Do you think you could write shorter, more useful emails if you composed them inside software that supported structured documents, easy screenshots and image annotations? That’s the theory behind a new app just launched in Beta this afternoon called Clarify. Clarify was built by Blue Mango Software, the company behind the widely-loved documentation service...
Earlier this month the Java 7 release candidate came out, and the official version was released earlier this week. Now that it’s out, and apart from some serious bugs, what do you think about it? Article source: RRW http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/readwriteweb/~3/gZ5xG9ggc9Y/hacker-poll-what-do-you-think.php
Kleiner Perkins VC Chi-Hua Chien kicked off the “Money Matters” panel at the TechCrunch Mobile First CrunchUp with a telling understatement, “There seems to be a lot of new business models around mobile.” Indeed, what makes mobile unique as a communication platform is that traditional advertising isn’t the default. See: Kiip. As Chien pointed...
When I wrote a year ago that the 3DS could be in trouble, I learned a couple of things: 1. Nintendo fans are passionate. Really, really passionate. 2. Saying any forthcoming product from a company with a 10-million-man army of fans could be in trouble will result in people calling you lots of names....
Next Jump, which powers rewards programs for thousands of corporations and credit card companies, has been steadily expanding its platform to offer a more social experience for consumers. For example, the startup inked a deal with LivingSocial to get access to its inventory of daily deals, and allows users to use Next Jump’s WOWpoints...
ATT has announced that starting on Oct. 1 it will throttle the data speeds of users with unlimited data plans who exceed bandwidth thresholds on its 3G network. ATT is following in the tracks Verizon and Virgin Mobile in reducing data throughput speeds of its heaviest mobile data users. With more data-intensive apps being...
Mobile phones could be used to track peoples’ physical activity and other health factors, using data gathered from existing community groups to track performance against baseline standards for health, rewarding individuals and groups exhibiting healthy patterns, and changing our relationship with food, exercise, medicine, insurance and general health. That’s the bold vision of the...
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How much does 2 GB of mobile data cost around the world? Folks from Android Fanatic took a look and presented their results in this infographic. Not surprisingly, Japan, Sweden and South Korea — three of the most advanced wireless societies — have the lowest bandwidth prices, and they all are offering what is...
Scale rightfully gets a lot of attention because we’re all driving towards that hockey stick moment, with visions of gumdrops, and viral coefficients dancing in our heads. But it’s not merely scale that causes us to wake up in the middle of the night. For example, if you’re doing business in markets with demanding...
A couple of interesting messages just appeared from the Hulu Support Twitter account. In several recent responses to subscribers complaining about ads that Hulu plays as part of its premium subscription service, the account tweeted: “We’re currently an ad-supported service but looking into the option of a higher price ad-free version.” Hulu has never...