In my last post about Twitter (supposedly my last post about Twitter ever), I rounded up a bit of the blogosphere’s dire predictions for Twitter. “Everyone’s moving to FriendFeed,” they said.  “Identi.ca will kill Twitter,” they said.  “Plurk will kill Twitter,” they said. I debunked these allegations by simply pointing to the numbers.  According to some’s best [...]

The 8AM times previously mentioned as the iPhone 3G sale time applied only to AT&T stores. Apple just updated their retail page to reflect the same time of sale within Apple retail spaces. I think we all assumed this was fact, but now it is. [Apple Thanks Patricio]

Cover Flow isn't my favorite feature of OS X, but I have to admit it is neat, but that's about it. There are more efficient ways to organize pretty much any data you can think of, but this idea of applying the technology to your iPhone's Contacts list intrigues me. Nothing fancy here, it would likely be a piece of cake for Apple to throw together, and I'm a little mystified as to why it hasn't yet. It wouldn't be the first time photo browsing for
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Filed under: Transportation We've been hearing rumors about a partially solar-powered Prius, but Car and Driver's got some info on the 2010 model scheduled to make an appearance at the Detroit Auto Show in January, and it doesn't appear that sunlight plays a part quite yet. The popular hybrid gets a more angular shape, but it still basically looks like a shoe -- which isn't to say it's not an improvement over that earlier rendering, which looked
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Last month, when economists, en masse, concluded that John McCain?s idea for a ?gas-tax holiday? didn?t make a lick of sense, McCain told a group of voters that economists aren?t to be trusted. This morning, McCain decided that he actually loves economists. U.S. Senator John McCain?s presidential campaign today released a statement signed by over 300 [...]

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The Church of England's governing body has agreed to allow women to become bishops but wants to work out some way to accommodate those who object to the practice.

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It's the merger story that never dies. Despite however many times that Yahoo and Microsoft have insisted that any potential deal between the two companies is over and done with (despite trying a few times), there's indications (once again) that Microsoft isn't out of this yet, and could potentially come back in and do a new deal if Carl Icahn gets the board slate that he wants. Again, though, it seems like Icahn's talkative nature actually deva
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The standardized testing business is a big business -- though many are extremely critical of it. However, given how many universities rely on standardized tests for admissions, it's difficult to overstate how important some of these tests can be. And, because of that, there's a huge ecosystem of test preparation built around all of these tests, trying to help applicants prepare for the exams. These usually involve practice exams, often with qu
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Matt Marshall over at VentureBeat has an excellent article on AdMob, a top company in the mobile advertising space. Marshall does some back-of-the-envelope calculations to come up with some revenue figures and notes that AdMob is poised to start "minting" money as the mobile web takes off. It may happen, but I wonder if the mobile ad market will really be as big a deal as some make it out to be -- for a few reasons. First, it seems incredibly
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