After a disappointing initial effort , Palm has unleashed version 1.1.0 of its webOS Facebook app. Currently only available via the update function but not the standard App Catalog, users will find new and improved access to their inbox, all their friends’ photo albums, profiles, direct photo uploading, friend search and a list view for upcoming events…

Love can be difficult. Throwing tech into the mix can complicate things even more. We’ve got tech that can put us in touch with so many people at once, but can keep us from real intimacy with our closest few: Facebook friends don’t have to meet, tweets don’t require thoughtfulness, movie dates don’t …

Imagine, if you will, the quintessential British pub. A pair of elderly chaps sitting in the quiet corner discussing their best Spitfire manoeuvers, the teenage whippersnapper putting on a mature voice and trying to buy alcohol at the bar, and the inevitable legion of sports fans setting up for their weekly life or death football…

Despite navigating the tangled mess that has been the late-night wars this week, Jimmy Fallon managed to tap into the cultural zeitgeist last night with his unique spin on viral sensation, “Pants on the Ground.” Yup, the video of American Idol joke de rigueur General Larry Platt has barely hit …

Apple has just released its earnings report for Q4 2009. You can listen to the entire earnings call at 5PM EDT/2PM PDT, but the big take-away is that Apple beat estimates and moved more iPhones and Macs than they did during the same period last year. Apple sold 7.4 million iPhones in the quarter, …

Apple is famed for its exciting product launches that turn the release of shiny new gadgets into a true spectacle. But just how many times do Apple’s execs describe their products as “amazing”, “awesome”, “incredible” and “really great”? Dozens of times per keynote, it turns out: and a …

A casting call has been sent out looking for actors to play the key roles in an upcoming movie based on the high-pitched YouTube star “Fred”. Previously the top-subscribed user on the video sharing site (although recently dethroned by NigaHiga ), Fred Figglehorn appears to be a…

Hindsight is 20-20, they say. Take, for instance, this promotional video from media company Knight-Ridder made in 1994, in which the Knight Ridder laboratory predicts newspapers being replaced by sleek black tablet devices that allow people to consume media on the go. Did Knight Ridder foresee the Amazon Kindle and Kindle…

Though capacitive displays are generally regarded as the easier-to-use technology for mobile touchscreens, their finger-friendliness comes at a dear price: accuracy. Because capacitive tech is incompatible with traditional styli, you’re stuck fudging things with your fat digits or settling for a high-tech finger alternative that arguably creates as…

Apple’s just gone public with an announcement that Google CEO Eric Schmidt is stepping down from the Apple board of directors to avoid, ahem , “conflicts of interest.” To be fair, things must have been getting pretty awkward over there. That’s not to say that Schmidt left over a tussle in the App Store, but…