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When Media Giants Attack! Cease-and-Desist Letter to News Reader Zite Claims All Kinds of Copyright Damage

Kara Swisher in News on March 30, 2011 at 3:24 pm PT

A panoply of big media giants sent a cease-and-desist letter today to Zite, the Apple iPad news reader app. The Washington Post, AP, Gannett, Getty, Time, Dow Jones and many other media organizations were part of the copyright violations action, which you can read all about after the jump.

EBay Augmented-Reality App Lets You Try It On Before You Buy

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 7, 2011 at 4:46 pm PT

One of the problems with ordering clothing online is not knowing whether it will fit or look good. EBay has a technology fix for that using augmented reality on the mobile phone. Now you will never have to go to the mall!

Gogobot CEO Travis Katz Talks About Beta Launch of Social Travel Site

Kara Swisher in News on November 16, 2010 at 8:00 am PT

Last week, BoomTown sat down with former Myspace exec Travis Katz to talk about the private beta launch of his new start-up, Gogobot. No, it’s not a robot from Google–it’s a social travel site, which uses friends to enhance the travel-planning experience. Essentially, it feels like Facebook for trips, but with really good images.

Google at the Gallery: Turning Search Results Into Works of Art

Peter Kafka in Media on April 8, 2010 at 4:30 am PT

Ken Solomon turns Google image search pages into something you can hang on a gallery wall. Facebook profiles, too. Pretty cool.

The “Good Enough” Test: Flip vs. Apple iPod Nano

Peter Kafka in Media on September 14, 2009 at 3:00 am PT

When Apple added a video camera to the iPhone last summer, the digerati declared that Flip, Cisco’s cheap digital video camera line, was dead. When Apple added a video camera to its cheap and tiny Nano iPod last week, the digerati heaped dirt on the camcorder’s grave. You know what? I think the conventional wisdom is right on this one. Take a look at this clever side-by-side test.

Visit ATD's New Featured Pages: Pre, D7 Speakers and More to Come!

Kara Swisher in News on June 5, 2009 at 3:21 am PT

If you want to know about All Things Pre on All Things D, then we’ve got a page just for you. While you can use our search to find out about the coverage our crack staff has done about the new smart phone from Palm, for example, you can also just jump over our special “featured” pages we are now offering. Essentially, they are mini-sites that automatically grab content–posts, reviews, pictures, quotes and video–from all over ATD and put it into one attractive package.

D7 Tech Demo: Fullpower

John Paczkowski in D7 on May 27, 2009 at 9:05 am PT

Philippe Kahn’s history of entrepreneurship is nearly as old as the PC itself. He developed software for the Micral N, one of the earliest commercial personal computers, back in 1973. As CEO of Borland Software, he touted himself the “barbarian” of the software industry and embraced that identity by holding one of the first press conferences for his company in a McDonald’s in Las Vegas during Comdex. Ousted from Borland in 1995, Kahn went on to found wireless synchronization outfit Starfish Software, which he sold to Motorola. He followed that up with LightSurf Technologies, a picture-messaging company acquired by Verisign in 2005. Today Philippe Kahn is at D7 as CEO of Fullpower, a company developing accelerometer-based hardware and software.

The Little Engine That Could? Yahoo Paid Search Adds Video and Pictures, Trying for More Clicks.

Kara Swisher in News on February 19, 2009 at 2:44 am PT

Yesterday, Yahoo celebrated the fifth anniversary of the launch of its own search engine with some good news about its market share and by jazzing up its paid listings today with a plan to include pictures and video in the online ads. Will the “rich” ad search product work better, a kind of digital little engine that could?

Dell Remote Access Keeps Your Files at Your Disposal

Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on October 8, 2008 at 6:06 pm PT

Dell Remote Access allows users to transfer, or stream, or share files, using a broadband connection.