Erin Rose is a Bay Area ex-pat now geeking out in New Mexico, home of the atom bomb, the Spaceport, and other technological marvels. You can chat her up @rosieate.
Which smartphone is the most coveted? The answer might surprise you. YouTube gets movies on demand, attempts to end era of watching crappy bootlegged copies in 20 parts. The Sony…
A big lobbying campaign, funded mostly by foreign corporations, is taking place to prevent the US Government shutting down online poker sites. OKCupid sayz: Frequent twitter users have shorter relationships…
The White House releases its plan to create trusted identification systems for the Web. Apple’s being hit with a class-action lawsuit that alleges its app structure makes it too easy…
These are actually guest links by my buddy Luke. Apple users soon to be protected from marketers by Lion. U.S. has lag in tech usage, says study. BoingBoing probes NASA’s…
A bunch of sites are buzzing about a (rumored) method that can unlock an iPhone without jailbreaking it. The era of sales tax-free Internet shopping may be coming to an…
Google employees testified today that giving private companies, as well as the government, the power to censor search results is an awful idea. Duh. What is Congress thinking? Ah, hypocrisy. Apple’s…
The vote on whether Twitter and other SF tech companies will get their desired tax break to stay in town is today. Google & Facebook are taking the French government…
Will the Libyan war mean the end of .ly startups? (No, those URLs weren’t created just for twitter.) Apple controls its app system too tightly and Android’s a mess. What’s…
The +1 button: Google’s answer to the facebook like button, ‘cept it’ll actually influence your search results. Drama: Paul Allen talks about the early days of Microsoft in his new…
Multi-billion dollar valuations of facebook, Groupon and others have led some to ask: Are we in the middle of another, potentially destructive tech bubble? Some foreign political activists have recently…
Researchers have created the first plastic computer processor. US intelligence agencies are using Google as a tool more and more . . . And Google Search now supports Cherokee. The…