In an effort to help support startups and technology house in Palo Alto, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt’s venture fund Innovation Endeavors is sponsoring its first hackathon in the city on March 31. The event, called the Super Happy Block Party Hackathon, will take place on March 31, from 1 pm to 1 am in...
A German court ruling against Facebook this morning is likely moot because the social network had already made changes to address the court’s mandates. See, back in 2010 a German consumer organization complained Facebook’s Friend Finder inviter feature didn’t adequately inform users their imported contacts would be used to send invites, according to Friending...
Apple has dropped a sign of its intention to introduce a range of new interactive content in line with the expected launch of the iPad 3 on March 7. According to a report from Apple Insider, the company has preemptively added a new category — ‘Catalogs’ – to iTunes, which is viewable via the web view of...
It’s a lot better than doing this. See Also Air Freight Rates From China Skyrocket As Apple Buys Up Space For iPad Shipments REVEALED: The Real Name Of The Next iPad REPORT: iPad 3 To Go On Sale March 16 Apple already revolutionized the music industry with the iPod, the smartphone industry with the...
For weeks now I’ve been talking to developers, Apple sources and friends about whether there might be a major new feature being announced with the iPad 3 tomorrow. The bits and pieces that I’ve managed to uncover are tantalizing and have led me to believe that at least one major new feature that we...
BBC via WinRumors Still #1. See Also Google Just Pulled A Trick From The Microsoft Playbook To Salvage Its Failing Music Service In Five Years, One-Third Of Americans Will Own Tablets Microsoft’s Office Chief Sure Seems To Like The iPad Bloomberg has started ranking the richest people in the tech industry, and it’s going...
Recent rumors have suggested that the new Apple iPad, which is set to launch tomorrow (or today if you’re outside of North America), will have a number of new specs including more RAM. According to a new report today, Apple’s flagship tablet will have 1GB of RAM, that’ s up from 512MB in the...
IBM’s Jeopardy-playing supercomputer Watson is now getting a gig in the retail banking sector as part of an IBM partnership with Citi. This is in addition to its position as a diagnostic assistant for doctors. But the many careers of Watson aren’t just a fun story for the tech press; they illustrate a very...
This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the case study about how Intel Xeon processors and VMware helped virtualize 12 business critical database applications. According to Amazon’s blog today, the company is now on their...
See Also This CEO Chose A Tiny Startup Over High-Paying Executive Jobs Highlight: The Startup Everyone Is Saying Will Win SXSW This Year WE’RE BLOWN AWAY: This Startup Could Literally Change The Entire Software Industry We’ve learned that Branch raised a round from SV Angel and a bunch of other investors. A source close...