Google has rolled out a version of its its successful keyword search advertising service AdWords for Video, the company announced on the YouTube blog yesterday.
AdWords for Video is essentially Google’s attempt to take on the video advertising world by …
When Goldman Sachs invests in your startup, you know you’re onto something. ZocDoc, a startup that makes it easy to book doctor’s appointments, is one of the big success stories in New York, expanding rapidly to cities across the country …
Taiwanese phone manufacturer HTC has its eyes on the low-end mobile market, and it’s pushing forward with plans to develop its own low-cost mobile CPU together with ST-Ericsson, reports China Times.
While Apple and Samsung have high-end smartphone chips of …
Ben Sawyer is the co-founder of game-consulting firm Digitalmill and one of the pioneers in the field of Games for Health. He founded the Serious Games Initiative a decade ago as part of a U.S. government research effort into how …
Just ahead of Google’s upcoming Drive launch, cloud storage powerhouse Dropbox has released a powerful new tool that lets you share files and folders using links, the company announced today.
The cloud storage landscape is about to take a sharp …
Here’s the thing Samsung, techies are already eagerly awaiting the Galaxy S III, so what’s the point of creating a boring teaser ad?
Samsung is in high-gear in advance of its May 3 event, where it’s expected to announce its …
Earlier this year we reported quite a bit on Aereo, a New York startup that offers customers the ability to watch network TV (the free stuff you get over rabbit ears) on any internet-connected device. It is now embroiled …
ScienceLogic, an IT cloud services startup, has raised a new $15 million round of funding, the company announced today.
The startup provides a set of services that are intended to work across a variety of data center and cloud environments, …
Adobe revealed new details today about the latest versions of its ultra popular line of design software, Creative Suite 6, which features speed improvements, user interface updates, and an emphasis on working in the cloud.
In addition to a worth …
Microsoft has released version 1.0 of Skype for Windows Phone, thus fulfilling a promise the company made at Mobile World Congress to move the app out of beta by April.
The new version includes a new feature that lets you …
Samsung has started teasing the Galaxy S III, the next version of the company’s popular Android-based Galaxy S line of smartphones.
This morning the company’s mobile division tweeted a two-word message “Destination: tgeltaayehxnx” — an anagram for “The Next Galaxy.” …
Just in time for Earth Day, Dutch electronics company Philips is unveiling a new super energy-efficient light bulb today with a shelf life that should last about 25 years.
The catch? It costs about $60, but Philips is said to …
IBM recently won the contract to create a more sustainable and energy efficient Los Angeles Unified School District. But before ripping out old roofs or replacing leaky windows, David Bartlett’s, the computing gaint’s sustainability guru, took a look at the …
We loved the technology we discovered at DEMO this week, but some of our favorite memories had more to do with half-naked, dancing entrepreneurs and role-playing games.
With an intro like that, you can’t not watch this clip:
Check out …
Morality in Media is calling for a nation-wide boycott of daily deal site Groupon.com for what it claims are tours of a “torture porn” facility.
“Employees lead 90-minute tours for guests aged 18 & older through five floors of historic …
Although Hollywood films warn of sentient artificial intelligence looking to overthrow and exterminate its human creators, they’re mostly a reason for their big-name stars to jump through the air in slow-motion while dual-wielding rocket-propelled grenade launchers while a hovership explodes …
Pixel Qi, a Silicon Valley company that makes innovative LCD screens for mobile devices, says its latest generation displays meet or exceed the quality of the iPad 3′s Retina display resolution.
In a blog post today, the company’s chief executive, Mary …
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Facebook may be hugely popular among brand marketers and app makers, but the company does a remarkably poor job of keeping those users protected.
If enough people report that a particular application is offensive, Facebook’s automated spam-reporting technology will likely …
Speculation continues around the plans of company called Planetary Resources, backed by the Google executives Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, as well as Ross Perot, James Cameron and other bigwigs.
The company, in a vague but audacious statement released last …
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The cost of sequencing the human genome continues to fall, reaching a low of $1,000 this year due to a new microchip and machine designed by genetics company Life Technologies Corp. And unleashed by those lower costs, a small cadre …
