This morning, news broke of a spiffy, and very powerful new feature on YouTube: a built-in video editor. It’s a feature that I’ve personally been longing for for years, and it’s going to be a huge deal for anyone who uploads to YouTube on a semi-regular basis. This morning I spoke with Rushabh Doshi and [...]

Techcrunch is hosting a free, open Hack Day, before its Disrupt conference in NYC. Create, build, collaborate and present to an audience of peers and pros. Enjoy free hacker food (this is the pizza capital of the world, right?), meet a diverse group of attendees and hack! This is the city that never sleeps, so [...]

Here is another lost iPhone 4. The photos show it turned on—with some kind of console screen titled Inferno. They also show some new very interesting details, like its processor and changes in its case design. More » Gizmodo: top

Relax Apple fanboys of Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK, your iPad will be available in stores May 28. Apple, as previously announced, will take pre-orders starting May 10. The next countries on deck, for a July release, is Austria, Belgium, Hong Kong, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand and [...]

This morning at its Mountain View headquarters, Google held a press roundtable to share some updates about Google Ventures, the search giant’s sort-of-independent investing arm that was officially announced in April 2009. Back then, Google Ventures only consisted of two people — it’s now up to fifteen, with another ten advisors (and it has a [...]

A recent report on Twitter usage in the U.S. by Edison Research concludes that 87% of all Americans are now aware of Twitter — up from 5% in 2008 — but only 7% of the population actually use it. Edison’s data was collected in February from 1,753 Americans ages 12 and up. The report also [...]

After reviewing the new devices we saw yesterday—the Blackberry Bold 9650 and the Pearl 3G—RIM CEO Mike Lazaridis revealed what we’ve been waiting for at this year’s WES: BlackBerry 6.0. Updated: Video! More » View full post on Gizmodo: top

As I mentioned in Sunday’s post, Blippy’s founders were hammering out a new security plan to assure users that all their information, especially their credit card numbers, would be safe. They delivered this morning, in their latest blog post, issuing new details about the blunder, how it worked with Google, and the framework for a [...]

As I mentioned in Sunday’s post, Blippy’s founders were hammering out a new security plan to assure users that all their information, especially their credit card numbers, would be safe. They delivered this morning, in their latest blog post, issuing new details about the blunder, how it worked with Google, and the framework for a [...]

As it continues to make its case against Google and YouTube in a $1 billion copyright lawsuit, Viacom has released previously sealed documents that the media company says show, “Google made a deliberate, calculated business decision … to profit from copyright infringement … [and] coerce rights owners like Viacom into licensing their content on Google’s [...]