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by James – on January 4th, 2011 WiFi-enabled SD cards came first. Then you added GPS. Now, it is Eye-Fi up to 11 once again with a cool gaggle of iPhone and iPad apps as well as a direct transfer functions for easy backup. With the idea to make it easier and easier EyeFi direct [...]

Reid Hoffman, who joined Greylock as an investment partner for its latest fund announced today, chatted briefly with me on trends in social media as the web goes mobile. For him, the mobile web is tied to the Internet as viewed on the PC, but certain applications will be more appropriate for wireless devices. “The [...]

Loopt — perhaps the largest location-based social network, a network that uses your location to recommend places to go and inform you of friends around you — announced the acquisition of GraffitiGEO this week. Several industry observers and researchers are raving about the potential of location-based social networks for businesses and advertising. “Context awareness is [...]

With close to 100,000 iPhone applications now available on the App Store, finding the ones the ones that you will actually enjoy and use can be difficult. There are other apps and sites that offer a resource for you to find and share popular apps, and even present customized recommendations, such as AppsFire, 16 Apps [...]