We had a chance to step into MySpace HQ for a chat with new Co-Presidents Jason Hirschhorn and Mike Jones, who preside over the News Corp.-owned social network from a shared desk in Beverly Hills. The joint office speaks to how closely Hirschhorn and Jones are working together to…

Back in October we wrote about Appboy , a social network for mobile app developers and users. Since launching, Appboy has continued to evolve into a community for both developers and users to find and rate apps, as well as submit ideas for new mobile applications. Appboy has just rolled out a big update …

We just sat down with Palm here at GDC and fished out a few more details on the PDK beta front . Firstly, and most interestingly, Palm has confirmed that the PDK now works on all of its handsets (instead of just the Pre and Pre Plus), which means Pixi buyers…

A couple of days ago Foursquare’s iPhone application disappeared from the iPhone App Store due to a “hiccup”. If you doubted that was true, worry no more, as the application is back in the store. Here’s the official explanation of what happened: “Last week, Foursquare accidentally released to the App Store…

John Gruber of Daring Fireball has an interesting story about the absence of certain iPhone apps – Stocks, Calculator, Clock, Weather, Voice Memos – on the iPad. It seems that these apps, when scaled up to iPad’s bigger screen, simply didn’t look good enough to Steve Jobs, so he …

Today at the #140tc Twitter Conference in Seattle, Washington (which I keynoted this morning), HootSuite CEO Ryan Holmes announced that its popular Twitter application will be integrating with both MySpace and Foursquare, starting this week at the South by Southwest Interactive conference. HootSuite is one of the more popular Twitter applications, one specifically…

So you thought awesome gear never made the transition from Korea to the USA, huh? Not so in the case of the infamous sausage stylus we spotted a month ago. That cold weather peripheral — allowing its ingenious users to operate a capacitive touchscreen with gloves on — has made the big leap over…

One of many upcoming tablet alternatives to the Apple iPad , HP’s forthcoming Slate device was teased briefly by Steve Ballmer at Microsoft’s CES keynote earlier this year. HP and Adobe teamed up to offer a couple of video demos of the HP Slate (embedded below), with an emphasis on …

As energy prices increase, so does our desire to understand and actively manage household power use. Joining the fight alongside Google’s PowerMeter and NEC’s “dung beetle” game , PowerHouse Dynamic’s eMonitor interfaces with your circuit box to tell you how much energy each individual circuit is using, and the management software seems particularly …

With HTC’s upcoming crop of Androids, you’ll be able to separate people into two distinct groups: those who spring for the brainier, better-specced Desire , and those who get bowled over by the beautiful, yet lesser-specced Legend . The Desire (or Nexus One ) is the final word in the Androidsphere—…