-school dropout and Tumblr founder David Karp is doing a presentation today at the Eventoblog conference in sunny Sevilla, Spain. In one of his first slides, Karp shared some statistics about Tumblr, which appears to be growing pretty well, pretty quickly.
Last August, the Tumblr team shared some growth statistics and claimed 50 million visitors [...]

The Cliq is the first in what promises to be an avalanche of Android handsets from Motorola over the next 12 months. Motorola co-CEO Sanjay Jha said the company plans to release 20 smartphones by the end of 2010, most of which will be running Android. Despite being its first, the Motorola Cliq is [...]

Three of the world’s top tech firms, along with the U.S. space agency, have teamed up to develop software they hope will help organizations better prepare for, and respond to, disasters such as natural catastrophes and terrorist strikes.
Microsoft is temporarily putting aside its rivalry with Google to cooperate with the search giant on the [...]

Nokia’s N60 handsets are getting a boost in location positioning from Skyhook Wireless, which is offering a $2.99 fast location system called Maps Booster through Nokia’s Ovi app store.
Announced Friday, Maps Booster enables Nokia N60 users to pinpoint locations almost instantaneously, versus the existing location finder application that typically takes a full minute to [...]

After years of speculation and “proof of concept” devices, Dell officially unveiled its first entry into the smartphone market with an Android-powered device set for China and Brazil.
The Mini 3 smartphone is somewhat reminiscent of Apple’s iPhone with a full touchscreen interface, but Dell did not release full specifications for the device. The company [...]

Ever wander into one of those Verizon or AT&T stores, attempt to have a conversation with one of the smartly dressed salespeople, and whisper to yourself, “What kind of emotionally awkward humans end up working in a place like this?”
Well, I have good news for you.
Ricky Gervais, who made David Brent perhaps the most [...]

We’ve already written this week about using cell phone imaging to analyze a blood sample and diagnose disease. Because viruses such as influenza are smaller than light waves, diagnosing something like H1N1 is not yet possible.
Thankfully, the sounds of our coughs might be all we need to diagnose whether we have a cough, flu, [...]

Room in your heart (and on your end-table) for another Android tablet?  Non-Japanese geeks need not apply, but sometime between April and September next year NTT will push out this 7-inch touchscreen Android slate.  The Hikari iFrame is being positioned as one part digital photo frame and one part web tablet, with WiFi for [...]