CloudContacts, a startup aiming to make the information stranded on business cards more accessible, today announced integration with Twitter’s @Anywhere platform. Read More »
Archive for April 2010
For those of you keen on the Nissan LEAF electric sedan, you have one more day to wiggle into the first group of buyers. The automaker plans to begin accepting early reservations on Tuesday, while general reservations won’t open until May 15. Read More »
It’s Saturday morning at the eBay/PayPal headquarters, and developers are busy preparing for the second day of iPad development at the first official iPadDevCamp (brought to us by the same people who previously organized three iPhoneDevCamp events). Read More »
As much as we hear about virtualization, it can be surprising to get actual numbers on deployments and realize how low they remain — just 18-19 percent of workloads on enterprise x86 servers have actually been virtualized, according to new data released by Lazard Capital Markets. Read More »
Two years after a series of cable cuts disrupted Internet and telephony operations in Europe, the Middle East and other parts of the world, word comes of yet another outage. SeaMeWe-4, a cable that connects Europe to Middle East has been cut. Read More »
Update: Please note that this replaces an earlier version in which the 2009 Unit Sales figures presented were incorrect. Related content from GigaOM Pro (sub req’d): The App Developer’s Guide to Choosing a Mobile Platform Infographic by Column Five Media Read More »
Good news for cricket fans: YouTube is making the semifinal and final matches of this year’s Indian Premier League cricket tournament available live for all viewers, including those in the U.S. The IPL’s final four matches of the season, which begin on… Read More »
Late last year, I moved from my outside office and into my home office full-time. After almost twenty years, I went from taking a twenty-minute commute to a big, fancy building to walking down the stairs and into my well-appointed back room office. Read More »
Could Apple’s iPad tablet be disruptive to how people will one day manage energy consumption in their homes? This morning in Hannover, Germany, startup Visible Energy plans to show off its home energy management focused iPad application (see screen shots below). Read More »
Timed perfectly with the Boston Marathon is today’s launch of RunKeeper for Android. I use this app to track my workouts and have them automatically mapped online for a training history. There’s even a live broadcast feature so friends and family can “watch” you move. Read More »
Apple has announced that the 3G model of the iPad will be made available on May 7. News of the launch comes following an update to the Apple online store, which finally details the U.S. availability of the 3G capable device. Read More »
IBM Research has launched a companion to its Many Eyes data-visualization service called Many Bills, which provides a visual interface for federal legislation. The company says the idea behind the project is to make it easier to understand complicated bills that run to thousands of pages. Read More »
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