by Mike Smith
Buzz up!
Attendees at Microsoft's annual E3 press conference are accustomed to flashy game announcements and big-budget trailers, but the company had a surprise in store at today's Los Angeles event. The Xbox 360 is getting a slimmer, angular new look, and an internal redesign that'll reduce noise and add much-wanted new features -- and it'll be in stores as soon as this week.
Monday, June 14, 2010
Saturday, June 12, 2010
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2010/06/google-users-get-their-spartan-white-home-page-back-.html
On Wednesday night Google radically departed from its minimalist look, filling all of that white space with colorful full-screen photographs, much to the consternation of some users who started searching “remove Google background.”
Google got the message and zapped the gallery of professional background images, wiping the screen clean and returning to its spartan aesthetic Thursday morning. Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice president for search products alerted the world in a tweet.
The retreat from Google-imposed images of flowery hippos and the like ended a short-lived experiment that mirrored Microsoft’s rival search engine, Bing, which features a colorful new photograph each day. Google's feature was mocked by Microsoft executives in Europe who quipped: “We've lost a background image, if found please return to bing.com ;).” Searchengineland.com's Danny Sullivan joked: "i think it's really nice that for @bing's birthday, @google is honoring it by having a @bing-like photo background." Bing, in the meanwhile, is busy chasing Google.
The experiment was designed to promote a new feature released by Google last week that allows users to add their own background images, which it did, but probably not in the way the Internet giant intended.
-- Jessica Guynn
Google got the message and zapped the gallery of professional background images, wiping the screen clean and returning to its spartan aesthetic Thursday morning. Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice president for search products alerted the world in a tweet.
The retreat from Google-imposed images of flowery hippos and the like ended a short-lived experiment that mirrored Microsoft’s rival search engine, Bing, which features a colorful new photograph each day. Google's feature was mocked by Microsoft executives in Europe who quipped: “We've lost a background image, if found please return to bing.com ;).” Searchengineland.com's Danny Sullivan joked: "i think it's really nice that for @bing's birthday, @google is honoring it by having a @bing-like photo background." Bing, in the meanwhile, is busy chasing Google.
The experiment was designed to promote a new feature released by Google last week that allows users to add their own background images, which it did, but probably not in the way the Internet giant intended.
-- Jessica Guynn
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2010/06/twitter-aims-to-track-user-trends-with-purchase-of-analytics-company-smallthought.html
Twitter may be thinking big with its purchase of Smallthought Systems, a company that tracks user trends for websites.
The announcement made on the San Francisco Internet company’s blog explained that the ability to analyze millions of messages that flow through Twitter each day has become an “increasingly crucial part of improving” the service as its usage explodes. Twitter’s chief operating officer, Dick Costolo, recently estimated that the company processes more than 65 million updates from its 190 million users each day.
Smallthought is just one in a growing number of acquisitions that Twitter has made to add features to its service.
Better analytics around links shared on Twitter seems to be one of the company’s chief goals. It recently announced it would supply its own link shortener, t.co.
-- Jessica Guynn
Photo: Dick Costolo. Credit: Joi Ito
The announcement made on the San Francisco Internet company’s blog explained that the ability to analyze millions of messages that flow through Twitter each day has become an “increasingly crucial part of improving” the service as its usage explodes. Twitter’s chief operating officer, Dick Costolo, recently estimated that the company processes more than 65 million updates from its 190 million users each day.
Smallthought is just one in a growing number of acquisitions that Twitter has made to add features to its service.
Better analytics around links shared on Twitter seems to be one of the company’s chief goals. It recently announced it would supply its own link shortener, t.co.
-- Jessica Guynn
Photo: Dick Costolo. Credit: Joi Ito
Monday, June 07, 2010
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I-Phone4 -4gs $199.99. 16 gigs/ $299 32 gigs on sale June 24th available in black and white pre order starts June 15th $99 for 3gs model
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