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Wednesday, 24th March 2010

Google Maps API Gets Elevation

We've seen the feature before on services like MapMyRide and surely many other maps, but as of yesterday, we will probably begin seeing it pop up all around the web - elevation on maps. Google announced yesterday that it would be bringing elevation to its Maps API, ensuring a whole new slew of Google Maps mashups.

Mike Melanson comments

Google Voice Goes Real-Time (Well, Almost)

Google is touting a new feature for their mobile VoIP application, Google Voice: instant notification of new SMS text messages and voicemails. You may have thought an app meant to replace your phone's functions would already be doing that, but in reality, Google Voice delayed notifications for 15 minutes by default. You could change this to 5…

Mobile Sarah Perez comments

Tuesday, 23rd March 2010

Microsoft Testing OfficeTalk - Microblogging Service Much Like Twitter

Microsoft is testing a microblogging service called OfficeTalk that is much like Twitter. The service is designed for the enterprise and appears it will be offered as an on-premise service. OfficeTalk is being developed by OfficeLabs, the Microsoft lab for testing internally developed ideas.

Enterprise Alex Williams comments

SenderOK: Email as a Facebook Connector and Social CRM Catalyst

The effort to bring Facebook into the enterprise continues with more services using Outlook as a gateway to extend a contact network and use as a foundations for a CRM environment. SenderOK is one of the latest effiorts to give more context to email by showing a picture of the sender in an email message. Too bad it only works on Windows XP or…

Enterprise Alex Williams comments

Investors to Startups: It's Not You, It's Me

Unfortunately, you can't always explain why a venture capitalist chooses to invest in one startup and not in another. Despite what some will claim, there is no magic formula that entrepreneurs can follow to assure them funding 100% of the time; these are just guidelines to follow to increase your chances, but in the end, a VC's decision is not…

Chris Cameron comments

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