One of the things that could make casual, social Q&A sites even more fun is "multiplayer" features that allow you to interact with groups of more than one person at a time.FormspringFormSpring has just added such a feature: The site now lets you pose the same question to more than one friend at a time.For example, I was going to ...
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LG officially opened the doors to its online applications store on Thursday. The app store offers social networking, navigation, VoIP, and instant messaging applications for both feature phones and Windows OS phones. LG will expand its offerings to include an estimated 4,000 applications — including those for Android-powered smartphones – by the end of the year. Currently in beta, the app ...
July 1 marks the soft launch of the music collaboration startup
Appolicious - Several big names launched Android apps this week, showing a strong end to June and a big start for July. Amazon released Kindle with Whispersync for Android, while Yahoo! finally got around to making a few apps for the Android Market.
Google announced on Thursday that it is acquiring flight information software company ITA for $700 million in cash. Based in Cambridge, ITA mines flight data and presents it in a polished form suitable for online viewing. Google will add to its repertoire of services by integrating this flight data into its online search engine. Google also states that it will ...
In an abrupt change to its mobile strategy, Microsoft is abandoning the Kin consumer device that's only been on the market less than a month.
Cyan Banister is CEO of Zivity. The first episode of her new show, ‘Speaking of…’ has just aired on TechCrunch TV and is now available on demand. In this guest post, she previews the first episode, and explains the concept for the show…
I’m extremely excited to bring the TechCrunch community a new show that features the human side of ...
While the social, real-time Web is hogging all the buzz as of lately, it's still important to keep an eye on good old fashioned search engine optimization for your company's site. SEO can be an expensive endeavor, especially if you hire an expert, but it doesn't have to be.
We've covered the basics on how to improve your business ...
One of the greatest things about the Firefox browser is that any developer can expand its features and capabilities with a simple add-on. There are add-ons for everything—Twitter, Facebook, Stumbleupon, Digg, feed readers, price comparison, photos, music, and more. Today, every browser supports plug-ins and extensions.
Yesterday, cumulative add-on downloads passed the 2 billion mark. It passed the ...
According to a new study by Semiocast, Asia is now the region that produces the most Twitter posts, surpassing North America, which declined 7% in the last three months. Asia rose 5.5% in the same time period, to 37%. It is also the fastest-growing region in terms of Twitter use.
The U.S. is still number one in terms of countries, ...
Editor of Rwandan website murdered. Jean Leonard Rugambage, the acting editor of Umuvugizi newspaper, which had been blocked by the Rwandan government, was murdered last Friday. He was by two men who fled in a car outside his home in Kigali. Bless his family. The Rwandan government should feel ashamed. Again.
Reporters Without Borders opens anti-censorship shelter. "The group unveiled a ...
Lockheed Martin today opened the doors to new facilities at its Space Systems Company operations in Newtown, Pennsylvania. The $24 million expansion project includes an 18,800-square-foot high bay addition at the west end of the facility’s Product Team Building that expands Lockheed Martin’s satellite manufacturing capability, including the next-generation GPS III.
Facebook has begun testing face detection technology for Facebook Photos.This is the first of what seems like a series of new features for its popular photo product.The tests, which some users will see starting today, focus on decreasing the tediousness of "tagging" friends in FacebookFacebook photos. In the current Photos feature, users upload photos, click on each face in a ...
PC World - T-Mobile USA will stop selling its current Sidekick mobile phones effective Friday, though it will keep the Sidekick brand alive.
The GPS Fleet Tracking equipment and online application deployed during the last 12 months by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Detention and Removal (DRO) has been deemed a success, according to Fleet Management Solutions, Inc. (FMS). DRO implemented the system to reduce costs, improve officer safety, enhance mission execution, and streamline fleet maintenance. More than 2,000 of ...
Even though most schools are now shut down for summer, that doesn’t mean that companies have given up trying to selling products to students. Amazon today announced that it has refreshed its Kindle DX. Now featuring an even better 9.7″ E Ink display that boasts a 50% increase in contrast ratio, the next-gen Kindle DX also received a price drop and ...
Registration has opened for the Trimble Dimensions 2010 conference. Trimble will hold its international user conference November 8-10, 2010 at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas. The theme of Trimble Dimensions 2010 — Converge, Connect, Collaborate — provides insight into how the convergence of technology can redefine the way surveying, engineering, construction, mapping, GIS, geospatial, utilities, and mobile resource management ...
Having a game mechanic integrated into your product is effectively a launch requirement at this point. And it makes complete sense, too - build your product so that it harnesses people's natural competitive drive and their desire for praise and free stuff and they'll use your product more.
That said, developing a good game mechanic and weaving in all the ...
A Chicago woman who spent two days in jail claims a local cinema had her arrested for video-recording three minutes' worth of a movie, so the manager could receive a reward from MPAA.