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Google Sweetening the Honeycomb Pot for Developers
CNET reports a new interface dubbed Renderscript purposed for the upcoming Honeycomb will enable programmers to manage hardware functionalities for their applications. Honeycomb-running hardware will be unlocked using low-level programming, according to a blog post by Google Android performance and graphics programmer R. Jason Sams. “The target audience is the set of developers looking to ...
Slacker Raises $3 million in Funding, Vastly Expands Market
TechCrunch reports cross-platform radio station Slacker raised $3 million in debt funding , according to an SEC filing. The company hasn’t disclosed too many details about the investment, aside from a confirmation that it has secured capital from all its existing investors. Slacker also said the sum will be used “for scaling the business” based ...
Microtask Crowdsources the National Library of Finland
Microtask has undertaken the enormous task of crowdsourcing the National Library of Finland — the process of digitizing its paper-only documents, to be more specific. Microtask and the library launched a first of its kind in Europe national e-program named Digitalkoot, and the first Phase includes two online games. This project follows at least 5 ...
Hitachi Adds VAAI Support with VMware’s Global Expansion
Hitachi Data Systems Corporation announced VMware vStorage APIs for Array Integration, or VAAI, support on Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform. This makes the platform the first one to offer VAAI support for virtualized storage, which can also reportedly extend to more than 100 virtualized multivendor storage arrays. This is meant to further assist end-clients looking to ...
Location-based Marketing on the Rise, JiWire Reports
Location-based shopping and travel services are on the rise. This growing trend is yielding some new innovations, most recently by location platform maker CSR. The company announced it will feature its new ‘urban canyon’ and indoor location technology in the Mobile World Congress ‘Experience Room’ next week. “These will enable accurate automotive navigation throughout the ...
Enterprise Tablet Takeover: HP Touchpad, iPad 2 Predictions, Dell and IBM
HP had some big news yesterday, reigning tablets supreme at their webOS event. The big announcements were of three new webOS tablets: the Palm Pre 3, Veer, and Touchpad Tablet, introduced shortly before the unveiling of the iPad 2. The Touchpad gets a closer look here, outlining some of its features including its advanced keyboard, ...
Mobile Video is Surging with Libox, Thwapr and the U.S. Congress
The mobile video space is a surging one, and everybody seems to be interested in jumping on this growing in value bandwagon. That includes Libox, a free media sharing service that announced a major update to its iPhone app. The app now eliminates the need for video recipients to download LIBOX’s desktop version only the ...
IBM Gets Mobile Security with 3 New Initiatives
IBM today announced 3 new initiatives targeting enterprise and large-scale mobile and instrumented device security. The devices in turn range from Smartphones and tablets to ATMs, retail kiosks, traffic systems, meters and buildings, and the press release cited IDC’s predictions of one trillion connected devices and a $10 billion endpoint security market value by 2015/4. ...
OkCupid Makes Big Data Sexy for Consumers’ Sake
Free dating site OkCupid has been rolling out some interesting newsletters on its user behavior the past few months. This month’s discussed the best questions to ask on a first date. The recently acquired website is turning data it gathered from its users, notably a database of at least 275,294 ‘match questions’ and roughly 776 ...
IBM’s Supercomputer is Busy. Being Super.
The U.S. Department of Energy has reached an agreement with IBM to bring Mira to the Illinois-based Argonne National Lab. The facility currently utilizes Intrepid, a 557 teraflop supercomputer ranked the third most powerful system of its kind in 2008. Mira, in turn, is an IBM Blue Gene Q 10-petaflop supercomputer scheduled to become operational ...