Daily Archives: March 28, 2012

Home Security or DIY Big Brother? Sensr.net Tests The Market…

March 28, 2012
Home Security or DIY Big Brother? Sensr.net Tests The Market…

There were only about 15 people at the Smart Homes Meetup at SXSW, which took place in a meeting room at the Hilton Austin. Ironically, the air conditioning didn’t seem to be working. Not much smart technology in this room, I thought, mopping my brow and pouring myself a glass of iced water. But...

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Brian Cox’s Wonders of the Universe redefines iPad books with gorgeous 3D and a brilliant interface

March 28, 2012
Brian Cox’s Wonders of the Universe redefines iPad books with gorgeous 3D and a brilliant interface

Wonders of the Universe is an incredible feat. It’s an iPad app that packs in a custom 3D rendering engine, tons of video, text and image content from Professor Brian Cox’s Wonders series and a brand new interface that works like nothing else you’ve seen from an ‘interactive book’ before. Created by development house...

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HTC hints at plans for Android-based, Google Play-powered iPod Touch rival

March 28, 2012
HTC hints at plans for Android-based, Google Play-powered iPod Touch rival

HTC looks like it’s gearing up to take on the iPod Touch with an Android-powered personal media device equipped with Google Play, according to a patent submission spotted by Patent Bolt  The patent, which was filed in Q1 2011 and published by the US Patent and Trademark Office this month, makes...

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Box Adds Social Workflow Features To Improve Mobile Collaboration

March 28, 2012
Box Adds Social Workflow Features To Improve Mobile Collaboration

Box already made news earlier today with the launch of OneCloud, its suite of productivity applications that are accessible from mobile devices. But it wasn’t done — the company also hosted the last stop of its World Tour in San Francisco, where CEO Aaron Levie demonstrated what he described as a “reinvention” of collaboration...

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Joshua Schachter Launches Newest Tasty Labs Project, Skills.to

March 28, 2012
Joshua Schachter Launches Newest Tasty Labs Project, Skills.to

Founder and investor Joshua Schachter has spent a great deal of time trying to solve the problem of not being able to easily find relevant things and people; initially with his first startup Delicious — which he sold to Yahoo for a reported $30 million — and now with his latest efforts at incubator Tasty Labs....

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Squashing Bugs: The Many Layered Approach to Mobile App Testing

March 28, 2012
Squashing Bugs: The Many Layered Approach to Mobile App Testing

Multi-Layered Testing We enlisted IBM’s Leigh Williamson, a Distinguished Engineer and a member of the CTO Team, to guide us through the different ways that developers can go about app testing. Testing is not as simple as a developer trying to troubleshoot the native code on an app. Mobile apps are often vertical software...

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There’s no Draw Something for Google+, but Scoot & Doodle for Hangouts fills that need

March 28, 2012
There’s no Draw Something for Google+, but Scoot & Doodle for Hangouts fills that need

Now that Google+ has fully unleashed its Hangouts API to developers, we’re going to start seeing more apps that use the video conferencing platform. The cooler part about the announcement from Google today is the special apps section, where the company will be showing off some of the more innovative uses for the Hangouts...

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Why Kickstarter Outfunding the NEA Isn’t a Good Thing

March 28, 2012
Why Kickstarter Outfunding the NEA Isn’t a Good Thing

It was only a matter of time before the NEA would stop funding individual visual artists all together. Take, for example, the 1993 case of the NEA Four, which includes performance artists Karen Finley, Tim Miller, John Fleck and Holly Hughes. In June 1990, their proposed NEA grants were vetoed by John Frohnmayer because...

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Jeff Bezos Just Found The Engines That Blasted The Apollo 11 Rocket To The Moon

March 28, 2012
Jeff Bezos Just Found The Engines That Blasted The Apollo 11 Rocket To The Moon

March 28, 2012 The F-1 rocket engine is still a modern wonder — one and a half million pounds of thrust, 32 million horsepower, and burning 6,000 pounds of rocket grade kerosene and liquid oxygen every second. On July 16, 1969, the world watched as five particular F-1 engines fired in concert, beginning the...

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This 20-Year-Old Founder Wants You To Swap Clothes With Other Girls

March 28, 2012
This 20-Year-Old Founder Wants You To Swap Clothes With Other Girls

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