With the weather at its best this time of the year, there is often a boost in gym memberships as people work to get themselves into shape to wear their summer wardrobe again or head out on holiday. The thirst for fitness has spilled over into the technology space and one Korean startup, Everthink, has...
I am not one to argue with abundance. I am a big believer in the way we can create so much, all the time. But I can’t stand an abundance of vendor one-upmanship and that’s just what I heard this morning at CloudOpen in a panel discussion about Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) v....
Barnes and Noble’s Nook Simple Touch eBook reader can play PlayStation 1 games. No, this isn’t a really late April Fools’ joke. I’m serious; take a look: The video is courtesy of a Nook Simple Touch user by the name of Sean, who shared his project with Hack a Day. It shows him playing...
Back in 2010, Twitter announced that it would be launching a feature called Annotations that would let developers add more information to a tweet without affecting the character count. In the shuffle of Twitter refactoring its future as a media company, it never materialized. Now, the 7-week-old App.net has announced its own annotations API...
So you’ve got your photos on Facebook, and you’ve got them on Instagram, and on Path. But what about that stuff that you don’t want everyone to see? Just some people? That’s what group photo-sharing app Everyme is for. And it’s just raised an additional $2.15 million to get more people using it. Everyme...
Online marketplace Etsy has been on a mission of openness lately — last week, it gave an in-depth explanation of a few recent outages — and on Friday it shared the details of the hardware architecture that powers its popular business. Etsy isn’t Facebook in terms of scale or specialization, but it’s always interesting...
Maybe you’re looking for a fun local event to do with friends, or maybe you feel like Facebook events are for teenagers. Enter Saambaa, an event-planning mobile app meant for groups of friends to organize and share events in their area. The app, developed this year by entrepreneurs in San Diego, provides an easy...
After lackluster fiber registrations in certain Kansas City neighborhoods, Google has adjusted down the number of homes in certain neighborhoods eligible for the service. The search giant says it is lowering the number of homes in 73 of its designated “fiberhoods,” because it had orginally collected bad data, but others wonder if this is...
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Everyone likes a happy ending. Even more so, everyone likes a happy ending with an added bonus. Make tells the story of how a victim of a theft not only caught the perpetrator, but how his sleuthing also resulted in a drug bust. Here’s what happened. Two guys rented a car, left their computer...