It’s getting tough to keep up with all of the location-related developments leading up to this year’s SXSW, and they just keep coming. Tonight, on the eve of the event, Plancast has just had its iPhone application approved. The service, which we’ve previously described as a ‘Foursquare for the future’, allows you to tell your friends where you’re planning to be as opposed to where you currently are (in other words, it lets you and your friends plan ahead).

Brazil is sort of a strange country to throw into the “emerging market” category. It’s not a particularly young country like India or Israel, nor is it a country like China or Russia that embraced capitalism fairly recently.

William Shatner will shill almost anything , and we love him for it. Now he is putting his promotional talents to work for Myouterspace.com , a social network for sci-fi geeks , gamers, animators, writers, and actors. In other words, people who couldn’t get into MySpace.

I’m here at YouTube’s office in San Bruno, where the company is holding a press conference to discuss the launch of auto-captions.

Apple and Google are engaged in a fascinating battle of mobile OS’s. Among other things, they’re duking it out on patent infringement, developer relations and carrier support.

I think I have only seen devices like the Hydrofloor in movies. They are usually used by eccentric rich villains who have a scheme to make yet even more money, and their lair changes appearance at the touch of a button to display their nefarious plan. However, this Hydrofloor is much more useful