NYT Apple Granted Patent for Sports Sensors Think Major League Baseball's stats and live video iPhone app is cool? Imagine what Apple could do with technology it was granted a patent for this week: a network of sensors that deliver real-time velocity, impact, rotation and other data from sporting event participants to the web. Imagine your iPhone's accelerometer placed inside a boxer's… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Gaming Twitter Drives a Lot of Traffic to Media Sites, but Doesn't Bring a Lot of Customers to Online Retailers According to the latest data from Hitwise about Twitter users in the UK, Twitter has become an important source of traffic for entertainment sites, other social networks, and news and media sites, but compared to other social networks, Twitter only sends a small amount of traffic to online retailers. Hitwise's Robin Goad also points out that… Social Frederic Lardinois View comments
Startups Posterous Acquires DIY Digg Site Slinkset Posterous co-founder Gary Tan just announced that they've acquired fellow Y-Combinator company Slinkset - a Digg / Reddit-style news site with voting capabilities. Says Tan in his blog post, "Slinkset will remain online, and we'll be working on some crazy awesome stuff to bring the power of Slinkset's technology and community to your Posterous… Dana Oshiro View comments
News Cable Companies Want to Control Online TV: Now This Sounds Like a Bad Idea Enjoy the online TV party while it lasts, because if it is up to your favorite cable companies like Comcast and Time Warner, access to TV shows might soon go behind a paywall that will be controlled by cable or satellite TV providers. Just as the newspaper industry doesn't know how to react to the new challenges posed by the Internet, the cable… Frederic Lardinois View comments
Browsers Firefox's Ubiquity Starts Thinking for Itself Ubiquity, the experimental Firefox add-on that lets you tell your browser what to do by typing in natural language commands, has just been updated to version 0.5. This preview release adds support for more languages, which is great news for non-English speakers dying to get their hands on this cutting-edge technology. What's more fascinating… Sarah Perez View comments