Intuary, a mobile app startup, recently launched its first app, called Verbally, which is designed to bring speech to those without. Verbally is an augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) solution built for the more than six million people in the U.S. suffering from speech disabilities — caused by Lou Gherig’s Disease, stroke, brain injury,...
Online radio startup Earbits (YC Winter 2011) is announcing a seed round of funding today, having snatched up $605K from Y Combinator, Charles River Ventures, Start Fund and former Lala CEO Geoff Ralston. Earbits is unique in that its closest competitor is the newly IPOd Pandora from the listener’s side but from the musician’s...
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said today that it has approved Microsoft’s $8.5 billion cash takeover of voice and video-over-IP provider Skype. Microsoft officially announced its intent to acquire Skype back on May 10 and, since then, users have been taking to Twitter to blame Microsoft for Skype’s intermittent service. The criticism, at least...
CSS Lint is a tool for checking your CSS code. Like JSHint and JSLint (see our previous coverage). CSS Lint was created by Nicole Sullivan and Nicholas C. Zakas. Based on the conversations thus far is bound to become as infamous as JSLint. However, since CSS Lint is open source, if you don’t like...
This is amazing. Earlier today Yahoo launched Android music app that happened to have the exact same name as the Android music app launched by AOL four months ago, “Play.” Yes, Yahoo and AOL now both have music apps with the same name lol. And instead of laughing it off internally, AOL responded to...
Just like Google Chrome has the web apps store for its browser, Linkovery is an open web app store for every browser which means you can access sites via Linkovery’s desktop apps. Linkovery allows you to create and customize web apps for every device using open web standards so it doesn’t matter if you’re...
Just like Google Chrome has the web apps store for its browser, Linkovery is an open web app store for every browser which means you can access sites via Linkovery’s desktop apps. Linkovery allows you to create and customize web apps for every device using open web standards so it doesn’t matter if you’re...
Fears: Teens and Sexting Nowhere are we seeing that play out more than with sexting. And the media hubbub surrounding Anthony Weiner aside, it’s been teens and sexting that has stirred up the most frenzy. At ReadWriteWeb’s 2WAY Summit this week in New York, researcher danah boyd discussed teen sexting and its impact on...
There are a lot of new features coming in iOS 5, and they should enable App Store developers to do a lot more with their software. Here are a few apps in particular that would benefit from what iOS 5 has to offer. 1. Pages Apple’s own apps will likely be among the first...
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