And another one falls. Today, Microsoft announced that Quanta Computer and it have come to an agreement over the latter company’s use of Android. The gist of this sort of deal is that companies who ship Android-powered devices pay Microsoft a fee for use of its intellectual property (IP). Microsoft argues that Android steps on...
Daily Archives: October 13, 2011
AisleFinder Launches Supermarket API, An Open Source API For Groceries
Ask any developer working in this space, and they’ll tell you that accurate grocery product information is hard to find via an API. To help solve this problem, the team from shopping list creator AisleFinder have launched Supermarket API, an open source API for the grocery industry. The new API contains product details on over 150,000...
BlackBerry takes flight in Africa as sales slump in North America
Research In Motion’s Blackberry line might be losing market share in North America but it is growing rapidly in Africa. In South Africa for instance, it commands a whooping 70% of the smartphone market according to estimates by Vodacom. In August this year, RIM’s Regional Director for East, Central and West Africa, Waldi Wespener...
Backed By $10M In Funding, Lemon.com Lets You Store, Organize Your Receipts In The Cloud
Today sees the formal launch of Lemon, a free cloud-based receipt organizer and spending tracker for Android and iOS devices (Blackberry and Windows Phone versions ‘coming soon’). The service lets users store and organize email and paper receipts in the cloud to help them keep track of purchases, eliminate clutter and start spending smarter....
Founders Fund Leads $33 Million D Round In Learning Startup Knewton
In what is certainly one of the largest funding rounds of an education startup in recent years, Knewton closed a $33 million D round led by Founders Fund. (Another education startup also based in New York city, 2Tor, raised a $32.5 million series C earlier this year). Education publisher Pearson also invested, as well...
A typewriter is a computer that prints while you type and you don’t have to plug in
This tweet from the Wired Conference, taking place in London, caught our eye today as it summed up the benefits of thinking differently to everyone else. The typewriter through the eyes of an 8yr old: “A computer that prints while you type and you don’t have to plug in.” That eight year old has...
Fred Wilson Explains Why Most New Angel Investors Are About To Get A Seriously Rude Awakening
See Also: What Will It Take To Become The Internet’s Next Big Thing? Building A Company Vs. Building A Business Meet Rent-A-Grandma: The Child-Care Service That Only Hires Women Over The Age Of 50 An article in the Wall Street Journal about a “cash crunch” for startups has thrown the tech world into a...
Operating System Visionary Dennis Ritchie Has Died
Image: Adeptis See Also: RIM Says They’ve Noticed “Significant Improvements” In The BlackBerry Service Outage Apple Wants To Store Hollywood Movies On The Cloud And Stream Them To Customers* After Raising A Boatload Of Kickstarter Cash, Diaspora Asks Users For A $25 Donation Each It’s only just come to public attention that Dennis Ritchie,...
After Raising A Boatload Of Kickstarter Cash, Diaspora Asks Users For A $25 Donation Each
The Diaspora team See Also: Updating To iOS 5 Has Been A Massive Headache RIM Says They’ve Noticed “Significant Improvements” In The BlackBerry Service Outage Apple Wants To Store Hollywood Movies On The Cloud And Stream Them To Customers* Diaspora was supposed to be a breath of fresh air from Facebook’s inaccessible take on...
Attack alarm app for women in India to send alerts via SMS, Twitter and Facebook
New Delhi-based charity Whypoll is set to release its Fight Back mobile app for BlackBerry and Nokia mobile phones in India, in an attempt to counter the growing problem of women being harassed and sexually assaulted in the country’s capital, according to a Reuters report. Fight Back will allow targeted women to immediately send...