PocketGear today acquired Handango, which was founded in 1999 and became a pioneer distributor of smartphone apps. The pick-up underscores just how dramatically the space has evolved in the last few years thanks to the emergence of Apple’s App Store and other distributors. Read More »
Archive for February 2010
A few months ago, I looked at email client Postbox. I found it an interesting enough app then, but a new release for the Mac brings even more feature additions. If you passed on Postbox earlier, now’s the time to give it a second look. Read More »
Will you be touching a capacitive display to run Microsoft Windows this year? LG Display thinks you might and its 13.3-inch in-cell touch screen was just certified with Microsoft’s Windows 7 Touch Logo. Here’s why that logo is so important. Read More »
Zoho today announced support for Facebook Connect, which means you can now access its entire suite of applications using your Facebook account. If you don’t already have a Zoho account, then you can sign up with your Facebook ID. Read More »
To deliver the promised benefits of the smart grid –- stability, seamless interconnectivity, real-time information for customers and grid operators –- the country’s aging, isolated AC grids will have to be replaced by a robust new transmission network. And that future dream looks like it will… Read More »
Lenovo has been busy since the CES in January, and have announced refreshed models in the ThinkPad line. The x201 series gets beefier processors, and the Tablet PC model gets a trackpad. The massive dual-screen x701ds also gets a refresh while keeping that second slide-out screen. Read More »
Hooked Media has launched a social-gaming platform called Yoo-Mee that is designed to allow casual games played on Facebook and elsewhere to be embedded in any website and also played via mobile devices. The platform is a “social wrapper” for games, says CEO Prita Uppal. Read More »
An FCC survey released this morning indicates that cost concerns and a lack of digital literacy are the primary reasons one-third of Americans don’t have high-speed broadband at home. The FCC is addressing cost concerns, but it can’t drum up demand for broadband on its own. Read More »
Google Earth has landed on Android 2.1 and it’s a stunner to view. Plus there are new features that make it even better. But it’s hard to track this and all of the other Android apps, so I found a potential solution for that problem. Read More »
Jesse Schell, founder of Schell Games and former creative director of the Disney’s Imagineering Virtual Reality Studio, at the DICE 2010 conference gave a presentation about the future of games. He could very well be talking about the future of technology itself. Watch the video. Read More »
Every once in a while, a service or feature comes along that crystallizes everything people love and hate about the Internet. ChatRoulette is definitely one of those services. Plenty has been written already about the new social tool, which is a little… Read More »
Twitter disclosed earlier today that it has crossed 50 million tweets per day. That’s a stat with a direct equivalent: Facebook status updates. As of earlier this month, Facebook had 60 million status updates per day. Read More »
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