Earlier today PostUp, a service that claims to aggregates the “world’s best tweeters” announced that it has acquired Twitter iPhone and Blackberry client UberTwitter. In that same announcement, the company changed its name to UberMedia, the company’s third name, as it originally called itself TweetUp. Chief executive Bill Gross mentions that ... Continue Reading

They say a picture paints a thousand word. As the picture says, and will be streaming globally from a live press conference in London, at 8AM AEDST on Thursday December 2nd Internet entrepreneur Ruslan Kogan will unveil a new invention that could change the way we shop forever. The Internet has ... Continue Reading

It's no secret that Google and China aren't the best of friends. Google Maps has run into trouble with the Communist regime over licensing issues. The Chinese government has threatened Google with prosecution if it doesn't acquire and comply with requisite licensing to map the territories of the People's Republic ... Continue Reading

It looks like London, England is getting its very own version of California's Silicon Valley.  As big?  With me being a pessimist, I'd say not likely.  But check out a few of the names that have signed on already: Google, Facebook and Intel. Those are some heavy hitters.  Britain isn't known to ... Continue Reading

Google has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government.  It looks like they were excluded on a contract.  Reuters is reporting that the meat and potatoes of the complaint filed Friday is "...government abused its discretion and acted in a manner that was "arbitrary and capricious" by only considering sales proposals ... Continue Reading

The police are to receive training on how to use Facebook and Twitter to catch people committing serious crimes. The National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) will overhaul its training modules to include sessions on the social networking sites for detectives. 'This programme is a vital part of the career pathway for ... Continue Reading

Amazon.com got their bill for uncollected sales tax from online sales, including penalties and fees for being late.  All $269 million. I've owed taxes before, thankfully not to Texas, and they came down on me ruthlessly.  Bad part?  I was at least honest, I simply missed something on 1 year and ... Continue Reading

Crazy, right? With the impossible-to-ignore iPad 3G starting at just $629 (and the iPad Wi-Fi at only $630 in Verizon's own stores when bundled with a MiFi), America's largest carrier is actually planning to hawk Samsung's Galaxy Tab for... $599.99. It's an almost unbelievable price point, and unlike the ... Continue Reading

Amateur historians and lovers of the Aramaic language, you are in for a treat: It looks like Google has hashed out a deal with the Israeli Antiquities Authority to scan the complete Dead Sea Scrolls using multi-spectral imaging technology developed by NASA, and place them online for ... Continue Reading

Archos swore that this one was set to ship in "mid-October," which means that the pre-order link at Amazon should switch over in a matter of nanoseconds, minutes or hours. For those in need of a refresher, the Archos 43 is an Android-based portable media player with ... Continue Reading