It pains me to say this, as I was very excited to try HP's TouchPad, but the combination of the webOS mobile operating system packaged in the form factor of the TouchPad tablet is far from being any sort of iPad killer. That's not to say that webOS doesn't have...
Zynga added a 600-plus-pages addendum to its IPO filing yesterday and it turns out that Zynga and Facebook are intertwined so tightly that it is hard to tell where one company ends and the other starts. The best example is two agreements that the companies came to in May and...
The 2011 American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) E-Business Report was published today and the survey of 70,000 US consumers found Facebook to be the least satisfying of the largest social sites on the web. Only 66% of respondents said they were satisfied by Facebook, compared to market leader Wikipedia at...
Apple released the iPhone app for Google's red hot social network, Google Plus, on the iTunes store this morning. (link) Enthusiastic Plus users appear very excited to take advantage of the native app, which offers features like photo uploading, Huddle conversations and push notifications - in addition to the features...
So the news this week is filled with ever-changing horror about how various reporters in the Murdoch's News Corp. "hacked" into the cell phone voice mail accounts of prominent Britons. How did News of The World reporters actually hack cell phones and should you be concerned that it could happen...
New from a company called Clever Sense is an app called Alfred (iTunes link) that provides personalized recommendations for restaurants, coffee shops, nightlife, bars and clubs, and soon, hotels, salons, spas, shops, attractions and more. The interesting thing about how the app does so is the technology it is uses...
One of the themes many of us commentators harp on about is the fact that barriers to entry for application developers have never been lower - the availability of cloud hosting, agile development methodologies, even this crazy frothy investment cycle we're in all combine to see lots of applications being...
In January of this year, mobile travel management app TripIt was acquired for up to $120 million by Concur, a company founded in 1993 that provides "integrated expense and travel management solutions." TripIt, founded in late 2006, was one of my favorite 'web 2.0' apps. At the end of 2007,...
Last Fall I wrote about Geoloqi, a bootstrapped geolocation platform that points to where I hope location technology will go in the future. The service offers an app and today launches an API that uses persistent location tracking to trigger notifications tied to real-world places. Maybe it's a note you...
Young women face the highest rate of dating violence and sexual assault, with nearly 19% - one in five - women reporting they have experienced sexual assault while in college. The Obama Administration believes that one way to help combat sexual abuse on college campuses may be through mobile phone...
Jeff Clavier was the first tech investor I ever met; he was introduced to me years ago by some hip engineers in a bar as "one of the few cool VCs." Years later Clavier's name now comes up all the time when one of his portfolio companies finds success; his...
So you want to buy a tractor? Build a house? Scrabble? So do the more than 62 million other gamers who play Farmville daily. That's why keeping its communities humming 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and responding to issues in real-time is no game for Zynga. To...
American Express' new digital payments and commerce platform Serve has just announced its first carrier deal since its launch in March of this year. The company's new partnership with U.S. operator Sprint will allow Serve's mobile wallet application to be made available in the Sprint Zone for customers using select...
Cloud9 today announced a cloud-based commercial Integrated Development Environment that enables web and mobile developers to work together in remote teams anywhere.In the past, developers have resorted to using screen-sharing and IM tools to work on their programming projects. These could be frustrating, since you can't really jointly write code...
gPodder is a podcast receiving / playing application for audio and video podcasts. Now gPodder version "Over There" has been released. Features iPod, MP3 player and mobile phone support RSS, Atom, YouTube and Soundcloud feeds Focus on Usability Integrated with the gpodder.net Web Service User interfaces: GTK+, Maemo 4, Maemo 5, QML and CLI Plays well together...
The iPad isn't just a hot new consumer device, it's also an increasingly popular tool for business. Each week we take a look at the new or updated business apps for the iPad, and highlight trends in how tablets are being used in the enterprise.This week we take a look...
Well, it's finally here. After two years of delay and a fresh $100 million round of funding, European music streaming service Spotify launched in the United States yesterday, much to the delight of music geeks, a handful of celebrities and pretty much everyone on Twitter. In addition to a whole...
In-app purchases for upgrades, virtual goods and more, are an increasingly popular way for developers to monetize mobile applications, as opposed to making the app a paid download. This is especially true for Android, where paid apps don't perform as well.In addition to the programs provided by platform makers like...
How often do you want to "engage" with your toilet paper brand? Or your phone company? What about your bank? If you're like me, if you want to be "engaged" at all you want to initiate that engagement when you have a question or problem, and then you want that...
Sports tracker has been as favourite of mine since it first made its appearance on the Symbian Platform and its great to see a similar type of program coming to MeeGo courtesy of @VDVsx who is a mobile software developer working on Meego. The Program is called eCoach and has also...
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