Daily Archives: August 30, 2011

Beautiful photos of star trails in the Australian night sky

August 30, 2011
Beautiful photos of star trails in the Australian night sky

Think photography is an easy job? Think again. Or better yet, ask Australian photographer Lincoln Harrison, who spent periods of up to 15 hours outdoors in freezing conditions at night to capture these mesmerising shots of stars trails charting brilliant semi-circles across the night sky. Harrison says, “It was a gruelling night with a...

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Transitflow: An Urban App in The Making

August 30, 2011
Transitflow: An Urban App in The Making

Adam Greenfield was the author of what is still my favorite book about the Internet of Things, Everyware (first published in 2006). Greenfield is now walking the talk with a IoT business called Urbanscale. I’ve been following its progress, via Greenfield’s weekly newsletter on the Urbanscale blog. One of Urbanscale’s projects is developing an...

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Internet in Mexico, Starting a Long Journey

August 30, 2011
Internet in Mexico, Starting a Long Journey

Internet penetration has been growing faster in Latin America than in the rest of the world, and this is especially true in Mexico. This is one of the facts presented today in a comScore webinar on the state of the Internet in Mexico. Here are its key findings: A young and growing market According to...

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Salesforce Adds Realtime Chat, Screen Sharing, And Groups To Chatter; Debuts HTML5 Mobile App

August 30, 2011
Salesforce Adds Realtime Chat, Screen Sharing, And Groups To Chatter; Debuts HTML5 Mobile App

Salesforce’s ‘social network for the enterprise’ Chatter has been the company’s first real foray into incorporating social with business functions. Salesforce originally announced Chatter back in November of 2009, and the application launched into public beta in June 2010 after four months in private beta. Salesforce has said publicly that Chatter has been its most...

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Forget gas; future Ford cars may run on the cloud

August 30, 2011

Ford continues to think ahead with connected cars, showing off a concept car that’s as intelligent as the best smartphones. Thanks to mobile broadband, access to a driver’s calendar and entertainment preferences and smart engineering, the Ford Evos is an example how the cloud can power cars of the future. In conjunction with the...

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As Apple Preps iTunes Match, Should Other Music Services Be Concerned?

August 30, 2011
As Apple Preps iTunes Match, Should Other Music Services Be Concerned?

The songs will automatically be downloaded (not streamed, as Apple was quick to point out) to all of your devices and synced wirelessly. How Does It Compare to Amazon and Google’s “Cloud Locker” Services? In its own marketing material, Apple positions its new offering directly against the digital “music locker” products offered by Amazon...

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Big Question (Answered): Accessing Your Desktop on Mobile Devices

August 30, 2011
Big Question (Answered): Accessing Your Desktop on Mobile Devices

This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the white paper about how Intel Xeon processors help organizations get unprecedented levels of performance. There’s an increasing focus on bridging the gap between desktops and mobile devices....

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How Chinese Counterfeiters Ripped Off The iPod (AAPL)

August 30, 2011
How Chinese Counterfeiters Ripped Off The iPod (AAPL)

Image: itnnews via YouTube See Also: The Difference Between Microsoft And Apple Spy Shots Of iPhone 5 Parts Suggest The Same Design As The iPhone 4, But Thinner 11 Infuriating Problems With Our Gadgets That Need To Be Fixed Immediately The latest trove of documents from Wikileaks includes a 2008 cable sent from the...

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Samsung’s Galaxy S II debuts stateside for iPhone rumble

August 30, 2011
Samsung’s Galaxy S II debuts stateside for iPhone rumble

Samsung finally welcomed its Galaxy S II to the U.S., unveiling three models for ATT, Sprintand T-Mobile Tuesday night that will do battle with Apple’s iPhone this fall. The device, available for months internationally, is pretty much what has been shown around the world though the Sprint version, the Epic 4G Touch, and the...

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Help Us Celebrate TC Gadgets And Mobile At Our First San Francisco Meet-Up On 9/15

August 30, 2011
Help Us Celebrate TC Gadgets And Mobile At Our First San Francisco Meet-Up On 9/15

San Franciscans, start your thrusters. On September 15 at 6:30pm TechCrunch Mobile and Gadgets will host our first meet-up at Roe @ 651 Howard St. in sunny SF. Sponsored by Samsung, this meet-up will be the first chance for our readers to get ahold of some of Samsung’s latest products including the just-announced Galaxy...

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