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Google’s long-rumoured new social project has finallyarrivedand it has certainly created more buzz than… Google Buzz. Consisting of Facebook-style sharing and discussion, group video chat, mobile group messaging and automated content discovery,Google+has been met with the general approval of early adopters. But perhaps the biggest plus in Google’s latest attempt to create a social network is its ability to combine several sharing tools together to help users share content, facilitate discussions and upload items while making it easy to get more control over who they share things with and how....

I frequently get questions like these: “Is Google+ going to kill facebook like Facebook killed MySpace?” The answer is “no” but not because Google+ isn’t going to be hugely successful. Services, technologies and companies never kill or replace each other. Some companies just don’t keep up with customer demand, stop innovating and then might fade away. Television never really replaced radio because radio had its uses and was a solid technology....

According to9to5 Mac, Apple is in negotiations with Verizon to bring over-the-air updates to Apple devices starting with iOS 5 this fall. Multiple sources say the new feature will debut in iOS 5, meaning iOS 5 will not come over-the-air but following point updates to it will. Just like tethering in iOS 3, Apple has the technology but cannot just unleash it everywhere. Apple and Verizon Wireless are said to have been in talks over these wireless software updates since early this year....

It’s one of the Internet’s biggest killjoys. It stifles innovation, holds back progress and drives normally law-abiding people to crime. What is it? Licensing. Whenever an innovative new online approach to media comes along, it seems ‘licensing issues’ turn up to trash the party. Just think about how long it took Spotify, a service that has been running in Europe for nearly three years, tolaunchin America. Consider theretreatof services like Turntable....

Join Lauren Razavi onstage atTNW 2021as she moderates a panel on ‘Hustle Culture and the Burnout Generation.’ Silicon Valley has been the startup capital of the world for a generation – but that doesn’t guarantee it will retain that title in future. As the Silicon Valley playbook is uploaded to the cloud, other startup cities are taking advantage, but we have the opportunity to update our thinking as well. When we talk about “the next Silicon Valley”, what we really want to know is:...