Life360 wins the Android challenge, has big aspirations but has yet to see an Android phone (5)
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With the first mobile devices running Google’s Android coming shortly, the development community at large seems apprehensive about the platform. After all, why develop for something that may or may not work when there is already a hot, new mobile platform out there, Apple’s iPhone, that has proven to be extremely successful? Well, the team behind the life update and emergency messaging application Life360 took the opposite approach. “It was clear Android was going to ...
Sky rockets in flight. Google Maps delight (1)
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One the most important parts of online mapping tools is the satellite imagery that is used. Right now, the images used by Google, Microsoft and Yahoo in rival products are all roughly the same. But Google just bought an exclusive ticket to hitch a ride with a new satellite going up that could make its offering a lot better. Google has signed a deal with satellite imagery company GeoEye for exclusive use of the images ...
Tap Tap Revenge gets new music (and ads) to rock the holiday weekend (1)
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Tap Tap Revenge held the mantle as the most downloaded application on Apple’s App Store for a while. It’s a solid Guitar Hero-like music game that utilizes the iPhone and iPod Touch’s touch screen with the right price: Free. A new update out today could push it back to the top. Version 1.2 contains the option to download a brand new song by the popular artist Everlast. The song, available for free, shows how artists ...
Obama's #1 Fanboy: Pat Buchanan (1)
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It's been a while since I've written anything of a political nature on this site, but it's always Barack Obama that gets me to do it. He's someone who really came on to my radar after his speech at the Democratic convention in 2004. Then I started listening to his podcasts (yes, he had them). I could just tell he was something different in the world of politics.Almost two years ago in my first post ...
Apple’s major multi-touch plans continue to come into focus (6)
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A lot of companies file patents for products they are never going to make. Apple is no exception. But given how many it has filed the past few years for advanced multi-touch technology and devices, it’d be very surprising if a multi-touch-enabled tablet device isn’t coming from the company at some point in the near future. The latest patent filing, uncovered by AppleInsider, is one of the most in-depth yet, showing a maturity in the ...
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Even Fake Holographic Interfaces are Inspiring (1)
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So that iHologram video from the end of last week turned out not to be real, and neither is this next one, but damn if they don't look cool.This is a design/art project using a technology dubbed "holographic shadow" using a "Ringo" interface.Just as with some of the ridiculous and the not-so-ridiculous Apple product mock-ups that make the rounds on the Internet, these types of things inspire people to think about the future of technology, ...
Jaiku comes back with a new TOS and unlimited invites (6)
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The life-streaming site Jaiku has come back online after being down the entire weekend and the first part of this week while it moved to Google datacenters. While the look and feel of the service are exactly the same as before it went down, users were greeted with a shiny new terms of service (TOS) agreement to accept. The big news though is that now users have unlimited invites to send out. Almost immediately after ...
YouTube’s video revolution will be monetized (if the numbers hold) (2)
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The online video sharing site YouTube is a great product with a rich community. To say it has a stranglehold on the online video space would be putting it lightly. Yet, as with most things in the tech world, all anyone seems to ever want to talk about YouTube is its monetization. Today, Google, which bought YouTube for $1.65 billion back in 2006, is doing some talking of its own. In what has to be ...
The iPhone 2.0.2 security flaw — and its temporary fix (2)
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A security flaw in the new iPhone 2.0.2 software was uncovered last night by a MacRumors forum user. To expose the flaw you must have your iPhone password protected. When you turn on the phone and get to the “Enter Passcode” screen, hit the “Emergency Call” button. From here, double click the main iPhone button and you’ll be taken to your phone’s “Favorites” menu. This should not happen. The problem is that from this menu ...
FriendFeed working on a new RSS supplement to speed up data retrieval (4)
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It looks like the rapid fire site updates are about to start again for the social content conversation site FriendFeed. Just a few days after the launch of its new “beta” area, FriendFeed is finalizing a new technology that could help pull content into the site at a much faster rate. The technology, called Simple Update Protocol (SUP) will process updates from the various services that FriendFeed imports faster than it currently does using traditional ...
Apple and Brits argue semantics as iPhone ad is banned (1)
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When I saw the an iPhone advertisement was getting banned in the UK, I assumed it was the one showing ridiculously fast web browsing speeds that no iPhone user had ever seen. I had to laugh when I saw that the actual ad causing controversy basically amounts to a semantics argument. “You’ll never know which part of the Internet you’ll need, which is why all the parts of the Internet are on the iPhone,” a ...
The Apple cartel? Psystar to countersue Apple (2)
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Psystar had a simple idea. It wanted to build a low-cost machine that would run Apple’s Mac OS X operating system. Apple had a simple response: Lawsuit. Now, Psystar is striking back. It will not only answer Apple’s lawsuit, it will meet the computer giant with a countersuit of its own, reports CNET. Psystar’s suit will be based on two federal laws, the Sherman Antitrust Act and the Clayton Antitrust Act. Both of these are ...
Want to bypass iPhone SMS fees for Twitter updates? Get JustUpdate (3)
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SMS (text message) rates in general are ridiculous, but they’re arguably worse for Apple’s iPhone 3G. Whereas the original iPhone included 200 free text messages with your data plan, the 3G data plan includes none and laughably charges you $5 for 200 of them. This is problematic for heavy users of the micro-messaging service Twitter. You see, many Twitter users use SMS to send status updates to the service. Depending on how active you are, ...
Google is neither buying nor running many online display ads, but Microsoft and MySpace are (1)
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Google has become almost ubiquitous with online advertising at this point. But it doesn’t control all facets. Specifically, in terms of display ads, Google is neither running many on its sites or buying much to promote its brand. But some of its rivals are, according to comScore’s new June numbers. Yahoo, AOL and Microsoft all place ahead of Google on the top ad publisher list. These are the sites that run the most display ads. ...
ProofHQ streamlines the creative development process online (1)
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Perhaps the most appealing aspect of the move to cloud-based applications (applications that reside on a server rather than on your computer) is the potential for collaboration. We’re already seeing it on a low level with apps such as Google Docs, but eventually online collaboration will be almost like working right next to someone. ProofHQ hopes to be the application that takes management, proofing and approval of creative projects to the next collaborative level. Using ...
DMCA takedown notice forces Twitter to blacklist Mad Men characters (4)
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The micro-messaging service Twitter tonight suspended the accounts of users don_draper and peggyolson. If those names sound familiar, you’re probably a fan of the hit AMC show Mad Men. Those two Twitter users take their names from two of the main characters on the show, and over the past several weeks had been providing updates, mostly in character from what I could tell. Perhaps that is what Twitter didn’t like about the accounts: They weren’t ...
Google Gears quietly launches beta test for Safari (4)
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Gears is an open source project run by Google which allows users to take online data offline via a web browser plug-in. It can, for example, allow you to read Google Reader feed items even when your computer is connected to the Internet, and soon it will allow you to read your Gmail messages too. Unfortunately, thus far to use it you had to be running either Microsoft’s Internet Explorer or Mozilla’s Firefox browsers. For ...
Top iPhone app Tris: Get it now before takedown blocks fill the screen (1)
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Tetris is one of those games that just works on mobile devices. It worked back on the Nintendo GameBoy, it works just as well now on the iPhone. Case in point: Tris, a variation of the game has been the number one application in Apple’s App Store for the past several days. Tris, however, is not Tetris — it just looks and plays like Tetris. And that’s a problem. (As the developers of the Scrabulous ...
Andreessen invests in and agrees to advise Qik (2)
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Live video streaming from mobile devices is an exciting field in an exciting time. It’s also a pretty crowded field with Qik, Flixwagon and Kyte among others all vying to lead the way. Today, Qik gained two key allies on its side: Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen. The two have made an investment in the video streaming company and both will join its board of advisors. Financial details of the investment were not released, but ...
