I’m not a homeowner myself, but something tells me that when I do buy a house, I’m going to want something like the TaHomA home automation system to ensure that I can be as lazy as possible. Developed by a company called Somfy, the TaHomA allows you to remotely control multiple supported products throughout...
One of the most exciting Apple announcements other than the iPhone 4S for me was the “Card” app created by Apple. Now that iOS 5 is out, the app has been released, and I took it for a spin. The greeting card industry should take notice, because Apple gives us a simple and beautiful...
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Hootsuite just added location to their social analytics dashboard with today’s acquisition of Vancouver-based start-up Geotoko. With Geotoko, information collected from check-in tools such as Facebook Places, Twitter, Gowalla and Foursquare will help brick-and-mortar businesses better track the location, sentiment and demographic of their audience, and customizable geosocial campaigns will monitor checkins, comments and...
While connected devices and their apps are rapidly gaining popularity, they don’t fully enable the mobile, multimedia and social lifestyle that people want. Instead of today’s fractured and frustrating experience, people need intuitive, personalized and integrated apps and services for their netbooks, e-books, tablets and other connected devices. Service providers can capitalize on their...
Last week Android Open Handset Alliance member Myriad unveiled Alien Dalvik 2.0 that can port Android anywhere. Alien Dalvik runs is a virtualization tool for Android that runs in the cloud, meaning that Myriad can bring Android anywhere and everywhere. When we wrote about Alien Dalvik 2.0 last week we promised to track them...
It’s been over a year since Diaspora raised over $200,000 towards the creation of an alternative, decentralized social network. It was less than three months later that the first screenshots of their project hit the web, but since then — well, it would be disingenuous to say we haven’t heard anything (they sent out...
Just in time to hit the new iOS 5 Newsstand, The Guardian has launched a swanky new iPad edition. The app delivers content mirroring The Guardian‘s Monday through Saturday papers, but the design is all digital. Pages swing smoothly between portrait and landscape modes, the ads are interactive, and photos and videos abound. The...
For a company that is supposed to eat its own dog food, Google has been criticized for how few of its senior executives are visible on Google+. Larry+ and Sergey+ are there, and now so too is executive chairman Eric Schmidt+. Of course, Schmidt might have been there all along, just not sharing in...
Seattle-based company Hark wants you to listen to the clips of some of the most famous and popular movies of all time. Sites have done this for years, usually by way of downloadable WAV or MP3 files, but mostly illegally. The difference with Hark is that the company has buy-in from some of the...