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All Phones Are (Or Will Be) Smartphones - So Now What?

Written by Jolie O'Dell / May 19, 2009 3:10 PM / 7 Comments

According to a new report from tech research firm Forrester, the smartphone as a standout mobile category is a shaky paradigm with rapidly shifting parameters. The emergence of mobile operating Continue reading »

Gmail Now Automatically Translates Messages As Well As Could Be Expected

Written by Jolie O'Dell / May 19, 2009 1:19 PM / 7 Comments

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Gmail Labs has done it once again. A new feature introduced today allows users to automatically translate emails into English and any other supported language. Sort of. As with any Continue reading »

Is This The Future of the iPhone? Push, Background, Bundles

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / May 19, 2009 11:51 AM / 15 Comments

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Version 3.0 of the iPhone operating system is in beta testing among developers and if all the actual and rumored changes come to fruition, the iPhone user experience is likely Continue reading »

Pandora Expects to Make a Profit in 2010 - Still Growing Rapidly

Written by Frederic Lardinois / May 19, 2009 10:55 AM / 7 Comments

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We have seen our fair share of doom and gloom this year, but, according to a report from Bloomberg.com, at least Pandora, the free online music discovery service, expects to Continue reading »

Larry Page on Real Time Google: We Have To Do It

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / May 19, 2009 10:16 AM / 46 Comments

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Is Google interested in searching the Real Time Web? Are they at all threatened by Twitter? Are Google spiders already so fast that this emergence of Real Time is old Continue reading »

RoamBi Turns Spreadsheets on the iPhone Into Useful and Pretty Mini-Apps

Written by Frederic Lardinois / May 19, 2009 8:56 AM / 1 Comments

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The iPhone is clearly making some inroads in the business world, and RoamBi, which launched today, is one of the many new companies that is trying to win over some Continue reading »

Visible Past: Where Information Searches For You

Written by Richard MacManus / May 18, 2009 9:30 PM / 9 Comments

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Visible Past is a location-aware learning environment being developed at Purdue University. It is based around the idea that data can be organized using space and time attributes. The team Continue reading »

Baratunde Thurston on Content Curation, Real-Time Search, and "Analytics Porn"

Written by Jolie O'Dell / May 18, 2009 9:13 PM / 5 Comments

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In New York City, on the 16th floor of the Roger Smith Hotel, we caught up with social media superhero Baratunde Thurston, web editor for The Onion. Thurston started getting Continue reading »

3Tera to Support AppLogic with New AppStore, Now Seeking Cloudware Vendors

Written by Jolie O'Dell / May 18, 2009 7:30 PM / 3 Comments

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3Tera, a California-based cloud computing company, today announced the upcoming launch of their AppStore, a marketplace for cloud components where users can find production-ready, scalable components on a free, trial, Continue reading »

Why is Apple Rejecting PhoneGap-Built iPhone Apps?

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / May 18, 2009 5:24 PM / 26 Comments

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PhoneGap is a very interesting development platform for mobile applications that lets developers build apps that work for multiple devices, including the iPhone, using only HTML and Javascript. That means Continue reading »

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