Twitter CEO Ev Williams posted a blog entry Thursday with an update on the microblogging service’s usage, which continues to grow sharply. More interesting than the numbers, though, was the message written between the lines: Twitter now has 145 million monthly users, and for the marketers who want to ..readmore

Duke Nukem Forever is perhaps the iconic vaporware title after being in developmental hell for more than a decade… until now. Take-Two Interactive will announce at the Penny Arcade Expo this weekend that Gearbox Studios, the studio responsible for Borderlands, will finally pick up the pieces and finish developing ..readmore

The Internet is continuing its march into TV’s backyard, this time taking charge at live TV broadcasting as use of live streaming sites exploded in 2010, according to data from comScore . Time spent watching live streaming services like Ustream and Justin.tv grew nearly 650 percent in 2010, with ..readmore

Just weeks after Facebook announced its new location check-in feature dubbed Facebook Places , several companies have emerged claiming themselves as the first to leverage the features new set of user data. While each company is using the new service slightly differently, it’s not surprising that they want to ..readmore

OnLive is announcing today that it has begun a beta test to let gamers use its games-on-demand service over wireless networking connections. As a technical achievement, that’s pretty cool. OnLive runs its games in the cloud, using beefy servers with graphics processing capability and compression technology that can send ..readmore

Apple press events are always a visual feast. We’ve captured the imagery of the Apple event today, from cool new Apple store in Shanghai above to the surprise appearance of Chris Martin, lead singer of Coldplay. Check out the images and the video of Martin, whose perfect voice occasionally ..readmore

So Apple made some news today. Specifically, chief executive Steve Jobs took the stage in San Francisco, where he showed off major upgrades to the company’s music and TV services. As happens on anytime Apple holds a press event, there was a flood of coverage, both on VentureBeat and ..readmore

It’s no surprise that Ge Wang, cofounder and chief technology officer of music app-maker Smule , sounds excited about Apple’s just-announced social network for music, called Ping . But Wang said he sees greater potential in what Apple might do with Ping in the future. For one thing, Wang ..readmore

Networking giant Cisco and smart meter leader Itron have joined forces to deliver an IP-based communications platform to the smart grid market, but they announcement is light on details and when they will deliver. The two companies want to create a “definitive” platform that defines a standard for the ..readmore

Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the latest version of its mobile operating system, iOS 4.1, today at its media event in San Francisco. The new OS will include bug fixes for many iOS 4 issues, as well as some new features including high-dynamic range (HDR) photos, Game Center, high-definition ..readmore

Telecommunications solutions provider Alcatel-Lucent picked up a mobile app development platform that allows programmers to write apps once and produce code that runs natively on iPhones and Android devices with its acquisition of OpenPlug on Wednesday. The details of the deal were not disclosed. OpenPlug’s ELIPS studio allows developers ..readmore

DreamBox Learning , an educational game company with a novel adaptive learning technology, said today it has hired Jessie Woolley-Wilson as its new chief executive. Wooley-Wilson (pictured below) has spent two decades in education technology companies. She was president of K-12 at Blackboard, an electronic learning company. And she ..readmore

Just a step ahead of Apple’s press conference today, Aurora Feint is announcing that its PlayTime platform will allow iPhone and Android gamers to play each other in real time multiplayer games. An extension to the Open Feint social gaming platform, PlayTime is a new cross-platform, real-time multiplayer software ..readmore

It’s that time once again when football geeks unite to take on fantasy teams everywhere. If you’re like me, you want to be able to access you team 24/7 whether at home or on the go. Last year we had the benefit of a semi-decent app for Yahoo! fantasy ..readmore

(Editor’s note: Serial entrepreneur Steve Blank is the author of Four Steps to the Epiphany . This column is an abbreviated version of a post that originally appeared on his blog .) My two daughters are now in college and have put their toes in the working world with ..readmore

Booyah launched today its InCrowd mobile social app for the iPhone. The app, one of the first to utilize Facebook Places , is the latest attempt to loop social gaming services and the location stack. Using art and game mechanics from Nightclub City and MyTown, Booyah is pushing the ..readmore

The other week we posed a question to readers of CrackBerry asking what apps they would like to see come to BlackBerry from other smartphone platforms. The post got a pretty solid response with a wide mix of apps and games suggested, so we combed through the comments to ..readmore

I got an email the other day, letting me know that aBs JMicro SRL is having a sale on all of their apps. These two games in particular are favorites of mine, staying at the ready in my Games folder for the occasions when I find myself with time ..readmore

In its effort to challenge Facebook , Google has become a social butterfly. The latest proof of that is Google’s acquisition today of SocialDeck , a maker of social games for mobile phones. SocialDeck has made games such as Shake & Spell, Color Connect, and Pet Hero. Its games ..readmore

The cost of streaming Netflix, accessing social networks and playing games online on Microsoft’s Xbox 360 game console will go up beginning Nov. 1, just as Sony begins rolling out its premium $50-a-year Playstation Plus service. The monthly Xbox Live “gold” service will now cost $9.99, while the three-month ..readmore