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Fourface Is Foursquare As Modern Art
One common complaint about Foursquare is that in a increasingly crowded location-based space, it’s not pretty enough when compared to the likes of Brightkite and Gowalla . The new iPhone app launching soon should help that . But for some, it still won’t be enough. Those people should definitely check out Fourface . Fourface is a free iPhone app ...
Notice the Windows alternative in HP’s slate device. This is a good thing.
We have written repeatedly that Windows itself is one of the main reasons why touchscreen computers have never caught the general public's attention. The interface just wasn't designed for finger input . Like it or not, that's the truth. Windows was designed to be used with a mouse, and to a lesser extent, a pen or stylus. That's ...
CrunchGear Reviews the ScanSnap S1300 Portable Scanner
Short Version: Tax season is upon us, friends, and wouldn't those 1099s and W2s floating hither and yon would be much more accessible if they were nestled deep inside a searchable PDF? Sure. That's why Fujitsu invented the $295 ScanSnap S1300. The ScanSnap S1300 is supposed to be a mobile scanner. ...
comScore: Online Video Views Down Across The Board In January
comScore has just released its US online video rankings for January 2010, and the results aren’t positive. Overall views dropped by around 2.5%, with 32.4 billion in January vs. 33.2 billion in December . And Hulu, which celebrated crossing the 1 billion view milestone for the first time in December, dipped back down to 903 million views. The drop ...
Investors Say “Count Me In” To Plancast
When Plancast launched last November, it immediately put other sites like Upcoming, Dopplr, and every single e-vite service on notice . The “ Foursquare for the future ” has a simplicity that leads to a lot of social activity as we’ve seen over the past few months. And now that vision will get to flourish further with some seed ...
Canada Now Somewhat Less Anti-Startup
Canada isn’t shy about making life difficult for startups , and we’ve had one or two personal brawls with the country as well. But a change in Canadian tax law last week is designed to spur U.S. venture investments in Canadian startups and make Canada less of a leper colony for tech entrepreneurs. The change allows foreign investors in ...
Stuck In The iPhone Mindset, AT&T Locks Down Apps On Their First Android Phone
Our full review of the Motorola Backflip should be up in a few days, but a few words of wisdom in the mean time: Don’t buy it. Between its crazy form-factor and the hidden trackpad tucked on the back of the display, everything we took as merits at face value have devolved into novelties. Worst of all, it seems ...
Time Warner Cable offering its tubes to AT&T, Verizon
Wired broadband is all well and good, but significantly more high-speed internet access is going to come via wireless over the next several years, and everyone involved -- the carriers, the CTIA , and the FCC -- knows that it's going to be a technical challenge to meet that reality. Spectrum is one thing, but the bytes need somewhere ...
Boomerang’s Offerwall Launches User Reviewed Virtual Currency Offers
As gaming on social network grows by leaps and bounds, there’s been a proliferation of startups that are helping game developers monetize by offering virtual currency deals in conjunction with advertisers. Offerpal , gWallet, Cherry Deals and others all partner with both developers and advertisers to offer virtual currency deals within games. Today, Boomerang Networks is entering the arena ...
Xachi Pets fuse iPhones and Stuffed Animals into one Cute and Cuddly iToy
What do you get when you mix a Unicorn and a Nexus One? I’ve got no idea – but if you put an iPhone and Furby together, you get a Xachi pet. Announced last week at the American International Toy Fair , a Xachi (pronounced “ZAH-chee”) Pet is an iPhone-controlled toy. It looks kind of like a Furby with ...
