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Mendeley, The-Last.fm-of-research, On Course To Be World’s Largest Research Database

Nov 18, 2009 4:56 AM

London-based Mendeley, which calls itself “the Last.fm of research”, has announced that it’s reached something of a milestone today – claiming 100,000 users and 8 million research papers uploaded t...

Placecast Raises $5 Million For Location-Based Advertising Platform

Nov 18, 2009 4:55 AM

Location-based marketing platform Placecast has raised $5 million in funding from Quatrex Capital, Onset Ventures and Voyager Capital. Placecast’s platform uses proprietary algorithms that weave t...

KidZui’s Newest Browser For Kids Is All About Sharing

Nov 18, 2009 3:47 AM

Have young children? You might want to check this out, particularly if they’re taking their first steps on the Web right about now. KidZui, the web browser that’s built for kids, is today launching...

Location Is The Missing Link Between Social Networks And The Real World

Nov 18, 2009 3:08 AM

Imagine a world where you sit at your computer and you never go outside. Where you never see another human being. This is the world that sites like Google and Facebook want you to live in. Though t...

Facebook Integration For PS3 Lands Today

Nov 18, 2009 1:23 AM

Facebook is coming to a PS3 near you as part of the latest 3.10 update, which will be rolled out over the course of the next day. We knew it was coming, but Sony has been vague about exactly when ...

German Media Giant Burda Buys 25% Stake In XING

Nov 18, 2009 1:19 AM

BREAKING: German media giant Burda has used its digital arm to purchase a 25.1% share in XING, the business social network that is biggest in Germany and competes with LinkedIn. The 1,323,041 share...

The Google Phone Is Very Real. And It’s Coming Soon

Nov 17, 2009 11:38 PM

The debate over Droid v. iPhone rages on, but lots more Android surprises are on the way. Get ready for the Google Phone. It’s no longer a myth, it’s real. The next “super” Android device will almo...

Opera Mobile 10 Beta Now Available For Windows Mobile Phones, Too

Nov 17, 2009 10:55 PM

About two weeks after debuting the latest beta build of Opera Mobile for Nokia and other Symbian/S60 smartphones, Norwegian software maker Opera is bringing the latest beta version of its custom mo...

TypePad Dives Into Micro-Blogging With An Important New Feature: Free

Nov 17, 2009 10:09 PM

I don’t recall ever paying for a TypePad blog, but apparently I did. I learned this today when I logged in for the first time in years to see that the site I had set up in 2005 was deactivated beca...

Daily Endeavor Launches A Crowdsourced Guide To Jobs

Nov 17, 2009 9:30 PM

Career related sites like Monster and others are meant for people who are looking for a specific type of job or area. But what if you don’t know what career or job opportunity you want to pursue?...

Digg CEO Adelson: “I Don’t Think People Expect To Pay For News Any More”

Nov 17, 2009 9:08 PM

This afternoon Digg CEO Jay Adelson was interviewed on Fox Business News, where he spoke about the future of Digg and the ways it could potentially cooperate with strugging news organizations. Du...

LiveOffice: Email Archiving In The Cloud

Nov 17, 2009 4:49 PM

Thinking about moving your electronic services to the cloud? LiveOffice, an SaaS provider of email archiving and hosting, makes the leap that much easier with the release of their CloudMerge techno...

Shakira’s Stats Don’t Lie: Facebook/Ustream Music Video Debut Is A Hit

Nov 17, 2009 3:06 PM

Last week we reported on Shakira’s decision to use Ustream and Facebook to live stream the debut of her latest music video, Give It Up To Me — a move that’s a fairly huge departure from the standar...

Murdoch Warns That Without eTablets, “Newspapers Will Go Out Of Business.”

Nov 17, 2009 2:52 PM

Old habits die hard. Rupert Murdoch believes that the future of the newspaper business is subscriptions—electronic subscriptions. He’s done with giving away his news for free on the Web and to s...

Intel Capital Invests In Cloud Computing Pioneer Joyent

Nov 17, 2009 2:32 PM

Joyent, the Californian provider of cloud computing solutions – although they like to refer to that as delivering “web application hosting Infrastructure as a Service” – today announced that it rai...