Pinterest’s uneasy relationship with copyright law: what happens next
Pinterest is unquestionably among today's hottest new startups — the social networking service lets users "pin" images they like on the web to boards they can share with friends and publish to the world at large. You can see...
Bing’s new Linked Pages Facebook feature lets you tag content related to you
Microsoft has introduced a new feature that lets you manage your presence in Bing search results. Linked Pages, as it's called, lets you choose which search results are actually related to you — whether it's a personal site,...
LinkedIn acquires Rapportive, a social network-enhanced Gmail add-on
Rapportive, a small company that offers a free, enhanced contact information add-on for Gmail has just been snapped up by "professional" social network LinkedIn. If you're not familiar with Rapportive for Gmail, it's quite a bit l...
‘Goosebumps’ author RL Stine tweets a horror story
Prolific horror author RL Stine, best known for creating the massively popular Goosebumps series for children, recently explored a new publishing platform: Twitter. On February 15th, he published a series of nine tweets over the c...
SanDisk and Toshiba release world’s smallest 128GB NAND flash chip
A new flash memory chip developed by SanDisk and Toshiba can fit 128GB of data on a surface smaller than a penny. The 170mm2 chip uses the 19nm circuits that SanDisk started testing last year, but also includes X3 technology, whic...
Optimus Vu video shows web browsing, note taking
Just a few days after officially announcing the Optimus Vu official, LG has released a short video showing the Galaxy Note competitor in action. While we already know the specs for the Optimus Vu — including its 5-inch 1024 ...
Mike Daisey’s Steve Jobs monologue released under an open license
Mike Daisey has made his critically acclaimed monologue "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs" available free of charge under an open license. The move means that anyone who wants to perform or adapt the play for performance ca...
The Beatles’ ringtones now available exclusively on iTunes
The Beatles music might already be on iTunes but Apple Corps (not Apple) has announced today that the band's chart-toppers are now available as ringtones. 27 US and UK number-one hits, including classics like Yesterday and Hey Jud...
Nokia teases ‘pure view’ camera innovation for MWC 2012
Nokia has given us a little hint about what it intends to reveal at Mobile World Congress early next week via a teasing video clip. Offering viewers the chance to "capture a pure view," the ad shows a highly detailed closeup of a...
Netflix for PS Vita hands-on
Netflix is live on the PlayStation Vita, at least in the United States, and we just gave the free app a spin. The verdict? It's not everything we'd hoped for from a Vita app, and it could use some work, but it's perfectly...
Sony’s Dot Switch isn’t a remote control, it’s actually much less interesting
Well, Sony's Dot Switch has finally been revealed, and it's... an Android app. According to the Dot Switch site, a March 6 appearance by American pop duo Karmin on Japan's TBS network will be the first use for the app, which prom......
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 to appear in consumer devices at MWC
The dual-core Snapdragon S4 chip that wowed us this morning will definitely be showing up at Mobile World Congress in consumer devices. Qualcomm VP of product management Raj Talluri told GigaOm that the MSM8960 chip would debut in...
