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Thursday, 27th October 2011

Adobe Launches Photo Stream Alternative

Two weeks ago, Apple launched iOS 5 and along with it came Photo Stream, the photo-syncing feature of iCloud. With it, Mac and iOS users can syncronize their photos across the desktop, iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. For those who aren't thrilled with Photo Stream, Adobe launched an alternative today called Carousel. The new applications for Mac and…

John Paul Titlow comments

HP: PC Business Not Moving Anywhere, WebOS 'the Next Piece of Work'

It's no surprise that the new-and-re-improved Hewlett-Packard has come to the conclusion this afternoon, under newly-minted President and CEO Meg Whitman, that it will not spin off the Personal Systems Group (PSG) division responsible for producing PCs and tablets. This move was announced after the close of stock trading Thursday afternoon. But…

Enterprise Scott M. Fulton comments

Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Check Out Stanzr

During today's roundtable, we had some excellent discussions of product marketing for a couple of different concepts. The 1M/1M Channel on Stanzr The first of these discussions was about a new social media marketing platform called Stanzr, from San Francisco-based Voluble, that we are using at 1M/1M. Taariq Lewis, the founder of Voluble, is a…

Sramana Mitra comments

Afro Nerd Superstar Explosion: How the Future of 1 Billion People is in the Hands of a Bunch of Nerd Girls and Poindexters

Over several days, I visited three incubators in Nairobi devoted to startups in the social space. Given the emphasis in Kenya on mobile - as many as 60% of Kenyans pack mobile phones but as few as 5% have Internet connectivity via laptop or desktop computers - the development also focused on mobile, though not exclusively. If in the United…

Curt Hopkins comments

Internet of Things

QR Codes: Robot Barf?

The QR code is a weird side effect of the mobile Web revolution. The idea is so nice; a link between the Web and the real world through the powerful computers in our hands. But even though they've been around for a while, QR codes are still mostly used for mundane purposes, rather than innovative ones. The technology has three problems at a pretty…

Mobile Jon Mitchell comments

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