Last September, we got a tip from a source that Amazon was preparing a tablet that would run Google’s Android operating system. The source was a good one — they had also correctly called Amazon releasing their own Android app store. It took a while, but it looks like they nailed this news as...
Daily Archives: July 14, 2011
Bad taste in music? Here’s how to avoid sharing on Spotify
We all have our secret Lady Gaga songs tucked away in our playlist or the 80′s Monster Ballads that are loved rather than ironic affectations, so now as the streaming music service Spotify comes to the U.S. here’s how to avoid sharing the skeletons in your musical closet. First things first. The default setting...
Finally! Music Streaming Service Spotify Arrives in the U.S.
Spotify got our attention at the SXSW conference in 2010 with a planned launch for the third quarter of last year. But as we all know, that launch never happened. The delay was caused by the company’s failure to finalize deals with U.S. record labels – labels which were hesitant to allow any service...
Coming Soon: Tinychat’s 12-Way Group Video Chat App For Facebook
Soon Facebook will be expanding its Chat product with video calling functionality, powered by Skype. It won’t support group video calling, though, at least not at first, and we haven’t heard anything about support on mobile phones so far. Next week, Tinychat will submit a group video chat application that will work on both...
Firespotter Labs Launches Nosh: A Food-Centric Instagram That’ll Tell You What To Order
The cofounder of Google Voice is back for more. And he’s hungry. Back in May we reported on Firespotter Labs, a new incubator started by GrandCentral cofounder and CEO Craig Walker (GrandCentral was acquired by Google in 2007 and relaunched as Google Voice in 2009). Walker left the Google Voice team in late 2010,...
Google’s Photovine now available for iOS, but Disco group messaging app for Android disappears
Google’s Slide subsidiary has pushed out the Photovine app we’ve been seemingly talking about for weeks, but at the same time, its group messaging app Disco appears to have been pulled from the Android Market. Slide has been teasing us with an app called Photovine for weeks now. First it emerged that Google had registered the...
Apple secures patent on preventing headphone tangles
As much as I like apple. Their headphones are horrible, some of the worst in the market. So it doesn’t matter if they make it tangle free. I will still buy new ones. I say improve the sound, and the earbud design before you actually worry about tangle-free technology. My two cents. Article source:...
Nimble Storage raises $25M to bring flash to SMBs
Nimble Storage, a startup selling flash-equipped storage appliance to small businesses, has closed a $25 million Series D round. Artis Capital Management led the round, in which existing investors Accel Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Sequoia Capital also contributed. Nimble’s approach is interesting in that it pushes the use of flash memory almost more...
TweetLevel & BlogLevel: ‘GPS’ for navigating influence online
Edelman, one of the world’s largest independent PR firms, today launches two web-based platforms designed to enable companies to identify key online influencers on specific topics. TweetLevel and BlogLevel are free to use, and are designed to be used by brands as social media planning and measurement tools. TweetLevel finds the influencers on Twitter,...
Attachment hunter Attachments.me adds new features and launches an iPhone App [Invites]
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We recently reviewed the Toronto-based startup Attachments.me, a service which makes it easy to retrieve long-forgotten attachments from your inbox. Since then, they’ve been hard at work adding many new features and developing a brand new iPhone app. Attachments.me is the brainchild of Ben Coe and Jesse Miller, who met when they were both...