Google Adds More Options To Image Search
July 31, 2009 ·Filed Under Technology News
Image search is an area of intense competition within Google, Yahoo, and now Bing. Today, Google Images added some search options to produce it easier to filter a search by color, type (face, photo, clip art, line drawing), and file size.
Most of these filters were available before in advanced s…
District Court Judge Orders Facebook To Reveal Sou...
July 31, 2009 ·Filed Under Technology News
Facebook’s legal woes just won’t stop coming. Last November a company called Leader Technologies, which makes business communcation tools, filed suit against Facebook alleging that the social network had infringed on a patent that “relates to a method and system for the management…
FCC Takes On Apple And AT&T by Google Voice Re...
July 31, 2009 ·Filed Under Technology News
My, how the tables have changed. by the last week, complaints by Apple’s ban of all Google Voice applications on the App Store have risen to a din as developers and users alike cry foul by the arbitrary and possibly anti-competitive restrictions being imposed by Apple. AT&T, too, has bee…
Video: Erick Talks Microsoft/Yahoo On Charlie Rose...
July 31, 2009 ·Filed Under Technology News
TechCrunch co-editor Erick Schonfeld presented on Charlie Rose last night to discuss the Microsoft/Yahoo search deal alongside Steven Levy of Wired and Nick Wingfield of The Wall Street Journal.
The group talked about the initial deal Microsoft offered Yahoo last year to buy Yahoo outright, the comp…
Coming that September: Twitpocalypse Now Redux!...
July 31, 2009 ·Filed Under Technology News
The first Twitpocalypse was one of those events that you’re going to tell your children about one day. I remember where I was when it hit: On my way to Napa Valley with some friends as we heard sirens race by, likely signaling the end of the Twitter world as we knew it.
Okay, it didn’t e…