:45 pm
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|  Twitter cofounder Biz Stone wants us to know that Twitter isn't as opposed to advertising as it sounded earlier this week. Enough to write an entire blog post explaining that while Twitter is not interested in running banner ads on the site -- duh -- that it is "going to leave the door open for exploration" for other deals.  Why did Twitter cofounder Biz Stone just have to spend 228 words on a blog post explaining that he and his company are not opposed to advertising? Because on Monday, Stone...  Biz Stone, in a blog post today, showed a little insight on Twitter's stances on advertising. There's been a lot of speculation on how Twitter should and could advertise...  Google CEO Eric Schmidt loves to talk up a potential partnership with Twitter. He did it again yesterday, reports the Telegraph: Speaking to reporters following the annual Google Zeitgeist conference...
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| Google turns analytical engine inwards
May 20, 2009 at 6:43 pm
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|  Google has turned its famously analytical approach on its own human resources department, applying behavioural analysis to work out which staff might be thinking of jumping ship before they know it themselves. The news comes in a report from the Wall Street Journal which claims the new approach is driven by recent high-profile departures from the Chocolate Factory and involves analysing data on the 20,000 or so remaining Oompa Loompas to accurately target incentives at those most likely to leave.  New search engine WolframAlpha launched this weekend to high praise and traffic-as well as the obligatory comparisons to Google (NSDQ: GOOG). But it's not the first new search engine to surge coming out of the gate.  There's no official announcement (yet), but Google tells Search Engine Land that it's made several improvements under the hood of Google Blog Search. In an email conversation...  More ripple effects from Tim Armstrong's departure from Google to run AOL for Time Warner (TWX): Tom Phillips, Google's director of search and analytics, is out. No word on whether he has a new job lined up...  You'd be surprised by how many of these we get. Not asking for Tim's email, per se (this is the first of those), but asking us to forward product complaints and other messages to CEOs and other industry luminaries we write about.
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| NZ Telecom in 'deep' with Apple
May 20, 2009 at 6:40 pm
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| Kiwis who lust after a new iPhone may soon have a choice of service provider other than Vodafone. According to a report by New Zealand's National Business Review, Telecom New Zealand's retail chief Alan Gourdie said that the company is in "discussions - deep discussions - with Apple." Vodafone's iPhone 3G offerings are now available in a broad array of New Zealand locations, so New Zealanders aren't deprived of such iPhone wonderments as the digitally flatulent iFart, Chicago-corruption simulator Pay2Play, and boob'n'booty-bouncing Wobble, as long as they're in solid with Vodafone.  Yesterday, Apple appeared to announce that Snow Leopard was behind schedule and scotched rumors of a new iPhone. Richi Jennings watches some bloggers neutralize the reality distortion, while others hope against hope for a Jobsian visitation.  A fresh report from Gartner is good news for Apple, bad news for Nokia. iPhone sales keep climbing, even as the overall mobile phone market shrinks. "Worldwide mobile phone sales totaled 269.
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| SolarWinds ends the long, IPO-less nightmare for venture-backed companies
May 20, 2009 at 6:39 pm
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|  SolarWinds, an Austin, Texas-based maker of network management technology, has ended a nine-month stretch where the market saw zero public offerings from venture-backed companies. The company just finished its first day of trading as SWI on the New York Stock Exchange, and while that probably won't (and shouldn't) end all the wailing about the IPO market, at least it shows that the door isn't closed completely.  It's a sad state of things in the smartphone arena, folks. Nokia can't even get its forthcoming N86 out of the door in official fashion before the cloning labs in China push out a suitable impostor.  Some Web apps have more margin for error than others. For apps that deal with highly personal data – like financial planning applications – that margin is very slim.  One reason Silicon Valley is struggling is that there's no longer an IPO market. This is making it difficult for VCs to exit investments, putting pressure on company valuations...
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| Google drops idea to buy newspaper
May 20, 2009 at 6:35 pm
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|  Google has considered buying a newspaper or using its charitable arm to support news businesses seeking non-profit status, but is now unlikely to pursue either option, Eric Schmidt, chairman and chief executive, told the Financial Times. His comments, in an interview with FT.com, will cool speculation that the deep-pocketed search engine operator might save franchises such as the New York Times that are struggling with debts and declining advertising revenue.  Here's Google CEO Eric Schmidt's keynote address at Carnegie Mellon's 112th commencement ceremony, held yesterday. (Via @CarnegieMellon) Schmidt's talk to the audience...  Christine Varney, head of the Justice Department's antitrust division, famously referred to Microsoft's (MSFT) monopoly as "so last century." In her mind, it's Google (GOOG) we need to watch out for.
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| Video: Intel-backed Volkswagen infotainment system gets demonstrated
May 20, 2009 at 6:35 pm
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|   Volkswagen has been known to dabble in exotic places when it comes to in-dash entertainment, and while it's latest initiative isn't totally far-fetched, it's still worth a peek. The automaker has recently teamed up with Intel in order to develop a prototype head unit that's completely self-enclosed, meaning that there's no carputer hanging out in the trunk handling the dirty work...  Now that Intel's been slapped with a record $1.45b antitrust fine in Europe, it seems like the claws are coming out -- AMD just put up that "Break Free" site, and today we've got NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang calling Chipzilla's Atom pricing "unfair.  Intel has been doing a lot of talking about big new processors and platforms as of late, and it's now gotten official with one that's soon to be ever-present: its next-generation Atom platform, codenamed Pine Trail.  We'll admit, we were pretty skeptical that Moblin would ever amount to much after seeing the 1.0 build, but it looks like the elves at Intel have been plenty busy: the 2.
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| eBay and FTC push Congress over retail price-fixing
May 20, 2009 at 6:35 pm
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|  Vertical price-fixing has been OK under US law since 2007, meaning manufacturers can set a minimum price for retailers to carry their products. However, eBay feels that this decision should be overturned because it hurts small and medium Internet retailers. We've all run into it before-you want to buy a certain widget, only to find that every single retailer seems to carry it for a certain price, with little variation among them...  Second Life creator Linden Lab will announce on Wednesday that SL users have generated 15 billion voice minutes on their internal avatar-to-avatar VoIP service since the product was launched 18 months ago...  More fuel for the "things may not be getting worse, and maybe even getting a little bit better" meme that I've been detecting (or perhaps promulgating ) recently: Citigroup...  And once again, Dell's website earns its informal title as the number one source for all Dell leaks. Though still not official for the US, the company's 20-inch ST2010...
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| NetApp buys Data Domain for $1.5bn
May 20, 2009 at 6:33 pm
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| NetApp announced late Wednesday it will acquire dedupe specialist Data Domain for $1.5 billion in cash and stock. The purchase will effectively spring NetApp to the forefront of vendors selling redundant-data-busting technology when the deal closes in an expected two to four months. NetApp said the company intends to run Data Domain as a separate product line within its operations. In a conference call describing the deal, NetApp chief marketing officer Jay Kidd labeled the purchase as mainly an opportunity for market presence rather than blending Data Domain technology with its own.  Researchers demonstrate a data storage technique that has the potential to reach densities of around 1.1Tb/cm3. Google may want to store every bit that you have ever flipped...  Heartland Payment Systems Inc. last week disclosed that it has so far spent or set aside more than $12.6 million to cover costs related to a major data breach that the credit card payment processor disclosed in January.  Verizon Wireless plans to launch its LTE networks commercially in the second half of 2010 and finish its deployment by 2014, according to comments made by the carrier's CEO on a conference call earlier this week.
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| Twitter Surges Past Digg, LinkedIn, And NYTimes.com With 32 Million Global Visitors
May 20, 2009 at 6:31 pm
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|  How quickly they grow. Remember when Twitter was just a little pipsqueek, with less than 10 million monthly unique visitors to its site worldwide? That was back in February, 2009. Fast-forward to April, and Twitter's U.S. visitors alone reached 17 million. Now comScore has released its worldwide numbers and it estimates Twitter's global unique visitors in April, 2009 was a whopping 32 million, up from 19 million in March, 2009. Twitter cofounder Biz Stone wants us to know that Twitter isn't as opposed to advertising as it sounded earlier this week. Enough to write an entire blog post explaining... Why did Twitter cofounder Biz Stone just have to spend 228 words on a blog post explaining that he and his company are not opposed to advertising? Because on Monday, Stone...  Social media sites like LinkedIn and Twitter are often the go-to applications for career networking, but now Facebook users can contact people who have interviewed, worked...
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| Scandalous History Channel Ads Were A "Creative Exercise" At Ogilvy
May 20, 2009 at 6:30 pm
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|  Those engaging and scandalous History Channel ads we posted here Monday are not, as it turns out, actually History Channel ads. They were, however, created by ad agency Ogilvy for History as a part of a "creative exercise," a source close to the situation tells us. This source says the ads, one of which compared the number of deaths at Pearl Harbor (2,378) to deaths at Hiroshima (170,000), were meant to "provoke creative ideas" and "stimulate conversation," says this source... Mike Gallagher, who runs the video game industry trade group, has to worry about a lot of things as the big game trade show, E3, approaches in a couple of weeks. Among them is a legal battle with the Terminator himself. Yahoo's voice search feature, which I've been test-driving on my BlackBerry, is now available in the company's free iPhone app, too. It works surprisingly well for the specific use cases on which Yahoo focused. Twitter cofounder Biz Stone wants us to know that Twitter isn't as opposed to advertising as it sounded earlier this week. Enough to write an entire blog post explaining...
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| Security firm warns of Java vulnerability in Mac OS X
May 20, 2009 at 6:30 pm
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|  The version of Java that Apple currently includes with Mac OS X contains a critical security vulnerability that has gone unrepaired for months and may put Mac OS X users at risk, Mac security software developer Intego said Wednesday. The firm says that Java, which can be used to write standalone applications that run across multiple platforms or applets that are embedded in web pages, has a serious flaw that could allow local code on a user's Mac to be executed remotely. Google admits they've so far lost the real-time search battle to Twitter, Kindle for iPhone updates, and you get a reminder that most of the time it's best to skip the funny forward.  Sure, the catalog of compatible games hasn't been as hefty as we'd like, but Sony has done quite a bit right with its PlayStation 3 / PSP Remote Play feature. Modder Dashhacker (with special thanks to noted PSP hacker Dark_AleX...  With Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard entering the final stretch of development, overzealous Apple advocates are turning to discussion boards and file sharing websites to show off image and video captures taken from the next generation OS...
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| Wridea Is an Online Organizer for Your Ideas
May 20, 2009 at 6:30 pm
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|  If you've ever wanted a one-stop shop for saving, organizing, and sharing your ideas, web application Wridea might be just what you are looking for. Once you've signed up and created a free account, you can add new ideas, categorize them, and share them with your friends using the very simple web interface—in fact, that's the drawback of using this tool instead of expanding your brain with Evernote or using OneNote as a powerful note-taking application—it doesn't have enough features for a power user used to tagging and sorting their thoughts.  Oh, it's on now. Craigslist this morning turned the tables on South Carolina attorney general Henry McMaster, suing him for threatening to file criminal charges over its adult classifieds.  Graphic: Diego AguirreA new web-based malware attack comprising almost half of detected infections this week has been detected by IT security and control firm Sophos. Identified as JSRedir-R...  Having redesigned nearly every other part of its site in the last couple months, Facebook has now redesigned its directory of third-party applications and launched the new interface today.
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| Kindle app for iPhone updated
May 20, 2009 at 2:14 pm
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|   Amazon's Kindle app for iPhone [App Store link] was updated this week to include, among other things, landscape mode! Hooray! Additionally, you can change the color of both the text and the background. I like the "Sepia" option; it's similar to the way Classics looks. Finally, you can turn pages by tapping on either side of the screen (I still prefer to swipe). You'll remember that the Kindle store for iPhone is still only accessible via Mobile Safari, and was optimized a few weeks ago. Having redesigned nearly every other part of its site in the last couple months, Facebook has now redesigned its directory of third-party applications and launched the new interface today.  Verified Applications on Facebook - Recommendations from Sandra Liu Huang on Vimeo. As we predicted last night, Facebook's new application directory and Verified Apps program are now live.  Popularity is, unfortunately, still all the rage. The Internet has facilitated an outbreak of popularity contests as online news providers rank the top 10 most-read, -emailed or -commented articles on their home page.  Amazon (AMZN) has updated its Kindle app for the iPhone. Among the improvements: It's now easier to flip pages by tapping on the left or right sides of the display. (Before you had to "swipe" pages the way you flip between photos.  We have seen our fair share of doom and gloom this year, but, according to a report from Bloomberg.com, at least Pandora, the free online music discovery service, expects to be profitable next year.
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| Intel details next-generation Atom platform, say hello to Pine Trail
May 20, 2009 at 2:02 pm
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| Intel has been doing a lot of talking about big new processors and platforms as of late, and it's now gotten official with one that's soon to be ever-present: its next-generation Atom platform, codenamed Pine Trail.  Low-cost PC maker eMachines has introduced its new EL1300G Series of compact desktop PCs, with two models available now starting at $298. Both feature a more modern glossy-white finish, silver trim, and glowing green LEDs.  Dell has rolled out a 10in netbook for schools - handy, that, because we don't think too many consumers will fancy it's boxy looks. The Latitude 2100 provides a bog-standard netbook spec based around Intel's 1.  Intel has unveiled the next-generation user interface of Moblin, the company's open source Linux platform for netbooks and mobile Internet devices. We tested it on real netbook hardware so that we could give you a detailed hands-on look.  Intel formally announced its Pine Trail platform, which is the next version of its successful Atom line. Pine Trail, which will launch in the last quarter of 2009, cuts...
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| EC Drafts Rules for State Aid in New Broadband Networks
May 20, 2009 at 2:00 pm
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| The European Commission has laid out guidelines for how European Union national governments can boost development of super-fast broadband networks without falling foul of European laws designed to restrict state aid. The move was broadly welcomed by the telecommunications industry but some say it should be more specific in terms of the technology a government can support. Intel has been doing a lot of talking about big new processors and platforms as of late, and it's now gotten official with one that's soon to be ever-present: its next-generation Atom platform, codenamed Pine Trail. Amazon's Kindle app for iPhone [App Store link] was updated this week to include, among other things, landscape mode! Hooray! Additionally, you can change the color of both the text and the background. Graphic: Diego AguirreA new web-based malware attack comprising almost half of detected infections this week has been detected by IT security and control firm Sophos. Identified as JSRedir-R...  One big reason why very few ad dollars have yet to make their way from television to the Web, even though online video is booming: TV viewing isn't shrinking. Yet. So says Nielsen, via its newest "Three Screen Report".
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| Close the Java Security Hole in Many Browsers
May 20, 2009 at 2:00 pm
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| As we noted earlier, there's a rather large security hole with Java in Web browsers in all versions of OS X. Because of the way Java applets work, you can be attacked by simply visiting (not even clicking a link on, or downloading a file from) a Web site containing a malicious Java applet. In addition, as Intego points out in its security memo on this issue, "malicious Java applets can also be circulated by other means, for example, as attachments to e-mail messages. A program called Applet Launcher allows users to run Java applets by double-clicking them."  You know, it's fine to make the argument that "Macs are safer than Windows-based PCs," because in real-world usage, this is generally true. Nothing does more to undermine that argument, however, like a five-month old unpatched Java vulnerability. Sure, the catalog of compatible games hasn't been as hefty as we'd like, but Sony has done quite a bit right with its PlayStation 3 / PSP Remote Play feature. Modder Dashhacker (with special thanks to noted PSP hacker Dark_AleX... With Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard entering the final stretch of development, overzealous Apple advocates are turning to discussion boards and file sharing websites to show off image and video captures taken from the next generation OS...
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| ESPN Comes to YouTube - And Brings Its Own Player and Pre-Roll Ads
May 20, 2009 at 1:52 pm
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|   Earlier this year, we heard that ESPN was supposed to come to YouTube this April, but AdAge now reports that the Connecticut-based sports network will finally arrive on Google's highly popular video portal on July 15. This would be an interesting development by itself, especially given that ESPN is owned by Disney, which just made a major investment in YouTube's competitor Hulu.com, but the really interesting part of this announcement is that ESPN will not only be the first network to offer pre-roll ads on YouTube, but that it will also integrate its own video player on the site. One big reason why very few ad dollars have yet to make their way from television to the Web, even though online video is booming: TV viewing isn't shrinking. Yet. So says Nielsen, via its newest "Three Screen Report".  What's YouTube's inspiration to get cranking on more professional content deals? How about seeing rival Hulu in its top 10 list of most popular channels? Indeed, thanks mostly to Family Guy clips...  Many applications, websites and services are adding Twitter search features. Twitter content is both popular and technically easy to handle. But not all applications create a value-add beyond "Hey, you can search Twitter.  Here's the latest action: OpenTable going public - Silicon Valley will likely welcome its first IPO in a while this week from the restaurant-reservation site. Will the summer bring blockbuster cell phone sales? - The launch of the Palm Pre, iPhone 3.
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| Facebook Rewards 'trustworthy' Apps With Review Program
May 20, 2009 at 1:50 pm
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| Facebook's controversial program to charge developers in order to review their applications made its debut on Wednesday. Announced about six months ago, the Facebook Application Verification Program has been criticized by some who fear it will unfairly benefit developers who have the money to pay the annual review fee. Having redesigned nearly every other part of its site in the last couple months, Facebook has now redesigned its directory of third-party applications and launched the new interface today. Verified Applications on Facebook - Recommendations from Sandra Liu Huang on Vimeo. As we predicted last night, Facebook's new application directory and Verified Apps program are now live.  Facebook begins testing "ways for users to use their Facebook credits with third-party applications on Facebook.com" in the next few weeks, a company rep told us. What should this PayPal-like payments system look like? We asked Lisa Rutherford...  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave something of a state-of-the-startup at the Reuters Global Technology Summit yesterday. Three nuggets worth noting: The startup would take more investment but doesn't need to.
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| Americans Can't Find a Screen They Won't Watch: TV, Web Video Both Up
May 20, 2009 at 1:48 pm
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| One big reason why very few ad dollars have yet to make their way from television to the Web, even though online video is booming: TV viewing isn't shrinking. Yet. So says Nielsen, via its newest "Three Screen Report". The tracking service says more Americans are watching TV than ever before - up 1.2% in the last quarter - and they're spending more time watching TV, too - that's up 1.9%, to a staggering 153 + hours per month. Of course, the same holds true for Web video, too, which is growing much faster.  Big news and media companies aren't the only ones trying to figure out the right way to charge people for their online content-digital startups are testing the pay-to-play (or watch) model, too.  The newest addition to Electronic Arts' mega-franchise The Sims has reportedly been leaked online two weeks before the video game's official release. It certainly didn't take long for EA's The Sims 3...  Online video advertising is on the rise, in part due to the premium content available on services like HuluHulu reviews, but also because retailers are shifting their marketing dollars towards social media.  If you've ever exchanged IMs with a friend while watching the same show, or discussed family photos via email chains, then you're probably aware of the limitations around simultaneously sharing audio, image, and video files.  Though streaming online video is great for instant satisfaction (see "Best TV on the Web" and "Hotspots in the Online Video Underground"), there's nothing like having a video already downloaded and ready to watch.
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| A Stroll Through Facebook's New App Directory
May 20, 2009 at 1:43 pm
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| Verified Applications on Facebook - Recommendations from Sandra Liu Huang on Vimeo. As we predicted last night, Facebook's new application directory and Verified Apps program are now live. We knew about most of the features that were coming with this release, but this is the first time we've actually gotten to see what they'll look like. So what's new?  No, seriously. Apple just put up a new support page in response to claims from many users regarding electrical shocks received from Apple's iPhone and iPod earbuds. The shocks are described as "small and quick"... Facebook begins testing "ways for users to use their Facebook credits with third-party applications on Facebook.com" in the next few weeks, a company rep told us. What should this PayPal-like payments system look like? We asked Lisa Rutherford...  BlackBerry users pay more for their apps. Lots more. That's the finding of a new report from Skyhook Wireless, maker of location-based service software. Skyhook's study found that BlackBerry apps average around $12 each, compared to the popular $2.
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| Virgin America first to offer fleetwide Wi-Fi, gives other airlines the bird
May 20, 2009 at 1:40 pm
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|   Whether we realize it or not, there's a race going on in the skies above us. With the advent of wireless Internet access creeping into what once our sanctuary of solitude at 37,000 feet has now become a domain for self-righteous dingbats to livestream their flights for all to see. Leading the way is Virgin America who announced today that they are the first airline in all the land to offer Aircell's Gogo in-flight Wi-Fi service on every single flight...  Airlines race to bring Wi-Fi to your crowded airline seat, personal finance webapp Rudder seriously screws up, and Snow Leopard is spotted in the wild.  SOME airlines are rushing to offer Wi-Fi Internet connections in their domestic aircraft cabins, but none are talking about the space squeeze. On an AirTran Airways Wi-Fi...  It's been a long, long time since Microsoft Research first released its findings on Virtual WiFi, or VWiFi, technology that would allow a single wireless network adapter to act like two, two, two NICs in one.
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| Palm Pre arrives at the FCC
May 20, 2009 at 1:40 pm
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|  You didn't think Uncle Sam would let Palm launch the Pre without taking a good hard look at some dense SAR reports, did you? Yep, there's a gray suit out there right now just rockin' away in WebOS while you're stuck counting down the days until your KRZR contract expires, and there's nothing you can do about it except pore over the publicly-available data and try and imagine what the Pre's measured RF emissions might feel like while coursing through your body at ear-level. Breathe deep, friends.  Are you a Sprint customer thinking of upgrading to the Palm Pre, but you're not eligible for a free or subsidized device upgrade? Better start saving your pennies, because an out-of-contract Pre is going to run you $550, according to Engadget.  Best Buy may not be launching the Pre exclusively, but it's probably the place to go if you're scouting one come June 6th. Why? Pretty simple, really -- you'll leave the joint with an extra Benjamin in your purse.  This morning Sprint announced that the highly anticipated Palm Pre will be launched on June 6 for $199.99 with MIR after a two-year contract. Just now we got word that a special launch party will be hosted by Sprint for the coming handset...
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| Smartphone Sales Rise: RIM, Apple See Big Gains
May 20, 2009 at 1:34 pm
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|  Mobile phone sales globally dropped 9.4 % in the first quarter compared to the same quarter of 2008, while smartphone sales jumped 12.7% during the same period, Gartner Inc. reported today.
 One of the simplest ways to create a shortage, and the buying frenzy that typically accompanies them, is to announce that there will be one. And this is precisely what Sprint (S) CEO Dan Hesse did for the Palm (PALM) Pre Tuesday.  Rolling Stone magazine's break with tradition continues. Seven months after scrapping its iconic oversized format, the biweekly publication will enter the video game business with the May 26 release of Rolling Stone: Drum King...  Unisfair says its virtual events business is holding up in the recession. The company said it signed up 25 new customers for the business in the first quarter. Separately, the Menlo Park, Calif.
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| Users find Apple's iPhone and iPod shocking, literally
May 20, 2009 at 1:33 pm
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|  No, seriously. Apple just put up a new support page in response to claims from many users regarding electrical shocks received from Apple's iPhone and iPod earbuds. The shocks are described as "small and quick", but clearly the issue is serious enough to warrant an official response from Apple. The aforementioned support page, found below on the read link, describes the situation as follows: BlackBerry users pay more for their apps. Lots more. That's the finding of a new report from Skyhook Wireless, maker of location-based service software. Skyhook's study found that BlackBerry apps average around $12 each, compared to the popular $2.  Distimo, a young Dutch company that is entering the slowly but surely saturating market of mobile application distribution and monitoring services, has just released an interesting report about Apple's App Store.  In our discussions of radio apps for the iPhone we've briefly mentioned Stitcher, a great app for accessing a wide variety of audio programs on the go. In fact, Stitcher...
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| Keepin' it real fake, part CCXII: Nokia's N86 cloned ahead of release
May 20, 2009 at 1:33 pm
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| It's a sad state of things in the smartphone arena, folks. Nokia can't even get its forthcoming N86 out of the door in official fashion before the cloning labs in China push out a suitable impostor. Of course, it's not as if this hasn't happened to Nokia before, but with such an anti-knockoff mentality, you think it'd take a little action to make the nightmare stop. Or maybe it secretly adores the attention -- yeah, that has to be it.  As Finnish cell phone giant Nokia continues to cut costs in an effort to combat declining demand, the company recently told Reuters it would shed an additional 490 jobs in the near future.  Navigation devices are everywhere and just keep getting better and better thanks to the 3D maps provided by the likes of Tele Atlas (owned by TomTom) and NAVTEQ (owned by Nokia).  8 megapixels? Puh-leeze. While companies like Samsung, Sony Ericsson, LG and Nokia continue work on 8 megapixel camera phones, Sharp is kicking things up a notch in the Asian region.
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| New Facebook app directory looks great
May 20, 2009 at 1:31 pm
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| Having redesigned nearly every other part of its site in the last couple months, Facebook has now redesigned its directory of third-party applications and launched the new interface today. It features Facebook employee's own favorite applications, as well as "Apps You May Like" - apps that have been "verified" as being high-quality by Facebook through a special, long-awaited program... Verified Applications on Facebook - Recommendations from Sandra Liu Huang on Vimeo. As we predicted last night, Facebook's new application directory and Verified Apps program are now live. Facebook begins testing "ways for users to use their Facebook credits with third-party applications on Facebook.com" in the next few weeks, a company rep told us. What should this PayPal-like payments system look like? We asked Lisa Rutherford...  In the coming weeks, Facebook plans to convert applications' static "about"-style pages for applications to be more like its existing public profile pages. Some brands are already using these pages to interact with their fans.  Facebook is launching support for OpenID and will act as a "relying" party, which means that users will be able to register Facebook accounts and log into the service using an OpenID identity provided by third-party web services such as GMail.
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| Remindd Sends Email and SMS Reminders
May 20, 2009 at 1:30 pm
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|  There's a reason "Out of sight, out of mind" is such a common phrase—people forget things. Enter web site Remindd, a super simple solution to remembering events and appointments that should not be forgotten. Once you've created an account, using the site is straightforward. Enter your reminder name, set a date and time for your reminder, and you're all set. You'll receive an alert via email—and SMS, if selected—five minutes before the time you chose. If you don't enter a time, your reminder will arrive at 12 AM. Be sure to set your time zone; the default is Eastern time. Researchers demonstrate a data storage technique that has the potential to reach densities of around 1.1Tb/cm3. Google may want to store every bit that you have ever flipped...  Google announced Christin Engelberth, a sixth grader at Bernard Harris Middle School in San Antonio, Texas, as the winner of the second Google 4 Doodle competition. Her Doodle will be displayed on the Google.  ComScore has published its monthly list of the top 25 ad networks. The biggest haven't changed much from last year: AOL's (TWX) Platform-A; Yahoo (YHOO); Google (GOOG); ValueClick (VCLK); and Specific Media.  Yesterday, scientists found what they are calling the "missing link" in evolution. Scientists found the "Darwinius masillae," which is known as the missing link between humans and apes.
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| Moblin 2.0 beta impressively demoed on video
May 20, 2009 at 1:27 pm
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| We'll admit, we were pretty skeptical that Moblin would ever amount to much after seeing the 1.0 build, but it looks like the elves at Intel have been plenty busy: the 2.0 beta is now available, and it's looking pretty sharp. Sure, the catalog of compatible games hasn't been as hefty as we'd like, but Sony has done quite a bit right with its PlayStation 3 / PSP Remote Play feature. Modder Dashhacker (with special thanks to noted PSP hacker Dark_AleX...  Good news, Vista Media Center PC users will soon find a new option under the TV+Movies tile, as Netflix Watch Instantly streaming access is added directly to the interface.  Web sites such as YouTube get so much traffic for their videos that the processing load can be crushing, leading to huge server and bandwidth costs. To deal with that...  As the world's most popular sport, soccer (or football as it is called in most of the world) has no shortage of devout fans, and with the World Cup coming up in just over a year, that popularity is set to skyrocket once again.  Microsoft has opened up access to its free mobile backup service called My Phone, previously only available as an invite-only beta. The service lets you backup the contents of your mobile phone to a password protected web site; unfortunately...
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| BrandIndex: Microsoft's ads effective
May 20, 2009 at 1:26 pm
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|  BrandIndex is reporting this week that Microsoft's "Laptop Hunter" and similar ads are changing consumer's perceived value of Windows machines. YouGov conducted a survey of 5,000 consumers to measure the "value score" of both Macs and Windows machines. The value score represents a customer's perception of "bang for the buck." We don't know exactly how that's measured by the survey. You know, it's fine to make the argument that "Macs are safer than Windows-based PCs," because in real-world usage, this is generally true. Nothing does more to undermine that argument, however, like a five-month old unpatched Java vulnerability.  Microsoft (MSFT) is building Netflix (NFLX) instant streaming into its Windows Media Center software. You can already watch streaming Netflix movies on PCs. But this basically means it'll be easier to browse and watch them from six feet away...  Starting today (or at least very soon), Windows Media Center users on Vista systems can stream Netflix Watch Now videos, and manage their DVD and streaming queues, straight from the TV + Movies section.
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| New Malware Attack Detected by Sophos
May 20, 2009 at 1:23 pm
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| Graphic: Diego AguirreA new web-based malware attack comprising almost half of detected infections this week has been detected by IT security and control firm Sophos. Identified as JSRedir-R, the threat has been found targeting high traffic legitimate websites, surreptitiously loading malicious content from third-party sites. It has been detected by Sophos six times more often than Mal/Iframe-F, which has been the most widespread web-based threat for over a year. Jonathan Ross has helped reveal to Twitter users that deleting a post from the micro-blogging service doesn't actually remove the post completely. Ross, a British television...  Artwork: Diego AguirreThe number of legitimate Websites being hacked to host malware has hit startling highs in recent days, new figures from MessageLabs have revealed.
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| Mac OS X Java security hole exposed
May 20, 2009 at 1:23 pm
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| You know, it's fine to make the argument that "Macs are safer than Windows-based PCs," because in real-world usage, this is generally true. Nothing does more to undermine that argument, however, like a five-month old unpatched Java vulnerability. As Landon Fuller has pointed out, a potentially nasty Java exploit remains unpatched in Mac OS X, including last week's OS X 10... Sure, the catalog of compatible games hasn't been as hefty as we'd like, but Sony has done quite a bit right with its PlayStation 3 / PSP Remote Play feature. Modder Dashhacker (with special thanks to noted PSP hacker Dark_AleX...  I really didn't have any complaints about the latest Mac OS update. It went smoothly on 3 Macs, and I didn't hear any complaints from friends or associates. While many people moan about things that didn't get fixed... With Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard entering the final stretch of development, overzealous Apple advocates are turning to discussion boards and file sharing websites to show off image and video captures taken from the next generation OS...  Mac OS X only: Reader Daniel used his ubergeeky perl skills combined with GeekTool and created a more powerful way to display the current weather conditions on his desktop.
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| Gartner to Handset Sellers: Beef Up Your Smartphone Offerings
May 20, 2009 at 1:18 pm
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|  Cell phone sales fell 14.5 percent to 269 million handsets during the first quarter of 2009, the steepest quarterly decline since 2001, research firm Gartner announced Wednesday. Smartphone demand, meanwhile, surged, boosted by the iPhone and other touchscreen devices. "Much of the smartphone growth during the first quarter of 2009 was driven by touchscreen products, both in midtier and high-end devices," said Roberta Cozza, principal analyst at Gartner... Verified Applications on Facebook - Recommendations from Sandra Liu Huang on Vimeo. As we predicted last night, Facebook's new application directory and Verified Apps program are now live. No, seriously. Apple just put up a new support page in response to claims from many users regarding electrical shocks received from Apple's iPhone and iPod earbuds. The shocks are described as "small and quick"... BlackBerry users pay more for their apps. Lots more. That's the finding of a new report from Skyhook Wireless, maker of location-based service software. Skyhook's study found that BlackBerry apps average around $12 each, compared to the popular $2. In our discussions of radio apps for the iPhone we've briefly mentioned Stitcher, a great app for accessing a wide variety of audio programs on the go. In fact, Stitcher...
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| Ofcom freezes pay
May 20, 2009 at 8:27 am
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| Ofcom, UK regulator of all things communicative, has announced a pay freeze. But with inflation running into the negative according to some measures, things could be worse. The Remuneration Committee apparently allowed for the current negative range of inflation when deciding on the freeze, which surely results in a real-terms pay rise for the 800 or so staff. But the Executive Committee will see less money this year - they have agreed to give up their bonuses in consideration of the economic situation.  Need some further proof that Dell is working on an Android-powered netbook? How about a video featuring Doug Anson, Dell's Technology Strategist, sitting next to a Mini 10v that's running Android? And it's not just any flavor of Google's OS -- oh no...  Review HP has a difficult game to play. It wants to increase usage of its inkjet printers and all-in-ones by selling them small business, but in doing so it risks hitting the colour laser printer market, in which it's the major player.  Space bigwigs in Russia and Europe are working on ambitious plans for an international space shipyard in orbit above the Earth, according to reports. The orbital shipyard...  This month we are offering some additional value to our long-term sponsors. It's a new type of contextual link advertising and we think it is important to the future of blogging as a business.
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| Dell's Mini 10v shown running a plethora of operating systems, Android Cupcake among them
May 20, 2009 at 8:17 am
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| Need some further proof that Dell is working on an Android-powered netbook? How about a video featuring Doug Anson, Dell's Technology Strategist, sitting next to a Mini 10v that's running Android? And it's not just any flavor of Google's OS -- oh no, this is the frosting-covered goodness of Cupcake. What's YouTube's inspiration to get cranking on more professional content deals? How about seeing rival Hulu in its top 10 list of most popular channels? Indeed, thanks mostly to Family Guy clips...  Yahoo comes up with meaningless new slogan [BoomTown] VC firm Greylock leaves Boston for Silicon Valley [PaidContent] German threatens Google over Street View [NYT] T-Mobile... Navigation devices are everywhere and just keep getting better and better thanks to the 3D maps provided by the likes of Tele Atlas (owned by TomTom) and NAVTEQ (owned by Nokia).  According to a new report from website monitoring service Pingdom, Feedburner had an uptime of 99.94% over the last two months. Feedburner, which a lot of publishers use to manage their feeds and get usage statistics...
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| Europe, Russia discuss 'orbital shipyard' plans
May 20, 2009 at 8:07 am
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| Space bigwigs in Russia and Europe are working on ambitious plans for an international space shipyard in orbit above the Earth, according to reports. The orbital shipyard would be used to assemble manned spacecraft capable of travelling to the Moon or Mars. Flight International says that the plans have been discussed at meetings between officials of Roscosmos - the Russian space bureau - and the European Space Agency (ESA), in the context of multinational space efforts following the retirement of the International Space Station (ISS)...  The Japanese can turn pretty much anything into a variety show. So it's no real surprise to hear that the Japanese public have issued a set of 16 zero-gravity challenges to be carried out by Jaxa astronaut...  The abrupt end of PC gaming's most infamous vapourware, Duke Nukem Forever, isn't going to pass by without some legal fallout. 3D Realms was supposedly designing DNF since...  If you live in the US, you've probably received illegal telemarketing calls claiming that your car warranty is about to expire—even if you don't own a car. The...  Space shuttle Atlantis is poised to rendevous with the Hubble Space Telescope on its final servicing mission to the venerable eye in the sky. Shortly before 15:00 GMT...
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| Announcing Our New Contextual Link Advertising Product - Built by Hakia
May 20, 2009 at 8:07 am
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| This month we are offering some additional value to our long-term sponsors. It's a new type of contextual link advertising and we think it is important to the future of blogging as a business. For our wider audience, some of whom operate websites that are monetized through advertising, the background may be interesting.  Wolfram Alpha is online for testing throughout the weekend, in anticipation of the online knowledge base officially going live on Monday. Although the launch team warned...  Comscore has a fascinating post today talking about the relative decline in paid search ad clicks when compared to search query volume in the U.S. Search queries are up 68% in the last year, but paid clicks are up only 18% in the same period.  The landmark search advertising deal between Google and News Corp. is set to expire on June 30, 2010, just a little more than a year from now. The $900 million deal, announced in August 2006...  Sorry, to relay the news, but after that murder in Boston and an outcry from state AGs, Craigslist is done selling sex. On the bright side, as Gawker notes, you can now...
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| PicFog Displays the Strength of Real-Time Image Search
May 20, 2009 at 8:03 am
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|  PicFogPicFog reviews is a real-time TwitterTwitter reviews image search engine that's been around for some time, diligently adding new features, the last of which is support for Twitter image sharing services TwitgooTwitgoo reviews and Yfrog (it previously only supported TwitpicTwitpic reviews). On the homepage, PicFog displays all the new images posted to Twitter in real-time, with auto-refresh which you can stop at any time by clicking on the "pause" button...  Next week, at the D: All Things Digital technology conference in Carlsbad, California, Microsoft is expected to unveil its updated search engine, codenamed Kumo. Now...  At last, we have the first partners in Google's quest to make your personal power consumption visible on your home computer. As the thinking goes, if you can't measure it, you can't improve it.  I've become pathetically reliant on my iPhone for finding my way around, but there's one thing that online mapping applications don't prepare me for - traffic. Even when applications include traffic data...  Last summer, Yahoo (YHOO) rolled out a search service called BOSS that let other companies use Yahoo's technology for their search functions. It's gotten to be very big since then.
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| HP OfficeJet Pro 8500 Wireless
May 20, 2009 at 8:02 am
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| Review HP has a difficult game to play. It wants to increase usage of its inkjet printers and all-in-ones by selling them small business, but in doing so it risks hitting the colour laser printer market, in which it's the major player. The OfficeJet Pro 8500 Wireless is a case in point. It's a fast, high-capacity inkjet all-in-one which could directly undercut sales of colour lasers. Need some further proof that Dell is working on an Android-powered netbook? How about a video featuring Doug Anson, Dell's Technology Strategist, sitting next to a Mini 10v that's running Android? And it's not just any flavor of Google's OS -- oh no... Space bigwigs in Russia and Europe are working on ambitious plans for an international space shipyard in orbit above the Earth, according to reports. The orbital shipyard... One of the simplest ways to create a shortage, and the buying frenzy that typically accompanies them, is to announce that there will be one. And this is precisely what Sprint (S) CEO Dan Hesse did for the Palm (PALM) Pre Tuesday. PicFogPicFog reviews is a real-time TwitterTwitter reviews image search engine that's been around for some time, diligently adding new features, the last of which is support...
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| Yahoo Comes Up With Confusing New Search Slogan, "WOO"
May 20, 2009 at 8:01 am
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| Stuck in second place in search, Yahoo keeps trying to innovate its way back into a competition with Google. Yesterday, for example, Yahoo held a little event to announce "WOO," a series of search product features built around the idea that the Internet is a "Web of objects, not pages." Our reaction: WOO? Huh? What's YouTube's inspiration to get cranking on more professional content deals? How about seeing rival Hulu in its top 10 list of most popular channels? Indeed, thanks mostly to Family Guy clips... Yahoo comes up with meaningless new slogan [BoomTown] VC firm Greylock leaves Boston for Silicon Valley [PaidContent] German threatens Google over Street View [NYT] T-Mobile... Navigation devices are everywhere and just keep getting better and better thanks to the 3D maps provided by the likes of Tele Atlas (owned by TomTom) and NAVTEQ (owned by Nokia). Next week, at the D: All Things Digital technology conference in Carlsbad, California, Microsoft is expected to unveil its updated search engine, codenamed Kumo. Now...
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| Here Comes The Twitter T-Shirt Bubble
May 20, 2009 at 8:00 am
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|  Just as the last Internet t-shirt craze was getting stale -- ironic, fratty shirts from BustedTees, etc. -- here comes the next one: Shirts inspired by and "crowdsourced" from Twitter. The latest: Chicago-based Threadless has launched Twitter Tees, featuring "notable Tweets submitted and voted on by Twitter users, with art direction and design of each t-shirt by the in-house creative team at Threadless."  Patrick Swayze, the actor who has been fighting pancreatic cancer since January 2008, is very much alive, despite rumors earlier today that he'd passed away. Traditional media started the inaccurate rumor...  Josh Catone is a writer, editor, and entrepreneur from Providence, Rhode Island. He is a social media enthusiast and the founder of the web's largest Ruby on Rails community, Rails Forum.  Sure you can already get your favorite tweets as t-shirts from TWItoShirt or Twitshirt, but until today, Twitter has remained thread-free of endorsing services that promote your tweets in wearable form.  Now that it's so easy for people to Tweet what they're eating for lunch, what's the next step? Tweeting a video of them actually eating the lunch, of course. Fliggio, the platform that allows people to create websites, launched TwitVid.
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| Okoro Media Systems's OMS-AX100 amps up your boring HTPC
May 20, 2009 at 7:57 am
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|  For some there's nothing better than the warm glow of indicator lights coming from a huge stack of home theater equipment. Others, though, prefer consolidation, and that's what Okoro Media Systems's upcoming OMS-AX100 will offer: an HTPC with an integrated 5.  Know the best way to guarantee long lines outside of Sprint stores on June 6th? Have your CEO announce that he expects a shortage of Palm Pre handsets at launch. According to a Reuters transcript of Dan Hesse speaking to investors... As Finnish cell phone giant Nokia continues to cut costs in an effort to combat declining demand, the company recently told Reuters it would shed an additional 490 jobs in the near future. What's YouTube's inspiration to get cranking on more professional content deals? How about seeing rival Hulu in its top 10 list of most popular channels? Indeed, thanks mostly to Family Guy clips...  Lifehacker reader Orioto stunned us a few months ago with his gorgeous paintings of classic video games for your desktop—and he's at it again with another must-see collection for your eye-candy needs.
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| T-Mobile Brings Catherine Zeta-Jones Back
May 20, 2009 at 7:53 am
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| T-Mobile is bringing back its former spokeswoman Catherine Zeta-Jones for a new, price-focused advertising campaign that starts during Wednesday night's "American Idol" finale. The commercial kicks off with T-Mobile telling viewers that eight out of 10 Americans unknowingly pay too much for cellphone service. A team of economists is dispatched to homes to help consumers out, and they get the typical response that door-to-door salesmen receive.  T-Mobile USA announced today a new campaign dedicated to helping people save money on their wireless service, and the carrier is not only using the lovely Catherine Zeta-Jones as the face of the campaign again... Yahoo comes up with meaningless new slogan [BoomTown] VC firm Greylock leaves Boston for Silicon Valley [PaidContent] German threatens Google over Street View [NYT] T-Mobile... Stats are everywhere these days. From ballot measures to the economy to health issues to baseball - there are statistical points and counterpoints enough to confuse almost any topic.  Oh no they didn't. We hope T-Mobile locations around the US are currently in the process of riot-proofing their facilities - you read that title right folks, no Android update in May.  It looks like Samsung's Android-powered i7500 has taken one small step in its long march towards an official US launch. The i7500, known to have support for T-Mobile's 1700MHz 3G band, has made its way though the FCC with tri-band UMTS/HSPA intact.
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