Apple gets its fair share of criticism. The iPhone 4S was not the iPhone 5. It did not have NFC, LTE or a variety of other things that people expected the company to include in the new phone. Those improvements will make their way into the next iteration. That is how Apple does things....
Squrl has updated its iPad app, shifting its primary focus from video bookmarking to video discovery. The app, which was just launched, will allow users to more easily find and watch the newest content from all of their favorite video publishers. Among other updates to the app, new users no longer have to sign...
Not every entry on our list is new this year, but they have all done something innovative within 2011. Keep in mind also, these are consumer cloud apps – things that an individual would use for her personal work or livelihood. We’ll have a separate list later on for enterprise cloud innovations of the...
Congressman Darrell Issa, an opponent of the Stop Online Piracy Act, released web stats that showed 157,767 people from more than 150 counties watched some portion of the House’s markup hearing held on Thursday to debate the bill. The hearing, which adjourned Friday afternoon, could reconvene next week or next year. The exact date should...
I can sympathize to some extent. When your job is to engage people’s interest not only in topics that should be naturally engaging and attractive, but at the same time in the most obscure and esoteric ones (I have a piece I’m working on now about a new high-bandwidth VoIP routing component for use...
We are gearing up for 2012 and getting ready to bring you some major events you will want to put on your calendars. Our dates are already locked in for the Crunchies, Disrupt NYC and SF, and our annual summer bash at August Capital. International events are also in the works. The Crunchies—January 31...
Image: Stanford University Stanford University’s proposed plans for the applied science campus See Also: Beautiful Photographs Of New York Captured By Stanley Kubrick Andrew Luck Joined Exclusive Group With Another 2nd Place Finish In Heisman Voting This Woman Forged A $285,000 Check To Live Like The 1% In Manhattan Stanford University pulled its proposal...
Zynga CEO Mark Pincus named his gaming company after his late American bulldog, a beloved yet health issue-ridden breed with a short life expectancy. Ninety-five percent of four-year-old Zynga’s business depends on Facebook. Will Zynga’s overdependence on Facebook make it repeat the story of the bulldog it was named after? Article source: RRW http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/readwriteweb/~3/ebALWx1S1WA/facebook_is_now_a_publicly_traded_subsidiary_of_fa.php
When I’m traveling, one of the most disappointing #firstworldproblem moments is when I check into a hotel room and there’s no way for me to connect my iPhone to an audio system. I’m a music junkie and I like to have something a bit better than my laptop speakers. The promise of Monster’s iClarityHD...
Image: Flickr A Siri port is now legally possible with the newest iOS 5.0.1 update, reports Cult of Mac. Lots of deep system files that were previously encrypted are now wide open for an adventurous engineer to bring Siri functionality to iOS devices other than an iPhone 4S. This is a welcome change from...