Current news items regarding technology, tech companies, the Internet, the government, etc.
Amazon.com has just started allowing customers to give their Kindle e-books to other users.
This is another positive step forward for the eBook paradigm that brings it even closer to that of ‘dead-tree’ books.
Amazon’s 3rd generation of its 6″ Kindle reader starts at $139.
This is astounding and scary, but according to Hitwise, a numbers tracking service, Facebook accounts for almost 25% of web page views in the United States.
Henry Blodget over at Business Insider thinks that Google should buy Twitter, Groupon and Foursquare. I think he’s right.
We’ve covered NFC tech in the past, notably the work done by Nokia and tititag (now touchtag). Now a vendor with a lot more marketplace clout is adding NFC support to one of its products, namely Google to its Android mobile OS.
The next version of Android, v2.3 (Gingerbread) will include support for the industry standard of NFC (Near Field Communications). So how will this benefit you? Well NFC will allow you to interact with other NFC and RFID-tagged devices to perform acts such as transferring money (think credit card payments), ‘beaming’ data, reading info, all by simply coming within range of those devices and with few button presses.
This is welcome news for NFC enthusiasts as it will probably (hopefully) give it a welcome boost in uptake.
Facebook announced its new messaging system today specifically saying it’s “not e-mail”. Actually what they mean is for it to be more than e-mail – modern messaging: IM, e-mail, & SMS, all consolidated in one place. …
Facebook lays out its new messaging system, consolidates IM, e-mail, textsRead More »
Cake designer Anya Richardson has created an amazing cake inspired by the runaway hit of a mobile phone game, Angry Birds. Click the image for a larger version.
Right now, Facebook’s messaging system is rather basic and no one in their right mind would use that predominantly over a real e-mail account, nor could they unless all of their contacts existed and used FB. However, rumor is that they are indeed about to announce a totally revamped system that would include an actual e-mail address (ex: [email protected]).
If this is all true, the announcement will come on Mon 15 Nov in advance of the Web 2.0 Summit conference.
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Rumor: Facebook gearing up webmail app to compete with GmailRead More »
Mozilla Labs has a first-cut out of an extension/service they’re calling F1 that allows you to quickly and easily share any web page via a toolbar button in Firefox, without having to go to the sharing/email service or depend on the website itself having a share button(s).
Right now, it only supports Facebook, Twitter and Gmail, but will support more services as long as those services make authorization and remote sharing relatively straightforward. …
No, this isn’t strictly about technology or gadgets, but it is news about a tech company, Google. They’re demonstrating once again why they’re ranked as one of the best places to work – by giving all employees across the board a 10% pay raise effective Jan 1 next year.
And that’s not all, they will also get a $1000 holiday bonus.
