The bloggers over at PreCentral have gotten their hands on the new, unreleased version of HP's webOS, the mobile operating system HP acquired through its purchase of Palm last year. The updated software, webOS 3.0, will soon power new HP Pre smartphones and a tablet computer called the TouchPad. The...
Today Jive Software announced its acquisition of Proximal Labs, a social network analytics company. Prior to the acquisition, Jive was a customer of Proximal Labs. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Proximal Labs co-founder and CEO David Gutelius is joining Jive as Chief Social Scientist.Jive will use Proximal's...
More details emerge from IDF beijing 2011 about the joint innovation center that is to be created between Intel and Tencent. Here are the details from a post by PCWorld: Intel is establishing a joint innovation center with Tencent, one of China's largest Internet firms, to develop products...
The launch of Amazon's Cloud Drive may not have seemed like an innovative move as more consumers are opting to stream rather than download their music. But it was a disruption enough to cause some record labels to bark back at Amazon and chastise the company for not getting their...
Along with today's launch of HTC's latest flagship phone, the powerful HTC Sensation, the Taiwan-based mobile handset maker debuted a new video marketplace called "HTC Watch." This iTunes-like store will offer TV shows, movies and trailers through a pre-installed mobile application that will ship first on the Sensation. The TV...
ZURB, a popular interaction design and strategy firm, recently released a new download for Android designers and developers to take note of: Gingerbread stencils and sketchsheets. The set features the dimensions of the HTC Thunderbolt plus common Gingerbread elements including toolbars, buttons, alerts, keyboards and more, all of which can...
Today, Nokia announced two new Symbian-based smartphone devices, the E6 and X7, both of which will launch with the latest version of the Symbian software, code-named "Symbian Anna." The update brings new icons, usability enhancements, a faster Web browser and a new version of Ovi Maps.Despite Nokia's plans to move...
A recent Brookings Institute survey found that Americans want more media coverage of education. People said they want more information about their local schools, about violence on campus, about teacher performance and student achievement. But even if there was more reporting and better access to official data about crime and...
Apple's next-generation iPhone 5 may not begin production until September 2011, or so say the analysts at Avian Securities. The firm recently released a research note saying that its supply chain checks seem to indicate that Apple is planning to launch this new iPhone later than usual - possibly late...
Last year, when a friend and I went to buy our first iPhones, the first thing we went out and downloaded was Bump - the app that lets you share simply by bumping your phone into another one. It seemed like magic. At the time, however, it was only meant...
"Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry." - Gustave FlaubertThe Poetry Foundation, the organization behind America's best known and longest running poetry magazines, Poetry, has substantially expanded its online offerings. In celebration of next year's 100th anniversary of the...
According to the new tablet forecast from the analysts at Gartner, Apple's iPad will dominate the tablet market for years to come. Up until 2015, iOS will account for over half of tablet market share. In 2011, 69% of media tablets will run Apple's mobile operating system, but that number...
Sony Computer Entertainment America has just announced that it has reached a settlement with George Hotz, putting an end to the legal battle over Hotz - better known as Geohot - and his jailbreaking of Sony's Playstation 3.Details of the settlement were not released, but according to Sony, the two...
Google has acquired PushLife, a mobile music application which allowed users synchronize tracks on their desktop computers with their mobile phones. Supported devices included those from Nokia, BlackBerry and any running Google's Android mobile operating system. The deal comes ahead of Google's expected launch of Google Music, a service Google...
IBM is announcing its biggest release for WebSphere in the past four years. It is also naming the application server one of its top technologies for its centennial celebration.We're here at IBM Impact to live blog the news about the transformation in application server technology and how the company fits...
Today, Adobe revealed three new Photoshop Touch applications designed for the iPad: Adobe Color Lava, Adobe Eazel and Adobe Nav. The apps work with Adobe's Photoshop CS5 desktop software, which will be updated to version 5.5 in order to support the new functionality. The update is due out in a matter...
Today, Cisco has announced its intentions to shut down its Flip camera business and restructure its consumer product line. Specifically, Cisco plans to realign its consumer business with a focus on four of its five key priorities: core routing, switching and services, collaboration, architecture and video. But despite "video" being...
Our top story this week was Audrey Watters' report on a survey that asked students how they use technology in the classroom. Almost 300,000 students from kindergarden through 12th grade - along with 43,000 parents, 35,000 teachers, 2,000 librarians, 3,500 administrators - took part in the study.The results show that...
Google announced this morning that it would be "graduating" Hotpot, the restaurant recommendation engine that it launched last November. By "graduating," the company means that the once stand-alone product would become an integrated part of Google Places. What will become of Hotpot? Aside from the name disappearing and its merging...
NFC, or near field communication, is an emerging technology that will power mobile payment systems and mobile wallet solutions, like those in development by Apple, Google, RIM, mobile operators, banks and others. But NFC itself is just a way to send data wirelessly between devices, meaning it can be used...
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