Slacker Radio, the Pandora-like personalized radio service for the iPhone (and many other platforms), just launched an updated version of its iPhone app. Besides the typical bug fixes and performance updates, this new version also offers a first: offline caching for the iPhone and iPod touch. Given that AT&T just announced its data caps for the [...]

A summary of today’s Google news, because even though I do my best to keep up with the daily flow of tech news, these days, I come across so much news about Google that it’s hard to keep up:

Google just announced that YouTube now serves 2 billion views per day.

It’s been a long time coming, but now that Chrome sports thousands of extensions, Google is finally taking steps to give the Extensions Gallery a much-needed makeover. Good Start, but Just the Beginning Sadly, it’s still rather hard to just browser Chrome extensions, but at least Google now features separate sections for featured blogging, web [...]

Steve Jobs talks about Flash.

Intel Corporation today reported first-quarter revenue of $10.3 billion. The company reported operating income of $3.4 billion, net income of $2.4 billion and EPS of 43 cents. From the press release: “The investments we’re making in leading edge technology are delivering the most compelling product line-up in our history,” said Paul Otellini, Intel president and [...]

Google’s director of product management, Ari Paparo, just announced some of Google’s plans for offerings its advertising partners better methods for tracking the results of their display advertising campaigns. new measurement products designed to gauge the impact of ads on brand awareness or on user interest in the product being advertised campaign measurement will take [...]

So Apple finally allowed Opera’s browser into the store. That’s the good news. The bad news, however, is that it’s not a full replacement for Safari. Sure, it’s fast – very fast. But it also has quite a few small issues that – once compounded – make Opera let less useful than it could’ve been. [...]

All it takes these days is a fancy new logo and – boom – you already have a new company with a new image… Or at least that’s what AT&T is thinking.

There is a great opportunity for developers with vision to build forward-looking platforms that aim squarely at our connected future, that provide applications running on any device with access to rich new sources of intelligence and capability. The possibilities are endless. There will be many failed experiments, many successes that will be widely copied, a [...]