Image: Kno See Also: Check Out Kno, A Massive Dual Screen Tablet Andreessen-Horowitz-Backed Kno On Verge Of Selling Its Massive Tablet Project Facebook Buys iPad Book Maker Push Pop Press We’re no longer in college, and while there are many downsides to this fact, one of the upsides is that we don’t have to...
In 2008, when British Telecom paid $105 million to buy the developer service Ribbit — which liked to call itself “Silicon Valley’s first phone company” — it was a confusing move. The business essentially provided a platform for web developers to add phone services into their sites: a suite of APIs that could potentially...
Horace Dediu: Unlike the transformation of phones to smartphones, TVs have not become smartTVs because there is no “smart” content for them to deliver. Article source: SAI http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~3/5pE6OGQ1IQw/horace-dediu-unlike-the-transformation-of-phones-to-smartphones-tvs-have-not-become-smarttvs-because-there-is-no--2011-8
Image: Twitter See Also: Twitter: That Giant Round Of Funding? Yup, We Closed It Startup: Yep, Gingrich’s Twitter Followers Are Fake Twitter’s Shiny New HTML5 Interface For iPad Is Coming Very Soon Twitter has rolled out photo sharing for all users of Twitter.com. This is a logical step for Twitter, if not a little...
The Next Web has teamed up with ArtFinder to offer our readers the chance to win an iPad 2. Read on to find out how. ArtFinder is a new way of discovering, experiencing and sharing art. The founders have been working with galleries and museums to build a central database of artworks, and it...
Apple has reportedly suspended new orders for iPad 2 panels with LG Display and move to rivals Samsung and Chimei Innolux after the display manufacturer’s recent shipments to Apple experienced quality issues, Digitimes has revealed. According to industry sources, LG’s panel shipments in July were a million units short of its original monthly goal,...
The UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office has partnered with UK mobile operator Vodafone to trial a new emergency text message service which will alert Vodafone customers and those connected to its network when there has been a major crisis – such as a natural disaster or civil unrest. The Foreign Office will pilot its...
Meet Demet Mutlu, the 30-year-old founder and CEO of Trendyol — a fashion website that is breaking boundaries in Turkey in more ways than one. Since launching her flash sales service and fashion brand less than 18 months ago, Mutlu has rapidly become known not just as one of the country’s top female entrepreneurs,...
The acronym “YASNS” is well-known in web geek circles. It stands for Yet Another Social Networking Service. In 2011, perhaps the acronym should be “YAUSNS”: Yet Another Useless Social Networking Service. Even large, otherwise successful tech companies aren’t immune to YAUSNS. In September last year, Apple launched a music social network called Ping. It’s...