As competitors with rich content offerings like Yelp close in on its core market, Foursquare is rallying to fight back with a series of big media partnerships. The New York Times reported today that the company will unveil a partnership with Zagat tomorrow where users can earn a ‘Foodie’ ..readmore
Facebook users are sharing five billion pieces of content a week , or five times as much as they were in July , according to new statistics the company released this month. The big burst in sharing comes as Facebook has promoted share buttons and Connect, its effort to ..readmore
When Tim Berners-Lee arrived at CERN, Geneva’s celebrated European Particle Physics Laboratory in 1980, he’d been hired to help replace the control systems for several of the lab’s particle accelerators. Almost immediately, the inventor of the modern Web page noticed a problem: thousands of people were coming and going ..readmore
BlueKiwi , a French startup that helps companies manage customer conversations, says it’s starting a big push into the US market. As part of that effort, it’s announcing new pricing that could be hard to resist — companies can build a BlueKiwi-powered community for free. The company’s tools center ..readmore
“This is ‘Magic’ and this is ‘Jack’,” the little girl says in the video ad , holding her two cute puppy dogs up to the camera. The girl’s father, magicJack inventor Dan Borislow, then asks her, “Kylie, did you know that your dad is going to let everybody try ..readmore
“iPad hoopla” has passed, according to a survey by electronics shopping site Retrevo, and consumers have lost interest after the product’s unveiling less than two weeks ago . More than twice as many respondents said they were uninterested after the iPad was announced compared to a week prior. Of ..readmore
I don’t normally blog about gadget hardware, but zoomMediaPlus ‘ new zoomIt SD card adapter for iPhone and iPod Touch fills a gaping hole of utility. Not only does it let Apple handset owners look at photos, play music, and read documents off an SD card, it has smart ..readmore
Ooh, one youthful blogging network takes on another! Tumblr, the uber-simplified blogging platform that has more than 3 million accounts , kicked off a 48-hour experiment today . It’s letting people reply to others with photos, instead of regular comments or re-blogs. The blog owner has to turn on ..readmore
Biofuel production in the US has met with fairly mixed success, as the cost and fossil fuel use of corn-based ethanol has severely cut into the benefits provided by avoiding the use of fossil fuels. It’s been a somewhat different story in Brazil, which has embraced ethanol derived from ..readmore
A 1080p streaming upgrade is on its way for Netflix users later this year, Adobe is promising faster Flash for Macs, and boredom can kill you. ANI ‘Boredom can kill you’ According to a study at University College London, extremely bored people are 37% more likely to have died ..readmore
The next major release of Firefox will not be compatible with Macs running Mac OS X 10.4, also known as Tiger. This comes from a mozilla.dev.planing discussion on Google Groups started by Josh Aas, a Mozilla-employed developer working on the project. The change will go into effect later this ..readmore
Windows/Mac/Linux (with Adobe Air): TweetDeck— most popular Twitter client among Lifehacker readers —just released an update to version 0.33, bringing with it more support for viewing media inline without opening a page in your browser (including YouTube videos and Flickr images) and a nice new column navigation tool. Sound ..readmore
Last week , Microsoft said it was investigating issues in Windows 7 that affect batteries on certain notebooks after hundreds of users reported they thought the OS was to blame. Steven Sinofsky, president of the Windows and Windows Live Division, has posted a lengthy response on the Engineering Windows ..readmore
The Web Worker Daily blog reminds us that today is National Clean Out Your Computer Day. Want to do some serious PC cleaning but not sure where to start? We’ve got your back, so let’s get with the purging. Photo by karindalziel . Clean Out Your Inbox One of ..readmore
Dante’s Inferno has weathered its share of criticism for its aggressive marketing campaign, as well as its topical resemblance to the God of War titles. To be fair, much of that criticism came from us . Jonathan Knight, the game’s executive producer, was kind enough to talk to Ars ..readmore
Last week we asked you how much you would pay for an e-book , and just shy of 10,000 votes later, it looks like most of you (70%) aren’t interested in paying any more than $10 for an e-book. The basic voting breakdown, from top to bottom, looks like ..readmore
When you bop between your work and home computers all the time, it’s tough keeping your favorite music at your fingertips (“Which computer has my Once More, With Feeling soundtrack on it?”) AudioBox lets you listen to your music from anywhere. (Click the image above for a closer look.) ..readmore
Windows: If you like your software open-source you’ll definitely want to check out UltraDefrag a snappy open-source Windows disk defragmenter. UltraDefrag is available as a portable application and in a GUI and ultra lightweight command-line only version—the lightweight version is designated as “micro” in the download list and is ..readmore
SAN FRANCISCO—The “Llano” processor that AMD described today in an ISSCC session is not a CPU, and it’s not a GPU—instead, it’s a hybrid design that the chipmaker is calling an “application processor unit,” or APU. Whatever you call it, it could well give Intel a run for its ..readmore
