With the introduction of iOS 5, Apple integrated Twitter throughout the platform, enabling single sign-on, seamless Tweeting of photos and more. One of the byproducts of this was that an iDevice user can sign in to the service once, then have access to it in any app. This means that any developers that took...
Short version: A stylish and fun alternative to the likes of the Canon G12 and Nikon P7000. It’s not the quickest on the draw, and the build quality is obviously a step down from its elder brother, the X100, but image quality is good and operation is straightforward. It’s got a great lens and...
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This is a ridiculously cool and unique usage of Google Maps’ API. Developer Brad Thompson aims to launch a platform where you can not only see what city blocks looked like in the past, but you can view what businesses inhabited the city long before you lived there. That platform is Pastmapper. Putting old...
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Social discovery network Tagged has bought semantic text startup Topicmarks in a move that will match like-minded users, creating a ‘Pandora for people,’ as CEO and Co-founder Greg Tseng calls it. The third largest social network in the USA behind Facebook and Twitter, Tagged was founded in 2004 and the acquisition of Topicmarks shows...
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Are you an Android user? Have you dealt with any sort of malware or infection of your handset due to something you downloaded from its app store, or snagged off the Internet? If so, Microsoft may have something for you. If you can tell your story in a humorous fashion, you might be able to...
When you really boil it down, what apps have you downloaded from the Android Market do you actually use? According to new numbers from Nielsen, outside of the Market itself, Facebook is the next used app across age groups on Android. Four out of every five people use Facebook for Android, outdistancing Google’s own...
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