If you’ve watched television in the last year, you may have seen a commercial or a program bearing a small blue icon with a black squiggle on it. That would be Shazam — the app that you’ve probably used to identify a song in the car or at the jukebox. Three days ago, Shazam...
Mobile EKGs! Hi-def videos piped to your car! Calling people and not numbers! We’re live at the GigaOM Mobilize conference in San Francisco for this week’s episode of The Commutist. Stacey Higginbotham, Kevin Tofel and Kevin Fitchard gather round for a chat about the mobile industry’s past, present and very cool future. (download) RSS...
So we were just checking out Apple’s new widely dissed Maps app, and found something extremely interesting: if you are in China on a domestic network (i.e. not on a VPN) and you look at the satellite or hybrid view, you only see China. That’s right, it seems the entire rest of the world...
Kickstarter has introduced new guidelines for its crowd-funding platform that are meant to ensure that backers don’t get the feeling that they’re “shopping at a store”. Creators are now required to talk about the “risks and challenges” to their projects and their qualifications for overcoming them. New guidelines are also in place for hardware...
YouTube videos may soon be getting a little more interactive. There’s now a page on the YouTube website describing a feature called “Video Questions Editor Beta,” which was spotted by the Dutch tech site WebSonic.nl. The page itself is pretty bare-bones, but it describes the feature as a way for “multiple questions to be...
MLB At Bat 2012, one of my favorite apps for the iPhone and iPad has been updated to support iOS 6 and Passbook ticketing. The update comes just a day after I got the chance to test out how the MLB’s Passbook integration was working at a real ballpark. The update is extremely well-timed...
As controversy over ATT placing restrictions on FaceTime over cellular demonstrates, carriers are still the gatekeepers when it comes to over-the-top communications services. The possibility of getting blocked by carriers is a real possibility if you’re an OTT player, said Rob Williams, CEO and founder of Sidecar, a new VoIP calling app that layers...
Although the health-care system may not be structured in a way that makes most people care about their health — since they don’t usually have to bear the full costs of illness — there is a growing movement of consumers who want to try and take an active role in maintaining their health, and...
AP See Also With Its Latest Acquisition, Oracle Wants To Help You Get A Job Here’s What To Expect From Software Renegade Marc Benioff Tomorrow What It Feels Like When Your Former Employer Tries To Kill Your Startup Oracle reported its third-quarter revenues today. While there were sunny spots for its bread-and-butter software business,...
Thirst, an iPad app that attempts to take data from a user’s Twitter stream and distill it in a more helpful, interesting presentation, won first place in GigaOM’s Launchpad conference Thursday. inTooch, the app that allows users to exchange contact information, won the people’s choice award. Nine companies took the stage at GigaOM’s Mobilize...