The Apple/Google Voice fiasco just got more interesting. Toktumi, a startup that lets small businesses build office-caliber phone systems with their mobile phones and computers, just had its application Line2 approved by Apple — nearly three months after it was originally submitted. The powerful service allows business employees to assign two phone numbers to their iPhone: one that they can give to family and friends, and another that can be given to business contacts, with features that allow for call filtering and a professional-grade voicemail system. But it's also notable for its many similarities to Google Voice, an application that Apple has kept out of the App Store for months now. Full story...
Baidu, the leading search engine operator in China, this afternoon reported blow-out financial results for the fourth quarter of 2009.
With 400 million users, Facebook is seeing 2.5 billion photos uploaded every month. Scrapblog, a startup that allows you to make beautiful Flash-based online scrapbooks, is hoping to help Facebook users make pretty collages of their photos via a new Facebook app, Share the Love.
Apple recently made headlines here on TC for depriving an individual of 16 .com domain names that contained some of the company's brand names, including MacBook and iPod.
Let me say upfront: I have never been to TED, mostly because I have never been invited and I can’t imagine a world where I justify paying $6,000 for a conference.
"Busy people don’t want another social network, what they want is the convenience of aggregation.
Google officially unveiled Buzz, their major step into social statuses through Gmail today at an event held at 10 AM PT.
During the Q&A session today following the Google Buzz event, Google co-founder Sergey Brin revealed something both humorous and interesting.
Now that the Google event is over, the company has started turning on Buzz for Gmail users. Here are some quick screenshots of it in action.
See our live notes from today's Google Buzz event here.
Google has a problem. Despite having their hands in just about everything online, they've never been able to tackle what is a key part of the fabric of the web: social.
As location-based social networks gain serious traction, its inevitable that that these applications will become full-fledged platforms.