The tablet space continues to heat up with Microsoft stating tablets are on track for this year. The folks behind Evernote have released ritePen 4.0 in anticipation of these tablets. This program brings finger handwriting and touch control to any Windows 7 touch system. Read More »
Archive for July 2010
Greenpeace is lauding Apple while chastising Dell this morning. The do-gooders sent out a note pointing out that, while Apple’s iPhone’s are free of chemicals, Dell still hasn’t implemented a previous commitment to eliminate chemicals by the end of 2009. Read More »
With its new Windows Phone 7 platform, Microsoft didn’t just revamp the operating system code and the user interface. For the first time ever, the company is finally embracing its vast ecosystem of services, making them native to the new handsets due out this holiday season. Read More »
A preview of BlackBerry OS 6 shows vast improvement for Research In Motion, but it is very Apple-like in look and feel. That’s good because RIM may have “caught up” but if that’s all the company has done, will it be enough to increase market share? Read More »
Enter Bearhug, a new “customer engagement platform” that provides businesses with something better than a basic support ticket customer feedback system; an app that enables them to hear what customers are experiencing and saying and actually do something about it. Read More »
Attendees of the inaugural VidCon conference last weekend were largely on the young side, but watching fans interact with their favorite YouTube creators made it clear that entertainment is changing, with audiences expecting a greater level of connection with creators than ever before. Read More »
Amazon today said it would now also offer high-performance computing through Cluster Compute Instances, which use more powerful processors and clustered nodes to help get around some of the latency issues associated with distributed computing. Amazon could advance HPC while also promoting specialized clouds. Read More »
The clean energy financing programs known as PACE have been falling to pieces lately, due to the decisions of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Now those moves are knee-capping innovative startups that had been looking to use PACE to boost energy infrastructure deployments. Read More »
Booyah had its first hit last year with MyTown, the real-world Monopoly-like game for the iPhone. So the stakes were high when the company looked to move to another platform — nobody wants to be a one-trick pony. But in stealth, Booyah already has Facebook down. Read More »
Online video site Vimeo has teamed up with Creative Commons to allow its users to easily add licensing and define usage rights for videos they upload. With Creative Commons licenses, Vimeo users can allow others to use, perform, distribute or make derivative videos from their originals. Read More »
The Cheezburger Network, which never met a meme it wasn’t afraid to aggregate, has another experiment in store. Instead of captioning pictures of cats, though, the new channel tackles a genre left previously to hidden camera shows and MTV’s Jackass: reality comedy. Read More »
The media gives credit to Google for coining the phrase “superphone,” but that is factually not correct. The phrase has been in use since 2007. In 2008, a GigaOM guest columnist described the superphone at our Mobilize conference and we have often used the term as… Read More »
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