Tag archive: Plus

Google+ may still be in invite-only testing mode. But that hasn't stopped the new social network from amassing an estimated 10 million users in the two weeks since the site went live. That number comes via Ancestry.com founder Paul Allen, who estimates that Plus “could reach 20 million users by this coming weekend,” if Google continues to allow new people to join. According to Allen, “the number of Google+ users… Read More

People just can't stop talking about Google+, the search giant's hot new social network. We know we can't. And according to a report by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism, nobody else can either: For the week of June 26 through July 1, talk about Google+ accounted for 35 percent of all tweeted news links. According to Pew, Twitter members “were mostly excited about the new Facebook… Read More

Google announced Thursday new ways for Gmail users to customize how their inbox displays and organizes emails. The additional features, intended to improve the way emails are organized for each user, are being rolled out “over the coming weeks,” says Google software engineer Andrew Moedinger in a post on the official Gmail blog. Some Gmail users already have access to the new options. According to Google, the various inbox sorting… Read More

Google will not allow any private profiles on its new social network, Google+, reports Greg Finn at Search Engine Land. All private profiles that have already been created will be deleted after July 31, according to the Google+ help page. While most aspects of a Google+ user's profile can be as private as he or she likes, Google's terms state that a person's full name and gender will be made public, with no option to hide… Read More

Amidst the intoxicated love-fest over Google+, Facebook is trying to steal back a ray of spotlight with an “awesome” mystery announcement on Wednesday. There is understandably a great deal of speculation surrounding what it might be (check out our round-up here), but there's one possibility that seems to have struck a chord: Skype-powered video chat built directly into Facebook. That rumor comes from a report by Michael… Read More

There's been quite a bit of talk about how Google ripped off some of Facebook's features with its new social network, Google+. But it seems the biting goes both ways. Now, a group of four Facebook engineers have launched an unofficial Facebook app called “Circle Hack,” which allows users to organize their friends into lists in a near-identical fashion to the “Circles” tool in Plus — one of our favorite… Read More

Having looked to nature for inspiration with its well-received Zen Stone MP3 player, Creative has moved on to more questionable agricultural styling cues with its latest player, the Zen Moo. Introduced in China on Friday, the Moo features the likeness of – you guess it – a cow. Much like the Stone, the Moo comes in both Moo and Moo Plus variants, with the Plus picking up an OLED display, built-in speaker, FM receiver, and voice… Read More

Apple today launched iTunes Plus, a new addition to its existing iTunes service which offers AAC music tracks from major label EMI at 256 Kbps encoding (twice the rate of standard iTunes purchases) at $1.29 per track—and without Apple's FairPlay digital rights management (DRM) technology. That means users can play iTunes Plus tracks on any music player (or using any application) which supports AAC encoding, rather than the tracks… Read More

Pepper Computer, developers of the Pepper Pad Internet appliance, launched an updated version of their handheld media computer at CES 2006 earlier this month in Las Vegas. The new Pepper Pad Plus should be available in the second quarter. The Pepper Pad Plus builds upon the older Pepper Pad design by offering new hardware features such as a battery with reportedly more than 60 percent greater capacity, Wi-Fi 802.11g wireless connectivity,… Read More

From the press release: China-based Doss designs and manufactures speakers, speaker systems and home-theater-in-a-box systems for sale under its own brand name, and custom builds products within very short R&D cycles for its many OEM customers around the world. The company operates in the United States as Aspire Digital. The AD-1200J PLUS boasts a unique slant-top vertical black on silver design, making it a showy addition to… Read More

The result is amazingly sharp pictures with clear and natural detail for all types of input, from normal TV images and VCRs to DVD. With this technology, Philips has set the new industry-referencepicture quality standard. Philips' excellence in picture quality was rewarded by the European Imaging and Sound Association (EISA) by winning the prestigious “European TV of the year award 2002-2003″for its TVs with Pixel Plus… Read More