When I first signed up for GrandCentral a few years ago, I lived in a different city. As such, I had a different area code. And that was fine until I moved and Google, which bought GrandCentral in 2007 and subsequently put it on lockdown, prohibited me from changing it. I didn't think much of it until my GrandCentral account magically transformed into a Google Voice account a few months ago, taking a good service and making it excellent. Unfortunately, I was still stuck with my old number. But now, there's an option to change it. The "Change your number" functionality, as spotted today by Boy Genius Report, is great news for users like me. Full story...
The Gillmor Gang convened Wednesday to ponder the last several weeks of events loosely contained in a discussion of the next generation Web operating system.
The holiday season is in full swing, and that means it's time to share some of the comfort we enjoy year round with those who are a little less fortunate — and just to be nicer to people in general.
This guest post was written by Martin Seibert, a German Internet media consultant.
Google Wave is a hot topic at the moment.
We recently wrote about Sidebar, an app that wants to help smartphone users with the process of finding the perfect apps for their phones.
The domain name russia.com has been purchased by an undisclosed buyer through marketplace Sedo, reports Yakov Sadchikov over on the Quintura blog.
Apologies for the confusing headline, but I couldn't resist.
This morning, long-time software maker Corel Corporation turned over full ownership to Corel Holdings, a limited partnership controlled by an affiliate of Vector Capital, majority investor of the company behind many familiar software programs like WordPerfect, CorelDRAW, WinZip, Paint Shop Pro and WinDVD (most of them obtained through acquisition of smaller software firms).
Clixtr, a startup that first presented itself to a wide audience at this year's TechCrunch50 Conference (our take), kicked off things with a relatively limited offering - a paid iPhone app - but is now upping its game with the launch of an accompanying location-aware photo sharing website.
We've been doing some more digging on the definitive moves by Microsoft to woo newspapers over to Bing and away from Google, a story we broke two weeks ago.
Today is Thanksgiving in the U.S. Traditionally we take stock of the things that we're thankful for on this day each year.
If you've ever tried searching the web for financial advice, you probably know just how much junk there is out there.