Watch: New Year's Celebration from Times Square Online
If you want to watch tonight’s New Year’s Eve celebration in Times Square live online, you’re in luck, because The Times Square Alliance and Countdown Entertainment have partnered with Livestream to stream the event. The stream is scheduled to start at 5:50pm Eastern and run until 12:20. It will feature three co-hosts, hourly countdowns, a […]
Google Acquires Widget Creator LabPixies
Another week, another Google acquisition. This time, it’s LabPixies, a company Google has worked with on creating many of the gadgets (or widgets, as everyone else besides Google calls them) for Google’s personalized portal iGoogle. LabPixies has been acquired for an undisclosed sum, and it will join the iGoogle team to help expand iGoogle across […]
Twestival Global 2010 Raises More Than $450,000 for Education
The results from this year’s Twestival Global are still trickling in, but founder Amanda Rose let us know that the effort has raised more than $450,000 for Concern Worldwide, an international NGO helping fund educational projects around the world. Compared to last year’s total of $250,000, contributions to Twestival Global 2010 grew by more than […]
Android Gets Official Google Buzz Widget
Google has released the Google Buzz widget for Android, which will make updating your status or tagging your location easier. Google first launched Google Buzz for mobile about six weeks ago, and while the overall Buzz platform has undergone some changes and refinements, the mobile aspect of the service hasn’t really changed — until now. […]