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Google (and Library of Congress?!) now indexing all tweets

Seth Weintraub — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:55:25 -0400

Twitter's search function is great for finding out what is happening at this very moment. It's so great that Google and Bing have added the results to their search results and, in the process, given Twitter its first revenue source (more $ are coming).

Today, Google announced that it would be searching across the whole Twitter archive.

Upgrades to Google Docs bring exciting new features to Cloud Office

Seth Weintraub — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:28:48 -0400

At the inaugural Atmosphere 2010 Cloud Computing conference today, Google introduced some interesting new features to Google Docs that not only make them more familiar to Microsoft Office users, but also take collaboration to whole new levels.

Check out the new features in the video below:

iPhone OS 4 liveblog here Thursday at 1pm ET

Seth Weintraub — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:00:00 -0400

Bookmark this link to catch the iPhone action live as we find out what goodies Apple has in store for us in the next generation of its category-defining OS.

First Google Android-powered TV announced

Seth Weintraub — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 09:09:53 -0400

People of Lava, a Swedish startup, have announced an Android-powered TV, dubbed 'Scandinavia'. Set to ship later this year, the HDTV resembles the AppleTV interface in many ways but adds additional features that Apple users have been after.

iPad vs. Nexus One vs. iPhone 3GS browser speed test

Seth Weintraub — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 22:42:11 -0400

AnandTech benchmarked the iPhone 3GS, iPad and Google Nexus One device and found that the iPad is usually faster than the Nexus One, but the Nexus One also routinely beats the iPhone 3GS by significant margins. Why?

'iPad in Business' site goes live

Seth Weintraub — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 10:25:19 -0400

As people all over the US wait in line to pick up their iPads, Apple is updating its site to showcase the different usage scenarios of the device. Apple's 'iPad in Business' sites covers the business uses:

Did Apple drop PA Semi for Intrinsity to create the A4?

Seth Weintraub — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 00:24:44 -0400

News today is that Apple has purchased another processor company called Intrinsity. Apple purchased PA Semi two years ago for almost a quarter of a billion dollars. Now they've purchased another big semiconductor player.

Is Android going to surpass iPhone?

Seth Weintraub — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:27:37 -0400

The numbers this week from two separate sources seem to indicate that Apple's iPhone may not be the run-away success that the iPod was and Apple shouldn't soon expect it to own a majority of the market.

Who's in the way? Android.

Android Market comes to the Mac desktop with DoubleTwist

Seth Weintraub — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:01:16 -0400

...and it isn't just Android Market, DoubleTwist allows you to sync your Music, Movies and Photo collection to your Android Device.

AT&T's WorkBench to bring Enterprise Web apps to iPhone

Seth Weintraub — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:38:12 -0400

It looks like AT&T is creating a separate, secure Web browser (with all types of controls and offline access) for accessing enterprise apps remotely.