Inkling, the company that makes interactive, digital versions of textbooks for the iPad, has thus far focused on making products aimed at college students. But the San Francisco-based startup is set to debut its first title that could appeal to people both in and out of the classroom. Later this week Inkling will release...
Timeline essentially turns your profile into a colorful, easily searchable timeline of your life – at least the parts of it on Facebook. The Differences Before we discuss the pros and cons of Timeline after one month, take a look at the two screenshots below. The first shows my Timeline profile, which currently only...
Apple has been laying plans for a solar farm next to its massive data center in Maiden, North Carolina, according to The Charlotte Observer. The solar project — dubbed Project Dolphin Solar Farm — will reportedly be built on 171 acres of land across the street from Apple’s planned $1 billion data center, which...
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And again, it’s never too late. (if the video below isn’t working, you can watch it here)
Foursquare a little over a year ago tried launching an “Add to Foursquare” embeddable button for web publishers, which allowed users to save venues to their to-do list in Foursquare. The service died out after a few months after publishers gave up on the feature. But now Foursquare is poised to relaunch Add to Foursquare...
Peter Thiel, the tech industry magnate known for co-founding PayPal and being an early investor in Facebook, on Tuesday launched a new program called Breakout Labs aimed at funding cutting-edge, early-stage science and technology research ideas. Breakout Labs will be run as part of the Thiel Foundation, the non-profit organization founded by Thiel with...
The company comes out swinging on its first day with a manifesto that directly calls out the competition. Unthink put up a “FU” video that features a young woman fed up with the privacy problems, advertisements and constant redesigns on Facebook. Everybody loves a David versus Goliath story, right? Let’s take just a second...
It wouldn’t be right to say that the ever-popular Macworld Expo has been struggling, exactly, but ever since Apple stopped being an official attendee, they have perhaps been struggling for identity. The old de facto Apple conference and expo has become a second-string event, with Apple focusing on retail and much of the ecosystem...