With technology advancing as much as it has in recent decades, it’s fair to wonder whether all this technological innovation will backfire on planet earth and mankind. In the most recent episode of his StarTalk podcast, Neil deGrasse Tyson poses this question to futurist Jason Silva, who thinks that there will always be unintended...
Daily Archives: December 17, 2012
After Selling $300,000 In Underwear He Didn’t Have On Kickstarter, Jake Bronstein Almost Walked Away
Wikimedia Commons Jake Bronstein, CEO and founder of Flint and Tinder See Also If Printrbot’s Latest Campaign Takes Off, Shop Class Will Never Be The Same Wow! Formlabs Has Raised Almost $3 Million On Kickstarter Quirky’s Founder Calls The $68 Million He Just Raised A ‘Scarlet Letter’ When Jake Bronstein posted his first Kickstarter...
Now Apple Is Turning To Foursquare For Help Fixing Its Maps (AAPL)
AP Apple executive Eddy Cue. See Also Facebook Unleashes A New Feature To Fight Yelp And Foursquare An Alternate Theory About Why Apple Is Cutting iPhone Orders Apple’s ‘Mr. Fix-It,’ Eddy Cue, Just Sold $8.8 Million Worth Of Shares Last week, Apple senior vice president Eddy Cue broadcast his location via Foursquare and Twitter,...
Apple is reportedly in talks to boost its maps service with data from Foursquare
Apple is reported to be in “preliminary talks” with Foursquare as it explores a deal to bring the social network’s user data to its much-criticized maps service, according to the Wall Street Journal. Talks are said to have taken place in “recent weeks” and involved Eddy Cue, who took over the management of Apple’s maps...
Evernote opens dedicated app store for Chinese Yinxiang Biji service, 7 months after launch
After opening up the API for its separate Yinxiang Biji service in China in August, Evernote has established a separate Trunk app store for the service. Located at trunk.yinxiang.com, the new Trunk already has apps from several prominent Chinese partners, including browsers from QQ and UC, as well as apps from US developers like...
Personal finance startup Planwise helps you make better decisions with new iPad app
Personal finance planning startup Planwise has today launched an iPad app, its first foray into mobile apps. The app is a mobile version of the Planwise decision-making tool, allowing users to create visual plans of their future and current financial situations on a device that is increasingly used to manage household budgets around the...
How Obama Knew How You’d Vote, Even Before You Did
Imaging you were a political analyst who time traveled from 1990s to November 5, 2012. A quick look at the national polls for the presidential election, you would probably have thought that Republican nominee Mitt Romney had a pretty good shot at claiming the presidency. Obviously, you – like many of the Republican faithful...
Google Maps: 10 Million Lost iPhone Users Breathe Sigh Of Relief
Google’s Jeff Huber announced Monday that the new Google Maps for iPhone was downloaded more than 10 million times in the two days after its release. It has already racked up more than 20,000 ratings averaging 4.5 out of 5. That looks like a collective sigh of relief from iOS users. Even though Apple’s...
Facebook Said To Have Sexting App In The Works
Guess who just might be the newest addition to the sexting community? Facebook. That’s right, the nearly 9-year old company is growing up. Big time. The house that Mark Zuckerberg built is reportedly set to launch a new standalone app aimed at competing with Snapchat, a disposable photo and video chat service best known...
A brief history of Sprint’s on-again, off-again affair with Clearwire
Sprint has struck a $2.2 billion to take complete control of Clearwire. The deal isn’t final — Clearwire’s shareholders still need to vote and many of them aren’t happy with the perceived stinginess of Sprint’s offer. But if Sprint can push this deal through it will have closed the book on an epic saga....