Twitter search engine Topsy launches with $15M
Topsy.com, launched last week, is a brand new search engine focused exclusively on Twitter content. Like Google, it presents its results based on popularity metrics, namely the popularity or influence of the tweeter in question — a factor determined by how many followers the user has and how many time his or her messages have been re-tweeted.
Based in San Francisco, the company says it plans to branch out from Twitter if it sees initial success,… Continue Reading
Find a faster commute with mobile application Waze
I’ve become pathetically reliant on my iPhone for finding my way around, but there’s one thing that online mapping applications don’t prepare me for — traffic. Even when applications include traffic data, the information isn’t provided in real-time, or it isn’t accounted for when calculating driving directions, or both. Enter a new service called Waze, which is beginning a private alpha test in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Waze takes data provided by the applications’ users… Continue Reading
Roundup: IPhone glitches may be fixed in Sept., Netflix suffers outage and more
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IPhone glitches may be fixed in September — A chip in the iPhone is being blamed for dropped calls and choppy web reception, according to BusinessWeek. The problems will hopefully be fixed next month with a software upgrade.
Netflix suffers shipping and distribution outage — The outage affects one-third of the movie rental service’s 8.4 million customers. Executives say they’re trying to figure out an appropriate refund or credit.
Open source movement scores court victory —… Continue Reading
3i Systems, LCD inspection company, raises $6.5M
3i Systems, a Chinese company that provides a technology that inspects the quality of high quality liquid crystal displays, said it has raised a $6.5 million Series B financing round led by BlueRun Ventures and Anxon International.
Headquartered in Guangdong province of China, 3i Systems has so-called automated optical inspection (AOI) technology for thin-film transistor LCD.