| Google Latitude iPhone App Revealed: Should You Use It? An iPhone application for Google Latitude, Google's location-based "friend tracking" service, was spotted last night in the Japanese iTunes App Store, thanks to a TechCrunch tipster. Shortly thereafter, the application was pulled down and is now no longer available. Obviously, Latitude's iPhone launch was a bit premature. But it's coming.... Continue Reading »    BMC and Salesforce.com Announce RemedyForce BMC and Salesforce.com announced a new joint venture today: RemedyForce - a hosted IT management system based on BMC's popular Remedy product and the Force.com platform. In an announcement today, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff described RemedyForce as "the next major Salesforce cloud offering." At the core of RemedyForce is IT Service Desk,... Continue Reading » Google Docs' Offline Support Returns (Well, Next Year) Yesterday at Google's Chrome event, the company demonstrated a new feature in Google Docs: offline support. Actually, the functionality itself isn't new - Google Docs had offline support in the past, until it was removed in April of this year. What makes this feature new is the underlying technology enabling its return: HTML5. With Google Chrome... Continue Reading » PayPal: Decision to Drop Wikileaks Was "Straightforward" Over the weekend, PayPal announced that it would no longer handle donations to whistleblower site Wikileaks. In a late night statement, the company said that the site had violated its terms of service and would be immediately shut down. Now, Osama Bedier, Paypal's Vice President of Platform, has told the audience at LeWeb 2010 that the... Continue Reading » AwayFind Helps You Escape Your Inbox With an iPhone App Email can be a burden. Whether you're sitting at your desk obsessively checking your inbox for that special email while you should be doing other things or you're surreptitiously glancing at your smartphone while you're out on the town, it can be a constant distraction. Would phone calls have made it this far if you constantly had to ask your... Continue Reading » Salesforce.com to Buy Heroku for $212 Million Salesforce.com announced this morning that it will buy Ruby application platform provider Heroku for $212 million. Heroku will compliment Salesforce.com's VMForce, a hosted plafform for Java. Ruby is one of the fastest growing programming languages on the web, and Heroku has been seeing rapid growth. In November of last year the company hosted... Continue Reading » Twitter: We Need to Create a Better Consumption Experience for Our Users Jason Goldman, Twitter's vice president of product, just joined TechCrunch's MG Siegler on stage at this year's LeWeb in Paris. During this interview, he noted that Twitter will ramp up its integration with third-party apps in the near future and roll out more partnerships shortly. Asked about Twitter's product plans for the future, Goldman noted... Continue Reading » Facebook: We Spend More Time and Resources Thinking About Privacy Than Any Other Company in the World During his keynote interview TechCrunch's editor Michael Arrington at LeWeb10 in Paris this morning, Facebook's director for the company's developer network Ethan Beard noted that "no other company in the world currently spends us much time and resources on privacy as Facebook." He also categorically denied the existence of a Facebook phone. No... Continue Reading » I Know What You Read Last Summer - E-Readers and Privacy Since WikiLeaks released 250,000 secret U.S. government cables a little over a week ago, the world is suddenly terribly concerned about what we may or may not be reading. Some countries - and some U.S. government agencies - are blocking their people from accessing the Wikileaks site, for fear of reading. So the... Continue Reading » Top 10 YouTube Videos of All Time YouTube has come to define the era of online video, so let's take a look at its most popular videos of all time. Our latest update has Justin Bieber still at number 1 with Baby, which has become the first YouTube video to pass 400 million views. Eminem has two videos in the top 10, at numbers 5 and 7. We first did this list in August 2007, at... Continue Reading » Seedcamp Launches a European Version of AngelList European startup incubator Seedcamp has launched a new online platform, Seedsummit.org, aimed at connecting startups with European seed investors. An attempt to create a European version of the incredibly successful AngelList, plans for the website grew out of the Seedsummit conference last year, along with the recognition that Europe needed a... Continue Reading » New Visualization Tool Gives Real-Time View of What Scientists Are Reading The scientific publisher Springer has launched a free analytics tool that gives you a peek into how people are using the publisher's online content. The tool provides a number of visualizations based on real-time data aggregated from Springer's online offerings. Springer's publications include nearly 5 million documents from about 41,000... Continue Reading » | 
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