Picture this: You're in a new city and forgot to research its art scene before arriving. Does your iPhone have a solution to this first world problem? Thanks to the new app, ArtSpotter, it just might. ArtSpotter was created by UK-based Raphaëlle Heaf, who has worked in the contemporary art...
"The government has a big role to play in Kenya," said Paul Kukubo, CEO of the country's Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Board. "We need to protect the private sector until it can compete."We spoke in Kukubo's office in the Telposta Towers in downtown Nairobi. Out the window, the feathery...
The first time I stood in a Major League Baseball clubhouse was a month after the original iPad came out. My editor at the time was standing next to me and joked how Apple products were like a fever in the MLB. Whenever the newest and coolest was released from...
Google's Go programming language is now supported in Google App Engine for all users. Google made the Go SDK available during I/O this year, but most developers have not been able to take advantage of it yet. You can get started here.Go was created internally at Google starting in 2007,...
Those of you who are familiar with my work know that I do a lot of trend spotting. Some recent trend posts on my blog include There's a Trend To Spot In Groupon's Growth Rate, Customer Service and the Social Web, SaaS Enabled BPO and Near-shoring and U.S. Policy.During this...
Well, it's finally here. After two years of delay and a fresh $100 million round of funding, European music streaming service Spotify launched in the United States yesterday, much to the delight of music geeks, a handful of celebrities and pretty much everyone on Twitter. In addition to a whole...
The incredible success of Kickstarter has demonstrated that alternative crowdfunding platforms can help fund a number of creative projects (over 7,000 projects in the case of Kickstarter). Now a new startup from the U.K. aims to take that model and apply it to the book publishing industry. Unbound is both...
Poet arrested by Bahrain security. After reciting a satirical poem during the Bahraini protests, Ayat Al-Qormezi was arrested. Her parents were tortured by gunmen, who told them their four sons, who had been forced face-down onto the floor, would be murdered before their eyes if they were not told where...
Today we are featuring seven tech companies who announced today that they've raised venture capital to further their ideas and develop technologies that could change the way we live. Within this diverse body of companies, we've got an online pawn shop, a site to order in takeout in Europe, a...
There are many different services that let you sign up to get an email alert when your favorite band is coming to town, but UK-born SongKick keeps innovating and keeps finding more support for its efforts. A 2007 graduate of tech incubator program YCombinator, SongKick has raised $1.8 million in...
Social bookmarking service Delicious is regarded by many as one of the foundational web applications of the current era. Acquired by Yahoo five years ago and now nearly squandered to death, Delicious showed the world how personal utility in the cloud (bookmarking online instead of in your browser) could create...
Etacts, an email add-on that layers social network profiles, conversation history and other relationship management information on top of your email conversations, announced abruptly this morning that it is shutting down its service, deleting all customer data at the end of next month and has "decided to pursue other opportunities."...
The World War II papers of British computer scientist and codebreaker Alan Turing went up for auction today at Christie's in London, but failed to reach the minimum price set by the seller. In an effort to keep those papers at Bletchley Park, the site of the British Government Code...
When Google released Google Buzz in February, there was a backlash. The backlash became, in turn, a lawsuit. That lawsuit has now been settled. In a note to users, Google explained the settlement. "The settlement acknowledges that we quickly changed the service to address users' concerns. In addition, Google has...
Bahraini blogger tortured. Abd El Galil AlSingace, the Bahraini blogger who was arrested in August, has been tortured. He suffered a perforated eardrum after being beaten and is now partially deaf. He has been denied his walking cane, a wheel chair and the medicine he takes for chronic conditions. AlSingace,...
Wikileaks, the wiki-based site for whistle-blowers, has been facing increasing pressure from the U.S. government since its July release of more than 90,000 war documents from the war in Afghanistan. Today, the Guardian is reporting that this pressure has finally hit where it hurts the most - in the pocket...
A research project that aims to develop a standard for universal applications has just received £10 million in funding from the European Union. The project, called Webinos, is being led by the Fraunhofer Institute, the same group that developed the technology behind the ubiquitous music file format MP3. Webinos' end...
If you use Gmail for business and haven't tried out browser plug-in Rapportive, your work life online is not yet complete. The small company behind the must-have software said this weekend that it has raised $1 million from a group of All Star, but unnamed, angel investors. This morning serial...
Brain Computer Interface (BCI) - a technology that creates a direct connection from our brains to our computers - is beginning to reach the market via toys and game controllers. In the process, these thought-controlled sensors are inspiring innovations that, for instance, allow you to call someone on your phone...
The music industry has long been interested in big data, most notably for tracking sales to identify the "Top of the Charts" recording artists. But when it comes to data about the music itself, the industry has no set standard, so labels, retailers, hardware, and online streaming services all annotate...
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