Blogging and sharing company Posterous has announced via its company blog that it has been snagged by Twitter in an apparent ‘acqui-hire’, with Twitter interested mostly in the people, not the product. Various Posterous engineers, product managers and more will … Continue reading
Google+ Just Got Speedier for the Mobile Web
When it comes to keeping up with posts on Google+, I don’t tend to use theAndroid or iOS apps. I’m more of a browser and therefore I use the mobile web version, since I feel its a better and more integrated experience for … Continue reading
Microsoft Can Make Your Voice Speak Foreign Languages
Ever wonder what you’d sound like speaking German? Or maybe Mandarin? Microsoft Research has a new technology they’re cooking up which will take the sound of your voice and synthesize itas part a spoken language translator. According to MIT’s Technology … Continue reading
Steve Jobs Was Declined By CBS CEO Over Apple TV Deal
Whilst it was known that CBS turned down a deal to provide content for a new Apple TV subscription service last year, it has been revealed by the company’s CEO Les Moonves that he was personally approached by Steve Jobs for … Continue reading
SunPower scores deal for Apple’s huge solar farm
Apple plans to buy solar panels from SunPower for the huge solar farm that it’s planning to build at its data center in Maiden, North Carolina, according to San Jose Mercury News reporter Dana Hull, who cites a regulatory filing … Continue reading
The science behind the new iPad’s display
You might still be deciding whether the brighter, crisper Retina display justifies upgrading to the new iPad — in addition to smoother graphics and the option of 4G connectivity. Having seen it with my own eyes, I can attest that … Continue reading
Twitter Engineer Builds Twitter Tool for Event Backchannels
A Twitter employee has created a tool that makes the microblogging platform a better backchannel for events and panels. Bill Couch, a software engineer at Twitter, demoed the new tool at SXSW on Friday during the “Design from the Gut” … Continue reading
The iPad isn’t a PC — but it’s trying hard to behave like one
If you have an iPad already, you probably use it for checking e-mail or browsing the Web, Twitter or Facebook, using apps, reading an e-book or even putting together presentations. But on Wednesday, Apple took great care to show you … Continue reading
Facebook hasn’t fixed Friend Finder, says German group
Berlin’s district court ruled this weekthat Facebook’s Friend Finder feature was invading people’s privacy — and that the site should not let people use it without explicitly telling them that that the tool can suck in the details from their … Continue reading
Twitter Now Available in Right-to-Left Languages
Thanks to the efforts of 13,000 volunteers worldwide, Twitter is now available in Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and Urdu, according to a company blog post. Twitter had been working on translating and localizing these right-to-left languages since January 25. These languages posed … Continue reading
