Craigslist may have made message boards popular, but some young social media gurus out of Los Angeles have built a help wanted site on the promise of hyper-local search and social media. The site, Turbo140.com, could give the grandfather of message boards some competition.
AP - Bartenders and beverage servers at the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut have voted in favor of having union representation.
Secretly behind the scenes, data from mobile devices has become a goldmine. Google is investigating allegations from mobile security data company Lookout that dozens of Android applications adding up to millions of downloads scrape personal information like voicemail phone numbers, handset phone number, subscriber identification code, and phone SIM cards' serial numbers.
Two hackers showed how they can hack Nintendo’s handheld and console game devices to spread malware to whatever networks they are connected to.
At the Defcon security conference in Las Vegas, Ki-Chan Ahn (below) and Dong-Joo Ha (right) showed off a number of demos of how they could crack the Nintendo DS and Nintendo Wii and use them to upload malware. ...
Just as the month of June closed with a flurry of discussion around investment creeds and crashes, the end of July has seen the debate and discussion continue, with a number of blog posts that continue to explore the state of the investment, both angel and VC funding.
The most recent discussions were prompted, in part, by Y Combinator's AngelConf, held ...
A version of Gmail used by Google employees has been revealed in a screenshot included with a Chromium OS bug report, and the image reveals more than a half dozen changes to the Gmail most of us are using today. The blog Google Operating System posted the image yesterday, and we've also featured it below. Note that Google Operating ...
Singapore Telecommunications , whose all-night iPhone 4 launch party kicked off at midnight, told the Wall Street Journal that it sold iPhones to a few thousand customers.
Yelp’s CEO Jeremy Stoppelman deserves credit for trying to play nice with Google, even appearing onstage at the Social Currency CrunchUp with John Hanke, a Google VP of Product Management. As expected the tension was palpable, as Hanke and Stoppelman discussed Google Places and the goliath’s heavy reliance on Yelp’s content.
As an increasingly robust aggregator of local reviews, Google Places ...
Well this is interesting. One of the key points at Apple’s recent press conference to discuss the iPhone 4′s antenna, was that the problem (called “attenuation”) is not unique to the iPhone 4. To highlight this, Apple showed videos of the problem on smartphones by rival companies. Those videos were then posted to a special antenna page on Apple’s website. ...
Owners of a Sony Ericsson X10 Mini or a Mini Pro will be happy to know that the folks at xda-developers have been able to achieve root on these two Android devices. The root requires some familiarity with adb and terminal commands and apparently takes advantage of the same exploit used to root the DROID X, Devour, and other Android handsets. Hit the ...
Let’s call this a single source rumor. But the source is Paul Carr’s camera, so we feel pretty good about it. The picture was taken last night at the TechCrunch summer party at August Capital.
Tello, says our source (the camera), has raised $100,000 from angel investor Dave McClure, who’s checks appear to have an imprint of the Twitter fail whale ...
LAS VEGAS — It wouldn’t be DefCon without a noted lock hacking team demonstrating the gross insecurity of some of the latest security locks, such as a biometric lock that could be easily cracked with a paper clip.
AFP - Computer security researcher Barnaby Jack jokes that he has resorted to hiding cash under his bed since figuring out how to crack automated teller machines remotely using the Internet.
When we first heard about Fiverr -- the service which asks, "What are you willing to do for $5?" -- we were seriously skeptical. Who would actually advertise to do anything for the cost of an overpriced coffee?Checking back in a few weeks after launch, we were amazed to see that the site appears to be flooded with offers from ...
PC World - Despite concerns that federal authorities might fine or arrest him, hacker Chris Paget went ahead with a live demonstration of mobile phone interception at the Defcon hacking conference Saturday.
According to a GPS Business News report, Munich, Germany-based mobile navigation and local search supplier Jentro is closing down.
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According to the ARC Advisory Group the supply chain management market grew 7% in the last five years. That growth would have been more if it had not been for the recession.
In comparison, the SaaS market grew at a compound annual growth rate of 20% during those same five years.
This seems hardly a surprise if you look at ...
According to a new research report commissioned by Pitney Bowes Business Insight, UK local authorities are increasing the number of public-facing services with access to geospatial data.
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ViewRanger GPS, Augmentra's off-road satnav app, has launched the new Ordnance Survey Ireland Discovery Series topographic maps for iPhone, Android, and Symbian smartphones.
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