In its hunt to get on ever-more devices, Vudu is finally making its streaming video-on-demand (VOD) store available on the iPad. But while most streaming video services have launched apps on the tablet, Vudu is coming to market with a mobile web experience, in part so that it doesn’t have to share revenues with...
If you’re going to go through all the trouble of streamlining your Topic pages and creating Topic Groups, you might as well develop an over-arching way to get your users psyched about Topics. Quora Browse, a beautifully redesigned browse page that is once again an effort to prevent this type of user confusion surrounding ways...
Real-time analytics company Mixpanel has posted an explanation on its engineering blog as to why the company switched the code of its API from Erlang to Python. The Mixpanel team originally built the API server with Erlang and the framework MochiWeb because of the performance demands of running a real-time data service. However, the...
Computer graphics are steadily becoming more realistic in both movies and video games, but Disney’s Brave and Rockstar Games’ L.A. Noire will one day look like amateur’s work. Microsoft researchers have taken 3D modeling a step further with a new technique that leverages both motion capture and 3D scanning. It creates high-fidelity 3D images...
As is befitting a global technology empire, Apple seems to always have a great number of patents in moderation. The latest batch is an interesting mix, with the standout patents hailing from as far back as 2007 or as recently as 2010. The current ruckus surrounding the patent system isn’t going to die down...
As the war between Australian brick-and-mortar retail operations and their illegitimate e-commerce children heats up, the Australian government appears poised to intervene on behalf of the traditional stores. The Productivity Commission recently released its draft report that looked into the issues afflicting Australia’s brick and mortar retail operations, primarily on two fronts — the...
Heroku users, or would be Heroku users, interested in using the graph database Neo4j will be happy to know that an addon that lets Neo4j talk to Heroku apps is now in private beta. All registered Heroku beta-testers can access the addon now.
In our previous roundup of 14 Australian Web Companies to Keep Your Eye On, we asked other startups from Australia to get in touch with us. Since then we’ve learned about startups we didn’t know existed and seen a lot of new ones appear. Here are 12 more Australian startups you should keep your...
With Cablevision reporting a loss of 23,000 subscribers and Dish Network shedding 135,000 in the second quarter, the U.S. pay TV industry has lost nearly 200,000 subscribers in the second-quarter — and those are just the ones we know about. But if there was a lack of concern about cord cutters on second-quarter earnings...
Three months after being promised the feature at Google I/O, owners of Google’s Chromebook netbook can now stream movies and television shows from Netflix. The Samsung Series 5, Acer AC700 and CR-48 Chromebooks can access Netflix, according to a Google Plus post by Chrome OS Community Manager Melissa Daniels.