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There are tons of karaoke applications for the iPhone, but a startup called Khu.sh is introducing a twist on the concept, “reverse karaoke,” to the App Store.There have been other reverse karaoke products, most notably Microsoft Songsmith, a Windows application that lets you record your singing, then automatically generates (Read More)
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Editor’s note: Chuck Dietrich is the chief executive of online presentation company SlideRocket, and previously served as general manager and vice president of mobile at Salesforce.com. He contributed this column to VentureBeat.There is a lot of chatter over the impending arrival of Microsoft’s Office 2010. Delayed as it ma (Read More)
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Playhaven is making it easy for gamers to create fan communities around iPhone games. It does so by creating online forums for fans on its web site, with a new fan section for every iPhone game. Developers can then claim those game communities as official fan sites.To date, 40 developers have launched official communities a (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Being attached at the hip to your smartphone doesn't mean you're productive, just attached. The I Will Teach You To Be Rich blog showcases how three workers put a real fence around their work time and ended up more free. Writer Ramit Sethi's first example, Jim Collins, might be familiar to those read up on productivity tech (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Being attached at the hip to your smartphone doesn't mean you're productive, just attached. The I Will Teach You To Be Rich blog showcases how three workers put a real fence around their work time and ended up more free. Writer Ramit Sethi's first example, Jim Collins, might be familiar to those read up on productivity tech (Read More)
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Behind every tech problem is a human problem – and if you don’t dig into it and figure out how solve it, your company will never progress. Serial entrepreneur Eric Ries, in this entrepreneurial though leader lecture given at Stanford University, notes that a layered analysis of decisions and procedures can help you narrow t (Read More)
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FunMobility, the developer of a bunch of social mobile applications, is releasing a new iPhone app that chief executive Adam Lavine says will finally convince people to use the their phones’ multimedia messaging (MMS) capabilities.Lavine points to a study FunMobility commissioned from Frost & Sullivan showing that only one (Read More)
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Facebook has banned offer providers Gambit and Tatto Media from providing offers in games and apps on the social network.The development is one of the results of the recent scandal around the quality of offers in social games and apps. Some of the offers have been tainted as scams because they don’t tell consumers about hid (Read More)
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Adobe just announced announcing a bunch of upgrades to Acrobat.com, its suite of web collaboration applications. The most important: It’s releasing an application for the iPhone and BlackBerry.Mobile support has been a big missing piece for Acrobat.com, since a big selling point of applications like Adobe’s (as well as Goog (Read More)
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Seesmic, the Twitter client that was the first to incorporate lists, has now jumped on the social network’s new location-tagged tweets. You can roll over tweets that have a special marker to show a map of where they are, without ever leaving the client.Twitter finally rolled out its location application programming interfac (Read More)
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Cisco Systems has put no limit on its budget for Smart Grid development, the company’s grid guru Laura Ipsen told the audience at GreenBeat 2009 — albeit quoting her boss John Chambers. The question now is what Cisco will use that money for — for now it looks like its racing to get in on every nook and cranny of the Smart (Read More)
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Burned by a scandal in its offer business over inappropriate promos, Offerpal Media is moving to set standards which forbids offers that are misleading, deceptive or otherwise objectionable.The action is the first move the company has made since it brought in a new chief executive, George Garrick, a couple of weeks ago. The (Read More)
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eBay said it has completed the sale of a 70-percent stake in Skype communications service for an amount that values the company at $2.75 billion.The buyer is an investor consortium led by Silver Lake Partners, the private equity buyout firm. It includes participation from Joltid, the company founded by Skype’s founders. Oth (Read More)
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Twitter finally rolled out its new application programming interface for tagging tweets with your location.It won’t appear on Twitter.com, but it will be enabled for location-based services like Birdfeed, Seesmic Web, Foursquare, Gowalla, Twidroid and Twittelator Pro. Tweetie already switched on some geotagging functionalit (Read More)
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At the Politics and Policy session, moderated by Michael Kanellos of Greentech Media, the one prevalent theme was the need for a simple, efficient legislation and regulation package for the U.S. power system. Robert Gee of Gee Strategies went so far as to say “Before anything is passed into law we need to get it past a pane (Read More)