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Crowdsourcing Receives a Giant Boost as uTest Gets $13M Investment
uTest, a crowdsourcing company that does in-the-wild mobile app testing, has just finished a strong series C investment round raking in almost $13M. The round has been lead by their primary investor, Scale Ventures, but past investors also participated – such as Longworth Partners, Egan-Managed Capital and Mesco Ltd. From their blog post on the ...
Verizon’s V CAST Apps Store To Offer Android, Blackberry Apps
Verizon’s new Android app store, V CAST Apps, is set to launch soon and they’re already accepting submissions for Android apps. Developers should be enticed to this particular portal—totally separate from the Google Android Market—as Verizon is trying to create a wilder, more innovative market. According to an article over at Electronista, Verizon is attempting ...
Microsoft, Google Already Testing TV White-Space for Broadband Use
The FCC has only barely set pen to paper on licenses for using TV white-space and already the corporate information sharks are moving in. While the formal white-space license rules are still being finalized, experimental licenses have already been released to various innovators who want a jump start on the new resource. Microsoft and Google ...
Galaxy Tab Arrives for Verizon, Sprint and AT&T and the iPad Goes to China
Verizon, Sprint, and AT&T are getting the Galaxy Tab and the iPad is making its way into China in today’s mobile market. While there’s little news on how much it will cost for Americans, a peek at what the Europeans will be paying could give insights in how much others will have to shell out. ...
Would You Pay $250 to Watch Companies Present at DEMO?
Part of what demonstrators are paying for when going to a conference is an audience. The best form of marketing—producing your own buzz amid your own industry and getting the word spread as quickly as possible. This year’s DEMO conference will be charging up to $300 to watch demonstrations streamed live ($250 if pre-registered.) This ...
Boxee Now Bigger and Better with Webkit, HTML5
After finding Mozilla’s Geko layout engine—Firefox’s layout engine—a little bit too buggy and difficult, Boxee is looking to switch their integrated web browser to Webkit—which runs Apple’s Safari and Google’s Chrome. As part of this switch, they hope to better implement HTML5 and aid with accessing a greater range of video content not yet available ...
JPMorgan Testing Blackberry Alternatives: iPhone, Android
Large corporate enterprises like to keep their employees in touch with each other, even when they’re not in the office; as a result they often invest in particular technology infrastructures. Currently, Blackberry dominates with the banking industry giants like JPMorgan and Switzerland’s UBS AG. Their dominance, however, may become shaky as both JPMorgan and UBS ...
Seesmic 2 Update Rolls Out All-In-One Social Desktop Control
Already several Twitter applications have been reaching out to fill roles that Twitter originally did not focus on. Microblogging has long been a little bit limited with only 140 characters to work with, but as more devices, apps, and clients begin to support a richer experience it has become a race to be the most ...
Apple Accused of Producing “Mutant Viruses” by Acer’s Stan Shih
In an amusing burst of bluster, Acer’s creator, Stan Shih, has charged that Apple doesn’t play well in the ecology of technology by claiming that their products are more akin to “mutant viruses” than properly evolved organisms. And, as if to strain the medical metaphor, he went on to point out that some day other, ...
Sun Ex-CEO Looks to “Leverage Technology in Pursuit of Better Health.”
By launching startup and website Picture of Health, the former CEO of Sun Microsystems, Jonathan Schwartz is looking to bridge the gap between personal health and technology. Ashlee Vance over at The New York Times writes, Exactly what Mr. Schwartz is doing remains unclear. He would only talk in vague terms about the venture, saying ...