flikr/dustball French Alps shootings: search continues at family home Plot to oust David Cameron revealed Hillsborough families hope truth will out at last on a day of reckoning Sun and celebration as Britain’s Olympic summer reaches end Fate of eurozone rests in the hands of German judges See Also Hacker Group Claims It Stole...
YouTube Oh, and ads. You’ll have to watch ads. See Also Forget About Amazon’s Ads, Here’s What Will Really Bother People About The Kindle Fire HD Amazon Will Force Kindle Fire Owners To Look At Full-Screen Color Ads And There’s Nothing They Can Do About It* Amazon Announces New Tablets! Everyone was bewildered and...
If you’ve been put off by the (arguably obtrusive) Special Offers on the Kindle Fire HD, Amazon has just announced that they will allow users to pay $15 to opt-out of the ads for the life of the device. An Amazon spokesperson wrote: The $15 is a one-time payment for owners of the Kindle...
Surely I’m not the only one that has to untangle headphone cords on a regular basis. Or maybe I’m the last person on the planet making the full-time move to wireless Bluetooth earbuds? Regardless, this $10 solution called the Nest Earbud Protector that I found when reading Gear Diary ought to have a large potential audience....
Chris Hawker, the founder of Trident Design, LLC, has over 20 years of experience developing and commercializing his own and others’ inventions. His most famous product, the PowerSquid, was the subject of a six-part series published in TechCrunch called the Song of the PowerSquid. As the president/founder of Trident Design, LLC, I’ve been inventing and commercializing products...
It began in May with a frustrated customer, Andy McMillan, discovering his Paypal had been locked. Nothing new. Frustrating, but usually remediable with a phone call or a couple of emails. Over the course of several months however, McMillan, organiser of the popular Build Conference, attempted to work with Paypal to remove limitation after...
Henry Tasi, head of UX for to-do list startup, Astrid recently shared an article about how his company used the services of distributed freelance workforce startup, TaskRabbit for recruiting people for research. Tsai took a cue from Google Ventures’ Michael Margolis and used task rabbits for finding people for usability tests. As he outlines in his article – the process is cheap,...
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Editor’s Note: The following is a guest post by Peter Csathy, President CEO of online video technology company Sorenson Media. Csathy previously served as CEO of video chat company SightSpeed (acquired by Logitech) and as President COO of online music pioneer Musicmatch (acquired by Yahoo!). Oh, to become the Instagram for video! THAT is...
It has already been a busy year for OpenStack, the open source cloud operating system created by NASA and Rackspace. Service providers are trickling in with OpenStack support, just as startups and established software vendors are racing to release their OpenStack distributions. There are more than 190 companies signed up as community members of...