Googleblog   —  (Cross-posted from the Google Chrome Blog)Watching the 1985 classic Back to the Future last night, I was struck by how much things can change with time. The main character Marty McFly travels 30 years back in time, only to find that his house hadn’t been built yet, skateboards hadn-an

Techcrunch   —  An interesting beneficiary of Apple’s launch of music-oriented social network Ping?social status updater Ping.fm. According to Seesmic CEO Loic Le Meur, Ping.fm saw a record number of accounts created yesterday (Seesmic acquired Ping.fm earlier this year). Could i

Techcrunch   —  This evening Twitter CEO Evan Williams put up an interesting post about Twitter mobile usage. By just about every measurable metric, it seems to be skyrocketing. He also included a graph of the top 10 ways people are now using Twitter. This includes both Twitter’s own app

Googleblog   —  (Cross-posted from the Gmail Blog)People tell us all the time that they’re getting more and more mail and often feel overwhelmed by it all. We know what you mean—here at Google we run on email. Our inboxes are slammed with hundreds, sometimes thousands of messages a day-

Winbeta   —  Terry Myerson: Today is the day that the Windows Phone team has been driving towards, and we're very excited to say that we've reached the biggest milestone for our internal team ? the release to manufacturing (RTM) of Windows Phone 7! While t

Techcrunch   —  Credit card debt is a undoubtedly serious issue for many Americans. Defaulting on credit card bills can result in damage to your credit score and even bankruptcy. Y Combinator-backed ReadyForZero is launching today as easy to use web-based platform to help guide consumers out of credit

Theregister   —  The gloriously corpulent cadre of Japanese ring warriors known in the West as sumo wrestlers and in their home country as rikishi have a new tool to help them communicate among themselves: the iPad. The Telegraph reports that the Japan Sumo Association has distributed 60 iPads to members of it

Readwriteweb   —  Trailblazing social news site Digg relaunched with a much-anticipated new version today and it was a busy day behind the scenes. This photo of the Relaunch War Room at Digg headquarters was shared on Twitter by Digg's Chief Revenue Officer Chas Edwards this afternoon. Another, fro

Theregister   —  Intel CEO Paul Otellini believes that the US is heading towards a second-rate status as a technology leader, and it's the Obama administration's fault. "The next big thing will not be invented here. Jobs will not be created here," unless government policies are changed, Otellin

Readwriteweb   —  Facebook is integrating location data so that users can write location-specific updates, the company announced today. The new feature, Facebook Places, is already being rolled out in waves to users in the United States with international support to come, and an interface so that developers can