Major performance enhancements and revolutionary “Awesome Bar” make Firefox 3 the fastest, smartest, most powerful browser Mozilla has ever released
More details about the partnership and official press release here
A year after Apple launched its iPhone in an attempt to take advantage of the very profitable cell phone industry, the company has unveiled an improved and cheaper version of the successful device. More information and coverage of all features here
Flip Video Mino, an ultra portable camcorder, enables users to easily upload video directly to YouTube, AOL Video and MySpace. More info here
In an effort to provide more quality content to the growing community of e-book readers, Amazon has announced publisher Simon & Schuster will make 5,000 more books available for its popular Kindle portable digital book reader.
Netflix has introduced a new service that allows its subscribers to watch movies from directly on their TV sets.
In a desperate effort to increase its market share of online searches, Microsoft has announced a service called Live Search cashback, which will offer consumers money back if they buy certain products found through Microsoft’s live.com search engine.
Research In Motion (RIM) has unveiled its newest smartphone, the BlackBerry 9000, called BlackBerry Bold in reference to its gorgeous display and its symbol of accomplishment and aspiration.
Powerset, the startup founded in 2005 with the objective of challenging Google with the development of an improved search engine, made its official launch to the public today.
Exceeding initial sales expectations, Take-Two Interactive said today that its popular video game Grand Theft Auto IV has officially surpassed all-time entertainment records for day one and week one sales by dollar value.
Amazing new luxury electric car
Adobe Systems announced it will start licensing its Adobe Flash Player software for mobiles devices at no cost to improve the mobile Internet experience.
Microsoft has officially withdrawn its bid to acquire Yahoo in a letter that Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer sent today to Yahoo’s Jerry Yang.
The Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and the Xerox Research Centre of Canada are teaming up to test an innovative type of erasable paper and a complementary printer that produce documents that disappear after 16 to 24 hours.
Long-awaited action video game Grand Theft Auto IV went on sale today, with eager fans lining up to be among the first to play. The launch of Grand Theft Auto IV is expected to be one of the most successful video games in the industry’s history, with sales forecasts to be up to $400 million during the first week.
VirtualLogix, a real-time virtualization software startup, has received an equity investment from Motorola. VirtualLogix allows cell phone manufacturers to create mobile devices that run multiple operating systems, sharing the resources in an easier and more efficient way.
Jaxtr is now providing a service that allows sending free SMS internationally...
A neuro-technology company called Emotiv has unveiled a revolutionary personal interface for human computer interaction that makes it possible for video games to be controlled and influenced by the player’s mind.
Yahoo has announced a partnership with rival Google to start testing Google-generated ads in its website during a period of two weeks.
Yahoo adds new voice-enabled features to its mobile platform to make Web search easier to cellphone users.
Amazon has launched a new service that allows shoppers to compare prices and buy products on their cellphones via text-messaging.
Sony Pictures Television said it will become the first Hollywood studio to launch a movie network on cellphones in the U.S. The company has signed deals with AT&T and MediaFLO to start offering movies from several labels as early as May.
Hulu, the long-awaited online video joint venture between NBC and Fox, went live today offering hundreds of free TV shows and movies to anyone on the Internet. The site displays ad-supported films from NBC, Fox as well as over 50 media companies including Sony Pictures, Warner Bros. and MGM.
PicoP is capable of producing full color, high-resolution images (848 by 480 pixels) for up to 2.5 hours. Mobile devices such as cell phones, digital cameras, portable media players or laptops can be enabled with pico projection capabilities turning photos, videos, and other content into big viewing experiences that can be shared with others.
PortoMedia, a startup based in Ireland, aspires to revolutionize the movie rental market. The company plans to set up kiosks that will allow consumers to download movies to a memory or portable hard drive.
Visa, the leader credit card network in the United States, has announced the terms for its upcoming IPO. The offer of 406 million shares at a range of $37 to $42 would potentially raise $15 billion to $17.1 billion, positioning the company’s initial public stock offering as the largest ever in the United States.
Powerset is building a consumer search engine based on natural language processing. Using Powerset’s semantic search engine a user could ask a question and potentially get more on-point search results than from typing in mere keywords. Will this represent a challenge for Google?
A day after Toshiba announced it made the decision to stop manufacturing HD DVDs, all six major Hollywood studios are now supporting Blu-ray as the next-generation High Definition technology standard.
ooVoo, a videoconferencing and Instant Messaging startup, has launched a new VoIP phone service that allows users to make free phone calls from a computer to any landline or mobile phone in the US and Canada.
New iPhone and iPod Touch models with double the memory and adjusted prices
Virgin Galactic, a company owned and established by Richard Branson's Virgin Group to undertake the challenge of making private space travel available to everyone and by creating the world's first commercial spaceline, has recently unveiled the design of its new space shuttle model, the SpaceShipTwo.
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Polymer Vision has unveiled the world’s first pocket size mobile phone with a screen that folds up when not in use.
Zipit Wireless has announced a new text-messaging plan for its Zipit Wireless Messenger 2, a device that enables Instant Messaging (AOL IM, Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger) using Wi-Fi wireless networks.
Startup social networking site imeem, which lets users listen to and share their favorite music online, said that it signed a deal to access the catalog of Universal Music Group. This makes imeem the first company to offer free unlimited songs and music videos from all four major record labels.
Yahoo is set to complement its successful Yahoo Finance site with the launch of a new program aimed at technology investors. The site, to be called TechTicker, will report exclusively on technology stocks and will offer streaming video and blog posts covering breaking finance news on a daily basis.
The major search engines (with the exception of MSN) have released their lists of top search terms of the year. (The lists do not include adult-oriented queries).
Awesome parody of the current tech situation in Silicon Valley (hilarious)
AT&T services rates for Apple iPhone
Best selection of quotes about "courage"
Webware.com has unveiled the winners of its first user-generated Web 2.0 awards. During 20 days in May and June, the users of Webware.com community voted for its favorite Web applications.
YouTube has launched YouTube Remixer, a new service that allows users to edit videos online within YouTube’s site. The new Remix interface is powered by Adobe Premiere Express and supports insertion of text, graphics and audio as well as in-video transitions. It is quite similar to Photobucket’s Remix tool, which was also developed by Adobe. It is very easy to use and works in a drag-and-drop timeline.
IBM has developed a new video game for businesses. The video game is a 3-D educational simulator called Innov8, and was designed to help tech managers better understand the roles of businesspeople in an organization.
This Japanese video shows an amazing razor-thin display developed by Sony that bends like paper while showing full-color video. The display is only 0.3 millimeters, or 0.01 inch thick!
Nadal sets record!
New Ask.com search engine
Watch the new Apple iPhone TV ads here
Best selection of quotes about "Dreams"
Interesting! Find out how Google created Google Maps Street View
My trip to Arizona
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