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Springpad launches Notebook Store : Won’t be selling socks
Personal assistant app provider Springpad unveiled the Notebook Store today, a place where Springpad users can jump start their own digital notebooks designed for specific life tasks and projects. The idea is to get them motivated, organized, and help them get things done. Springpad has partnered with more than 50 brands, publishers and influencers to create notebooks ...
Ooma sees services potential in smart homes : Call beyond the phone
I recently tested the Ooma IP-based home telephone service, and was immediately intrigued with the Memo feature as I set up my voicemail. This Ooma feature essentially lets you record messages for yourself or others in the house, which are delivered as voicemail messages. Sure, it seems like a feature made for Louis from Suits, ...
Smart cities need chatty machines : Deutsche Telekom shares its vision
There are only a handful of companies that come to mind when you think of smart cities. Established tech firms like IBM and General Electric have been eagerly promoting intelligent solutions for urban improvement, where machine population encroaches steadily on human residents. Getting these machines to communicate better with each other, as well as with ...
Autumn Radtke’s life is bigger than Bitcoin : CEO death sets industry ablaze
The Bitcoin scene faces a true tragedy with the death of Autumn Radtke, the CEO of First Meta, a virtual asset management tool that also served as a Bitcoin exchange. Found dead in her Singapore apartment, Radtke’s incident is being called a suicide. Reports indicate that a toxicology review has been requested, adding fuel to early ...
Truely anonymous chat app Banter launches at SXSW
SXSW 2014 officially kicks off tomorrow and just like last year, it looks like ambient-aware apps are among the hottest things making their way to the event. Last year, Speeker, Zamp and Tinder all debuted at SXSW, taking a cue from Highlight which garnered a lot of attention from attendees the previous year. This year, a ...
Cloud BI startup GoodData debuts end-to-end data management platform
GoodData, a venture-backed developer of cloud-based intelligence (BI) software provider, is jumping into the unified analytics race with a new service for ingesting and processing different types of data from multiple sources. “Advanced analytics can be the biggest advantage companies can have in today’s market, but most use just 10 percent of the data available ...
The role of cloud in smart home protocols : People Power CEO puts software first
As thrilling as the smart home sounds, the reality of this tech takeover is being stalled by slow user adoption. A recent white paper from Forrester Research reveals the growing consumer interest in home automation, but also demonstrates the massive gap that keeps interest from converting into purchases. It’s not hard to see why. Just ...
Smart home market needs partnerships to manage niche gadgets : The Staples + Zonoff story
The home automation market is becoming a fragmented one, what with all the smart gadgets hitting store shelves and Kickstarter campaigns launched daily. Cheap components and pliable software provide endless niches to fill, catering to dozens of smart home needs and desires. Driven by the equally influential startup and big brand scenes, home automation will ...
Pricy WhatsApp goes to Facebook : Here’s 4 alternatives
Facebook will pay top dollar to survive this fickle world of social media software, and will pay even more to throttle the competition. After two years of speculating who would buy the instant-messenger service WhatsApp, it was Facebook that made an irrefutable offer of $19 billion. If you feel that’s a ridiculously large sum to ...
LIVE chat today : Ask EMC President anything about the evolution from 2nd to 3rd infra platform | #AskBrianG
The modern data center is something we dream about, with industry innovators re-architecting IT infrastructure to become more efficient, and achieve economy of scale. For companies like EMC, the evolution path to the modern data center is a very real transition, impacting every area of its business. Today we have a special Crowd Chat lined ...