Samsung has announced that it will launch its new Galaxy S III smartphone on all four US carriers — ATT, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile – and US Cellular starting this month. The exact launch dates are not confirmed, and it remains unclear whether the releases will come in one block or whether one, or more, carriers...
Daily Archives: June 3, 2012
What Lies Beyond The Check-In: Foursquare To Launch Big New Redesign Next Week
If you’re following Foursquare on Twitter, you’ve probably noticed that the check-in champions have been teasing the release of the “all new Foursquare” app for the last few days, dropping hints that it was coming soon to app stores near you. Continuing to use the hashtag #allnew4sq, Foursquare last night dropped the news on...
Woofound’s Social Events App Matches People To Places Based On Personality
Woofound, a Maryland-based startup aiming to match your personality to things you want to do, is today launching its iOS application nationwide. The app turns rating activities, places and restaurants into a simple, visual game in order to serve up highly personalized recommendations. You rate things by tapping or clicking “Me” or “Not Me”...
Someone help this designer get his iPhone alarm clock design on Kickstarter
The rise of smartphones and music players has made standalone alarm clocks a thing of the past for many. While there is a dearth of alarm clock-type stands already on the market, design student Robert Bye has come up with his own sleek effort in response to a lack of a “nicely designed, high quality”...
An African telecom moves off-grid batteries
Fenix, a startup that makes a plug-n-play, portable, lead-acid battery for off-grid use has shipped about 2,000 of its batteries to African telecom MTN, the company’s CEO Michael Lin tells me. The result is that each battery device enables an entrepreneur in Uganda to charge about 50 cell phones a week or 100,000 cell...
REVEALED: How The Samwer Brothers Made Billions Cloning Facebook, Groupon, And Other US Internet Startups
How Lack of Capital Can Drive Innovation CEOs Donate Birthdays to Charity Is War a Good Analogy for Business? Scott Harrison: Why Charity Shouldn’t Be About Guilt Ric Elias: How Facing Death Changed My Life (And My Business) See Also Porn And Video Games Are Ruining The Next Generation Of American Men How 19-Year-Old...
Chicago’s Catapult workspace: 12 companies in harmony, building the city’s future
Author’s note: I recently took a journey, a last sojourn, through Chicago’s tech scene. I’m leaving, and I wanted to give the place that has been my welcome host for four years a proper exit. This post and the following few are my goodbye to Chicago. It’s been great. Not every coworking space is...
This Week in Media, from Apple TVs to Vevo
It has been an interesting week in the media world. While lawsuits around Dish Network’s Auto Hop and Aereo’s business model have progressed slower than we expected, there have been plenty of events and news reports that give us yet another clue into the future of media. As usual, you’ll find the most important...
30M Asus computers to run Android apps thanks to Bluestacks
Bluestacks, makers of PC software that can run Android apps, scored a big partnership with Asus. On Monday, at the yearly Computex show in Taipei, the company will announce that 30 million Asus computers will include the Bluestacks app player software, bringing Android mobile apps to Windows PCs. The convergence of mobile and traditional...
Meet The Wii U Gamepad, Nintendo’s Answer To Gaming On The iPad
Details are still just mainly technical, but Nintendo just took the wraps off the final version of the Wii U’s controller, now named Gamepad. This came during Nintendo’s somewhat surprising pre-E3 press conference. The controller itself looks somewhat similar to the prototype unit Nintendo unveiled at last year’s E3. This pre-briefing speaks to the...