Startups On TV: TechStars Teams Up With Bloomberg To Offer An Inside Look At Building A Business

Startups On TV: TechSta...

Move over American Idol, and move over Survivor? There’s a new reality show (okay, documentary-reality series) in town, but luckily no one’s getting voted off the island. In this tech TV version, it’s startups and their founders iterating, scrambling through feature...
New Layar Vision Recognises Real Objects And Displays AR Objects On Top

New Layar Vision Recogn...

Recently a few startups have started to appear with mobile apps allowing you to point a smartphone at an object and view some kind of augmented reality object or information associated with it. Usually they’ve done this by being activated by some kind of QR code or similar. Others...
RemoteRinger For Android Helps You Find Your Phone In The Couch

RemoteRinger For Androi...

This fairly simple Android app adds a layer of safety for folks who often misplace their Android cellphone while it’s in silent mode. Called RemoteRinger , you assign a special code to the phone as well as a designated caller number. You can then send an SMS from the designated...
HP TouchPad Gets $50 Discount, OTA Update

HP TouchPad Gets $50 Di...

HP has just released a new over-the-air update to the TouchPad , WebOS 3.0.2, that improves the OS slightly including improved auto-correction, the inclusion of wallpaper support, and improved photo handling. The update will appear automatically for TouchPad owners and most devices...
European Venture Capital Activity Down 28% In The First Half Of 2011

European Venture Capita...

If you needed more proof that the venture capital industry here in Europe is struggling to keep up, here are some new facts and figures from Dow Jones VentureSource to prove there’s most certainly no bubble in these parts. According to DJV, European venture-backed companies have...
Inbox 10,000: Some Thoughts After A Month Away From Email

Inbox 10,000: Some Thou...

“I wouldn’t say I’ve been missing it.” Peter Gibbons line from Office Space also served as the slug for my post from early July explaining why I was quitting email for the rest of the month . I was pretty sure I knew how I would feel once the month was up. And...
Honeycomb Hits The Logitech Revue, But You Have To Really Want It

Honeycomb Hits The Logi...

GTVHackers has released an Android 3.1 beta built specifically for the Logitech Revue Google TV device. The hitch? It’s not quite ready for public consumption, it could destroy your user experience, and you could end up with a GTV that can’t be restored to its original OS or...
Daily Crunch: Music Bike

Daily Crunch: Music Bik...

Here are some of yesterday’s Gadgets stories: iOS App Scans Printed Music Notes, Plays Them In Real-Time (Video) Folding, Electric Vienna Bike Is Dorky But Practical Foxconn Planning To Hire 1 Million Robots The Smartphone Salad Days Are Over “Blind Camera” Doesn’t Take...
NuForce’s Gold-Plated, Crystal-Studded USB Audio Device: A Device Sold To An Idiot, Signifying Nothing

NuForce’s Gold-Plated...

The NuForce’s uDAC-2 Signature Gold Edition 24bit/96kHz USB digital audio converter is basically worth $5 (even with the gold plating and glass crystals) but the company, whose experience in audio is precedented only by every other manufacturer in the world, is selling it for $400...
Broadcaster Or Blogger, Cent2Cent Helps Anyone Charge For Video

Broadcaster Or Blogger,...

Generally speaking, video producers have a much easier time producing content than monetizing it. This is because the monetization side of the equation has two x-factors that are hard to get right. The first being the ‘with what to monetize’ factor–that is, the...

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