At Apple’s iPad release event, I met Dan Lyons, technology writer for Newsweek. He is also know as the man who writes as Fake Steve Jobs. We were discussing the iPad with me being obviously impressed and him not so much. Here, watch this video.
A while ago, I wrote a rather condemning post on how most “social media for social good” efforts were heavy on social media activities but came up short on actual social good.Still, there are organizations such as Kiva, The Extraordinaires or Social…
Intellect Wireless, a tiny company based in Reston, VA has filed suit against Apple over mobile picture/video messaging technology it claims to have successfully patented years ago.The patent infringement suit was filed on 28 January in Illinois Nor…
Computer voice-to-text technology has come a long way, and every time it gets better, new applications open up. It is still not 100 percent accurate. Hell, it’s not even 90 percent accurate. But it is accurate enough for automated voicemail trans…
Out of concern that early and incomplete augmented reality demo products make a bad name for the technology, a new startup called QderoPateo is attempting to make an end-to-end AR platform. That includes building and releasing its own phone chipset,…
Startup incubators such as Founders Institute and TechStars, are popping up outposts in various metropolises in the U.S. and even in internationally. Today, VC firm DFJ Frontier, an affiliate of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and the City of Ventura, Cali…
As we’ve covered in the past, the cost of engaging and keeping great employees can be high. You can pay an intelligent employee to stay late, or placate them with a posh office environment, but one way to keep an innovator in their chair is to chall…
RSS technology makes it possible for anyone to keep up with fresh content without having to visit the site in question. Now the same holds for webpages without RSS thanks to a new Google Reader feature.Today Google has rolled out a subtle change to …
Crisp Wireless this morning unveiled a new technology that delivers ads that remain on screen as users scroll down through pages on the wireless Web. While those ads may prove effective, they may also give users one more reason to avoid the mobile I…
Google announced two new features in their web results. First is called “Answer Highlighting” and the second is an enhancement to the Rich Snippets feature. Answer Highlighting in short basically uses Google Squared technology to highlight in the se…