Google appears to have paid bloggers to write about Chrome in a way that violates its own paid link policy, according to Search Engine Land. If Google applied a similar penalty to those it’s doled out to past violators, the Chrome download page would be removed from its search engine results for between a...
India’s tablet space is heating up after a new low-cost device aimed at schools and young students launched in the country. The Classpad, produced by Classteacher Learning Systems, is aimed squarely at improving learning and interaction in the classroom, however there are plans to ramp up production to the general public. With a starting...
Started by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne, Apple has expanded from computers to consumer electronics over the last 30 years, officially changing their name from Apple Computer, Inc. to Apple, Inc. in January 2007. Among the key offerings from Apple’s product line are: Pro line laptops (MacBook Pro) and desktops (Mac Pro),...
Now that 2011 is behind us, the new year allows for new players to step into the startup game with brand new ideas and visions. Even though companies like Facebook, Apple, Twitter, and Instagram had massive success last year, there are still areas that are just begging for a tech makeover. Some of the...
Yeah so I got stuck watching New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, with Ryan Seacrest and a very tan Dick Clark this weekend. And in the 11th hour they trot out Justin Bieber to do The Beatles’ Let it Be with Carlos Santana on guitar. It was tragic, I could just imagine tweenie boppers searching iTunes...
Apple’s Siri is a limited technology, in that its voice recognition underwhelms and its limit of functions is frustrating in day-to-day use. However, there is no denying that it is the best app of its sort that the world has ever seen, and that Apple itself has pushed the technology forward. At the same time,...
For an Apple device, the company’s TV set-top box has had a surprisingly small impact thus far. Perhaps that’s because the product is considered by Apple to be, as Steve Jobs once said, merely a “hobby.” One of the reasons Apple TV hasn’t set the world on fire the way the iPad and iPhone...
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The turning of the clock to 2012 means a new beginning for many. I am happy with simply tweaking what has been working by making things simpler and thus better. So as I look ahead, I hope that over the next few months, some of the technology products that I use the most will...
SoundCloud, a Berlin-based web audio startup has raised $50 million in new funding from investors led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, Mike Butcher reports. GGV Capital also participated. The company, in a press release confirmed that it raised the funds but it isn’t releasing information about how much money it got from the investors. Previous investors in the company...