ReadWriteWeb:
These days, everyone wants to build their own iPhone applications, but not everyone knows how write the code necessary in order to create them. Fortunately, there are now a number of tools that allow non-developers the ability to create their own iPhone apps without knowing programming or scripting. Some are general-purpose (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Ribbit just announced the launch of Ribbit Mobile. Ribbit Mobile is a cloud-based VoIP telephony service that brings together web-based calling, smart call routing and voicemail transcriptions.It is hard to look at Ribbit Mobile without comparing it to Google Voice. Just like Google Voice, Ribbit gives users a new phone num (Read More)
: "Ribbit Mobile also has quite a few features that Google doesn't offer, including the ability to ring different phones simultaneously and to make calls from within the browser." FAIL Have you even used Google Voice? Google Voice has both of those features.
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from Google Reader:
The new TwitterPeek is getting widely panned right now, including by my friends Kim LaCapria over at Inquisitr as well as fellow ANGLEr, Sean P. Aune.Sean posted on one of his blogs, StarterTech, rounding up the history of the Peek and what’s new with the TwitterPeek:Peek is a mobile device company that seems to specialize (Read More)
Gizmodo:
A year ago, Android was an unfinished OS for nerds, bursting with potential. With Android 2.0, it's evolved into something sleeker, more refined and focused—but still something not quite human. Over the last year, Android's evolved more rapidly and appeared in more shapes than any other smartphone OS. Every major update has (Read More)
Gizmodo:
It's this simple: If you don't buy an iPhone, buy a Droid. It's the best phone on Verizon, and with Android 2.0, the second best smartphone you can buy, period. It's flawed, deeply in some ways. But it's the second best phone around, on the best network around. Droid is a champion of possibilities: for Motorola, for Verizon (Read More)
TechCrunch:
More than 1/3 of all Internet users worldwide visit MSN every month. 400 million people. That’s way more than AOL’s 80 million, and not ridiculously out of reach of Yahoo’s nearly 600 million. But still, it’s the most popular Internet portal that no one actually ever goes to. Starting tonight though that’s going to change. (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Microsoft just announced a radical redesign of its MSN homepage. Today's MSN homepage for the US market is a busy mix of ads, hundreds of links and some customizable local news and weather widgets. The redesign, which is MSN's first major redesign since 2004, puts a new emphasis on search, local news, video and integration (Read More)
VentureBeat:
In hopes of creating a new kind of mobile business, Funambol is announcing today that it has acquired Zapatec, a maker of web-based application technology. The combined companies hope to launch what they call a new generation of “sync and push” apps for mobile devices.Redwood City, Calif.-based Funambol is a player in open (Read More)
New York Times:
Chorus, a new app discovery tool for the iPhone, makes suggestions based on which apps you and your friends have already downloaded and liked. (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
The good folks at Twitter recently rolled out list-making capabilities for all users, finally catching up to functions that many desktop and web apps have featured for a while.In addition to allowing users to create their own curations, Twitter has also added a basic widget-maker for adding tweets from any user's list to an (Read More)
readwriteweb:
Two years ago social news site Newsvine was acquired by MSNBC, the Microsoft/NBC joint venture. The site had launched publicly in March 2006 and was considered to be one of the best designed new breed of 'web 2.0' news sites. Features include user-generated content, reputation, voting, comments, friends lists, tags, and mor (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
When most of us hear the words, "For as little as 50 cents a day..." our brains conjure up solemn images of Sally Struthers. For as little as 50 cents a day MixMatchMusic is offering starving and made musicians a chance to reach their fans via a customizable iPhone app maker. Between now and tomorrow morning, MobBase will (Read More)
VentureBeat:
In a very natural extension of the lists feature Twitter finally rolled out last week, the company added a widget which lets you embed tweets from an entire list.Why might this be useful? If you’re a business owner, you might want to show off public conversation from your team or employees. Or maybe you’d want to play up yo (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Intuit completes buyout of Mint.com – CEO Alan Patzer will suck it up and shift from CEO to vice president and general manager of Intuit’s personal finance group, which also includes Quicken products.Yes, Disney’s new film is a hand-drawn musical – “I’ve never understood why the studios were saying people don’t want to see (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
The next version of popular web dashboard service Netvibes will push "near real-time" updates from feeds to the browser, a dramatic change in how the service works. Those feeds will be served up along with the standard suite of functional widgets the company has always provided. As the number of real-time feeds available (Read More)