Twitter wants to remove the ambiguity from shortened URLs
Those of you who frequent Twitter are, in all likelihood, intimately familiar with URL shortening services. With only 140 characters available to inflict your wisdom …
Apps & Software
Adobe to issue patch for Flash exploit tomorrow, Acrobat and Reader later
Just a heads up for all of you who have been anxiously waiting in your fallout shelters for Adobe to patch that nasty zero-day exploit. Adobe …
Office 2011 for Mac restricted to 32-bit
Oh man, this is definitely not something we wanted to hear: Microsoft has announced on its blog that Office for Mac 2011 will only ship …
Google Maps Navigation arrives in Canada, 11 European countries
Good news for Android users situated in Canada and and 11 Western European nations, as today Google announced the immediate availability of its free Google …
T-Mobile myTouch 3G to get official Android 2.2 update
Not long after it pledged to update the myTouch 3G to Android 2.1, today a leaked document from T-Mobile revealed that the carrier is planning …
Revised iOS ad policy cuts independents a break, makes it tougher for Google
It comes as no surprise — since Steve Jobs hinted at it during D8 — that Apple has once again revised the controversial section 3.3.9 …
iOS 4 GM candidate already jailbroken
Want to know what was not found within the GM release candidate of iOS 4? Patched vulnerabilities which make jailbreaking an iPhone painfully simple. msftguy, …
Windows Phone 7 Marketplace regulations, features detailed
Ars Technica has an interesting write-up on the rules and regulations developers will have to follow in order to publish to the Windows Phone 7 …
Google Maps previews added to Gmail and Buzz
How about some news for all you Google Maps enthusiasts? Today, Google has announced the addition of inline Map previews for its Gmail and Buzz …
iOS 4 gold master release candidate is up on Apple developer site
If you have an iPhone, an iPhone developer account, and a hankering for new code, it would behoove you to mosey on over to developer.apple.com, …
Apple releases Safari 5 into the wild
Hot on the heels of 2010’s WWDC keynote, Apple has announced an update to its Safari web browser. The code update, simply titled Safari 5, …
Turn your EVO 4G into a free Wi-Fi hotspot
Sprint’s announcement that it was going to charge customers $30 per month to turn their EVO 4G into a Wi-Fi hotspot was met with a …
Android 2.2 ported to the iPhone 3G
We’ve already seen Android 1.6 ported over to the iPhone 3G, but now Android fans with questionable tastes in hardware can load up Android 2.2 …
Adobe details zero-day exploit, affects Windows, Mac, Linux, Unix, and Solaris
Yesterday, Adobe announced that a zero-day exploit exists in Flash 10.0.45.2 and earlier, as well as Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x. The company website explains: …
Download Android 2.2 for the Motorola DROID today
If you’re a DROID owner harboring a grudge against the world because you don’t yet have Android 2.2 on your device, there’s reason to smile …
doubleTwist launches Android media player, can sync iTunes metadata
doubleTwist, a company whose vision is “to create a unifying media platform that connects consumers with all their media and all their devices,” has just …
Root for the EVO 4G released
With one day to go before it hits stores shelves, the much talked about root for the HTC EVO 4G has been released to the …
Google's Chrome OS coming "late fall"
Have you been dying to know when you’ll be able to get your hands on Google’s Chrome OS? Well according to Sundar Pichai, the head of …
3G calls made with Skype 2.0 for iPhone to be free until 2011
You can breathe a sign of relief if you spent your entire long weekend stressing about how free Skype-to-Skype calls over 3G via Skype 2.0 …
Andy Rubin: The frequency of Android updates will slow
The frequency of major Android OS releases will soon slow down considerably, Google’s VP of engineering Andy Rubin said in an interview on Monday. Instead …
Adobe announces its Digital Publishing Platform
After Apple decreed that Flash is not welcome on the iPad and iPhone, Adobe was left between a rock and a hard place as it …
Netflix iPad app hacked to work on the iPhone
Netflix is easily one of the best iPad applications available to date. Unfortunately, however, it’s not available for the iPhone. That is until this weekend …
Skype 2.0 drops for iPhone, enables calls over 3G
Skype has just released software version 2.0.0 for Apple’s iPhone via an App Store update. Improvements listed for the new version include: Call using your …
Rumor: Bing to be default search provider in iPhone OS 4?
TechCrunch is citing a “reliable source” who claims that Bing will be getting the nod as iPhone OS 4’s default search engine once the finalized …
Chrome extensions get access to desktop notification APIs
How about some added browser functionality for those Chrome lovers out there. The Chromium Blog has announced that as of Chrome 5, Chrome extensions will …
Firefox Home coming to iPhone, brining Awesome Bar with it
Yesterday, the good folks over at Mozilla announced that they will be releasing an iPhone app, based on Firefox Sync technology, called Firefox Home. Home …
Steve Ballmer rumored to speak during WWDC keynote
Here’s a crazy rumor to start off the day. According to Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is planning to make …
Chrome sheds beta tag on Mac and Linux offerings
The Chrome Team is welcoming two more platforms out of beta, as both the Mac and Linux versions of the browser have officially shed their …
Steve Jobs to give WWDC keynote
Not groundbreaking stuff, but newsworthy nonetheless. Apple has just announced that the company’s CEO, Steve Jobs, will be giving the opening keynote at this years …
T-Mobile yanks buggy HD2 software update
It seems T-Mobile simply can’t catch a break when it comes to software updates. Not even three months removed from its disastrous CLIQ update, T-Mobile …
