It’s almost that time of year again, friends. New movies are terrible, kids are sucking down popsicles, and my office is like a moist toaster oven. It’s nearly back to school time! That means in our trivial world that it’s time for new gadgets and the Internet rumor mill is lining up quite a...
Exclusive - Omek Interactive, a provider of tools that enables companies to incorporate gesture recognition and full body tracking into their applications and devices, has secured $7 million in financing in a round led by Intel Capital, TechCrunch has learned. The Series C round brings the company’s total funding raised to nearly $14 million....
The third beta of iOS 5 arrived yesterday and one of the latest additions from Apple is support for gestures that can replace various button functions and help to navigate the user interface. Mac Rumors notes the new Assistive Touch option is found under the Accessibility settings; once turned on, a floating button stays...
Just because you have a great idea doesn’t mean it will play out well on the consumer circuit. Take for example Four Loko. Mixing caffeine and alcohol was perfect to market to college kids. But unfortunately, Four Loko was too dangerous, and caused hospital visits and even death. But Four Loko wasn’t the only...
As the EU looks at delivering faster broadband across its member states, a report by the chief executives of Alcatel-Lucent, Deutsche Telekom and Vivendi are asking that the EU allow ISPs to charge content providers for pushing bits across the ISPs’ pipes according to a report in the Financial Times. This is a fairly...
BranchOut, the app for business networking on Facebook launched just over a year ago now and the latest figures it’s provided shows it’s been a busy year with some seriously impressive growth. It’s hosted over 3 million job vacancies on the app and is active in 60 countries and 10 languages, with a somewhat...
Groove, a new help desk software company based in Rhode Island and New York City, is sliding into the spotlight this summer, introducing a freshly conceived customer support solution and a beautiful, full-feature iOS application. Groove helps deliver customer service in a fast-paced marketplace where consumer behavior is rapidly changing and businesses are struggling to...
Ken Wakasa MediaRoost Ken, Yes, the Twitter limit came from SMS, but we are not ignoring Twitter’s 140 char limit: Anyone who wants to limit the Tweet to 140 chars in TweetRoost can do so. No problem. We are simply trying to help those who need more. Like someone doing service using Twitter. Article...
This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the white paper about how Intel Xeon processors help organizations get unprecedented levels of performance. One of the issues surrounding desktop virtualization is that you want to clone...
On Sunday July 3 I started coding on a top 100 list for Google+. A few days before I was invited to this new and exciting social networking experiment by Google. As I was browsing around I noticed there was a public page with a few statistics. Like the number of people you have...