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How The Future of Mobile Lies in the Developing World
Editor's note: This guest post is written by Erica Kochi, the co-lead of Tech Innovation at UNICEF. Her team started UNICEF's open source RapidSMS platform which has been adopted in developing countries worldwide. She co-teaches a class "Design for Unicef" in NYU's ITP Program, and has ...
Google Nabs Key Members Of HP's Enyo Team, But Open WebOS Is Still "On Schedule"
It looks like the webOS contingent at HP isn’t done losing people. HP laid off 275 webOS employees back in February shortly after they announced their plans for the Open webOS project, and now their Enyo team is being picked apart.The Verge reported late last night that key members of the E...
Exec, The YC-Backed Mobile App For Instantly Doing Your Errands, Raises $3.3M
Exec, a mobile app that instantly gets people to do your errands, has raised $3.3 million, according to an SEC filing. The company’s co-founder Justin Kan, who is also behind Justin.tv, Twitch.tv and SocialCam, says he’s not ready to disclose investors yet, except to say that there ar...
MoPub Launches A "Buy It Now" Private Marketplace For Mobile Advertisers
MoPub, an ad serving startup for smartphone apps, is announcing a new way for its publishers to offer their inventory to advertisers - a private marketplace limited to select publishers and advertisers.Basically, the market creates a more direct relationship, where publishers get more control and...
TinyTap App Lets Kids Create Customized iPad Books & Games
TinyTap is a new iPad application designed for kids which introduces a different angle on the “record-your-own-voice” storybooks craze, by offering a playable book or game you and your kids can customize with your own photos, camera shots, music, narration, and more. The resulting cre...
Autodesk Launches The Pen-And-Ink SketchBook Ink App for iPad
Autodesk is expanding its growing portfolio of iPad apps today with SketchBook Ink. The pen-and-ink app is built on a new graphical engine that’s independent of resolution, allowing the created artwork to be exported in resolutions exceeding 100 megapixels.This, Autodesk hopes, willreinvigo...
Kayak Teams Up With Skyhook To Bring Reliable Location Services To Its Kindle Fire App
Amazon’s Kindle Fire is currently the most popular Android-powered tablet, but it doesn’t feature a GPS chip. Given how important location-based services have become, that’s a bit of a drawback for many developers and quite a few apps that want to access location features on Ama...
Google Adds Subscription Billing To Its Android App Store
In what should be a very welcome addition for Android developers, Google is adding subscription billing to its app store.That should give developers yet another to earn revenue on top of in-app purchases of virtual currency, downloads of paid apps and advertising. It will probably most benefit mi...
Siri-ing John Malkovich
Apple is continuing its “famous person uses Siri” commercials by bringing in famous person John Malkovich to add a soupon of Old World weltschmerz and philosophizing to what is, in short, a way to schedule a wake-up call without unlocking your phone. The commercials feature Malkovich ...
Turn Your iPhone Into A Bouncy Ball With The M-Edge iPhone SuperShell
Ok, maybe not a bouncy ball, but pretty damn close.M-Edge came out with a SuperShell for the iPad towards the end of last year, but the idea of a bouncing iPhone seems much more appealing. The case comes in four different colors - black, blue, purple, and pink - and has a finely dimpled finish to...
