Last week Billboard named 18 finalists for their first Music App Awards. The finalists will be recognized at their Mobile Entertainment Live!: The Music App Summit. Their list recognizes the 'most innovative music-focused apps created for the iPhone, Blackberry, and Android and Nokia platforms.' Below is their list: read more |
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Alexander B. Howard is the Government 2.0 Washington Correspondent for O’Reilly Media, where he reports on technology, open government and online civics. He’ll be reporting live from the upcoming Gov2.0 Summit in Washington, D.C., on September 7-8. Every year,… |
The previous version of Apple TV was dubbed 'take two.' Will the new model be known as 'strike three'? By John Patrick Pullen, contributor By most accounts, Wednesday was a good day to be Steve Jobs. In fact, if you were looking at a box score of Apple's big game, their CEO's line might look something like this: ab r h rbi Jobs 5 4 5 4 That's right -- four long home runs and a single. One product after another, Jobs knocked 'em out of the park. He fixed an old design blunder by popping buttons back onto the iPod Shuffle. He completely revamped the Nano, not only making it smaller but more functional. He finally introduced an iPod Touch that's a true iPhone without the phone, helping a crippled product live up to its full potential. He also pulled an entire social network out of... |
Apple has announced that it will be live streaming its September 1 “ special event ,” where the company is expected not only to reveal a new line of iPods, but a new version of Apple TV as well. The… |
Perhaps you've heard: Apple is having an event tomorrow . Normally, this means that a sea of tech bloggers descends upon the Bay Area to cover it live for those sitting by their computers at home. But this time things are a bit different: Apple is actually streaming the event live -- something they haven't done in a very, very long time. Cue Double Rainbow : what does this mean? It's been so long since an Apple event has been live streamed that no one can seem to agree when the last one actually was. The consensus seems to be that it was a Macworld keynote (which IDG and not Apple produced) back in the 2003 or 2004 timeframe. But what's interesting is why Apple streamed one of these last ones: as some recall, it was at least in part to show off their then-new streaming technology -- QuickTime... |
Interesting. For the first time in 5 years Apple will stream one of its media events live. Late Tuesday afternoon the company said it will broadcast tomorrow’s affair to anyone with a Snow Leopard Mac or iOS device like the iPhone and iPad — live. |
Fertilizer chemicals may pose a bigger hazard to the environment -- specifically to creatures that live in water -- than originally foreseen, according to new research. Toxicologists show that water fleas take up nitrates and nitrites -- common chemicals used primarily in agriculture as fertilizers -- and convert those chemicals into nitric oxide. Nitric oxide can be toxic to many organisms. |
The first video released of the 33 men trapped deep in a Chilean copper mine shows the men stripped to the waist and appearing slim but healthy, arm-in-arm, singing the national anthem and yelling 'long live Chile, and long live the miners!' |
The Nokia Theater in Times Square, a 2,100-capacity room owned by the national promoter AEG Live, will become the Best Buy Theater. |
Xbox Live on the go Microsoft has listed the Xbox Live games that will run on Windows Phone 7 handsets when the smartphone platform launches later this year. Among them, some well known titles.… |
An email from Microsoft tonight tells us that Windows Phone 7 will be launching with a whole roster of Xbox Live games to push the envelope of mobile gaming. A grand total of 63 games from have been announced today,… |
Buxfer is a social payments service that launched in 2007 as part of that class of new Y Combinator companies. The site is still live and working, but a user, Sean Leather , emailed us to say it's a bit of a ghost town. The blog has been taken down and was last updated in 2009. The last tweet was on October 9, 2009, six days after their first tweet. And users are wondering if the site is dead over on Get Satisfaction . So what happened? The two founders, Shashank Pandit and Ashwin Bharambe , took jobs at Facebook. Bhramabe joined Facebook way back in October 2008, as noted on Buxfer's About page. But according to Pandit's LinkedIn profile , he too left the company in June and has been full time at Facebook since late 2009. |
The Torch represents something of a return to roots for Research in Motion, after its Storm failed to live up to expectations. |
Last weekend, HP announced the 'resignation' of Chairman, CEO, and President Mark Hurd, following an investigation into sexual harassment claims that were later revealed to come from actress and former HP contractor Jodie Fisher. Well, HP's board may have forgotten to clue in shareholders about that investigation, and now the board is being sued over it. The suit, filed by a Connecticut-based law firm, according to the Wall Street Journal , was actually filed on Tuesday on behalf of HP shareholder Brocton Contributory Retirement System. The complaint alleges that the board failed to live it to its fiduciary duties related to the investigation. CNET's Erica Ogg quotes the complaint , 'As a result of Hurd's, Lesjak's, and the HP board's shortcomings, HP lost significant credibility, and the market... |
Google is launching two new mobile products today; the first of these two features is “Voice Actions,” the company’s take on voice commands for the Android OS. We are here at Google’s San Francisco offices listening to Hugo Barra, Director… |
Report also says phishing is down despite the rise of a new Live-Chat based attack that tries to trick people into giving up personal details. |
The Mashable team is hosting its final stop on the U.S. Summer Tour in Chicago tonight. In case you can’t make it, you can still participate in the event via our live video and chat stream. We’ll… |
The Mashable team is hosting its U.S. Summer Tour stop in Washington D.C. tonight. In case you can’t make it, you can still participate in the event via our live video and chat stream. We’ll be joined… |
Despite concerns that federal authorities might fine or arrest him, hacker Chris Paget went ahead with a live demonstration of mobile phone interception at the Defcon hacking conference Saturday. |
The amount of people using Twitter is growing ever larger and more impressive. But that brings its own problems, problems Twitter is now trying to solve. More than 100 million people now use Twitter regularly, which is great. It means more [...] Related posts: Biz Stone: You can buy Twitter wine, but not the company Twitter reveals user stats at Chirp Twitter Taste Live Online-Only Charity Wine Tasting Using Ustream and Twitter |
Are Twitter posts an expression of who we are — or are they changing who we are? |
Steve Ballmer's trying to set the record straight on Microsoft's maligned consumer businesses. 'We're pretty focused in a set of areas we think have big potential,' the Microsoft chief executive said to 180 or so financial analysts meeting in Redmond today. During his presentation, it was disclosed that Microsoft's expecting Windows 7 tablets to spread in early 2011 after new Intel hardware emerges. The company's also preparing to offer a 'personal cloud' to Windows 7 users, including a set of online services for managing and synchronizing files that will come with Windows 7 PCs starting in the third quarter. The personal clouds include Windows Live services such as the SkyDrive online storage system and online Office applications, with the addition of new sync features for synchronizing and sharing... |
THE PHONE: The iPhone 4's FaceTime feature lets people call another iPhone 4 user and have live video conversations using the front-facing cameras.... |
Fans at the New Meadowlands Stadium will be offered free smart-phone applications that they can use to see video replays, updated statistics and live video from other games. |
Mapquest recently rolled out a complete redesign, but it didn't stop there. This week, the site made some additional adjustments, such as Full Map View and zoom via mouse scroll. With Full Map View, users can now collapse the left pane to view a map that's as wide as the browser window. 'This is a great option for those of you that are visual and like to see as much map as possible,' says Mapquest's Ann Koerner. With the other new feature, users can hover their mouse over the map and use the scroll wheel of the mouse to zoom in or out. Koerner says they made some other minor changes to other features and fixed some bugs, but did not specify. Mapquest also announced this past week that it has expanded its live traffic coverage , which now includes over a quarter-million miles of roads in... |
This week’s episode of Speaking Of… (video below) features the founder/CEO of Halcyon Molecular, William Andregg. Andregg grew up in Arizona. There's a song by The Orb called Little Fluffy Clouds that describes the light-pollution-free Arizonan sky quite perfectly, with amazing clouds, sunsets and stars. Most Arizonans - at some point in their lives - will lay on the hood of their car and gaze towards the grandness of those fluffy clouds and the Milky Way, but most probably won't come to the same conclusions that William did about it all. |
A sampling of opinions -- the good, the bad and the ugly Photo: Apple Inc. Given how much attention Apple ( AAPL ) was getting before Steve Jobs' 'Antennagate' press conference Friday -- CNBC greeted it with a countdown clock and eight simultaneous talking heads -- it's not surprising that his performance got widely reviewed. We counted 131 headlines on Techmeme Saturday morning, not including the 52 links to live blogs of the event. Reactions were predictably mixed. The analysts were pleased. The competition was miffed. The press was snarky. The bloggers were all over the lot. And Consumer Reports ? Well, see for yourself. The analysts: 'Apple needed to address their loyalists and those prospective buyers who have been sitting on the fence in lieu of the noise about 'antennagate.'... |
Despite challenges by a resurgent Apple, upstart Google, and other new rivals, Microsoft remains the world's biggest software company with more than 90% of the desktop. But for all its dominance, Redmond rolls big clunkers from time to time -- and when it flops, it flops big. Here are seven Microsoft disasters that live in infamy. |
Steve Jobs came out on the defensive during a press conference this morning responding to the iPhone 4 antenna problems, according to live blogs from the event at Apple headquarters in Cupertino. Jobs acknowledged that there is a problem with his company's new phone but said it's only affecting a small number of users. In response the company's giving free cases to iPhone 4 buyers through Sept. 30 and refunds to people who bought the $30 'Bumper' cases (the green accessory pictured here) from Apple already. The company can't make enough Bumpers for everyone right away so Apple will offer alternate cases. Buyers can apply for the cases and refunds on Apple's Web site next week. Apple's also waiving restocking fees and providing full refunds within 30 days for people who want to return their... |
