Fifty finalists were in the running for the big money after receiving $25,000 each for making the first cut. Google awarded $275,000 to 10 winners, and $100,000 to 10 others. Each of the 10 big winners jumped on the location-aware bandwagon in some way with their applications.
For example, cab4me lets you hail a nearby [...]
Tuesday tends to be New Apple Product Introduction Day, so we’ll probably know if new iMacs will soon grace Apple’s store shelves by then.
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Slightly faster iMacs could be on tap for next week.
Apple could be getting ready for the advent of the educational buying season with new iMacs.
The current quarter is [...]
Spansion said Thursday that it is exploring a merger or sale, as the flash memory chip company delays interest payments on notes.
After a string of quarterly losses, Spansion, according to reports, is also considering Chapter 11 protection.
NOR flash is used in set-top boxes and cell phones but addresses a much different market than [...]
When asked if someone could walk in and buy a phone any time this week, an employee of an Austin, Texas, area store put it this way: “No way, no how, no store.”
CNET News’ Holly Jackson contributed to this report.
Apple stores are faring moderately better. There are more than 1,000 AT&T stores carrying iPhones, and [...]
This got me thinking about how wonderful this would be for some news tracking services. For example, Google News will pull up thousands of related headlines to major stories, but if you want to quickly digest it you’ll have to depend on a site that will summarize the content. A tool like Pluribo could simply [...]
Sharing media and status messages makes Dashwire way more fun.
The previous version of the downloadable Dashwire app, which opens the syncing channels between the phone’s content and the online dashboard, was pretty much a blank placeholder–all back-end functionality and very little front-end personality. Now the screen displays your primary photo, status message, and a media [...]
For many years now, Microsoft has offered a “starter edition” of Windows aimed at first-time PC buyers in emerging markets. Though low-cost, the starter version has limitations such as only working on low-end processors, smaller screen resolutions and a cap on the number of programs that can run at one time.
Just the three simultaneous application [...]
“Sony has relied mainly on the
PlayStation 3 (PS3) to promote BD, and sales of the game console will increase along with the offering by top Hollywood studios of new BD movies, Chubachi noted. However, Sony will extend its BD promotion from the current focus on the PS3 and BD players/recorders to IT devices, Chubachi pointed [...]
For one thing, here’s how it picked which sites to index: “We asked experts in the community–prominent bloggers, training partners, book authors, etc.–which URLs do they keep handy in their bookmarks folder? We also have a few favorite sites of our own that our doc writers and tech leads visit regularly,” said Mark Nichoson, product [...]
The memory jogger is also a great idea, although could be hit or miss depending on how good you are at keeping to your schedule. Proper planning on your part can help avoid missing a deadline or forgetting to do something, although a good nag at the right time is what the service is all [...]
