The first dual-core Android tablets only arrived in February, but Nvidia is already showing off an improved quad-core chip that’s expected to power tablets by August. The system-on-a-chip, codenamed “Kal-El,” has four computer cores and a dozen graphics processors that will offer a huge performance boost in mobile devices. Nvidia announced the chip in...
Daily Archives: May 29, 2011
Rosebud
I’m a creature of habit, of habits I create to push myself forward. When Twitter appeared, I knew it was a habit that would grab a hold of not just my generation but many others. In fact, it grabbed a hold of the notion of generations and twisted it into something special: a generation...
Making Music and Dance Out of Stars
The night sky has inspired people to create from the moment we as a species could see it above us. Shamans, poets, story-tellers and painters have been impelled to translate what they saw, or how they felt, as the vast bowl of the starry sky turned over them. Nothing’s changed except the technology available...
Users Say They’re More Likely To Buy If A Business Answers Their Question On Twitter
Currently I am not in Cancun. The reason I am not in Cancun is out of my control (an over three hour Virgin delay on the tarmac at JFK caused me to miss my connecting USAirways flight at SFO). I spent a good part of those three plus plane-trapped hours bitching on Twitter, asking...
Why Mango Matters
The refrain that ran through the minds of every person watching Microsoft’s big Mango-coming-out-party this past week, as the company finally took down the curtain and showed off the future of its nascent mobile platform, mimicked the immortal words of Tychus Findlay: ‘Hell, it’s about time.’ It might be hard to imagine, but Windows Phone 7 has...
Flashback: Two Years Ago, Twitter Killed A Feature — The One They Just Added Back
This past Thursday, Twitter rolled out a new small feature that garnered quite a bit of positive buzz. Essentially, they now allow you to see what other users see when they look at Twitter. In other words, if you click on the “Following” area in my profile, you can see the main tweet stream...
Netflix For Pandas
This guest post was written by Ethan Kurzweil. Kurzweil is a Vice President with Bessemer Venture Partners in Menlo Park, California. He works with Internet companies of all types, including Playdom, Zoosk, Crowdflower, Twilio, adap.tv, Reputation.com, Skybox Imaging, and OpenCandy. You can find him on twitter at @ethankurz. The views expressed in this post...
No, Twitter Is Not a Replacement For Journalism
Updated: In the wake of a number of events, including the use of Twitter as a real-time reporting tool by New York Times writer Brian Stelter during the aftermath of the recent tornado in Missouri, media theorist and journalism professor Jeff Jarvis has written a post about how the “article” or traditional news story...
ArtFinder Brings Recommendations and Image Recognition to the Art World
Recommendation engines have changed the way we think about – and the way we purchase – music, movies, and books. Do you like the Beastie Boys’ new album? Then check out Danger Mouse’s latest. Do you like Guillermo del Toro films? Then be sure to watch Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s movies. However, there’s been no comparable...
3D Printing Conserves Earliest Communications Tech
There is very little in the way of research into the human past that does not now take advantage of the web, mobile technology and other scientific advances of the last several decades. One of the successful experiments with the greatest wow factor is 3D printing. It has been used to create a full-size...