The best part about music on the internet is that it’s available in quite a few formats. If you’ve spent the last few years buying up a lot of music on Apple’s iTunes, then you might feel a little left out when it comes to streaming services like Spotify and Rdio. Developer Jacob Budin...
The latest version of Gmail for iOS is now available and with it comes a couple of new features. Nothing major, but you might be interested. According to the Gmail Blog, the first thing that you’ll notice is that you can now have specific signatures for your accounts in the app. “We’ve added the...
Heads up Xbox 360 owners: The YouTube app is live for your console, and it is set to contain some very relevant content for your gaming life. According to YouTube today, the app will contain ‘reviews, cheats, and walkthroughs’ among other programming content. Microsoft declared yesterday that the app would contain “ favorite web original...
As more and more information comes out about Carrier IQ’s phone monitoring software, it’s becoming more difficult to sort out exactly what data its IQ Agent collects, records and ultimately sends the its operator customers. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, however, has prepared a handy infographic to help the more coding-challenged of us grasp IQ...
Sometimes it’s just easier to get a high-level picture of a market if you look directly at the numbers. Google India Managing Director Rajan Anandan gave a fascinating talk to our Geeks on a Plane India group this week, giving us a snap shot of the data that is driving the consumers, entrepreneurs, trends...
Car sharing network operator Zipcar this morning announced the exercise of its option to purchase a majority ownership interest in Barcelona-based Catalunya Carsharing, better known as Avancar, after investing in the company almost exactly two years ago. In fact, the option had been extended for an extra year after Zipcar decided last year it...
Image: Frederick M. Brown/Stringer Getty Images Embarrassing! Two Wall Street analysts did the equivalent of wearing the same dress on the red carpet… they used the exact same pun in their Groupon reports today. First, Citi… Image: Citi And then Jeetil Patel Deutsche Bank… Image: Citi We’ll have fuller coverage of Wall Street’s take on...
In a scheme reminiscent of an earlier era, one of the world’s richest men is planning to construct the largest aircraft to ever take to the skies. No doubt Paul Allen’s announcement yesterday to build a monster plane with a 380-foot wingspan, powered by six 747 engines, and weighing more than 1.2 million pounds...
There was a time when Google’s widget service iGoogle seemed immensely popular. It barely gets a mention – by Google or anyone else – these days, so maybe it’s time for a different approach – and Spain’s Ducksboard could be that approach. Ducksboard is a simple, good-looking dashboard upon which you can add a...
A few weeks ago, the founders of London startup Transferwise found themselves on stage at the Sibos financial conference in Toronto, pitching their new business. The audience — 3,000 bankers and industry executives — listened in as the company explained its ambition. Their plan, they said, was to upset the payments industry by making...