The first big hit in gesture control technology was the mouse. If you’re too young to have any pre-digital memories, this might seem like an odd claim. My three-year-old is no more mystified by mice and touchpads than she is …
Up-and-coming list aggregator Ranker.com is announcing another $750,000 in seed financing, part of a planned $1 million second round. The first $1 million came from company founder Clark Benson, who sold eCrush to Hearst Media in 2006. The second round …
Billing itself as “the only worldwide cloud print service,” HubCast has been around for a few years now. Today the company is announcing the launch of a professional version of their on-demand commercial printing service with some extra bells and …
SoundHound, a music discovery app for iPhone, is announcing the release of version 3.1 today. The release includes updates that make the app respond more quickly on launch, as well as integration with Pandora and the addition of tour information.…
Cool news for music geeks: Songza Media has launched a new internet radio service it is calling Songza Sets. Free to use, it organizes songs into playlists created by actual humans (“music curators” who work for Songza). The concept is …
LG and Panasonic will be adding Skype service to their internet-connected high-definition TVs, the popular web-telephone company announced today. The television companies are set to debut their new models on Wednesday, the day before the Consumer Electronics Show kicks off …
Ilja Laurs is the founder and CEO of GetJar, the multi-platform app retailer with strong claims to being second only to Apple in number of downloads. Laurs runs GetJar from offices in the UK, Silicon Valley, and his native Lithuania. …
A group of MIT researchers claims to have made a significant leap in gesture-controlled computing, due to a new kind of LCD screen configuration they describe as a “lenseless camera.” Leveraging recent advances in LCD technology, the team’s so-called BiDirectional …
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Google is in the advanced stages of a bid to acquire Yelp for more than half a billion dollars, according to a report in TechCrunch. The acquisition of the popular review site would advance Google’s position in the local …
Several major magazine and newspaper publishers announced today that they are collaborating on a joint venture that would offer digital magazine content to consumers on a variety of devices, confirming reports of the venture earlier this month. Time Inc.’s John …
Rumors have been circulating for months that a consortium of major magazine publishers has been at work on a plan to provide digital content through an online store similar to iTunes or Amazon. John Koblin of the New York Observer …
