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Almost Famous: Savings.com's Loren Bendele
A new feature wherein All Things Digital looks at up-and-coming and innovative start-ups you should know about. This week: A lunch date with, some questions for and a few pertinent stats about Loren...
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Apple iPad Event Liveblog
After months of feverish speculation and as many years of wishful thinking, Apple uncrated its tablet computer–the iPad–at an invitation-only event in San Francisco this morning. Liveblog 9:13 am PT:...
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magicJack: Cheap, Way Overhyped, But Really Works
When I see a high-tech product that’s advertised mainly via frequent hard-sell TV ads, as if it were a diet pill, I tend to assume it can’t be very good, especially if its price is absurdly low. So, I...
View ArticleUsing the iPad as a Standalone Device
Q: Can the iPad can be used totally on its own, or must you sync it with another computer? If I bought an iPad for my grandmother, who has no other computer, would she be able to just download apps and...
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Bump Technologies Founders Talk About Platforms, APIs and Showing the iPhone...
Earlier this week, BoomTown motored down to Mountain View, Calif., to yet another cookie-cutter office park to visit what I consider one of the more interesting and innovative start-ups around Silicon...
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Making Hotmail Hot Again
Like it or not, your personal email address says something about you. Gmail tends to be considered the cool email to have today. Apple’s (AAPL) .Mac addresses (now .Me) identify users who own Macs and...
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Mac Users Are Getting New Outlook From Rival
A new, faster, better version of Microsoft Office is coming out Oct. 26. But it isn’t for Microsoft’s own Windows operating system. It is for the Macintosh computers made by the software giant’s...
View ArticleFlickr Gets More Social
Not content to let its users merely find photo-sharing friends and acquaintances, Flickr will now start proactively suggesting People You May Know on the service. Suggestions are based on your contacts...
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No Facebook User Emails for Google–But Yahoo and Microsoft Already Have Access
Facebook and Google are hardly friends these days, and they’re having more and more trouble containing their dislike. (Maybe they should take a hint from Jimmy Kimmel and his National UnFriend Day...
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Is My Email Address My Identity?
Google and Facebook may act like toddlers fighting over a toy, but there is a lot more going on in their recent too-public spat about user emails. Google publicly shamed Facebook this week for not...
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Salesforce Buys Small Contact Management Start-Up Etacts
Salesforce has bought Etacts, maker of a contacts management tool, according to a source familiar with the matter. Etacts informed users today that it will shut down as of January 31 in order to...
View ArticleTrying Out a Revamped Myspace
Thanks to the popularity of Facebook, it’s easy to assume that all social networks are designed primarily to connect friends with one another. But many of these networks—think Twitter, Yelp and...
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'With This App, I Thee Wed…'
Brides- and grooms-to-be take comfort in the tangible, whether its bridal magazines that seem to weigh five pounds each, reception venue floor plans or photos of dream cakes. But keeping these...
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The Streak 7: Bargain Tablet From Dell Is No Real Deal
If you could get a tablet for the price of a smart phone, and if it also worked on one of the new, faster, 4G-class cellular networks, you’d jump at the chance, right? Dell and T-Mobile hope so, and...
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Facebook Explains Email Snafus, Promises Bug Fix
Trying to make good on a bungled switch to make its sidelined email system more visible for users, Facebook is scrambling to explain itself to a frustrated user base. After a flurry of user confusion...
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Q&A: Behind Brewster, the Buzzy New Modern Address Book
Tying into the growing trend of mobile apps that add context and connection across users’ scattered lives, Brewster launched today a smarter iPhone address book. The New York City-based company behind...
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Address Book App Brewster Now Factors in Location, Fixes “Favorites”
Brewster, the smartphone app that pulls all of your digital address books into one place, has introduced some new features meant to make your digital life management that much easier — even if you’ve...
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Ringya Makes Organizing Mobile Contact Lists Easier
You’d think contact lists would be a hard field to break into: They’ve been a part of mobile gadgetry since the days of the very first PDA, in 1984. And yet, contacts still have room to grow. Enter...
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Facebook Cuts Off Friend-Finding Access to Vine, Twitter's New Video App
That was fast! Within hours of Twitter launching its Vine video-sharing application on Thursday, Facebook has cut off access to Vine’s “find people” feature, which lets used to let Vine users find...
View ArticleLinkedIn Launches Contacts Product for iOS and the Web
LinkedIn on Thursday launched a new Contacts feature for its website along with a standalone mobile iOS application, a product stemming from the October 2011 acquisition of startup Connected. Contacts...
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"Path Does Not Spam Users": Dave Morin Talks About the Hyper-Growth Pains of...
Dave Morin, CEO of Path, is adamant that he isn’t doing anything wrong. “Path does not spam users,” Morin told AllThingsD in an interview about the self-proclaimed “personal network” yesterday....
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Yahoo Mulling Buy of Address Book App Maker Xobni
Yahoo is in serious discussions to buy Xobni, maker of address book apps and plugins, according to sources familiar with the situation. The two companies have been talking for a while, but a deal...
View ArticleAs It Tries to Revamp the Mobile Addressbook, Brewster Sees Staff Turnover
Brewster, a small startup that makes a year-old iPhone contacts app, lost a significant portion of its staff this year, as Business Insider first reported today. “I have nothing but more confidence in...
View ArticleXobni's Jeff Bonforte Officially Running Yahoo's Communications Products
According to his LinkedIn profile, Jeff Bonforte has been named SVP of communication products at Yahoo. An insider tipped me to the new title for the former CEO of Xobni, the maker of address-book apps...
View ArticleE-Reader vs. iPad
Q: My wife started reading e-books downloaded from the library on her iPad 2. Indoors the print is very readable, but it loses some of the sharpness in bright light. Some of her friends suggested the...
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