Krillion, the local search service for purchase-ready buyers, is adding a new feature called StockCheck. This will display the in-store availability for items you're searching. The data for inventory is real-time, so this should make it much easier f...
London-based Playyoo is getting ready to launch an online community for mobile game creators and players. In preparation for this upcoming community, Playyoo is offering up its SDK to independent mobile game developers using Adobe Flash Lite technolo...
Adobe Systems has acquired Virtual Ubiquity, the parent company of the Buzzword web-based word processing software. Buzzword was built using Adobe Flex and runs in the Adobe Flash Player, making it a logical fit for the software company. Additionally...
eBay is another company that's created a new tool on Adobe AIR, and will be announcing it at the Adobe MAX event this week. The new product is called eBay Desktop and it of course runs both online and offline. Previously referred to by the code name ...
Niklas Zennstrom, who co-founded Skype and had served as CEO since eBay acquired the company, has resigned. He will remain as the non-executive chairman of Skype’s Board of Directors. Michael van Swaaij will become interim CEO of Skype. Previously, v...
Microsoft has announced its competitor to Google Docs & Spreadsheets: Microsoft Office Live Workspace. Rather than offer a web-based version of all of its office products, Office Live Workspace will be an extension of Microsoft’s leading desktop appl...
Radiohead will be offering its newest album by digital download, allowing fans to pay whatever they think is a fair price for their newest 10 songs. The band will allow users to pay a minimum of 1 pence (plus a 45p credit card processing fee) to down...
FriendFeed is a new service that applies the concept of the Facebook News Feed to see what your friends are sharing on various web sites. For example, you can see what songs your friends are listening to on last.fm, what movies they have added to the...
BBC Worldwide, the international arm of BBC, has acquired Lonely Planet, the Australia-based travel information group. The amount of the deal was not disclosed, but Lonely Planet founders Tony and Maureen Wheeler get to keep a 25% share in the compan...
Wikinvest, the wiki community for stock junkies, is officially launching today, with $2.5 million in a Series A round of funding, led by DCM venture capital firm. You'll remember that wikinvest operates around individual contributions to information ...
Video search engine Blinkx has signed a deal to index content from entertainment site CelebTV. CelebTV publishes daily Hollywood news in video format, ranging from celebrity gossip to fashion tips. Under the deal, CelebTV’s video content will be now ...
Nokia has announced its plans to acquire digital mapping company Navteq for $8.1 billion. The acquisition of Chicago-based Navteq is pending approval by regulators and Navteq shareholders. I imagine this won't be a problem for shareholders as the pri...
Bebo and Atlantic Records UK have formed a partnership to integrate the band “The Days†into episodes of “KateModern,†the web-based drama that airs exclusively on the social networking site. The marketing effort is set to coincide with the release o...
Yahoo! oneSearch will now be the search engine partner for powering Telefonica's local subsidiaries' mobile search. The deal also entails Telefonica's integration of Flickr and Yahoo Mail into its mobile Internet offerings. Telefonica's mobile portal...
Podango, the online video network, has partnered with Kiptronic, the podcasting ad network. The deal will integrate Kiptronic's dynamic ad insertion into its P2 Platform for publishers, and both companies will be selling advertising in each others' n...
BetsGoWild has launched its second Facebook application: this one is for dating. The application is designed to help break the ice between you and your date, and the fun part is seeing what your friends think about the match ups. DatesGoWild lets you...
Lookabee has also launched a platform for teachers to create their own Facebook applications to keep in touch with students. This pilot program is being spearheaded by James Levy, a former developer for Box.net. The applications will enable teachers ...
The Mashup Challenge launches today, and Mashable is a sponsor, so we thought you might be interested. ;) This quarterly contest is designed to encourage innovation for mashups, and push a higher standard for these applications. Participants get 90 d...
Blog search engine Technorati has just named a new CEO: Richard Jalichandra. Jalichandra replaces Dave Sifry, who resigned as CEO abruptly in August before a replacement had even been named. Previously, Jalichandra was serving as an entrepreneur-in-r...
Trillian Astra, a multi-protocol instant messaging client from Cerulean Studios, now allows its alpha testers to spice up their profile with links to their accounts on different web services including Bebo, Facebook, Flickr, and MySpace. These web se...
Bill Gates will join Design and Development Chief J Allard to introduce a next generation Zune at an event in Redmond tomorrow. Both Gates and Allard are expected to discuss long-term strategy for the Zune and also introduce several new features. Mos...
Microsoft has launched a UK startup fund called the Microsoft Startup Accelerator Programme. It's designed to work with startups in the UK that are interested in using some of Microsoft's products, like Silverlight and Live Services, which is Microso...
Reading the fine print on AT&T's new terms of service contract is not a priority for most customers. This may change, however, since the communications provider can apparently disconnect your service for spreading negative messages through blog posts...
GlowDay is a survey widget creation tool and community. The site is currently in private beta, and it should stay that way for a little while longer. There are tons of features for creating and customizing your own survey widget, but the actual creat...
Facebook lawyers recently succeeded in a domain dispute with an outfit from the Isle of Mann named YOLAPT - a company which filled the url face-book.com with advertisements for "Russian brides" and "Older Women." YOLAPT registered the domain several ...
Project Direct is a joint project being launched on YouTube and sponsored by Hewlett-Packard. Aspiring filmmakers are invited to submit short films between 2 and 7 minutes long. The contest runs from October 7 to November 9, 2007, and the seven count...
During an address to the Senate regarding its pending acquisition of advertising company DoubleClick, Google has proposed a "crumbled cookies" approach to the retention of personal data. This means that information gathered from an individual compute...
Windows Live is making some changes to its live search as part of the Live Search 2.0 launch, which make the algorithm for ad placement more flexible to match the increasingly dynamic market for ads. These changes are based on Quality Ranking, where ...
The UAE’s major ISP, Etisalat, appears to have blocked Facebook. Users are reportedly seeing either an Arabic message explaining the block (shown below), or simply seeing a bogus 404 page when attempting to access Facebook. Earlier this year, the UAE...
Mark Zuckerberg may not have graduated from Harvard, but his schoolmates sure haven't forgotten him. In a reported five-figure deal, two recent Harvard grads, Greg Atwan and Evan Lushing, are prepping a satire of Facebook. While there are not many de...
