Facebook adds hashtags, just like Twitter
The hashtag # is now a part of Facebook, and the tech shorthand should make it easier for users to follow specific topics of conversation on the social network. Either that, or it will drive its users more nutty by adding yet another visual annoyance. Twitter popularized the use of the…
Big hurdle facing Windows 8 tablet adoption
Say what you will about Microsoft’s shot at the tablet market with Windows 8, there’s no denying the guts it took. Completely redesigning the biggest OS in history was guaranteed to ruffle a few feathers. Unfortunately, the big roll of the dice the company’s taken with Windows 8 is not Windows 8 Consumers…
Asus Eee PC 1008P-KR Pineview netbook in pictures
We already know that Asus is set to launch Intel Pineview-powered netbooks under the Eee PC 1008P and 1005P model names. From what we understand, these are just the Pineview (hence the ‘P’ in the model name) Atom versions of the 1008HA and 1005HA netbooks respectively. We now have pictures…
Snap Your Own Telescope Photos on New iPad App
A new iPad app allows anyone around the world to take telescope photos of celestial objects from the comfort of a couch. The online Slooh Space Camera an organization that hosts live views and webcasts of cosmic sights from a network of international telescopes has created an app that allows…
City-Wide Foursquare Check-Ins Turned Into Art
Etch, a new data visualisation company, gathers your Foursquare check-in data to produce personalized maps of your social activity. It was founded in 2013 by coder Jeremy Weikel and designer Michael Yap who graduated from SVA. Currently, the maps are only of Foursquare users in San Francisco, Manhattan and Portland. Weikel,…
How BYOD Is Pushing BlackBerry Out
Last quarter, BlackBerry sales plunged 81 percent to just 0.7 percent of the U.S. market share, down mightily from 2009, when RIM held 20.7 percent of the US smartphone market. RIM is certainly hoping that the late-March release of the Z10 will reverse its fortunes this quarter, but it has In the late…
GOWEX now beaming free WiFi to San Francisco from 450 smart zones
GOWEX launches Free Wi-Fi in San FranciscoFollowing on from the launch of their Smart Wi-Fi Zones in New York City, GOWEX has moved to the West Coast with 450 Wi-Fi Smart Zones in San Francisco Eight million residents and sixteen million annual visitors will now benefit from GOWEX Free-Wifi The Madrid,…
ROBOT COW teaches Saudi kids where milk comes from
Free whitepaper Steps to Take Before Choosing a Business Continuity Partner Vid A farmer from Tayside has sent a plastic robot cow to the Middle East in a bid to educate Saudi children about where milk comes from (from robot cows, perhaps? -Ed). Kenny Farquharson describes himself as a “plastic…
Actress Katee Sackoff urges gun safety on Twitter, loses half her followers
Actress Katee Sackoff said she lost half of her Twitter followers when she tweeted a message urging people to practice gun safety. After watching a television report about a four-year-old who accidentally shot and killed his father with a loaded gun that had been left unattended at a friend’s house,…
Facebook’s first shareholder meeting offers some drama
SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg faced his first shareholders’ meeting in what has been a rocky ride for company investors. Facebook’s meeting comes after the company last month celebrated the one-year anniversary of its public debut, a sobering reminder of the over-hyped IPO and its dampening effect on…
