Normally when a tech company launches a product or feature that's billed as a potential "killer" of a popular incumbent, there's cause to be skeptical. Quite often, that's just unsubstantiated hype either on the part of the company itself or tech writers. In the case of Spotify's new Web radio...
Find His Porn exploits the paranoid and takes advantage of the naive consumers it proposes to help. This and more in today's Daily Wrap.Sometimes it's difficult to catch every story that hits tech media in a day, so we wrap up some of the most talked about stories. We give...
Google has been on a killing spree the last few months, whacking projects that are non-essential to the company strategy or that haven't caught on. Even though this has angered some users, Google is still stubbornly clinging to one of its biggest dogs to date: ChromeOS and the Chromebooks.Google announced...
Shopping is overwhelming enough, especially around the holidays. The leading consumer Web companies are falling over themselves to make it easier using all the innovative technologies at their disposal. As they figure it out, though, that only leaves consumers with even more options. Do we shop in person, on our...
This week we all were horrified at seeing John Pike, a University of California at Davis police lieutenant, pepper spray a collection of kneeling student demonstrators. Within hours, it became a meme, complete with amusing images, references to the actual product used by Pike, and clever plays on the cop's...
PressBooks, a simple online book production tool built on WordPress, launches to the public today. It lets authors use a content management system they already know to produce ePubs, typeset PDFs and other XML formats, as well as a Web version. The Web version can be private, or it can...
Front page of this week’s Engadget magazine is Stephen Elop. You can download it in various formats. On the PDF, it’s pages 44-57. Here’s the PDF.Distro Issue 13 PDF early in 2012 you should see some very exciting Lumia products from us. (lol, I hope not ‘early 2011′ which meant...
The two categories of software that are becoming critical requirements for large-capacity data centers in virtualized environments are performance monitoring and capacity management. Quest Software makes a performance monitoring tools suite called Foglight, which includes a capacity management tool called vFoglight. In a company blog post last August, Quest product...
There's an interesting discussion brewing in the wake of some of the comparison articles recently published about the latest Android tablet devices, including Amazon's Kindle Fire. I'm on record here as liking what I saw from the initial publication of Joshua Topolsky's "revenge" upon Engadget, The Verge, and I'd be...
The Kindle Fire is no iPad killer, but it has shifted the tablet market since its debut on September 28. An Appcelerator report released today shows developer interest in the Kindle Fire is growing because of its potential and low price point. Forty-nine percent of North American developers are interested...
Through November 14th, you can grab 7 licenses of SmartBear's CodeReviewer for $7 bucks a pop. All of the money raised through the program will go to charities that focus on helping children, animals and the environment.Normally, SmartBear charges $289 per seat for its Web-based tool for peer code reviews....
Amazon just announced the release of Flow an augmented reality shopping app for the iPhone. It uses both barcode and image recognition in a live camera view to help users shop. It recognizes books, DVDs, CDs, video games and all kinds of other packaged items "like a box of cereal,"...
During today's roundtable, we had some excellent discussions of product marketing for a couple of different concepts.The 1M/1M Channel on StanzrThe 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...
Article from Thiago Macieira's blog - An Open Source hacker's ramblings As you may have noticed in Lars’s blog the new Qt Project website and organisation is live! Yeah! It’s the product of many people’s work over the course of a year and a half, changing the way how over 200 engineers work on...
Third-party mobile browser Dolphin is releasing a new version of its Android product today that brings a host of improvements and features that will keep it competitive in the crowded mobile browser market. Dolphin for Android 7.0 introduces Dolphin Connect, which allows users to access their personalized settings from any...
Bill Gross is the man who made the technology behind the first keyword advertising systems online and has long been rumored to be aiming to challenge Twitter. Today Gross launched a big, ambitious new social network called Chime.in. The service aims to offer the best of all the other social...
A 2011 study by the National Restaurant Association confirms that consumers who use social media, including apps, Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, UrbanSpoon and more, not only dine out more, but are more likely to become return customers. The study divided these techie-type consumers into two categories, based on data from the...
HTML5 development studio appMobi is releasing a new tool today for developers to create, emulate and test PhoneGap projects. The appMobi PhoneGap Mobile App XDK is an integrated developer environment (IDE) that offers a full suite of developer tools for creating HTML5 and PhoneGap applications. The new appMobi XDK is...
Enterprise IT may or may not be doing its best to stifle the end user adoption of iPads and other tablets in the workplace and on the road. Security, synching, and file format compatibility -- and a second dose of security -- are all legitimate IT concerns. Meanwhile, tablets devices...
Replicating your company's data off-site in real time or close to it is important -- reconstructing munged or lost data is a headache at best, and that's assuming you can do it. But protecting the data and keeping it available isn't that useful if you don't have systems to run...
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