Today's roundtable had a couple of mobile and social media app companies that I thought were quite promising. At least at the concept and market analysis level I could resonate with them - although the devil is always in the details. Sean Malatesta started off by presenting Marengo Movies, a...
Joystick Labs announced this week that it is accepting applications for a seed-stage venture fund and accelerator program for independent video game startups.Game developers who participate in Joystick Lab's 12-week accelerator programs will receive seed funding ($6,000 per founder or up to $18,000 per team), mentorship and networking opportunities, office...
In what can only be touted as "better late than never" news, Internet giant Yahoo! is today, at long last, launching its first ever applications designed for Android-based smartphones. There are now a trio of new apps available in the Android Market: a Yahoo! Mail app, Yahoo! Messenger app and...
A group of popular Web device designers briefly meet and draw up a sketch of their newest gadget. Once they all agree, they hit save and they're done. By the end of the day, hundreds of truckloads of their latest Internet of Things device is not only in the hands...
In the age of 1080p HDTVs, when almost every home has at least one computer and state-of-the-art mobile phones are seen in the hands of grade-schoolers, its hard to remember a time when viewing media required a trip to a theater. We've come a long way since those days, but...
Real-time alerts and notifications are a powerful feature being added to more applications every day; the addition of real-time notifications can make a big difference in user experience and peoples' work performance when using apps. Unfortunately, there's not one standard way to easily code these notifications across platforms and there's...
Crowdsourced GPS appWaze has announced a further integration of its service with microblogging and location apps, as well as support for the iPhone's new iOS4. The iPhone version was approved by Apple this afternoon, according to Waze community cartographer Di-Ann Eisnor. "This updated version is fully optimized for the iPhone's...
After many months of rumor and speculation, Hulu announced yesterday that it will be launching a subscription service. Hulu Plus will give users access to more content on more platforms for a monthly fee of $9.99. And while it's surely not the most reliable metric, early reviews from the App...
Mobile analytics and tracking firm AdMob has just released its latest mobile metrics report, a monthly snapshot of the smartphone industry based on data generated by ad requests within its network of 23,000 mobile websites and mobile applications. This current report, the last of its kind, notes the company who...
The battle between HTML5 and Adobe Flash for dominance over video on the Web is likely to end poorly for one of the two, and lately it's been looking worse and worse for Flash. Steve Jobs wrote an open letter to the Web stating why Flash would remain banned from...
The popular web service for movie and TV info known as the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) has just arrived for Android phones in the form of a new mobile application. Like its iPhone sibling, which launched six months prior, the Android application has an optimized user interface for the small...
Location based social network Foursquare announced this afternoon that it's raised $20 million in very high-profile venture capital. We wrote yesterday about why people like to use mobile apps to declare their off-line location: they say it's for serendipitous connections, tracking friends and family, for the gameplay and for recording...
Cisco announced today the Cius, an Android-based seven-inch tablet computer aimed at the enterprise. The device will feature both front and rear-facing cameras, Cisco TelePresence-compatible video conferencing and access to applications such as Cisco Quad, WebEx and AnyConnect Security VPN Client, as well as access to the Android app store....
The rumors about a paid subscription service coming to Hulu have turned out to be true, as the online video hub has announced Hulu Plus - a premium service that will give users access to more content on more platforms for a monthly fee. For $9.99, subscribers will be able...
Alctel-Lucent is acquiring mashup pioneer Programmable Web, a developer favorite, known in social technology circles as the premiere sources for APIs.The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Programmable Web will operate independently of Alcatel-Lucent as a subsidiary of the company. Its service will be available to Alcate-Lucent customers. Founder...
Location based social network Foursquare is the darling of the media's eye these days and appears to be growing very fast. Rumors are growing louder that Netscape co-founder Marc Andreesen's venture capital fund is about to invest in the startup and the company now reports that it sees "100,000 new...
It is intriguing indeed to witness the Technology of the Future giving us a window on the past. We've discovered new ancestors, both biologically and culturally, using lidar, GPS and online mapping. Those discoveries, however, have been made by professionals. Most of us want to interact with history not to...
The U.S. government is finally catching on to the growing trend that - surprise, surprise - people like to use their mobile devices to access the Internet. The only problem is, of course that America's mobile infrastructure is years behind that of other regions around the world, while rapid device...
A lot of speculation was dished out leading up to the launch of the latest iteration of the iPhone, and plenty more has followed since it has started landing in the hands of early adopters. I was one of the lucky few that managed to secure a pre-ordered phone, but...
Users of desktop-to-cloud synchronization service Nomadesk can now edit files in the cloud with Zoho. Nomadesk users can right-click on a document, spreadsheet or presentation on the web-based Nomadesk dashboard and click "edit" to open the file in Zoho. Changes are then synchronized to the user's desktop.The new feature is...
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