| Google Chrome Turns 2 with Version 6 Release Google is celebrating the second anniversary of its Google Chrome browser with the release of new stable and beta versions, bringing and even cleaner and simpler user interface and increased speed and performance. As the Google Chrome Blog points out, Chrome 6 is years beyond where most imagined browser technology when it was first introduced... Continue Reading » Twitter's New iPad App Shines, but Not Perfect Twitter has just launched its first official iPad application and the reviews so far have been glowing. The new app offers a few notable features: panes for interacting with content within a stream, media which displays inline without slowing you down and gesture support for common Twitter actions, among other things. What stands out the most... Continue Reading » Ping: First Look at the iTunes Social Network Part of the new iTunes 10 software, announced and launched yesterday, is a significant new social networking feature for iTunes called Ping. It allows you to comment on music, 'like' it a la Facebook, or rate it. Ping is also very similar to Twitter, in that you can 'follow' people and music stars. All of this happens inside of the iTunes... Continue Reading » Windows Phone 7 Ships; Phones Coming Before the Holidays Microsoft's new mobile OS has shipped to handset makers and will be appearing on phones in time for the holiday season, the company announced today. The stage is set for Microsoft to either rock the mobile world with a mainstream alternative to the iPhone and Android platforms, rebounding after a string of failures a la Bing, or flop in its... Continue Reading » Billboard Magazine, Est. 1894, Tries to Boost Its Digital Cred Billboard is best known for charts that rank the most popular music and musicians, which the weekly industry magazine started publishing in 1913 as a list of the most popular sheet music. Since then, topping the Billboard Hot 100 has become a coveted milestone for musicians, but the Billboard brand has lost some of its critical cache in recent... Continue Reading » World Economic Forum Honors 31 Startups as "Technology Pioneers" As I argued earlier this week, words like "disruptive," "innovative," and "transformational" can lose their punch when applied to every new company, every new product, every new feature. But there are undoubtedly plenty of areas in which innovation and transformation are not just happening and warranted, but absolutely crucial. It is with that... Continue Reading » Cops Not Sure How to Use Twitter, Study Shows A study of 1,089 official and unofficial law enforcement Twitter accounts shows about 21 percent don't tweet, nine percent tweet personal opinions about crime or criminal justice, and three percent have tweeted in a way that could be interpreted as racist or sexist. Furthermore, the vast majority of agencies did not include legal disclaimers or... Continue Reading » | 
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