Trackle, the personalized web and realtime feed tracker, is going pro with the launch of premium tracking services aimed at marketing and PR professionals looking to track mentions of clients across the web. Trackle.com’s web service lets users create personalized RSS feeds for data such as the latest crime in a user’s neighborhood, fluctuating airline ticket prices, updated job ..read more

Verizon Wireless already has a formidable Android line-up with the DROID and DROID Eris, but soon enough, it might just have the best thanks to the handset you see above. Known at the moment as the HTC Incredible, the candybar touchscreen was spotted in the wild this weekend and is reported to have the following specs: 3.5″ to 3.7″ ..read more

SAP’s CEO Léo Apotheker resigned today. SAP will return to a co-CEO structure, replaced by Bill McDermott, head of field organisation, and Jim Hagemann Snabe, head of product development. The particulars are to be announced early tomorrow. According to the Financial Times , one reason for the resignation is SAP’s delays in the introduction of a new online-based business ..read more

Back on the 21st of January when Amazon announced that it would release its Kindle Development Kit , A/K/A KDK, we heard it would begin rolling out in limited beta this month, with a wait list of people getting access to the kit as space was available. Well, that moment has arrived, and you can now sign up to ..read more

Here’s our rundown of the week’s business and tech news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days: Displax plastic film can turn any surface into a touchscreen — Displax revealed a new plastic film with multitouch sensing. It can be placed over any display or even non-display surfaces, making them into interactive devices. If ..read more

If you can’t laugh at yourself… Robert Scoble insisted ( insisted! ) that we take these photos. Possibly to let the healing process begin after yesterday’s Google phone drama . And he isn’t the only one who wants to turn this into some kind of meme. I hope we call just let this go now, and move on with ..read more

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Ah, the college library photo. Look through any school’s brochure, and there’s a good chance you’ll see photos of an ethnically diverse group of students pouring over the same math problem together, all of of them inexplicably grinning ear to ear. It’s a nice thought, but unfortunately it doesn’t happen all that often — instead, many students wind up ..read more

Well, this is disturbingly creative. Seriously, is there much more to say about this Kratos casemod? Well, Greek mythology and video game fanatics alike should be pleased yet horrified with this one. We certainly were. Video is after the break. Kratos casemo can bring ‘God of War’ to your desktop… if you really want that originally appeared on Engadget ..read more

Mosquitos are still a leading cause of the spread of malaria and other diseases in many parts of the world. While we know that mosquitos find humans through smell, the details of their olfactory abilities hadn’t been worked out. A new study in Nature

It might have legal issues galore thanks to Chandra Rathakrishnan’s legendary row with Michael Arrington , but the internet tablet formerly known as the CrunchPad has finally entered into production and should begin shipping later this month. To retail for $499 USD, the JooJoo features a 12.1″ multi-touch capacitive display with native resolution of 1366 x 768, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g, ..read more

Perhaps the main problem I have with Android is that the apps (aside from the excellent Google-built ones) are simply not as good as the apps on the iPhone. Nowhere is this more apparent then with Twitter apps, since there are so many for both platforms. On Android, Seesmic was clearly the best one, but it still paled in ..read more

Cc:Betty , a services that helps users stay on top of their communication and projects by organizing their email, had one of the most memorable names among the startups I’ve covered at VentureBeat, but now it’s ditching that name in favor of a new one — Threadbox . Why the change? Well, the Cc:Betty name was cute, but not ..read more

Here at ReadWriteWeb, we’ve discussed the use of third party APIs when building an integrated online product, highlighting the disadvantages such a decision could entail. One topic on the flip side of that is the question of whether providing an open public API versus a closed private one is in your product’s best interest. Massively viral services like Twitter ..read more