Are these widgets worth half a billion?

A lot of eyebrows were raised on Wall Street in January when two giant investment firms, Fidelity and T. Rowe Price, paid $50 million for a 9.1% stake in Slide, a San Francisco- based company best known as the purveyor of entertainments like SuperPoke, which lets Facebook users "ninja kick" or "bodyslam" or "throw a pillow at" their friends.

Visit Slide's website.

Countdown to iPhone 2.0

Apple is gearing up for a big bump in sales of the next generation iPhone, if new production plans are any guide.

The Hot Zone


A Google-backed startup called Meraki thinks it can succeed where others have failed, building citywide Wi-Fi networks. First up: San Francisco.

The Napkin Sketch

You ought to be in pictures. No, really. Companies are increasingly using simple pictures to distill complicated concepts into easily shared, easily remembered nuggets....

Concept Phones

Concept phones are great, as they give you an idea about what designers can do when they don't have to be concerned about the mundane stuff.

Here is a list of Top Fifteen concept phones that might or might not meet Realism.

Google Drive killer coming from MIT startup



For Windows and Mac OS X... why wasn't this made 5 years ago?

It is a bit too slick to be true but the demo looks absolutely amazing. Dropbox is a new startup company from a couple of MIT computer science alums and it looks really promising! Basically it’s a really beautiful solution for sharing files online, with a group, between computers or whatever your need is.

The Best Tools for Visualization


Here are visualization tools for search, music, networks, online communities, and almost anything else you can think of. Whether you want a desktop application or a web-based tool, there are many specific tools are available on the web that let you visualize all kinds of data. Here are some of the best.

Sun unveils the most powerful super-computer on the planet

Sun and the Texas Advanced Computing Center unveil Ranger", a supercomputer based on Sun's Constellation System. Ranger is one of the very fastest supercomputers in the world, and ushers in the new era of "petascale" computing in which high performance supercomputers approach one petaflop (one quadrillion floating point instructions) per second.

Forget Facebook. The Web's platform is Firefox

The most interesting topic discussed in meeting with CNET, was just how compelling Mozilla's Firefox will increasingly be as the platform for much that happens on the web. Forget Facebook, MySpace, the iPhone, and other so-called platforms. Firefox could well prove to be the most disruptive web platform on the market. Here's why.

Facebook CEO Admits Missteps

At SXSW, Mark Zuckerberg says the social network has yet to achieve its grand ambition. Plus, the lesson of the Beacon controversy.

A new way to watch TV

Watch out YouTube. Two old-media dinosaurs, Fox and NBC Universal, have created one cool venue for their hottest shows. Hulu CEO Jason Kilar is obsessed with making Hulu as easy to use as old-fashioned television. You can watch in either partial- or full-screen mode.