According to Wired, a Twitter account by the name of @samsungukmobile has reached out to frustrated iPhone 4 owners. Samsung is apparently handing out free Galaxy S smartphones to people who have tweeted about their mishaps with the iPhone. They simply ask for your contact details and set you up for the Galaxy S handset [...]
Archive for July, 2010
New technology developed by Ford and Nuance bring MyFord Touch driver connect technology to Ford vehicles. It is now easier to control your vehicle using only your voice. They have increased the number of first-level commands from 100 to 10,000. This makes it easier to control your vehicle using fewer steps and more natural language.
Nuance [...]
Google Voice Gets Less Annoying The concept of Google Voice is an awesome one. A single number to rule all of your phone numbers, including features like call recording, custom forwarding, and voicemail transcription. I’m loving it. It’s just implemented sort of weird. One of those awkward design choices was with the mobile version. Whenever you [...]
Can’t make it to Comic-con in San Diego this year? Don’t worry about it. MTV and MySpace have got your back. MTV News and MySpace have joined forces and, by their powers combined, you will be able to access exclusive live broadcasts of the festivities. This is exciting news for Comic-con fans, who will get [...]
A group of researchers from Northeastern University and Harvard University have analyzed the sentiment of 300 million tweets over a period of 3 years. This is enough data to give us a pretty accurate picture of how Americans are feeling as they tweet throughout the day and week.
This tweet data was then compared to the [...]
As of this morning, Facebook has passed the 500 million user mark. According to Zuckerberg, these 500 million users are actively using Facebook to stay connected to friends, family, and people they care about. With Facebook being as popular as it is, it’s no surprised they have been able to reach this new milestone, but [...]
There is much more to Google Images search than meets the eye. It has evolved over time to make searching for images on the web as easy as possible and packs some pretty serious algorithms on the back-end. Google has an index of over 10 billion images. Out of the nine subspecies of leopards, [...]
Hollywood studios, technology companies, and cable providers are banding together to create a library of media that will all be available in the cloud. The group is called The Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem and they have called this initiative UltraViolet.
The DECE has been working on this for a couple of years now. The group consists [...]
The Chum.ly team is staying on the grind and actively responding to feedback from their growing community. This has resulted in a complete redesign of the user interface, implementation of OAuth, and an upcoming iPhone application. I have to say, the UI update is a big difference from what they were working with a couple [ Read More ]
Today, the Internet just got a little bigger as .CO domain names open up to the public. The .com domains are mostly gone. It’s almost impossible to find a good one these days with more than 90 million of them already taken. Tens of thousands of people are already estimated to be pre-registered for .CO [...]
It looks like efforts by Steve jobs to end Antennagate have failed to turn the story around. People are still upset and a free case just isn’t cutting it. As this whole thing began to spin out of control, we saw Consumer Reports unable to recommend purchase of the device. This was despite that they [...]
What do you get when you cross the most popular location-based social networking site with a powerful search engine? A way to find the hottest spots around town in real-time. Forget looking up stale reviews, figure out where everybody is at right now. According to Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley, this is exactly the type of [...]
Old Spice Shows New Media How It’s Done
Pretty much everyone knows who the Old Spice Guy is. The first commercial had everyone from your best friend to your grandmother ending sentences with “I’m on a horse!” Who knew this ready to like manly man would step out of your TV screen and start responding to [...]
Even though Facebook, Twitter, and Google have dominated the headlines, MySpace has not stopped putting in work. They have been in the lab working on their product as well as acquiring new talent for their team. Last night, MySpace vice president of online marketing Sean Percival tweeted about “clean new profiles” that are starting to [...]
As media gathered for the Apple Press Conference today, many speculated about what was going to happen. Would Steve Jobs apologize for the iPhone 4 antennae flaw? Would they offer free bumper cases to reduce the problem? Have they developed an in-store fix to coat the antennae? Would we get details on the white iPhone [...]
