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Diaspora Co-Founder Dies: Site Revamp is “Tribute” to Zhitomirskiy
Diaspora*, the open-sourced and distributed community of social networks run by users that enables users to own their own personal data, control with whom you share, and discover cool stuff throughout the Web, lost an important part of their team. Ilya Zhitomirskiy, co-founder of Diaspora*, died at the ripe age of 22 on November 12. ...
The Flourishing Non-Google Android Market
A recent report from mobile analytics firm Flurry indicates that before 2011 ends, over 25 billion iOS and Android apps will be downloaded. And app downloads will double by 2012. Until this year, the US generated the bulk of app downloads on handset. But now, other countries are bulking up on their apps. China, with their 1.3 billion ...
High Demand For Real-Time Video Driven By Consumer Demand
For every event happening nowadays, you can almost always find a live video feed of that event. Most are free but some you have to pay for. If you’re asking: ‘What’s the big deal with the need for live video feeds?’, it’s just this simple, we always need to be up to date with what’s ...
Veterans Day Gets Techie: Job Opportunities, e-Book Donations
So what do you really think about this: 11-11-11? If you’re into numerology or Feng shui, this date could signify a lucky day. If you’re one of those people who are waiting for the end of the world, some say that today is the start of the countdown to the end which will end on ...
From Acquisitions to Trashed Products, Is Google Too Diverse?
Google has been stacking up their cards with acquisitions. In the past few months, they bought Fridge, the social network startup, PittPatt, the facial recognition technology, The DealMap, a daily deals service, and just last month there was SocialGrapple, a social graphs analytics company. These acquisitions were seen as either a talent or technology buys, but they all indicate ...
iPhone 4S Batterygate Fix Now Available; Yellowgate Still Unfixed
Eager Apple fans who purchased the iPhone 4S when it launched suffered either Yellowgate and/or Batterygate, while those who opted to just upgrade their compatible iPhone to the new iOS 5 suffered from Batterygate. Quick recap: Yellowgate is the yellow screen on the iPhone 4S (predominant in black version of iPhone 4S) while Batterygate is ...
Pokemon-esque Game for iPhone MinoMonsters Catches Them All December 16
There are thousands of apps available apps in Apple’s iTunes App Store and it’s really difficult to choose the right app. Imaginary Feet’s Crosswa.lk could help you in your dilemma but I think most people, like me, have a simpler way: look for apps with high ratings and good reviews. It’s so unlikely to get ...
Adobe Flash Mobile Pullout, So What Happens Now?
Yesterday, Adobe Systems announced that they will be pulling the plug for Flash for mobile as well as sack 750 employees from North America and Europe to cut cost of expenses. The decision to drop Flash for mobile was made so that they could focus on their HTML5 efforts like the Adobe Edge. So what ...
Crosswa.lk Combines iCloud, Facebook for App Recommendations
Finding great apps for your iPhone, iPod or iPad has become a prime area of interest for search developers, and Imaginary Feet, a developer of web and mobile applications for iOS, has launched Crosswa.lk, a social network for apps (we have several invite codes for readers–click here if you’d like to try the app out for yourself). Admit ...
Todd Papaioannou in theCube: “Cloud and Big Data are the two mega-trends of this decade”
Todd Papaioannou, an Entrepreneur in Residence at Battery Ventures, with SiliconANGLE CEO John Furrier and Wikibon founder Dave Vellante on theCube at the Hadoop World 2011. During the interview, Papaioannou stated that there are two mega-trends for this decade and that’s cloud and big data while in the past it was SRA applications and virtualization. ...