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A couple of weeks ago, the largest 3G wireless operator in USA, Verizon, announced the launch of a new app store: the Widget Bazaar. This storefront is aimed at providing new widgets and applications for its Fios TV clients. Some of Verizon’s partners will develop the apps for now. “From the beginning we said we wanted Fios to be a platform for innovation,” – Shaygan Kheradpir, Verizon [...]

We all saw it coming and today Apple confirmed it. Dr. Eric Schmidt (Google CEO), has resigned his 3 year position on the Apple board of directors. Apple PR statement: “Eric has been an excellent Board member for Apple, investing his valuable time, talent, passion and wisdom to help make Apple successful,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Unfortunately, as Google enters more of Apple’s core [...]

Image via Wikipedia Yahoo is continuing to show signs of weakness and vulnerability, with Q2 earning reports just being released they are showing a 13% decrease in earnings on the same period as last year (1.14 billion dollars from 1.35 billion dollars). Looks Yahoo is continuing to feel the pinch of recession, although as many are quick to point out, these figures are better than expected. [...]

Image by Philipp Klinger via Flickr Exactly forty years ago, Neil Armstrong took the first step on the Moon. To celebrate that achievement, Google announced a new plug-in for Google Earth version 5.0 that will allow users to explore the Moon. The plug-in has been unveiled today at Washington DC’s Newseum and uses 3D technology to provide a thrilling experience to its users. “Forty [...]

Justin.tv revealed today that they’ll be inviting people to a Private Beta of CamTweet, but they may be too late. Moments ago TwitCam was launched, which covers all the same functionality promised by CamTweet. After seeing a demo version of CamTweet running at TechCrunch‘s Real Time Stream CrunchUp, it took the Livestream team 10 days to develop TwitCam. Pretty amazing I think you’ll [...]

Image by jeffreypriebe via Flickr Yep, that’s right folks Google does it again, 18% increase in this quarter’s profits or $1.48 bn for 3 months of trading. Yikes!! That’s pretty forking excellent! What does that mean for the rest of us, who knows! Maybe our Google Docs will be more secure as they have more more cash to splash about. Maybe Google will continue to offer unrivaled [...]

Only last week did Twitter post a message on their blog apologising for accidentaly suspending accounts and now it seems it’s happening all over again. I opened TweetDeck to see blank fields. After re-starting the app a couple of times I launched the Twitter.com webpage to see my horror, that I had been suspended. After sending a polite support message, and venting my frustration out on Facebook, [...]

You may have seen James Proud pitching at the Europas last Thursday. James Proud and Miles Noble area two man army! These guys are responsible for designing, implementing, coding and marketing the website and quite frankly, we think they’ve done a marvellous job. The idea is that the site pulls together a list of all the music you’re into, and in return provides you with a list of gigs [...]

ScreenJelly is one of the most innovative web apps we’ve had the opportunity of playing with lately.  The idea behind it is simple, to provide a quick and easy platform for Tweeting screencapture sessions, just as you would with images (TwitPic, YFrog etc.) – and it does this very well. Without need to sign-up to the website, you can record up to a 3minute clip of your desktop activity. [...]

So Microsoft joined the twitter party today. Although they already had accounts for the various departments, today’s the day they finally started Tweeting from the /Microsoft account. @Microsoft is being managed by 4 people from the Communications Team. Their first tweet was “Anyone can make games now, Kodu is available on Xbox LIVE Marketplace http://bit.ly/3wlWKo #microsoft #xboxlive #kodu” [...]