Google continues the blistering pace of updates to Google Maps today with the announcement of voice search for Maps on the desktop. Only users of Google's Chrome browser get the feature. This could speed up queries for hard-to-spell places, and it also returns queries like "Directions from Portland to San...
Music streaming service Spotify has partnered with SoundHound, a company that makes music recognition and discovery software for mobile devices. SoundHound users who use the company's Android or iOS app to discover new songs will soon be given the option to stream the song from Spotify instantly. Much like its...
Signal has been around for several years and this week they introduced a freemium model to promote their cross-channel marketing campaign software. You can sign up for a free account that entitles you to send 5,000 emails or 1,000 text messages per month for up to 500 subscribers and paid...
Those of us who lived and worked in the glorious, adventurous era of computing that was the late 1970s and early '80s have a different perspective. I was a consultant and developer before I became a journalist in 1984. My colleagues from that time and I frame the iPhone and...
Jumping on the app store bandwagon, Skype has launched a directory of third party applications that can be added to the Internet telephony service. Most of the apps are geared toward businesses users, while a few are for personal use. The directory features just under 25 apps, whose functionality includes...
Steve Jobs has announced his resignation as CEO of Apple. He will remain chairman of the board of directors. Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook has been named as his replacement. The Apple co-founder has taken medical leave for health problems this year, fueling much speculation about Apple's life after Steve....
The New York Times is reporting that Facebook plans to add photo filters to its mobile app "in the coming months," looking to challenge Instagram, Camera+ and other camera apps with built-in fancy filters. Facebook is already a dominant photo-sharing platform, and it offers much higher resolution images than Instagram...
The digital age just gave birth to something few of us were clamoring for, but that might turn out to be a worthwhile experience: books with soundtracks. Booktrack, a startup that publishes e-books containing movie-like soundtracks, went live with its first few titles yesterday. The result is a Kindle-style e-book...
Bit.ly, the URL shortener and analytics service from New York incubator Betaworks, has developed a software developers kit (SDK) that leverages the forthcoming deep Twitter integration in iOS5. The SDK will enable app developers to automatically share links on Twitter using branded URLs. ReadWriteWeb, for example, shares short links on...
Google's photo services regained prominence this year when Google Plus rolled in Picasa as the natural choice for hosting photos shared on the social network. But Panoramio, Google's less well-known photo service based on location data, is making moves as well.Google has just announced Panoramio Groups for sharing photos with...
If your remote users are complaining that their corporate connection is too slow, what if you could just wave a magic wand and speed up their remote apps? Furthermore, what if you could do it without buying any hardware devices and using their existing Internet access, and just for a...
United Airlines has announced it is converting to paperless flight decks and deploying 11,000 iPads to all United and Continental pilots. This is yet another sign that tablets - and in particular Apple's iPad - are changing the way people access and interact with content. We've already extensively covered how...
Flingo is the latest social TV service to hit the market. It has the ambitious goal of merging your television watching with your Web activity, in real-time. This works two ways: Web content is adapted according to what you're watching on TV, and your TV screen gets Web features such...
It's common knowledge that gaming is one of the most popular activities on the Web, but we often don't have a good sense of what type of person a modern gamer is. A new research report from Latitude set out to answer the question: who is today's gamer? As one...
Mozilla is continuing in its efforts to disrupt proprietary, single-vendor application ecosystems on mobile devices. This time around the Moz is taking up the task of providing a consistent API so developers can write HTML5 applications rather than native apps for iOS, Android, and other mobile devices and operating systems....
A new company is stepping into the mobile analytics space. Claritics, known for its analytics tools for Facebook and other social platforms has released its "social intelligence suit" for Android developers that will help app makers analyze user data from device type, carrier, location and more. Claritics is getting into...
Security company McAfee released its second quarter threat report today and the language in it is quite frank: "The security industry may need to reconsider some of its fundamental assumptions, including 'Are we really protecting users and companies?'" With malware at its highest levels ever, the escapades of LulzSec and...
What makes some technology so compelling and transformational that it thrives in a school setting and others languish? We've all heard stories of computers gathering dust in storage rooms while students and teachers everywhere have taken to photocopiers, calculators and, of course, cell phones.One of my most surprising moments upon...
Matt Galligan, co-founder and most recently Chief Strategy Officer of SimpleGeo, the geodata platform provider we've written about here many times and named the Most Promising Startup of 2011, just announced on the company blog that as of today he's no longer a SimpleGeo employee.SimpleGeo is aiming to be one...
An article in the art magazine Frieze talks about "a disconnect between having social media resources and actually employing them to engage various audiences [...]." Lauren Cornell, executive director of the technology-focused art organization Rhizome, writes that "institutions could amplify their educational and social role by publishing - daily and...
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