Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Microsoft is gearing up to take an anti-competition complaint against Google to the European Commission. Google’s monopolistic search practices, they’re claiming, prevented the growth of their Bing search engine. Speaking…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
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…
Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Meme alert: The @BronxZoosCobra is making waves on the internet after a real cobra from the real Bronx Zoo went missing. MIT has designed an artificial “leaf” that produces energy…
Erin Rose’s Tech Links
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…
Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
New photo-sharing-location-based-social-media-venture-funded-start-up Color is making waves. While the idea is pretty cool, the $41 million thrown behind it raises more tech bubble questions. And of course, there are the inevitable parodies……
Erin Rose’s Tech Links
The NY Times’ online subscription price is way more than other online subscription services, so why would people pay for it? Facebook removes around 20,0009 underage people from the site…
Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
First Amazon took on Netflix with streaming movies, and now it’s going after the Android store with its new Appstore. Oh, and Apple is suing over the name. There are…
Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Apple’s newest tool for convincing people to buy an iPhone? Shame. Helping blind people navigate their environment is the newest awesome Kinect hack. The porn industry might soon have its…
Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Google seems to be inching closer to testing a new smartphone payment system. Goodbye, paper money? Another likely impact of the Japanese earthquake seems to be rising prices for computer components.…
Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
AOL is planning big layoffs in the wake of their acquisition of the Huffington Post. Here’s an interesting take on Hollywood’s attachment to old-school artificial scarcity of popular movies. Bubble,…
Erin Rose’s Tech Links
The end of cookies? The EU’s new law says websites must now explicitly ask for info from visitors. Facebook is AOL-ifying the net, aggregating a multitude of functions into one blue…
Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Sweden is replacing stamps with text messages. Too much tech use is ruining your sleep. Google controls 97% of mobile search. An amazing and terrifying tour of cutting-edge augmented reality…