RootMusic, the company behind BandPage, a platform that helps musicians make the most of their Facebook presence, has raised a Series B round of funding to the tune of $16 million after raising $2.3 million earlier this year. The financing round was led by GGV Capital with new investor Northgate Capital and existing backer...
Amazon’s rumoured venture into the tablet market will reportedly see it launch two models – a 7-inch Android tablet due to start shipping in October and a larger 10-inch model which is expected to go into mass-production in the first quarter of next year, Digitimes reports. The chinese trade publication, citing sources from component...
Image: TechnoBuffalo Amazon’ 10-inch tablet will start getting built in the first quarter of 2012, DigiTimes reports. By all accounts, Amazon is planning to release two tablets: one smaller, 7 inch tablet which will compete more with the Nook and be a kind of “super Kindle”, and a bigger 10 inch tablet which will...
Epson announced the Colorio E-820 for the Japanese market today, a photo printer and wireless keyboard set somehow designed like a computer from the 1970s or 1990s (at least when looking at the top menu). The newest in a line of similar devices, this 5,760×1,440dpi inkjet printer is suitable for printing both pictures...
Image: Altaide Wikio Group, the European social media powerhouse, has a big announcement this morning. It’s changing its name and focus and is raising almost $25 million. Wikio is a rollup of social media properties by Pierre Chappaz, who previously sold price comparison engine Kelkoo to Yahoo for over $400 million. The company started...
Earlier this month the New York Times launched a beta testing playground called Beta620. It’s a site for the news organization to try out new web experiments, some of which may graduate to become full-fledged New York Times products. An interesting Semantic Web experiment went live this week, called Longitude. As the name suggests,...
Tumblr released a new version of its Android app on the Android Market on Tuesday. For version 2.0, the app is rewritten from the ground up, says the company, and it sports a new look and many more snazzy features. Clad in spiffy new veneer, the app now allows you to sign up for...
Hot damn, I want one of those HP TouchPad tablets. Why? Because they’re sold out! Perception of scarcity is a fascinating human condition. It’s one of the first things we learn as children – that running towards something is usually a guarantee that you won’t get it. But act like you don’t want something,...
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...
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...