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As anyone who has had the pleasure of doing web design and development through marketing agencies knows, Flash tends to be wildly popular among clients and wildly unpopular among, well, pretty much everyone else. Part of the reason for this is because Flash is so inherently un-Googleable; anything that goes into a Flash-only site is [...]
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Nokia wants some of Apple’s rhythm. On July 1 the Finnish mobile-phone maker said that Warner Music Group has agreed to participate in Nokia’s fledgling music service, making Warner the third of the major record labels to join in the effort. The move is one more step in Nokia’s effort to compete against Apple for [...]
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Internet phone company Skype is testing a new version of its cheap call service that supports high quality video conferencing for the first time.
Skype 4.0 beta can stream full screen, high resolution video calls over a standard broadband connection.
In the current version of the software, video chat is limited to a postage-stamp sized box in [...]
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News Corp.’s MySpace is set to release a major redesign next week, company representatives said late Thursday evening. The site doesn’t look that different; it’s still clearly MySpace. But a number of features have been revamped to improve user experience: namely, the homepage, navigation tools, profile editor, search features, and the MySpaceTV player.
A formal release [...]
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Most of today’s web sites and web applications are built using the JavaScript scripting language. Some may say that a trend towards the fine-tuning of JavaScript interpreters in modern browsers was just a matter of time since any such optimization translates into performance gains. Mozilla recently launched the browser speed race with Firefox 3, which [...]
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An American military supercomputer, assembled from components originally designed for video game machines, has reached a long-sought-after computing milestone by processing more than 1.026 quadrillion calculations per second.
The new machine is more than twice as fast as the previous fastest supercomputer, the I.B.M. BlueGene/L, which is based at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
The new [...]
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Steve Jobs’ new iPhone, expected to be unveiled Monday, is headed to Japan by the end of the year. But the device’s famed ease of use may actually be a put off in Japan, where consumers want features, not simplicity.
Indeed, Japanese handsets have become prime examples of feature creep gone mad. In many cases, [...]
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Apple has started offering movies for sale or rent to UK users of iTunes.
More than 700 titles will be on offer from the launch date, 100 of which will be available in high-definition.
Many of the titles on sale for downloading via iTunes will be going on sale on the same day they are released on [...]
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Mozilla aims to make Firefox 3 a record breaker. It wants the release of the next version of its flagship open source browser to be accompanied by a record for the most software downloads in a single 24-hour period*.
Download Day - as Mozilla dubs it - will begin the minute Firefox 3 is generally available [...]
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Only two days ago the contact messaging application Twitter suffered another bout of downtime, leaving some users frustrated and others asking why the platform continues to suffer problems.
Techcrunch recently spoke to an individual who is familiar with the technical problems at Twitter as well as the challenges that lay ahead for the startup. He re-iterated [...]
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