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Flattr, the service that lets visitors “tip a dime” to their favourite websites, is now easy to use in the real world too thanks to the launch a new Android ...
We’ve written often this year about the growth of social media as a whole, but I want to look at the valuations of the 2 biggest social networks. A couple of...
If you’re reading this blog, you’ve probably heard the whispers. “Yeah, Foursquare is growing like crazy, but their retention rate is lousy.” “Facebook Place...
Owners of accounts on Microsoft’s Hotmail email service have been flooding the company’s official forums complaining of missing emails, stating that emails h...
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Read about Facebook’s 50 billion valuation this morning? I did but had a hard time visualizing that number. That is why I decided to create a little graph vi...
A hacker has managed to gain access to the official Kenyan Police website, dedicating the hack to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in the process. The website, k...
As 2010 draws to a close, we can reflect on another fantastic year for gadgets. Technology has advanced to a point where we can now watch 3D programming in o...
Bell Canada, a major telecommunications company in Canada has just been fined $1.3 million for not following the rules of the do-not-call list. A few years b...
Remember Gowalla? The innovative, early geosocial service with the gorgeous UI and fabulous icons? In recent months it seems that they’ve been losing ground ...
There is a ton of stuff you can throw into your laptop bag (besides the laptop and the power cord), but what are the things that are really useful that you c...
Samuel Sevian has been playing chess since he was 5. He comes from a family of “chess-philes,” in Santa Clara, California. On December 11th, 2010, Samuel off...
The battle between China’s two largest mobile providers, China Mobile and China Unicom is hotting up as each tries to win over the lucrative iPhone market. C...
While many people may mock the idea of accepting Facebook friend requests from strangers, that might be just what a long-term drug addict needs. An experimen...
Two Canadians have designed a portable FM radio station that is small enough to fit inside a briefcase and will transmit a broadcast from 30 to 100 kilometre...
Scheme for accusers of store’s former owner Mohamed Al Fayed to close before end of retailer’s internal investigationHarrods has been accused of being “neith...
While all of the headlines today will belong to Verizon and its December 5th launch, you should know that another player in the LTE game made a pretty signif...
MySpace just posted the video below explaining how the just announced MySpace and Facebook “mashup” will work. For more info on this announcement, read our f...
It feels like kindergarten tonight at LeWeb, when Loic Le Meur announced the 1st Prize winners tonight in Paris. Why? Because everybody wins! 1st Prize for V...
One month from today, Rupert Murdoch will unveil “The Daily,” his much-discussed iPad newspaper. While the date has been pushed back a few times now, inside ...
Late yesterday news broke that T-Mobile was moving a Windows Phone 7 handset (along with a number of Android devices, it must be said) in a buy one get on fr...
Virgin Media has Sky clear in its targets as it rolls out its new Christmas advert to promote its “Stop The Broadband Con” campaign. The campaign is aimed at...
When Wired launched on the iPad, it come in for some deserved praise. Taking the popular print issue and adding interactive elements, vibrant colours and iPa...
It’s sunny and snow in New York City today. City workers are blowing snow in the street and my friends are sledding in Central Park. Just as I posted a time ...
Technology giant Google has partnered up with Hollywood star George Clooney to launch a Satellite Project that will monitor Sudan’s borders to possibly help ...
Around the backchannels here at TNW, we’ve been discussing the pros and cons of a late-year purchase of new Apple products. According to what we’re reading o...
You left your shopping til the last minute didn’t you? Don’t worry. We’ve got you covered. Here are 6 great last minute items that are guaranteed to keep you...
One of the men behind Gorillaz, Damon Albarn, revealed last month that he’d been creating a new Gorillaz album. Normally not a newsworthy event unless you ar...
Twitter has published its latest instalment of its #Hindsight2010 series, this time awarding US TV personality Stephen Colbert it’s first-ever “Golden Tweet ...
What started out as a small podcast by two brothers with a passion for technology and the web, has turned into a full-blown network of podcasts that’s growin...
The image you see could get it’s photographer in serious legal trouble in Kuwait after authorities there have banned the use of DSLRs in public places unless...
It was a very merry Christmas for Angry Birds. Rovio Mobile, the company behind the popular games, controlled the two top paid spots in the iOS application s...
It used to be that when you died you left your body and identity behind. These days however you also have an ever expanding online identity and there really ...
Oh Google, your hijinks are legendary. As the company is presently running a riddle-turned-scavenger hunt for the Nexus S phones, there was apparently anothe...
Dell may be late to the Windows Phone 7 party, but at least they are talking (at long last) about just when their much-anticipated Venue Pro smart phone will...
Who knows if the rumors about Google lining up to buy Groupon are true or not but there is usually no smoke without fire in these cases. The rumored figure f...
Is Harvard Business School giving Stanford and Wharton a run for its money? It seems that yes, the prestigious business school is finally driving its own tec...
Research that suggested Twitter could be used to predict movements in the stock market is set to be put to the test with millions of pounds of real money. In...
Slightly more than a month ago, T-Mobile released the MyTouch 4G, the latest addition to the their Android phones with the MyTouch moniker. The device offers...
Sony recently launched its own streaming music service with the tongue-twister name of ‘Music Unlimited Powered By Qriocity’. Is it any good though? We dived...
It was only last week that we looked at the sad demise of Readness, a promising service that allowed users to share the news articles they were reading in re...
Take one part “thank you” and one part social media. Mix well and pass it out to the world for a tasty bit of infographic from JESS3 and ThankfulFor. The sit...
ESPN, the sports television network, using data that Nielsen uses for its TV ratings, has determined that only 0.11% net US households really cut the cord in...
Like everyone else, Microsoft is pushing hard to get its products into the hands of consumers this weekend, announcing on its Windows Facebook Page that, for...
With an R&D budget in the billions, you would expect Microsoft to have some very neat side-projects. The good news is that your hunch is completely corre...
Facebook have always been notoriously good at stealing features that work well on other sites and implementing them on their huge platform. We have seen it i...
The popular video streaming application VLC is coming to Android and will be released in “a matter of weeks” according to Lead VLC developer Jean-Baptiste Ke...
Windows Phone 7 devices, announced March 15, had some proclaiming it an “iPhone Killer.” Once Windows Phone 7 made its way to the hands of reviewers the revi...
This is the week where everything changes. OK, not everything, but some things do. What changes? How about the fact that we’re not only covering tech news no...
If you’re a world-traveling, International person of mystery…and you happen to love Android devices, then Moto has your phone. If you’re not, you’re likely t...