Google CEO Eric Schmidt said Thursday he expects Beijing to renew the license the company needs to continue operating its search engine in China.
Mashable will be hosting an evening networking event next Wednesday in San Francisco, following our Saturday Seattle SummerMash event for our 2010 Mashable US Summer Tour. Mashable team members are coming to the event along with hundreds of social and tech enthusiasts from the SF/Bay Area community. Come join us for open bar, hors d'oeuvres and some special surprises ...
One of the killer features demoed at Google I/O, on Android 2.2, was the OS’ ability to install pushed applications right from Google’s Market website. Unfortunately, Google has yet to update the Android Market (or its website) with this functionality, however the underlying code that makes this possible is ready to go in Froyo. AppBrain, “a website which makes sense ...
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Facebook is winding down its "Gift Shop" feature, the company announced today. Facebook Gifts will stop operating on August 1, although gifts you've received previously will remain on your Wall.It's a surprising move from FacebookFacebook, which stands to become a significant player in online transactions thanks to Facebook Credits. Given that gifting is a great advertisement for the ...
Location-based services that are taking advantage of a smartphone’s GPS and wi-fi triangulation capabilities are continuously struggling to get even more accurate location data to pinpoint phones and, by extension, their users. While accuracy is a boon for many, there are companies taking a different approach to location: Close enough is good enough.
With check-in services like Foursquare, Gowalla, Loopt and ...
Facebook is shuttering its virtual goods store after three years and is focusing on building out its Credits online payments system. The Credits system will give third-party companies who run games and other applications on Facebook a uniform currency for selling virtual items on the social network.
“Closing the Gift Shop may disappoint many of the people who have given millions ...
Today: Google's Android has gained share in the U.S. smartphone market. Plus: Mortgage rates fall to historic lows.
Popular mobile VoIP and chat client Fring has updated its mobile app to add support for 2-way video calling for the iPhone 4. You might be brushing off this feature because the new iPhone has FaceTime, but the Fring app has two big advantages over Apple's video calling feature: 3G support and compatibility across multiple platforms.FringFring launched video calls ...
The NSA will soon monitor the networks of private companies that run critical infrastructure, according to The Wall Street Journal. The project makes an end run over prohibitions against domestic military action and capitalizes on recent fears of cyberwar.
“Moderation is a fatal thing,” Oscar Wilde once quipped. I’m not sure if the Irish witticist was talking about conference panels in particular, but I do know this: The moderators we’ve recruited for MobileBeat 2010, VentureBeat’s conference on the mobile ecosystem, are killer.
It’s the year of the superphone, and who will profit is far from clear. So we’ve gotten journalists, ...
We bring you 10 cars that are about as un-American as reusable shopping bags, learning a foreign language and drinking wine in the afternoon.
Ever wonder "WTF?" about a traffic jam? Researchers have devised a formula to explain (but not prevent) them.
Crackdown 2 mixes Grand Theft Auto's open-world environment with the weaponry, superhuman strength and agility of comic book characters.
Contact lenses that give you giant, glistening eyes are just the beginning. A coming wave of radical and extremely invasive procedures will fuel the ultimate manga-style makeovers.
Silicon Alley Insider pulled out a pin and burst the bubble that pushed Twitter to the top of the Wednesday’s tech news with its claim of a staggering 800 million search queries a day. According to SAI, Twitter is over-inflating its search query numbers by counting queries that are generated via its web page and third party client software that ...
Condé Nast Digital Britain recently unveiled a series of apps for the iPhone and iPod touch, dubbed Condé Nast Traveller City Guides. There are four separate apps for Barcelona, New York, Paris and Rome priced at $9.99 each.The apps [iTunes link] are divided into six sections containing more than 500 searchable listings, complete with venue information, photos and editors' reviews:Neighbourhoods: ...
PC World - Following a final ruling from a judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah in June, SCO Group on Wednesday filed an appeal in its long-running legal battle with Novell.
We gave you advance warning that the Samsung N150 was slated to land with Verizon Wireless and now it has finally arrived. Starting today, you can snag a a Sammy netbook with an Intel Atom N450 1.66 GHz processor,10.1 inch 1024×600 LED backlit display, 1GB DDR2 memory, Intel GMA3150 graphics, 160GB HDD, Bluetooth 2.1, Windows 7 Starter, and most importantly, ...
Social networking site MySpace has been hit with a lawsuit by self-proclaimed ghostbuster Ben Davis, who operates the business "Ghost Scene Investigations." Davis alleges that his copyright and trademark are being infringed by MySpace because the site allegedly hosts the blog of another ghostbuster, Oklahoma's Keith Engel, who runs the business "Ghost Scene Investigations of Tulsa." Davis also names Engel ...