Ever since I was a tyke, I’ve had a special lil’ nook in my heart reserved for R/C cars. I’d rocket them off stairs. I’d build terrifyingly shoddy ramps out of LEGO blocks and cardboard. I’d repeatedly crash them into my older sister’s ankles and feign innocence by blaming my childish lack of hand-eye...
Daily Archives: July 19, 2011
Scribd’s New Float Reader App Combines News, Social & "Read Later" on Mobile
“Floating” Text Makes the Web Easy to Read on Mobile This floating text experience has its roots in the technology Scribd introduced last year, when it began offering a way to convert Adobe PDF documents into HTML5. At the time, the company learned a lot about to transform and rearrange text from one format...
Google adapts the mobile Gmail experience to iGoogle gadget
If you’re a huge user of Google’s customized homepage iGoogle, then you’re probably familiar with the Gmail widget, or gadget, that Google provides. It’s proved to be a big help to me over the years as it provides an at-a-glance state of my inbox. Unfortunately, it’s also not all that great at managing email...
Cell Phone Spoofing and the UK Scandal — What it Means to You
So the news this week is filled with ever-changing horror about how various reporters in the Murdoch’s News Corp. “hacked” into the cell phone voice mail accounts of prominent Britons. How did News of The World reporters actually hack cell phones and should you be concerned that it could happen to you? Questions abound...
Google+ for iPhone is available now. We’ll have a complete walkthrough soon.
Google+ for iPhone is available now. We’ll have a complete walkthrough soon. Facebook Basically Owns Zynga Please follow SAI on Twitter and Facebook. Follow Steve Kovach on Twitter. Advertisement: Article source: SAI http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~3/pS7EsjGPmwI/google-for-iphone-is-available-now-well-have-a-complete-walkthrough-soon-2011-7
Google+ for iOS finally approved. Get downloading!
We’ve waited, we’ve watched and now we get it. Thanks to a tip from Macstories, we know that Google+ for iOS has been approved and it’s now available in the App Store. Check out the details below, but for now get downloading and here’s what we see: According to the iTunes description, it includes...
Where to watch the Murdoch testimony live online
Rupert Murdoch and his son James Murdoch will be testifying in front of the UK parliament’s media select committee today, answering questions about the phone hacking scandal that led to the closure of Murdoch’s News of the World newspaper. Members of parliament will also grill Rebekah Brooks, former chief executive Murdoch’s News International, who...
Komli Media Acquires Mobile Advertising Platform ZestADZ
Komli Media, a major digital media network operator in the Asian-Pacific region, this morning announced that it has acquired ZestADZ, a mobile advertising platform, expanding the suite of solutions it can offers clients to encompass display, video, search, social media and now mobile. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. ZestADZ is a product...
CONFIRMED: Google Is An Investor In Zynga (GOOG)
Image: Dylan Love Zynga’s amended IPO filing confirms that Google is among its investors. There had been reports last year that Google had stealthily invested in Zynga. Zynga’s first IPO filing didn’t mention that. But its amended filing does, as AllThingsD’s Tricia Duryee notes. It’s nice to have the confirmation, but it’s even more...
Here’s Zynga’s Heavily Redacted New SEC Filing (GOOG)
See Also: Here’s How Paranoid Google STILL Is About Facebook How Spending Hours Playing Facebook Games Landed Morgan Stanley The Zynga IPO Facebook Basically Owns Zynga Zynga recently filed an amendment to its IPO filling, and it’s a doozy. It explains some things we didn’t know about the extent of its relationship with Facebook....