Google CEO Eric Schmidt's bombshell that the huddled masses "aren't ready" for the questions that new technology raises was one of several bon mots he dropped in this week's top story. We also continued our exploration of the significant Internet trends of 2010: Wood gets smart on the Internet of...
This is so cool it makes me a little sick to my stomach with excitement. Well, first I should explain. I came across this service called Poligraft in our Tips folder. Tech-->government? Seemed right up my alley. So I'm checking it out. Think of this post as a kind of...
Say you're sitting at a bar in Brooklyn but you're thinking about what's happening tonight in Greenwich Village. You look at Foursquare to see if any friends are checked-in anywhere interesting, but come up empty handed and the trending topics only show the hot spots around you. Looks like you're...
PayPal's mobile application for Android was updated this week with support for a new feature: bump technology. Actually, Bump Technologies. Bump is a startup that lets you share information between two smartphones by tapping the phones together. The company already has its own mobile application, which lets you share contact...
Microsoft Live Labs has released an early version of a free tool for easy sharing of high-resolution Web- images. Enter a URL at http://zoom.it and it will spit out a short link and embed code for a basic but sleek image viewer that lets you zoom around an image or...
Apple added a new section for free apps to the App Store today titled "Try Before You Buy," reminiscent of the excuse made by those who pirate apps.App developers figured out a lot time ago that offering free or "lite" versions of apps could drive more users to the paid...
This week's roundtable had some very interesting businesses. Three out of the five that presented are going to be featured on the 1M/1M Incubation Radar shortly, and a fourth will be featured on Deal Radar. Here's a brief recap, before we do comprehensive profiles on them.First up was Avinash Gavande...
The United Arab Emirates and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have both elected to ban the Blackberry, More specifically, it is a pseudo-crime to use Blackberry's messaging and other services. 18-year-old Emirati Badr Ali Saiwad Al-Dhohori has been imprisoned since the 15th of July. I suppose it might still be...
Google and Verizon are said to be "nearing an agreement that could allow Verizon to speed some online content to Internet users more quickly if the content's creators are willing to pay for the privilege," according to an article yesterday in the New York Times. The move would allow companies...
First Orion, maker of a popular call-blocking and caller identification app for BlackBerry smartphones, is today revealing a new Android application which promises similar features. The app called PrivacyStar lets Android users block calls, report violators of the Do Not Call law and utilize the real Caller ID services. Although...
Every new people that come upon a technology and engage it provide another set of eyes on how that tech develops and is used. "Diversity" (for lack of a much better word) provides something practical, a multiplication of available solution sets. For that reason, having a "Native Web" as part...
The charm of small museums is a visitor's ability to apprehend a total, if limited, picture of, say the history of dolls, or the life of the town of Brownsville. The charm of large museums is in the branching multiplicity of their offerings, the ability to enter a metropolis of...
Last night the Founder Showcase held its quarterly event in Mountain View, featuring pitches by ten seed-stage startups, as well as talks by Maholo CEO Jason Calacanis and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. The Founder Showcase is an open start-up pitch and networking event, hosted by TheFunded, a community...
Today CNET reports that the European Commission has selected iPhones and HTC phones over BlackBerrys, striking another blow to Reasearch in Motion. This follows Saudi Arabia announcing it will ban BlackBerry service starting Friday. The United Arab Emirates and other countries are threatening to ban BlackBerry services as well.The EC...
Over a year ago, we wrote an article detailing the many reasons you should jailbreak the iPhone. We listed things like the ability to record video, zoom in on photos, upload videos to YouTube and customize your iPhone's background with themes, among other things. With the release of the iPhone...
Michae Robertson of MP3tunes.com, the new functionality lets people stream music to their Apple devices by using the online storage service that comes with iDisk, a service similar to Google Docs.The move is interesting for several reasons:Apple is feeling the heat. Google is reported to be prepping to launch a...
In December of 2009 mobile device management vendor Good Technology began supporting iPhones and Android devices. Since then the companies says 1,500 enterprises have deployed iPhones and Android devices using Good for Enterprise, around 43% of Good's overall deployments. Good has described the monthly growth of both platforms as "meteoric."...
As of tonight, every one of Microsoft Hotmail's 350 million users now has access to the newest version of the webmail service. And you know what? It looks great. Early adopter snobs have long mocked anyone still using Hotmail, but the service has three times as many people using it...
Twitter released this cute recruiting video last week, "Meet the Class of Twitter HQ," which features Twitter employees engaging in exciting things like "mobile," "research," "infrastructure," and "twideokinetics," while wearing semi-serious faces in the style of a scene from the classic Wes Anderson-directed movie Rushmore.The video also contains numerous references...
After months of speculation, Research in Motion has official announced the BlackBerry Torch 9800 will be available on August 12. There are no surprises in the announcement, as the BlackBerry OS6 based slider has been extensively covered in the run-up to the announcement. The phone is expected to compete with...
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