A few weeks ago, just in time for SXSW, Google launched check-in offers for Latitude, its location-based service and social network. At the time, these offers were only available at a limited set of places in Austin – the home of SXSW – but starting today, users of Google’s Latitude Android and iPhone apps will…
Facebook today announced that it will share the design specs for the servers and datacenters that power its service with anybody who is interested. As the company’s founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg noted at today’s presentation, Facebook’s products and infrastructure are intimately linked. Without enough capacity in its datacenters, Facebook (and other companies) can’t push…
With Bing for iPad, Microsoft just launched its first native iPad app. The app, which is available for free, reformats Bing’s content for the tablet and is clearly influenced by the same design decisions that guide Bing’s web presence. When you open the app, for example, you are greeted by a large image that changes…