CoderDojo Partners with...
On Saturday afternoon a group of 30 pint size wannabe hackers gathered at the GitHub offices in San Francisco for the first CoderDojo in the United States. Irish teen sensation, James Whelton had traveled to San Francisco to take his highly successful social hacking education platform to...Cloud-Based File Syncin...
SugarSync, an application that syncs your data across desktop computers, laptops, mobile phones, and even televisions, has raised $15 million in series D financing led by new investor Coral Group with participation from existing investors Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Sigma Partners, Hatteras...Dude, You’re Getting ...
Barring a change of heart or a wild, consumer-driven financial upturn, it looks as if Dell is out of the consumer PC business and is turning its Sauron-like eye towards the enterprise – the one place where people upgrade their PCs at least once a year. According to PCPro , Dell...New Hope For Open Sourc...
Editor’s note : Verne Kopytoff is a technology journalist who lives the the Bay area. A college textbook can cost a staggering $200. Over four years of study, students can easily spend thousands of dollars on books on top of a hefty tuition. The situation is not much better in...
Cobook, A Slick Address...
The mundane Address Book was big news this week due to the privacy fiasco , but here’s a post about an impressive address book app with a different approach to privacy. Cobook is a Mac contact management app that’s simple, powerful and actually fun to use. The software, made...Sony Ericsson Now Offic...
Sony Ericsson has been a well known mobile brand since 2001. And in 2011 October, Sony decided to buy Ericsson’s half of the 50-50 agreement to become sole owner of the operations. And now since the split has finally been approved, Sony can finally brag about the new name. The deal was...Nature Publishing Group...
Last spring I wrote about Nature Publishing Group’s plan for a $49 electronic textbook packed with interactivity and unlimited content updates for life. The original publication date was scheduled for September 1, 2011, but for a variety of reasons the release was pushed back....