AsiaD Adventures: Walt and Kara in Seoul (Video)

Walt and Kara take in the digital sights in Seoul, including starring on Samsung’s video wall.
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Video: Steven Levy Talks About Google Book "In the Plex"

Earlier this week, BoomTown interviewed longtime author and tech journalist Steven Levy about his new book, “In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives.” I met Levy at the Plex in question–the Googleplex–to chitchat about what he learned after being embedded at the Borg, um, search giant for years.

Apple App Happy Sonos Also Goes Android

Sonos–the maker of innovative wireless music systems that has been boosted by its Apple iPhone and iPad Controller app–is set to roll out one for Google’s Android mobile operating system. The Sonos Controller for Android will officially introduce the app at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week, although the Santa Barbara, Calif., company is announcing it today.

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HTC Well-Served by Android

Taiwan handset maker HTC, producer of many of the top Android-based smartphones, is seeing a payoff from its embrace of Google’s mobile operating system. The company’s second-quarter results show a 58 percent increase in revenue and a 33 percent gain in profits year-over-year, both well above forecasts.

Android 2.2 Lands on Nexus One

Froyo, a.k.a. Android 2.2, has arrived. Google began a staggered release of the latest version of its mobile operating system Monday, delivering it via an over-the-air update to Nexus One users.

Motorola to Layoff Staff, Operating Systems

Yahoo Under Siege

YouTube MacGyver-ized

Yahoo: Start Bleeding Purple

Microsoft Live Labs Creates Web ‘Synth’ For 3-D Photo Tour

Microsoft Live Labs’ Photosynth turns multiple photos of a site into a 3-D scene you can virtually “walk” through on the Web. The service is a dramatic new way to use your photos and to share them with others, writes Walter S. Mossberg.
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