Daily Archives: May 27, 2011

6 Help Desk and Customer Service Apps for the iPad

May 27, 2011
6 Help Desk and Customer Service Apps for the iPad

Visit the Qwest resource center for relevant briefs and reports to help you better manage your enterprise. Learn how you can best use green business practices in this report from Qwest: Green IT and Your Business: Boost Your Bottom Line While Being Environmentally Responsible. You probably won’t want to replace all your call center...

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Rainmaker completes your contacts with a single mouse click [$30k API Contest]

May 27, 2011
Rainmaker completes your contacts with a single mouse click [$30k API Contest]

How many address books do you have? Personally, just with Google accounts, I have three and they are also synchronized to my Android device. Almost every entry that I have is incomplete, consisting only of a name and an email address. Sometimes you need more than that. There are great solutions such as Rapportive...

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NYT Reporter Shows the Power of Twitter as Journalism

May 27, 2011
NYT Reporter Shows the Power of Twitter as Journalism

Updated: Anyone who has been following the protests and revolutions in the Middle East for the past few months has probably heard of Andy Carvin, the NPR editor who has been using Twitter to curate news from the region. A number of journalists — both from traditional media and “citizen journalists” — have also...

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The Silicon Valley’s Real Old School Incubator

May 27, 2011
The Silicon Valley’s Real Old School Incubator

These days, it seems like there’s a new incubator for just about every pair of 19-year-olds working on a mobile-payment startup. But long before there was a Y Combinator or a 500 Startups, there was SRI International: the old school, non-profit research and development organization that’s had a hand in the creation of everything from Disneyland...

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How the Smartest Android Keyboard Got Even Smarter

May 27, 2011
How the Smartest Android Keyboard Got Even Smarter

I’ve long recommended SwiftKey as a third-party keyboard for Android smartphones, and many others agree. According to the Android Market, the paid version has enjoyed between 100,000 and 500,000 installs, while the free version has seen between a half-million and a million downloads. The keyboard shows intelligence by predicting the next word before tapping...

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Munch On Me Is A Groupon For Food, Done Right

May 27, 2011
Munch On Me Is A Groupon For Food, Done Right

Munch On Me is a daily deals site for food. But wait, before you click away to a slideshow about hot coders, Munch On Me (Y Combinator Summer class of 2011) has got some features that might just reroute you from relying on the big G for your munchies back to its sweet sweet embrace....

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Hungry? Meet The 26-Year-Old Entrepreneur Who’s Helping To Drive The Street Food Movement

May 27, 2011
Hungry? Meet The 26-Year-Old Entrepreneur Who’s Helping To Drive The Street Food Movement

A recent food truck gathering in San Francisco Image: Angela Rosoff See Also: Ahead Of IPO, Brightcove Launches A Whole New Business Making Apps “Breastaurant” Chains Have Been Killing It Over The Past Decade How Two College Students Found A Niche In Custom Web Analytics Gourmet food trucks may not be trendy enough for...

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The Best iPad Games You’ve Never Played (AAPL)

May 27, 2011
The Best iPad Games You’ve Never Played (AAPL)

Steve Kovach | May 27, 2011, 4:37 PM | 7,274| Image: Matt Rosoff See Also: Google Introduces Google Wallet, Works At Over 300,000 MasterCard PayPass Merchant Locations People Have No Clue How To Use iPad Apps How To Be A One Man Band With Your iPad We all know about top iPad games...

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MOCK-UP: Here’s What The Rumored iPhone Widgets Should Look Like (AAPL)

May 27, 2011
MOCK-UP: Here’s What The Rumored iPhone Widgets Should Look Like (AAPL)

Image: Illustration: Ellis Hamburger Rumors have been swirling about iOS 5 notifications and widgets today, so we thought we’d do a mock-up of how we hope iOS5 widgets will look. We believe that Apple doesn’t want to change things up too much, despite reports that OS5 could be “completely revamped.” iOS users love the...

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Twitter changes fonts, “Who to Follow” and more

May 27, 2011

Gotta say, I’m not keen on the thinner slideout pane. I liked it the way it was. Two other changes of note: The “Add to list” button – with an icon that had lines – has been removed and is now rolled into the main options button… which is no longer a little cog...

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