Internet blocked in Tripoli. According to journalist Lisa Goldman, who is in touch with several sources in a position to know, the Internet is being blocked in Libya's capital city of Tripoli. Long-distance land-line telephone service from the city is also down and mobile service appears interrupted, although that has...
Editor's note: This is the first in a two-part series on the advantages that cloud computing brings to the machine-to-machine space. It was first published as a white paper by Ken Fromm. Fromm is VP of Business Development at Appoxy, a Web app development company building high scale applications on...
Last night Salesforce.com announced version 3.0 of its ServiceCloud product. Today at the Cloudforce event in New York City CEO Marc Benioff revealed more about the new version. Most importantly, ServiceCloud is transforming into a unified communications system for customer support by integrating VOIP and video conferencing technologies - including...
Twitter has just released a fairly substantial update to its iOS applications. There are some nice new features here: a cleaner interface for composing your Tweets, an easier tool for uploading photos, auto-shortening for links (to the official t.co shortener), and autocomplete for usernames and hashtags. It also appears to...
The iPad 2 includes a camera built in that you can use for video conferencing. It has built-in tethering for embedded hotspots. It has WiFi and 3G. It has AirPlay for streaming media to your Apple TV.But what does it not have? For one, it lacks wireless synchronization. There is...
Microsoft is joining the coupon craze popularized by sites like Groupon and LivingSocial with the launch of a new service called Bing Deals. The program is not an in-house creation built from scratch, but is being made available through a partnership between Microsoft and The Dealmap, a deal-tracking service that...
Yobongo, the iPhone app that "makes it super fun and easy to chat with people nearby," has finally gone live in the iTunes App Store. After a month in beta testing, Yobongo has shown itself to be a well-designed, functional mobile chat room. Now, just one thing remains to be...
Apple has always been popular in education, embraced by school teachers and tech coordinators for its ease-of-use for students, for its better selection of educational software, and for its more reliable hardware and operating system. Schools that went with Macs decades ago have stayed with Apple, even while the rest...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is opening a new data center in Tokyo, its fifth overall and second in Asia.The new AWS data center is noteworthy as we are seeing a number of new initiatives to open data centers in countries around the world that provide an infrastructure with the capability...
Chomp for Android is a new release from Chomp, a company's whose search engine for iPhone apps launched last year. Available as both an online search engine and downloadable application, Chomp offers an attractive user interface for finding new Android applications which improves on the official Android Market application in...
Apple CEO Steve Jobs took to the stage in Cupertino today to announce the second version of the iPad, the follow up to the first version that's sold over 15 million units. As the press has long speculated the iPad 2 will be thinner and faster, will come equipped with...
At this week's Game Developer Conference in San Francisco, Unity Technologies made its Unity Android software commercially available to developers who want to port their existing iOS titles to the Android platform. According to the company, the process of porting a game from iOS to Android can be as simple as...
Today Nielsen is reporting that Google's Android mobile operating system (OS) has beat out RIM BlackBerry and Apple iOS to become the number one mobile OS in terms of consumer market share in the U.S. Android has now reached 29% market share, compared with RIM's 27% and Apple's 27%. However,...
Nokia today further strengthened its Qt offering by officially launching Qt Quick and releasing updates to other Qt product family members. Since the Feb 11th announcement of Nokia Choosing MicroSoft Platform for SmartphonesContinue reading Nokia updates its Qt lineup. No funeral here.
A report this morning circulating the Web states that Google's rollout of in-app payments support for Android applications has been delayed until May 2011. If true, this would not be the first delay for the system, which was expected to launch in Q4 2010, but was pushed back to Q1...
Few events cause such widespread speculation and exuberance as an Apple product announcement, and the company has scheduled one for tomorrow, March 2. Apple is expected to announce the iPad 2, the first upgrade to its massively popular tablet. Many of the rumors circulating about the iPad 2 involve the...
We're starting another day at IBM Pulse and today the discussion moves to how smart technologies are getting integrated into business and the world of smarter cities. We'll look at this by exploring the meaning as it relates to virtualization and cloud computing.We will look at how these businesses are...
An update to the Android mobile operating system at last delivers the ability to take screenshots without needing to root your phone. The latest version of Gingerbread (version 2.3.3) has introduced changes that will permit applications to take advantage of this new functionality. However, it won't be a feature of...
Evernote is releasing a completely redesigned app for iPhone and iPod Touch today (iTunes link). Noting that its iPhone app was first released the same day as Apple launched the iTunes App Store, Evernote says it's learned a lot about what it takes to make a great app. And equipped...
Live video viewing and broadcasting service UStream appears set to unveil a dramatic update to its iPhone app, the first update the app has seen in many months. UStream, a deep-pocketed gamble on the future, really needs a better iPhone app. This new version looks a lot better; these changes...
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