Where I’ve Been, a popular Facebook application that lets users chart past and future travel plans and discuss them with friends, has gotten an additional round of funding from the co-founders of Groupon, a group-buying service. Where I’ve Been says it has 9 million registered users. Read More »
Archive for April 2010
Winners of this year’s Millennium Technology Prize include the inventor of “a variety of solar cells that perform artificial photosynthesis using dyes,” meant to be “cheaper and easier to make and use than their silicon-based counterparts.” — Ars Technica Read More »
Fred Wilson will be giving a talk at the 99% conference later this week entitled “10 Ways To Be Your Own Boss.” Prior to the talk, Wilson has provided a preview of his presentation, which gives his views on the various categories of entrepreneur. Read More »
Limelight Shows Off Adobe’s HTTP Dynamic Streaming; at NAB this week, Limelight and DirecTV provided a joint demo of Adobe’s new HTTP Dynamic Streaming technology, which combines the benefits of Flash streaming with the benefits of HTTP delivery. (Limelight blog) Irdeto Secures Adobe Flash Access 2.0;… Read More »
At its first-ever developers conference — known as Chirp — which is being held in San Francisco today, Twitter co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams provided some hard numbers behind the growth and size of the social network. Here are some of the most important ones. Read More »
Ford Motor Chairman Bill Ford weighed in today on efforts to go beyond electric vehicles, as well as Ford’s future as a mobility provider, the challenge from China and why he thinks biofuels still have legs. Read More »
Once again, it pays to be first, but having free TV content probably didn’t hurt either: ABC announced today that it has seen more than 212,000 downloads of its iPad application ever since the Apple tablet went on sale less than two weeks ago.… Read More »
Ackerman thinks that something being largely overlooked amidst the tsunami of iPad hype is what he deems its biggest potential “achievement” — that Apple’s touchscreen quasi-PC might have finally struck a fatal blow to the longstanding standard of computer input devices, the computer mouse. Read More »
Intel and Nokia are attempting to gather up developer support with developer workshops touting the benefits of the MeeGo platform for handsets and netbooks. All the right pieces are there — cross-platform tools and app stores — but will developers take the bait? Read More »
Are you expecting, elderly or prone to have a few beers while watching a soccer match? Then you shouldn’t watch it in 3-D, according to a warning label Samsung is distributing with its 3-D TV sets (hat tip to High-Def Digest). The… Read More »
Twitter will soon give developers access to streams of user activity on its system, and allow them to create their own annotations to send along with tweets, Twitter’s director of platform Ryan Sarver said at the company’s Chirp conference, being held in San Francisco today. Read More »
The BlackBerry Bold 9700 finally gains support for SlingPlayer Mobile software, allowing you to watch live television on your handset. Unlike some versions of the software, this edition isn’t limited to Wi-Fi usage — you can enjoy streaming video over 3G too. Read More »
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