There are plenty of pronouncements about “the future of the book” when it comes to the increasing popularity of e-books and the steady release of new digital literature apps. Indeed, the ability to add video, voice-over, animation, and annotation all point to the great potential when literature becomes electronic, and in coming years we’re...
Yup, it’s option 1, but there is a bug in the password reset email process which sends the email to a different account under certain circumstances. The important thing is for PayPal to fix it immediately. It’s embarrassingly easy, if opportunist. Having discussed it with an ex-paypal engineer, it may not be a problem...
How do cord cutters take all their media on the go? One solution is the Miro video player, which just came out with a new version that supports syncing with Android phones. Check it out in this week’s Cord Cutters quick tip: Show notes for this episode: Miro 4 can be downloaded for free...
Twitter has launched a YouTube channel just for its API developers. It’s kicking off with a collection of videos from the Devnest event, with talks from The Guardian, Klout and Quora. In an e-mail to the Twitter Development Talk mailing list, Twitter Developer Relations Manager Jason Costa promised more content will follow. Article source:...
FuzeBox wants to make telepresence a less proprietary, boxed-in experience for businesses. To do this, they’ve begun integrating Fuze Meeting, their cross-platform online meeting product, with high-end telepresence systems like Polycom, Tandberg and LifeSize. This move lets companies hang onto their legacy teleconference solutions while easily extending their functionality onto smart phones and tablet...
Visit the Qwest resource center for relevant briefs and reports to help you better manage your enterprise. Learn about five real-world tactics to enhance mobile security in this report from Qwest: Avoid the Mobile Blind Spot: Five Real-World Tactics to Protect Your Enterprise Networks. Continuing our series of business apps for the iPad, today...
Mobile security startup Lookout is adding a new function to its suite of products today by releasing a “safe browsing” feature to its Android application. Lookout is also partnering with Sprint to make access to the application easy through the Sprint Zone or Tab in the Android Market. The traditional problems that personal computers...
Pinger’s TextFree, the app that lets users send and receive free text messages and phone calls using real phone numbers, has a new best friend: the big green Android robot. We’ve been tracking TextFree’s staggering growth for some time now — CEO Greg Woock says that TextFree users now exchange 1.5 billion messages and 45 million...
Facebook Credits, the social network’s payment system and virtual currency, will be made available in 13 Latin American and Asian countries next month. In Asia, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam and Singapore will be getting Credits. In South America, the list is slimmer, with Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico on the receiving list....
Today, seed fund and accelerator, TechStars, put on its “Demo Day” in Boston to debut 12 new companies to the world. Investors came in from far and wide to vet these young startups and to potentially take out their checkbooks. TechStars estimates that more than 350 VC and angel investors were on hand for...