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Craigconnects: The Power of Crowdsourcing and Social Media Meets Nonprofits
Craig Newmark—better known to the Internet at large as Craig of Craigslist—would like your attention and energy. He’s starting a social-media philanthropy venture to demonstrate and guide his efforts towards buttressing nonprofit organizations that he sees worthy of praise and attention by using his fame and fortune to direct eyeballs and dollars. According to the ...
Adobe Meets Apple Head On with HTML5, Releases Flash Converter
Apple has been at war with Flash for some time now—in fact, it’s persona non grata on iOS devices in lieu of hardware-accelerated, Johnny-come-lately HTML5. As a result, Adobe’s Flash gets left in the dark when it comes to iPod Touch, iPads, and iPhone and the graphics software company cannot have that. Recently, they’ve unveiled ...
Microsoft’s Defense for Nokia Deal Could Hurt Bottom Line
The news is rolling in about a gigantic exchange of money from Microsoft to Nokia as part of the newly minted deal between the two corporations that would spread the Windows Phone 7 operating system far and wide. Two sources with knowledge of the terms approached Bloomberg and let them know that they $1 billion ...
Google Purchases UK Comparison Shopping Site BeatThatQuote.com for $61.5 Million
Adding to their long line of acquisitions, Google has just purchased the UK-based comparison shopping site BeatThatQuote.com. The purchase price has been set at £37.7 million (about $6.1 million.) The site allows consumers rate comparisons amid a multitude of financial products including credit cards, car loans, mortgages, utilities, and insurance. Looking at the way that ...
PrimeSense Kinect Technology Makes Its Way into Fitness via MayaFit
We’ve seen the Microsoft Kinect become the center of a mindstorm of innovation involving gesture controls, animation, and numerous other applications in the homebrew hacker sphere—and, of course, the framework for building on top of it’s underlying technology has been released in the OpenNI framework. Respondesign has taken the bull by the horns, used PrimeSense’s ...
Skype Revenue Up 20% in 2010; Now Looking to Advertising on Road to Next Year’s IPO
It’s been news for a while that Skype intends to make their initial public offering soon. Until recently, “soon” meant this year, but the company’s newly appointed CEO, Tony Bates, would like to wait a little longer for them to be in better shape. And they look like they’re in pretty good shape with an ...
Blekko Human Curation Search Engine Releases Publisher Tools
The search company, Blekko, launched back in November with a promising solution to search spam and the indefinable quality of information in search engines such as authority and site reliability. They have even spoken with SiliconANGLE’s John Furrier about how search is changing and how they intend to change it. They have recently produced a ...
Move.Me: Sony’s Very Own Motion Capture SDK
Last month, Microsoft found time to release an SDK for the Xbox 360 Kinect peripheral—after a gigantic amount of hooplah when people discovered how imminently hackable the device is—and it’s been leaving other contenders in the dust ever since. This month, at the Game Developer’s Conference, Sony has revealed that they too want to get ...
Even Charlie Can’t Take the Sheen off the iPad 2’s Cameras
Yesterday saw the presentation of Apple’s newest game-changing tablet, the insurmountable iPad 2; however, if we look at the amount of news and commentary cropping up about it, we’d think that all the hype caught up to it. Even rain and wind didn’t stop the media from flooding into the theater when the doors opened ...
Apple’s Unveiling of iPad 2 Includes iOS 4.3
We’ve been waiting a while for the iPad 2 revelation today and now it is upon us. Apple’s iPad 2 announcement gala unveiled itself today amidst a deluge of Beatle’s songs inside the Yerba Buena Theater and actual rain outside transitioning the warm atmosphere of the event against the inclement weather of San Francisco. The ...