(Credit: James Martin)LOS ANGELES — You can forget about your dreams of an Xbox 360 Portable. That’s so 2006. No, at this year’s E3, Microsoft did something much more surprising: instead of getting proprietary, it hopped on every…
Google has acquired Meebo
It looks like the rumors were true: Google’s picked up Web IM company Meebo.Meebo announced the news in a blog post today (via TechCrunch):We are happy to announce that Meebo has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Google!…
A Brainwave-Scanning Headset That Actually Reads Your Mind
(This post was first published by our friends at Gear Patrol.) Futuristic “bio sensor” company NeuroSky has finally perfected what Professor X was born with – a brainwave-scanning headset that can read your mind. Parts of it, at…
Obama Senior Advisor Joins Twitter, Pushes for Equal Pay
Valerie Jarrett, President Obama’s Senior Advisor for Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs, joined Twitter on Monday under the username @vj44.She immediately went to work promoting the Paycheck Fairness Act, which calls…
Google agrees to acquire Meebo to expand its Google+ team
As expected, Google has agreed to buy social messaging and advertising company Meebo, a move that will help the search giant fill out the Google+ team.“For more than seven years we’ve been helping publishers find deeper relati…
Location Apps: 4 Privacy Settings You Need to Know
Kate Brodock is executive director of digital and social media at Syracuse University, where she leads efforts in the space. Connect with her on Twitter at @just_kate and @othersidegroup. There are roughly 792 mobile apps …
Google Acquires Meebo
Google has acquired Meebo for an undisclosed sum, the latter announced on its company blog Monday afternoon. Earlier rumors suggest that Google paid around $100 million for the seven-year-old startup.Rumors that the two co…
Internet Explorer Coming to Xbox
At E3 2012, Microsoft announced its plans to help complete a chapter it helped open more than 15 years ago with WebTV: Internet Explorer is coming to the Xbox.Game consoles have had web browsers since the days of the Dre…
Hydrogen-fueled Phantom Eye UAV takes to the sky
Boeing’s Phantom Eye UAV takes off for its initial autonomous flight, June 1, 2012, at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center.(Credit: Boeing)The bulbous Phantom Eye UAV flew for less than a half-hour in its debut autonomous flight …
Twitter amps up design chops, buys IP from studio Nclud
nclud’s design for the National Journal’s iPhone app.(Credit: Screenshot by Donna Tam/CNET)Twitter has acquired the intellectual property of Nclud, a small web design agency, for an undisclosed amount.”I can confirm that some memb…
Want fries with that? The best cooked tech
The greasiest, most saturated iPhone yet.(Credit: Henry Hargreaves)Consumer gadgets can be very addictive. Almost as addictive as french fries, onion rings, and anything else you can cook in hot oil. Even the gadgets themselves.Ph…
Witness the maturation of Xbox Kinect
(Credit: James Martin/CBS Interactive)LOS ANGELES–If you thought Microsoft’s motion sensing controller-less technology, Kinect, was going to take a backseat this year, you were wrong. In the minutes leading up to the press confer…
United Nations views Flame as cybersecurity opportunity
The United Nations has seized on the appearance of the Flame worm, which targeted computers in the Middle East, to argue that it should have more authority to deal with cybersecurity threats on the Internet.Last week, the United N…
Twitter Raids Design Firm Nclud for Talent and IP
Contrary to some reports circling the Internet Monday morning — including two apparently sterling sources — Twitter has not acquired the web design firm Nclud.However, the microblogging network has purchased Nclud’s …
Xbox SmartGlass Brings the Second Screen to Games and Videos
Watch out Wii U — Microsoft has its own plans for bringing the second screen to the console.At E3 2012, Microsoft unveiled its latest technology aimed at making the Xbox 360 the center of your home entertainment univers…
China Bans Tiananmen Searches on Anniversary of Protests
Chinese web users trying to discuss the 1989 Tiananmen Square uprising on its 23rd anniversary Monday are incurring the wrath of China’s web censors.Those censors, who number in the thousands, have spent the day crawling…
11 Tumblr Tips for Power Users
1. Mass Editing To quickly edit multiple posts at the same time, use the Mega-Editor. The tool looks just like your archive, except you can selct or delete multiple posts, and edit and add tags.Click here to view this gallery. Once …
Square credit card readers now being sold at Walgreens, FedEx Office, and Staples
Mobile payments startup Square now offers its credit card reader for iOS and Android devices at many Walgreens, FedEx Office, and Staples stores across the U.S., the company announced today.Square is hard at work trying to disrupt…