If there was any doubt that mobile and the cloud will eventually converge, Google is putting it to rest. The company today showed off two applications that leverage Google’s back-end infrastructure and its Android OS to bring a powerful new mobile user experience. Read More »
Archive for August 2010
Did you know that the same servers that host your iWeb site can host HTML generated by any app? We’ll take a look at using Jekyll with MobileMe to generate a blog that can be hosted on your MobileMe account. Read More »
Parents of children suffering from extreme autism are turning to the iPad to help their kids. Experts don’t know what causes autism, and parents are desperate to reach out and communicate with their kids. Help has come in an unexpected form — the Apple iPad. Read More »
As need for wireless speed grows, carriers are turning to 3.5G wireless broadband technology called HSPA+. There are 58 HSPA+ networks live across the world. Of the total, 19 were launched in 2010 alone. Another 43 networks are waiting in the wings. Read More »
Sprint today officially introduced the Epic 4G, an Android 2.1 smartphone with a slide-out keyboard and support for both Sprint’s 3G and WiMAX wireless service. Will customers be willing to spend $50 more than the Sprint EVO 4G for a physical keyboard and larger memory card? Read More »
Bazaar Labs, maker of the Miso TV check-in app, has rolled out new features that will allow users to interact with friends and engage more with the programming they watch. The app maker has also announced a partnership with WE TV to drive interest in Bridezillas. Read More »
Y Combinator founder Paul Graham says one of Yahoo’s fatal flaws was that it saw itself as a media company, and got used to pulling in easy money for banner ads. Even though the game has changed, Yahoo now has to follow the path it chose. Read More »
I’ve been using Jumpcut — an open-source Mac clipboard buffering tool that provides access to text that you’ve copied, even if you’ve subsequently copied something else — for a while. It’s super-handy to be able to keep more than one snippet of text in my clipboard. Read More »
Several grassroots organizations are planning a protest at noon tomorrow at Google’s Mountain View campus. The groups plan to protest because the search giant has teamed up with Verizon to offer a compromise on net neutrality that has the potential to create a two-tiered Internet. Read More »
In the cloud storage space, will formerly consumer-centric offerings be able to move into enterprise-level offerings, or will specifically business-focused startups be able to gain sufficient momentum to head them off? There’s a jockeying for position going on among all the vendors. Read More »
All hail the kiosk! This morning Coinstar, which runs businesses around kiosks that count coins and kiosks that rent DVDs, announced that it has invested in ecoATM, a startup that has developed a kiosk for recycling electronics. Read More »
TiVo announced a deal with Cox Communications that will place cable video-on-demand services alongside linear TV programming and online VOD choices. The deal will enable Cox subscribers to purchase TiVo Premiere DVRs at retail locations and hook the devices in to their existing cable services. Read More »
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