News Nomadesk: Cloud-Based Backup Providers Doing Quite Well Demand for cloud-based storage and backup is creating some lucrative opportunities for companies servicing large telecommunications providers. We are seeing a number of carriers offering cloud-based services. Orange Business Services announced today that it will be offering cloud storage and other cloud-based services for its customers. Verizon… Enterprise Alex Williams View comments
Augmented Reality Layar Pulled From App Store, Bad News for Augmented Reality The company behind the much-hyped Layar Augmented Reality browser has decided to withdraw its iPhone app from the iTunes App Store due to repeated crashes reported by users. Layar had been the most eagerly anticipated entrant yet into the field of AR, a class of technologies that place data from the web on top of a camera view of the physical… Play Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
News What Users Are Saying About Yelp Being Eaten by Google Google appears likely to purchase local review site Yelp for 1/3 of a YouTube - $500 million - according to TechCrunch and confirmed by the New York Times. Is this desirable for the users that made Yelp what it is today? Yelp was founded by members of what's called the PayPal mafia, geeks made wealthy by the sale of PayPal to eBay, and funded… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Twitter 5 Features From Third-Party Apps Twitter Should Integrate When I called Twitter out in my post of the top 10 failures of 2009 for "failing to innovate," what I probably should have said was this: Twitter has done a decent job of implementing features that we first saw being used by third-party apps. The concept of user lists? Sawhorse Media introduced those. Retweet functions? That was a user idea that… Social Jolie O'Dell View comments
Google Android Developers: Here's Some Sample Code And Tutorials Ever since finding myself the happy owner of a Droid (+1 for early Christmas presents), I've found myself increasingly interested in the app market for Android-powered devices. As has been noted in many iPhone/Droid sudden-death-round comparisons, the latter languishes in quality and quantity of available applications. Perhaps in an effort to… Mobile Jolie O'Dell View comments