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Last week Apple surprised the iPhone’s developer community with the annoucement that it was finally allowing free apps to offer in-app purchases. The move will likely lead to a fundamental shift in the way developers conduct businesss on the App Store (we’ve already begun to see some changes). I sat down with SGN CEO Shervin [...]

Activist investor Carl Icahn has resigned from the board of Yahoo, and is praising both CEO Carol Bartz, who just presided over a quarter of improved earnings, as well as the rest of the company’s board for “acting so responsibly” in conjunction with the search transaction with Microsoft that he advocated.  Icahn’s resignation was to be [...]

It’s no surprise that Animoto’s new video product is a hit. Upload a few short videos and images, add a song, click a button and bam, you’ve got a very high quality souvenir of your recent holiday or other event. Here’s one I put together for Foo Camp in August. More examples are here. So [...]

Israeli startup Soluto has closed a healthy $6.2 million second round of financing led by Bessemer Venture Partners. This is on top of the $1.6 million round the company raised a year ago from Giza Venture Capital, bringing the total amount of capital invested in the company close to $8 million. The company, which is [...]

While I do not own the N810, but I have had the opportunity to play with one for an hour or two at the Nokia sales  in the supercomplex. The internet is where I make my living, so I try to experiment with any portable device that will allow me the freedom to work away [...]

EMC is planning to launch a cloud computing service to compliment its Atmos on-demand storage service at the end of this month, according to a vendor working with the storage giant on the project.  The computing cloud will be built on Cisco’s Unified Computing System gear, which makes sense given that EMC is a big [...]

Motorola’s wi4 WiMAX USBw 100 adaptor lets end-users connect to mobile WiMAX broadband on their laptops using the convenient USB format. This compact device easily plugs into any USB port to deliver flexible, high-speed connectivity for mobile or nomadic wireless broadband access. Now end-users are no longer limited to cable or DSL for high speed [...]

The inexpensive Picoo Z Micro Helicopter is prefabricated of tough swollen Polypropylene foam, features a blue LED strobe light and incorporates an machine stability system, to make this easy to operate both indoors and right in calm conditions. Supplied completely ready-to-fly with an innovative pre-installed digit steer proportional infra red curb system, the whole Lithium [...]

Mini features, mobile capabilities Opera’s latest Mobile version is out in beta for Symbian, providing the best mobile browsing experience with an interface borrowed from Opera Mini.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud Originally posted 2009-11-03 18:38:46. Republished by Old Post Promoter

Square Necklace MP3 Player wear around your neck will give you a stylish look. Just plug and play into USB port to transfer music files and data. Necklace is included to wear around your neck, surely will give you a stylish look. The USB Jewel Square Necklace MP3 Player comes in a choice of colors, [...]