Microsoft is holding all sorts of events today to trumpet its release of Office 365 today. Office 365 is the business and Enterprise cloud solution aimed at those businesses who want to have their employees working and collaborating in the Cloud. Office 365 offers Office Apps, Sharepoint Online, Exchange Online, and Lync Online. There is [...]
MG Siegler of TechCrunch has a post up about what he calls the future of computing. Not only does he believe it this future of how we interact with our data and the machines that help us do that, but he says it is not only useful but beautiful. The company in question is called [...]
When iOS 5 arrives this fall, the new split keyboard is one of the features that users will notice. After spending a week using the new split keyboard on the iPad 2, and comparing it to the split keyboard from SwiftKey on Android 3.0, I am a firm believer in doing it first doesn’t always [...]
Ping! Chirp! Boop! Whatever. Notifications and talk about notifications are all the rage and have been for some time. Now that Apple looks to have finally addressed its lousy notification system by essentially copying how Android does that, the talk about notifications has heated up again. Whenever that conversation comes up it reminds me of [...]
Superhero movies got you thinking about jumping back into comic books, but you aren’t sure how? Well, DC Comics has a big opening for you: a full relaunch of all titles at issue #1! Better yet, they’ll all be released in digital and print versions on the same day! And yes, the digital versions are [...]
Windows 7 enthusiast Justin Campana has put together a wonderful custom interface for a fully touch-optimized environment using a combination of ObjectDock, widgets, themes, and the right applications on his ASUS Eee EP121. Beautiful.
Google launched the Google Music Beta, an online storage space for up to 20,000 songs, web player and Android App, at Google I/O last week. WE just got access to the service and have started to put the cloud music service through its paces. Google Music is currently in an invite only beta, which you [...]
Somewhere I’m thinking Rupert Murdoch might be contemplating moving his corporate offices to Belgium. A few days ago the Belgian Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling that essentially says Google infringes copyright by linking to Belgian newspapers, and thus denies them revenue. Essentially Google needs to remove links from any of the papers [...]
Adobe has rolled out its PhotoShop companion Apps for the iPad. There are three of them, Adobe Eazel, Adobe Nav and Adobe Color Lava. Adobe recently pushed through an update for its desktop Photoshop application to be ready for the release. You’ll need iOS 4.x to use any of these. Adobe Eazel is touch painting [...]
Forget market share. Microsoft is trying to hang on to whatever mind share it can. It looks like Redmond is dusting off the I’m A PC advertising theme with some new twists in order to stay relevant. The campaign is supposed to break today and below is the first new commercial in the bunch. It [...]
It always amazes me that tech companies love to let things leak right before they can break the news themselves. But I guess that’s what keeps the world spinning around. Google is about to start its IO conference tomorrow and tonight we’ve got two stories throwing fuel on the fire that Google is trying to [...]
If you’re an Android user and feel like you might be missing out when it comes to using Apple’s AirPlay feature to stream your music to another device then you’re in luck. Turns out the popular App DoubleTwist, which allows you to sync and play your iTunes media on your Android device now incorporates a [...]
On the one hand you could simply say, it’s about time. On the other hand in the treacherous world of protecting business models that are at risk of fading away you should say, this looks like progress. When Apple unveiled the iPad everyone who was anyone who had any contact with the media/publishing world thought [...]
Speech recognition. Some think it is the holy grail of mobile computing. It just makes sense doesn’t it? You’ve got a device that you talk into for phone calls and you should be able to just talk to it and make it do what you want, right? But anyone who has ever looked seriously at [...]
We’ve seen a number of cloud security related issues of late. Today’s company dealing with the issues is LastPass. Recently it was Amazon and Sony. Actually Sony still is dealing with the issues. LastPass, as we posted this morning, is dealing with a potential hack that might have compromised users passwords. I say might have, [...]
LastPass, a free online password management application that also lets users fill in forms, is telling users that they must change their master passwords, as they have discovered evidence that suggests the service may have been hacked. Master passwords are used to protect the users’ database of passwords and LastPass is saying that users who [...]
Ahead of the projected release date, Apple has pushed out iOS 4.3.3 which is primarily intended to get rid of that infamous hidden file that keeps track of your location data. According to the log the update reduces the size of the cache, doesn’t sync it to iTunes, and deletes it entirely when Location Services [...]
Well, when you run a contest and ask for folks to send you a doodle or sketch to enter you certainly open things up for some interesting entries. Our five winners (selected at random from all those who submitted) sent in the entries below and we’re grateful for their submissions. We’re also grateful to the [...]
Amidst all the hullabaloo about Apple tracking your location data comes word of an App from State Farm called Driver Feedback App that grades you on your driving habits using the GPS and accelerometer. State Farm swears up and down that it doesn’t collect any of the data. But the App does give you a [...]
Don’t forget to enter the WritePad for the iPad Contest this morning. You’ve got until 12 noon EDT to enter. And you can find out all the details in this post. We’re giving away five copies to five winners. Winners will be announced Monday.
You might have missed this over the holiday weekend, so here’s your chance. The good folks at Phatware have given us five codes to give away a free copy of WritePad for the iPad. We’ve got a contest going and we’ve gotten some entries in already. WritePad for the iPad is a great App for [...]
The folks at Phatware who create WritePad for the iPad (and other platforms) have recently updated WritePad for the iPad to version 5. Listening to their users, they have added synchronization with Evernote as the big feature in this update. For those who may be coming to WritePad for the first time, it is a [...]
Let’s call it short memories. The Interweb is jumping up and down this afternoon reporting and re-reporting a Reuters story that Apple will beat Google to the punch in terms of offering a cloud based music streaming service. At least that’s what the headlines and the leads all say. Scroll down the story a bit [...]
Google’s released Toolbar 7 for Internet Explorer that features Google Instant and other enhancements. While Google has its own web browser, Internet Explorer is the default browser for many, many Windows users. As you can see in the video above, Toolbar 7 can improve the Google search experience in Internet Explorer. Features, such as Google [...]
Do you know where your iPhone says you’ve been? If you’re one of those folks who are curious about how your smartphones track you this little application offers an interesting look into where you’ve been. iPhone Tracker installs on an OSX device that you’ve been syncing your iPhone to. It then scans your iPhone backup [...]
Microsoft’s Photosynth is a cool App/Service. It allows you to take a spherical, panoramic photo view of a room or a location and view it on the web. Up until today it has only been available on the web but now it is available for a certain mobile device platform. Don’t think that means WP7. [...]
I love it when an App I use everyday adds new features. That happened with Dropbox, which overnight updated its iOS App to version 1.4. In case you don’t know Dropbox is the unofficial official iOS file transfer App for the iOS platform. It allows you to move files between multiple devices (not just iOS) [...]
It is tax day and across the nation there are a collection of sighs of exhaustion and running around from people who have waited to the last minute to get their taxes done. Well, if you are one of these people, stop running around, get your iPhone, iPad or laptop out and file for an automatic 6 [...]
This looks like a real boon for students who are sight impaired. Arizona State students created a solution using OneNote that will make it easier for students who have difficulty reading notes on boards at the head of a classroom. They call their system Note-Taker. It involves a camera that can be controlled via gestures [...]
Numbers, numbers, we’ve got numbers. Because you know it is all about the numbers. In an earnings call Google tossed out lots of numbers. That’s what earnings calls are all about. The one that everyone is talking about though is the number of Android App installs and the pace which those numbers are accelerating. According [...]
Is the move to an App Store model bringing prices of software way down? It would seem so based on the prices of some key pieces of software as they are placed in the Mac App Store. When Apple released its own Mac App Store for Mac OS X, they included a high-end image editing [...]
As we said yesterday about web video, everyone is betting on it being the future. (Read that as betting that they can make a lot of money from that future.) That everyone includes hardware makers, content producers (except for those trying to protect current business models), the broadband providers, and well, those who want to [...]
The HTC Thunderbolt is the first 4G LTE phone to hit Verizon, and it is also the first Android device on Verizon to be able to deliver voice calling with Skype. The Skype for Android app leaked out for the Thunderbolt and allows video calling with the front or rear facing camera. We showed you [...]
Video on the web. To say it is hot is an understatement. With companies like Google (YouTube), Netflix, and others now investing in the creation of content and not just the dissemination of existing video you can bet that there is big money at stake now and in the future. Of course all of that [...]
Like many I was sort of blown away when Roger Ebert started writing about the voice synthesis software that he was using with a computer to be able to speak. After a bout with cancer Ebert lost the ability to speak, but through technology that took advantage of the millions of words he had spoken [...]
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Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE Review: A Worthy Successor to the Original (Video)
When Sprint had debuted the original WiMax-capable HTC EVO 4G nearly two years ago, it was an instant hit on the Now network. Not only was the HTC EVO 4G the first 4G smartphone in the world taking advantage of Sprint’s then speedy WiMax network, but it brought some new features and pizzazz to the [...]
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Google Search App iPhone and iPad Update Looks Beautiful (Video)
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