2010

This should fix one issue I’ve always had with Flip (and Flip-like) cameras. It’s a “professional-quality” external microphone called Mikey for Flip. Developed by Blue Microphones, you plug it in,…

The best entrepreneurs build things out of their own experience. Maybe that’s why Silicon Valley hasn’t dominated clean tech the way it dominated IT and the Web. We’re aware of…

Digital scrapbooking is a big business. Companies from Apple to Shutterfly have been offering consumers a way to create pretty digital photobooks and scrapbooks from various pictures and other digital…

The Galaxy Tab will soon be here and Samsung is revving up their marketing machine ahead of its launch. The latest video clocks in at just under two minutes and…

Last year’sLondon Digital Week covered “digital marketing, interaction design, advertising, planning” and similar topics. In other words this was not really focused on tech so much as the creative/design aspects.…

Looking for an iPad case that also has a built-in keyboard? Check out this case from Brando. The keyboard runs through Bluetooth and has a built-in lithium battery that lasts about…

Polar Rose, a Malmö, Sweden startup which built a very interesting facial recognition programme which hooked into Facebook photos, has been bought by Apple, according to Swedish media. The 15-person…

TiVo already has an impressive lineup of internet apps on their DVRs but the offering just got a little more musical thanks to Pandora. Nearly all of Pandora’s trademark features…

Here’s an interesting one: a new startup aims to help retailers replace traditional promotions and incentives such as coupons and discounts with virtual goods and virtual currencies for a wide…

Just as promised, the Peek 9 launched today and brings a whole new level of cool to the not-a-smartphone device. It seems nearly everything is updated from the mail service…

Z3 Enterprises, a publicly listed multimedia publishing and marketing company formerly known as Bibb Corp, has signed an agreement to acquire Usee for $105 million in stock upon completion of…

Casio is announcing two new additions to their Exilim point and shoot line – one a top of the line model with built in geo-tagging and the latest generation of…

Google Apps is making some serious inroads into businesses and other organizations. Today, Google announced that more than 3 million businesses, schools, and government agencies are using Google Apps. To…

Internet media company Internet Brands this morning announced that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement to be acquired by an affiliate of private equity investment firm Hellman &…

Data warehouse appliance company Netezza had been rumored to being close to getting acquired for a while, and this morning it turned out IBM is the one on the buying…

Kiva.org, one of the pioneers in micro-lending to entrepreneurs, is entering the educational space today, launching the pilot program of student microloans on the platform. Kiva is a peer-to-peer lending…

Posterous users can automatically push content posted to their blogs onto other platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Flickr and so on. Up until recently, people could even post content…

Soon, visitors of Facebok.com will no longer land on a shady site promising cheap Apple products in a Facebook-styled theme (deliberately not linking to it) but be redirected to Facebook…

TravelTeq Suitcase Doubles As A Chair, Speaker System A VHS Skin For Your Notebook, iPhone, & Blackberry Dell’s Convertible Netbook-Tablet Actually Looks Really Cool A Stocking Stuffer For The Wooden…

Cloud storage startup Cirtas Systems has raised $10 million in Series A funding from NEA, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Amazon. The company is also launching its Bluejet Cloud Storage Controller…

Those scamps at iFixIt have torn down the PS3 Move and discovered that it’s basically as complex as a cellphone but without the radio chip. Obviously this is just a…

“Two-factor authentication” may be the least sexy-sounding feature I’ve ever written about. But if you’ve ever worried about being phished or having your password hacked, it could be your best…

The first thing you’ll do after watching Aaron Sorkin and David Fincher’s The Social Network is visit the “History” subsection of the Wikipedia article on Facebook, seeking details on how much…

The Myriad International Holdings unit of Naspers has acquired a controlling interest in social networking and shopping site operator Multiply, we’ve learned. Multiply will continue to operate under the same…

Wow, Fujifilm. Just… wow. This is an amazing piece of work. The FinePix X100 is… not really comparable to anything on the market. It’s got the sensor of a DSLR…

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Let’s face it, you’re not going to spend all your time at school in class or studying and as a…

Peek sent out an email today announcing that a new Peek will be announced tomorrow. A bit needy, sure, but I’ll bite because they got my attention with this line,…

How do you know when a Facebook PR person is lying? When their lips move (or they issue a statement!) ba-dum ching! We’ve been taking a beating today on our…

Editor’s note: This guest post is an open letter from Scott Jones, founder and CEO of ChaCha on why the recent “T-Mobile Text Tax” is now a Net Neutrality issue.…

As we reported last week, search engine Cuil was unceremoniously shut down on Thursday, and there were reports that employees were told to go home and forget about getting paid.…