Google, Facebook Release iPhone Applications

Whether you love the device or hate it, stories about the iPhone are going to be hard to escape for a few weeks.  Google and Facebook appear to fall into that first category, and have added to the hubbub by releasing iPhone-specific applications.

Canadians Lead In Online Banking Usage

When it comes to online banking, Canada is one of the world's most developed markets according to a new report from comScore.Out of 37 global markets Canada was number one in adoption of online banking, with 67.1 percent of Canadian Internet users banking online in April 2008. Other English - speaking countries had much lower penetration, including the UK (49.5%), U.S. (44%), and Australia (41.7…

Trulia Takes In More Funding

Which would you research more: a seemingly safe purchase when you have lots of cash, or a risky one when the economy's bad?  It makes a great deal of sense, then, that real estate site Trulia has just raised $15 million in funding.

Twitter Campaign Lauds Laxer Rules For Congress 2.0

Though many were disappointed yesterday in Representative John Culberson's (R-TX) partisan scapegoating via Twitter, he did sort of fall backwards over an important issue. The issue wasn't that Democrats were seeking to abridge Congressional freedom of speech as it related to Web 2.0 applications, but that Congressional freedom of speech had already been abridged via previously established draconian gag rules.