Bigger isn’t necessarily better but in the case of Jawbone’s Jambox, it might actually work out. Typically known for their Bluetooth headsets and the ill-fated-but-not-quite-dead UP band, Jawbone has figured out what their “cool kids” product is and it happens to be a tiny portable speaker. But for the second generation version, simply called...
Jawbone, the San Francisco-based company that got its start making headsets for mobile phones is launching a new wireless speaker, simply called the Big Jambox. It is a much larger (and louder) version of its portable Jambox speaker that is one of the top selling wireless speakers in the market. The Big Jambox comes...
There’s been much speculation about which company is behind the controversial anti-Apple ‘Wake Up’ campaign currently going on in Australia. We previously reported that Samsung might be culpable but RIM has now stepped up and acknowledged that the creation is its. The Canadian mobile maker issued a statement this morning, via its PR firm, which is...
Seven years in, Revision3 and its stable of web stars have more than survived the tough early days of building a video content business on the web. The San Francisco company is now bringing in a respectable 100 million video views per month, following a big 2011 — and it may be about to cash in. It’s...
A noticeable trend this year is beautiful apps or websites. It’s all part of a larger trend that I’m calling The Visual Web, meaning that images and video are becoming an increasingly important part of what we consume online. Pinterest is the best example of that larger trend. But by “beautiful apps or websites,”...
The advent of the $1,000 genome is bound to revolutionize researchers’ understanding of human health, but ever-lower prices on DNA sequencing are only half the battle. Researchers also need to analyze the raw data that comes off sequencing machines, which can range between many gigabytes to terabytes and can cost well more than the...
From the Yellow Pages to the Web Demandforce would bring Intuit customers SaaS tools for leveraging Twitter, Facebook and email for scheduling and marketing. The vendor’s service is meant as an alternative to newspapers and the Yellow pages. Demandforce’s target markets include dentists, automotive shops, spas and salons, optometry and chiropractors. Intuit has not...
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Mark Zuckerberg’s dog is pretty famous, and cute, so the fact that both made their debut on social video site Viddy was pretty interesting news. Sure, simply signing up for a service doesn’t mean that there’s any intent to do anything other than play around, but given the recent Instagram acquisition, it’s hard not...
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