Hot Potato Tosses A New...

Back in November of last year, the location-based social event service Hot Potato launched at our Realtime CrunchUp. Today, they’ve taken what was a solid service , and made it a lot better with a number of upgrades. First and foremost, there is a new iPhone application that just...

Milo’s Response To Go...

This morning Google announced a new Blue Dot feature on the mobile version of Google Product Search that shows whether a product is in-stock at nearby stores. This seems to pose a threat to startup Milo , which highlights local inventory in product search results both on the web and...

HP Begins Rebranding Ca...

Most people in the world hear Hewlett-Packard and think “printers.” And who can blame them? Since the relatively recent emphasis on the “HP” instead of “Hewlett-Packard,” and the general consumer move away from printers, HP hasn’t really done...

iPhone OS 4.0 Looms, Bu...

Apple has set the standard that once every year they will release a new version of the iPhone. It stands to reason that this year will be no different, with a new model likely coming sometime this summer. But arguably just as important as Apple’s hardware refresh is the...

Vicarious.ly: SimpleGeo...

As I’ve made abundantly clear over the past several days, just about every service that has anything to do with location is launching something at the SXSW festival which starts tomorrow in Austin, Texas. Don’t believe me, here’s a small sampling ( Foursquare , Gowalla...

For The Trifecta: MSNBC...

Last November, MSNBC acquired the Twitter account @breakingnews , which was started as a basic newswire by Michael van Poppel and gradually grew to 1.4 million followers (it’s now up to over 1.6 million). A month later, MSNBC announced that it had acquired BreakingNews.com, which...

AOL, Intel, And The New...

Betaworks, the New York City-based holding company investing in the realtime Web, just raised a $20 million Series B. The round was led by RRE Ventures and Intel Capital, DFJ Growth, AOL Ventures, The New York Times, Softbank Japan and Softbank NY, Lerer Investments and Founders...

FlyScreen Adds Foursqua...

FlyScreen , the mobile phone lock-screen replacement from Israeli startup Cellogic, has added Foursquare integration to its Android app ahead of this year’s South by Southwest festival. The new Foursquare widget lets users of the location-based social network access its main...

The Magic Mouse, Fixed ...

I handle a lot of mice in this job (right now I’m using the Mionix Naos 5000 ) and I have to say that if a mouse were, like the Magic Mouse , shaped completely wrong for human hands, I would throw it away and never speak of it again. Others, while perhaps more crafty, are far less...

Motorola To Replace Goo...

If I were a spit takin’ man, I’d do a spit take right now. Go here to read the rest: Motorola To Replace Google With Bing On Chinese Android...