Posts Tagged ‘press’

Almost Everything You Want to Know About the Bloom Energy Box [VIDEOS]

By now, you have probably heard of the Bloom Box , the green fuel cell device that promises to soon power our homes.


Google Acquires Mobile E-mail Utility reMail

Google’s massive acquiring spree marches forward today. The newest company to be enveloped by the search giant


Facebook Launches New Privacy Settings for Facebook Apps

Facebook has added new privacy options to give users more control over their Facebook applications and websites using Facebook Connect.


Bing Maps Takes on Google With New Location Features

Microsoft’s Bing search engine has just dropped the beta tag, a month and a half after Bing Maps was released . Not only that, but Bing Maps is now sporting a few additional nifty and useful applications. Microsoft’s been looking for any edge it could get in its race to beat Google’s dominant search engine


AT&T Flaw Provided Access to Other People’s Facebook Accounts [REPORT]

A Georgia family found they were logged into other people’s Facebook accounts on their phones last weekend due to a flaw in AT&T’s data routing. The error, seemingly caused by AT&T sending the wrong data to customers, hasn’t been widely reported before.


AT&T Reverses Course: iPhone Available Again in New York City

Yesterday, for vague reasons, AT&T’s website stopped selling iPhones to New York City residents . iPhones were still being sold in AT&T’s physical stores, which created a lot of confusion (something the company’s statements and service reps didn’t help alleviate). While the exact reasons for the iPhone being yanked are still blurry (it may have been due to fraud concerns), the issue is now moot as AT&T’s website has begun selling iPhones to New York City residents once again


Echo: JS-Kit Tries a New Name in Comment Platform Battle

Commenting platforms for blogs are nothing new. Companies like Disqus have provided publishers with an alternative commenting mechanism — with juicy features like Reactions for adding social media commentary to posts — for some time now.


“Avatar,” “Julie & Julia” and “Glee” Nominated For Golden Globes

The 67th Golden Globe Awards nominations are in ! The Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s award show is often viewed as the biggest indicator for the Big Show (a.k.a., The Oscars), but the event is a little more laid-back; attendees sit together at tables (and openly imbibe) and it covers the worlds of both film and television. On the film side, James Cameron’s Avatar — which opens Friday — nabbed four nominations, including Best Motion Picture, Drama.


Man Arrested for Not Tweeting?

In a bizarre case involving teen YouTube sensation Justin Bieber and a riotous crowd of his fans, a record exec from Island Def Jam Records was arrested Friday for, among other things, failing to Tweet when told to by authorities. When the Beiber event at Roosevelt Field mall became unruly (video below), police appealed to the artist’s label to send a Tweet telling the crowd to leave