Terms that describe any new technology can be vague and annoying, especially when marketers start adding a bit of spin.So we decided to ask for your feedback to see what you think are the worst ones out there in the world of the cloud and we put together a weekly...
Apple.StackExchange is the latest topical site to launch in Beta from the StackExchange network. It seems likely to become one of the most popular of the now 25 well-designed Q&A sites, joining the legacy site serving developers (StackOverflow) and new sites on topics ranging from cooking to gaming to WordPress...
Food recommendation service Foodspotting announces today that it has closed a $750,000 round of seed funding led by Felicis Ventures, with participation from 500 Startups, High Line Venture Partners, Zelkova Ventures and 2020 Ventures. Today's announcement follows the launch of an updated website, a new iPhone app, and media partnerships...
Modern supermarkets often offer close to 100,000 items on their store shelves. Finding the one thing you are looking for can often be a hassle, especially if you prefer to turn your search for a dozen eggs into an adventure instead of just asking a store employee. Now, with the...
TIME has today released its "50 Best Websites of 2010," an annual list to the best of the Web, which aims to include everything from "the big hitters to the unknowns." Alongside obvious choices like The Onion, Wikileaks, National Geographic, Mayo Clinic and TED, the list has properly outed some...
YouTube Channels, Mobile Apps and Barcoded Pages In partnership with Entertainment Weekly, YouTube just announced the launch of a specialized site for getting a sneak peek at the new television season which includes "bite-sized previews of programs, reality TV, comedies, dramas and more." The site, which is essentially just an...
Netflix has finally launched its highly anticipated free mobile application for the iPhone and iPod Touch and it's available now for download in the iTunes App Store. Like its iPad counterpart, the app lets subscribers stream TV shows and movies straight to a handheld device, either over Wi-Fi or 3G....
The piracy rates for apps on the iPad may be much higher than on the iPhone, if one developer's report is any indication.Developer Vladimir Roth said 50 percent of copies of the game Aqua Globs HD were pirated on the iPad, compared to an estimated five percent on the iPhone....
During an event at Alpha Broadcasting's new Bing Lounge in downtown Portland today, Microsoft announced the launch of its first hyperlocal Bing product: a food cart finder that provides Portland's food cart-crazy population with access to menus, directions and reviews for over 250 food carts. While this is obviously a...
Apple acquired the military-technology spin-off, mobile personal assistant app called SIRI this Spring, but SIRI isn't the only consumer startup cut from the cloth of the $200 million DARPA investment in an artificial intelligence project called CALO.The next SRI/CALO app to launch may be TrapIt, a news feed reading and...
Last week Sarah Perez reported that a game called Tap Snake, available in Android Market, was actually a mostly harmless piece of spyware. I took to the opportunity to test a few of the anti-malware apps available on the market: antivirus free from droidSecurity, Lookout, Symantec's Norton Mobile Security for...
Five years ago, "social" was the next great paradigm, and sure enough, today social is everywhere and everything is social. Facebook's most recent announcements capitalize on this ubiquity and position the company as the hub of a system with an almost infinite number of spokes.We are today with virtual personal...
The licensing system Google implemented to protect the applications found in its Android Market has been cracked, only a month after it debuted. Google's "Licensing Service for Android," designed to protect against unauthorized use of paid Android applications, was released late July for all versions of the Google Android mobile...
Personalized news recommendations on the go - that's the dream of many an online news nerd and the startups that would serve them. One strong entrant into this field is My6Sense, a well-designed, venture-backed, Israeli company that uses implicit behavioral data from users to recommend the most relevant content in...
Facebook made a huge splash last week with the official announcement of Places, the social networking site's stab at a mobile location-based feature similar to Foursquare and Gowalla.While the feature is still being rolled out to everyone, the potentially huge significance for small businesses is hard to miss.What makes Places...
Fans of "old media" who treasure the sensation of flipping through inky newsprint have argued against the customized curation of Internet news. As they see it, this eliminates the chance of discovering a story or topic you didn't know you were looking for. However, the Internet has been known to...
Facebook launched its mobile location feature last week, called Places, and just as the company deserves - there was intense scrutiny of the new feature's privacy settings. It turns out that you can check-in friends as being at the same location you are in. That's a new and perhaps counter-intuitive...
You've got a new email! Holy smokes am I going to get pinged a lot if I turn on the newly announced Gmail and Google Calendar push notifications on the Google Mobile iPhone app. Google just announced the new feature and it's a logical one, but it also seems like...
Appolicious, the website known for its mobile application recommendations, has today launched a revamped Android-focused offering at AndroidApps.com, complete with an accompanying mobile application. The Yahoo partner, which originally debuted back in fall of 2009, has consistently offered a useful service that digitizes "word of mouth" recommendations, allowing you to...
When Facebook introduced us to Facebook Places last week, it rolled out a new version of the iPhone app to bring the new feature to many of its mobile users. While Places took center stage, a number of smaller features and tweaks were added to the latest iPhone app, not...
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