The guy who helped bring you Crate, a dead simple file-sharing service, are now testing something called Gumroad, a way to ask folks to pay for downloads. The site is very basic – you enter a URL, a price, and share the link. Users are asked for a credit card number (don’t buy that,...
Will LightSquared CEO Sanjiv Ahuja have any network left to run? LightSquared is willing to give up even more of its once-ambitious LTE plans, if the Federal Communications Commission would just sign on the dotted line. In a filing with the FCC earlier this week, LightSquared promised to curtail the future transmission power of...
Considering Android is getting on in age, it’s surprising it hasn’t been featured on more “miscellaneous” devices. Phones and tablets, sure, but we haven’t seen many, say, DVD players or PMPs using the OS. And certainly not GPS devices, whose proprietary libraries and interfaces were developed at great cost, leading the companies that made...
Google is located in almost perpetually sunny (sometimes foggy but rarely snowy) Mountain View, California. So when Google wants its employees to enjoy a bit of the seasonal white stuff, it has to truck it in. This is what the Google campus’ front lawn looks like decorated with its array of Android-version statues and...
This tattoo, touted as ‘the first random tattoo in the world,’ generates content every time you scan yourself – guaranteeing lifelong entertainment at house parties, family gatherings and essentially every other time someone has a smartphone nearby. From the creator: Each time you scan the QR code tattoo you will see something different: Videos, pictures,...
The spectrum bill that passed the House last night will make any technologist weep. I know the tech community is upset over the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), but this bill represents a somewhat geekier threat–killing more unlicensed spectrum. So Silicon Valley may want to get active over this one too. The House version...
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When I mention Zynga to friends outside of the tech world, they look at me cross-eyed. Then I say “It’s the company that makes FarmVille, you know…” I usually get a disgusted look back. Of course, Zynga also makes other games, like CityVille, CastleVille and Mafia Wars. Oh, and Words With Friends, the Zynga...
It may not be a man-bites-dog situation, but it’s still surprising to hear about a software-as-a-service vendor moving toward an on-premises deployment model. And yet that is just what Birst is doing, first with its business intelligence service in September and now with its homegrown in-memory database. Conventional wisdom has it that pure-play SaaS suppliers...
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