Perhaps the most annoying, niggling problem that remains in the Windows Phone 7 platform today is the lack of ability for a user to take a screenshot. You might think that something so simple would have been officially corrected, but you would be wrong. Happily, at the hands of the excellent homebrew community, a...
Daily Archives: May 27, 2011
Startup Open 2011 Kicks Off Search for Most Promising New Companies
Attention startups: Now’s a good time to be on your best behavior. The entrepreneurship-focused Kauffman Foundation nonprofit is officially on the hunt for the 50 most promising startups from around the world for its second annual “Startup Open” competition. The Startup Open is a part of the Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW), a Kauffman Foundation...
oDesk CEO Gary Swart gives the keys to freelance success
If you only looked at the numbers then being a freelancer is probably one of the most rewarding, secure jobs that you’ll find. Based on statistics from freelance powerhouse oDesk, money earned by freelancers has increased 325% since 2009 and the hours worked have increased 211% for the same. But that’s not the whole...
What If Everyone on Twitter Read the Same Book?
Social activity around books and reading used to be limited to Oprah-style book clubs or the occasional reading by an author, but social tools like Twitter and Facebook have amplified and extended the ability to discuss and recommend books in new directions. Now Jeff Howe, the author and journalism professor who coined the term...
Why Samsung’s Wi-Fi Galaxy Tab 10.1 Will Outsell 3G Models
Folks that have already decided on Samsung’s biggest Honeycomb tablet still have one more choice to make: Will their Galaxy Tab 10.1 have an integrated mobile broadband radio or not? According to an FCC filing found by Engadget, the tablet model GT-P7310, already known to be a Wi-Fi only tablet, has undergone device testing, which...
Report: Apple’s Cloud Music Service Will Mirror and Augment Your Library
Apple’s hard work at winning over record labels may well be rewarded, according to Bloomberg BusinessWeek. The publication says Apple’s upcoming cloud music service will offer the ability to scan your hard drive, and then mirror your music collection on its own servers, according to three people “briefed on the talks” between Apple and...
Facebook Admits It Doesn’t Know Whether The Emails From The Guy Who Says He Owns 50% Of The Company Are Fake
Facebook has filed its response to the lawsuit from an upstate New York wood-pellet salesman named Paul Ceglia who says he owns half the company. Facebook again blasted Ceglia as “an inveterate scam artist” and denounced the lawsuit as a fraud on the court. But, far more interesting, the company also admitted that it...
Museum project lets you control a human from your browser
grey box for me as well. would it be a Mac problem? And no way to chat with the guide… :-/ Article source: TNW http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheNextWeb/~3/gxatNszKOBw/
Apache, Microsoft Take Baby Steps Toward Open Clouds
The dream of open cloud computing took a couple of small steps forward in the past 24 hours with Apache promoting the Libcloud project to top-level status and with Microsoft releasing a new version of its software development kit for PHP applications on its Windows Azure platform. However, although both moves do constitute noteworthy...
Can Ineze Really Make Finding the Right Product Easy?
There are a few areas that startups can’t resist trying to fix, despite the fact that almost every attempt almost inevitably ends up crashing and burning. Take online music, where dozens of failures in previous generations haven’t stopped the likes of Rdio, MOG and Spotify trying to make it work this time around. Or...