"Grief brought to numbers cannot be so fierce, For he tames it who fetters it in verse." -- John DonneIn advance of National Poetry Month, Publishers Weekly has published an essay by Craig Morgan Teicher on a significant obstacle in the move toward e-publishing. Well, maybe it's not significant. It's...
Due to the popularity of smartphones and tablets, some say we are entering the "post-PC era." Thanks to these new devices, the desktop computer no longer has a monopoly on our work lives. But as we use more devices, how can we maintain consistent access to our applications and data...
Several years ago, before the Web had become as ever-present as it is now, Wal-Mart was the shining example of a future where inanimate objects communicated, aka the Internet of Things. The company had a plan to implement RFID tags to better optimize its supply chain. The problem? The RFID...
The video-sharing website Vimeo has finally released an iPhone app (iTunes link). And it's totally worth the wait. The new app doesn't just allow you to watch videos on your iPhone and share them to various social networks, but lets you actually edit the video as well.The app is well-designed...
Virtualization is so common now that it is rare to find an enterprise that is untouched by the technology.It is starting to appear as organically as any technology does when people need it to get the work done. There may be any variety of virtualization technologies on the desktop, the...
Hot on the heels of a phenomenally successful release of the desktop version of Firefox 4, Mozilla has just launched an Android version of the browser.If you're a Firefox user and an Android owner, then the browser's worth downloading as it brings the Firefox sync, giving you access to your...
Whenever I'm checking my email, one of two things can happen. I get an email, click on a link, and 20 minutes later I'm not sure how I ended up on Facebook but yes, I would love to attend a dinner party next Thursday. If I'm truly task-focused, however, I'll...
No, that's not a typo. Analysts at IDC are now forecasting that the Windows Phone mobile operating system will be the number two smartphone platform by 2015. And Android will be number one. "Android is poised to take over as the leading smartphone operating system in 2011 after racing into...
Amazon has just launched a suite of music products that allow users to store their tracks online and them stream them over the Web or to any Android device courtesy of the Amazon MP3 mobile application. The launch has the tech world abuzz, not only because Amazon beat Apple and...
Google has added several new tours of historic sites in Google Street View, the service which gives Web surfers a street-level view of their surroundings using Google Maps. It's now offering virtual tours of historic sites, including popular landmarks, palaces, monuments and castles located in Italy and France.Starting today, you...
Intuit built a NFC-enabled version of its GoPayment mobile payment processing system over two years ago, says Omar Green, the company's Director of Strategic Mobile Initiatives. The NFC version was built during developers 10% unstructured time - the time employees are given to work on unassigned projects they're interested in...
Update: Amazon has now launched the service described below, under the name Amazon Cloud Drive.Amazon is preparing a music locker service, a website where you'll be able to listen to music you've uploaded from your local collection (or otherwise proven you've bought) now streaming from any computer with a web...
CHARGE Anywhere, a mobile payments company and gateway provider, has introduced a system that enables the Google Nexus S phone to function as an NFC-enabled mobile payments terminal. Using a mobile application downloaded to the device, merchants can accept NFC payments using just their Nexus S smartphone. An optional printer...
Apple has announced it will hold its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) June 6-10 at Moscone West in San Francisco. During the five-day event, Apple will introduce the next versions of both its desktop and mobile operating systems, Mac OS and iOS, respectively. It will also offer app demonstrations and...
Over the last few months, Evernote has rolled out new versions of its most popular apps, with redesigns to iPhone, Android, Windows, and Mac. And now it's finally time to turn to the Web version of Evernote, in what will be its first major redesign since Evernote launched.While there's been...
Were you tired of free, data-based messaging with apps like Beluga or GroupMe? Were you over quick and easy location sharing? In-line mobile image sharing? Push notifications? Then worry not, because Disco has come along to take away all the frills and leave your group messaging experience without any of...
Less than two weeks after Visa's announcement that it was launching its own peer-to-peer digital payment system, American Express is getting in on the game as well. The credit card company today unveiled Serve, its new digital payment and commerce platform.Users will be able to send or receive money from...
On Thursday we interviewed the much-talked-about CEO of Color, Bill Nguyen, and the story ended up being our top post of the week. Color is the location-based photo-sharing app that raised $41 million before it even launched. That price tag - along with the underwhelming first impression the app makes...
The wiki turns16 today. How far it has come since that day 16 years ago when Ward Cunningham created a Web page that anyone could edit.Today, we see the evidence of that pioneering work in all facets of the Web and the emerging app ecosystem.In the 1990s, there was a...
Renee James, Senior Vice President, <a href=" alt="" />Intel, announces the tablet user experience at Mobile World Congress 2011. She talks about the unique intuitive user experience that tablet PC users will benefit from and points to a growing eco-system of developers, 38,000 and climbing who are already dedicated to...
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