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Griffin has announced the iFM Radio Browser, an iphone application to accompany its recently-released Griffin Navigate FM transmitter. The application enables the iPhone to interact with FM radio, while listing artist information playing on the chosen station. iFM Radio Browser provides song titles, albums, the artists biography, and upcoming concert dates. iFM Radio Browser also provides iTunes l...

Recently, YouTube has begun including the message: “We will be phasing out support for your browser soon. Please upgrade to one of these more modern browsers: Google Chrome, internet explorer 8, Firefox 3.5″. The message appears on all YouTube pages, as Geek.com observed through a VMware Server instance of a native Windows 2000 Professional install with [...]

Whereas Navigate is capable of acting on its own as an FM radio tuner for any Dock Connector-equipped iPod or iphone model, iFM transforms iPhones and second-generation iPod touches running iPhone OS 3.0 into something more: an assisted, one-click or finger-dialed radio with an on-screen list of currently available stations, marked by genre, and complete with the names of currently playing artists. These additional details are provided in major U.S..

Griffin Technology has released iFM Radio Browser, its latest application for the iphone and iPod touch. iFM Radio Browser serves as an interactive radio companion, providing users with real-time data-provided by Mediaguide-on local FM stations in their area, the currently playing song, with album art, artist info, and concert date information. Users may also browse by station, artist or genre, and can instantly purchase music with the.

The new suite of web applications will massively extend the reach of Office 2010, but is it enough to make businesses upgrade?Microsoft is finally putting versions of its Office applications suite online, as part of its move to Office 2010. The new Office Web Applications, demonstrated on video, don't have all the capabilities of desktop versions, but do feature the ribbon-based user interface. They seem to be far more powerful than Google's three-year-old online applications, and should offer much better compatibility with microsoft Office files.The suite of Office Web Applications - Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote - will be available to consumers, free of charge, as part of microsoft's Windows Live service, which has more than 400 million users, thanks mainly to the popularity of Hotmail. However, they are not limited to Windows users: Microsoft demonstrated them running in Firefox and Apple's Safari browser.Small businesses will also be able to use the online versions as part of

Less than three weeks after starting a limited public rollout of Google Voice, Google has put out a mobile version of the application. Google Voice for Mobile is currently available only for BlackBerry and Android smartphones, and only by invitation. A version for the iphone will be released later.

(Telecompaper) Verizon has launched the Widget Bazaar applications store and Internet Video on TV, the new social TV services on its Fios TV service. Verizon has worked with social media innovators Facebook Connect, Twitter, ESPN, Veoh, blip.tv and Dailymotion to create a converged internet-to-television experience that lets Fios TV subscribers connect with others while watching TV, and search and view a variety of online and personal PC-based videos on their television screens. Verizon also plans an open development platform to permit developers to write interactive Fios TV applications that will be available through the Widget Bazaar. The new Widget Bazaar applications marketplace, located within Fios TV's Interactive Media Guide, is launching with free Facebook, Twitter and ESPN Fantasy Football Widgets. Verizon will also add to the Fios TV Widget Bazaar dozens of additional free and transactional applications developed by the company and others shortly. Verizon will soon publish it

Blamed by some for the demise of print classified advertising, the Craigslist founder is now working on a more open US governmentFor journalists, Craig Newmark is the meteor that came hurtling to Earth and destroyed their world. Craigslist, the unassuming site that bears his name, is thought by some to have killed one of the major cash cows of the US newspaper industry - classified advertising.When he started the site in early 1995, he says: 'I had as few thoughts as possible and certainly no vision. In particular, I had no idea that it might affect the news business.' Newmark has his roots in technology, not in media or journalism. He worked at IBM for 17 years before going to San Francisco to work for the stockbroker Charles Schwab.Free to a good homeCraigslist is a great advertisement for open-source technology. Newmark programmed most of the site in Perl, and the servers run Linux, Apache and MySQL. He told the tech consultancy O'Reilly last year that the only software Craigslist h

(Telecompaper) UK cable operator Virgin Media announced the completion of its roll-out of Docsis 3.0 technology on its network, making broadband at up to 50 Mbps available to over 12 million UK households. In addition to the ongoing tests in Ashford for broadband at 200Mbps, the company announced plans to start trials of upload services at up to 10Mbps in selected areas in the North East and Midlands area. The company is also cutting the price of its 50Mbps service plan. From 1 September, the top-speed plan will cost GBP 28 if taken with a fixed-line voice plan, or GBP 38 as a standalone product, down from respectively GBP 35 and GBP 50 per month. Also this week, Virgin Media is launching its own-branded netbook. The Freedom laptop, valued at GBP 300, is available in black or red and weighs 1.1kg. The computer features a 10.2-inch screen, Windows XP, Intel Atom processor N270, 1GB memory, 120GB Sata hard drive, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, webcam and 2-in-1 card reader. New and existing custome

On Monday, our distinguished Managing Editor, Jeff Gamet, explained why he uses OmniWeb as his browser instead of Safari. Having used OmniWeb myself for most of Safari 3's lifetime, I can empathize. However, I found that OmniWeb, while great, isn't for me anymore, and I'm now back in the Safari 4 camp.