Editor’s note: Brenden Mulligan is an entrepreneur who created Onesheet, TipList, ArtistData, MorningPics, and PhotoPile. He’s a mentor for 500 Startups and several startups. You can find him on Twitter at @mulligan. I recently returned from a trip where I embedded myself in a few Asian cities and worked as if I were home. The goal was...
Barnes Noble has dropped the price of its back-lit Nook e-reader to $119 from $139 at several retailers to prepare for Amazon’s upcoming Kindle Paperwhite, which also retails for $119. The Nook Simple Touch with “GlowLight” technology launched in April and received beaming praise from critics. But Amazon is poised to challenge Barnes Noble...
With the success of the Mars rover, SpaceX’s private spaceflight, and asteroid mining startups, space ventures are hot once again. While we’re obviously looking ahead, perhaps we should also look to the past for inspiration. In the 1970s, NASA Ames Research Center, Stanford University, and Princeton physicist Gerard O’Neill hosted several space colony summer...
Why is the night sky dark? “Because the sun isn’t up!” But wait — if the universe is chock full of stars just like our sun, why isn’t it bright day and night? NASA recently released the deepest-ever view of the universe, an amazing photo that combines 10 years’ worth of Hubble Space Telescope...
Last week, Tim Cook issued a public apology for the poor Apple Maps experience. Now its website, which once claimed Apple Maps was “the most powerful mapping service ever,” has been changed to make a more realistic claim. Digital Inspiration noted its old language: “Designed by Apple from the ground up, Maps gives you...
AP Who’s to blame for Apple’s disappointing Maps experience? Fingers are pointing at Apple iOS software Vice President, Scott Forstall, and some say he should be fired over the mess. Fortune’s Philip Elmer-DeWitt asks, “Does Apple have a Scott Forstall problem?” Forstall eloquently introduced Apple Maps to the world at its conference a few...
Nick McGlynn – Random Night Out Two years ago, Emily Gannett started a company. Always up for a good party, she founded IRL (In Real Life) Productions and bootstrapped it with her savings account. Now she’s planning technology events around the world for the likes of OMEGA, KRAFT Foods, PepsiCo, The Daily and Kiehls....
Code as art, an ever growing movement where creatives and geeks collide (e.g.: Water Light Graffiti, the work of Raven Kwok and this Arduino installation), has captured plenty of attention lately, and although Apple has yet to really embrace experimental works with their own category in the App Store, apps like Thicket and Orphion have...
One of Apple’s first forays into the arena that we think of today as ‘mobile’ computing was the Newton MessagePad. As a pocketable, hand-sized device that was meant to be a a personal organizer, the MessagePad ended up being a long-winded failure for Apple, but it did plant some seeds for what would eventually...
The iPhone 5 still has to launch in Brazil, but one thing is for sure: when it hits the shelves, it will be much more expensive than in other markets. If you need a proof of it, just look at the new Apple TV, which costs R$399 in Brazil - roughly $197 USD, or twice its...