Foursquare Sheds Light and Hope Even In the Darkest Corners of Bobst
Been in Bobst so long your butt cheeks are permanently molded into your seat? Have you memorized your walk to the nearest restroom so you can sleepwalk there and take a five second mental break from your piles of papers and computer screen that you’re pretty sure keeps flashing “KILL…
Robotics Hacker Erects Open Source ‘Lego for Adults’
Jasen Wang once bought a home robotics kit. He had studied aircraft design in college and spent years at an electrics engineering outfit, but he still found the instructions completely incomprehensible. And the pieces were flimsy. And after he broke two of them, he gave up entirely. The good news…
Facebook drops 5% on fourth lockup expiration
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.(Photo: Kimihiro Hoshino, AFP/Getty Images)Story HighlightsFacebook hit with the fourth unlocking of shares due to lockup expirationMore than 156 million shares are now able to be soldInvestors seem increasingly disinterested in Facebook’s lockups as time wears on Facebook stock finished 5% lower Friday The…
Speedier Facebook for iOS app finally lets you upload photos to albums
Facebook released an update for its iOS app on Thursday. The latest version of the social network’s app is pleasantly snappier, loads your Timeline faster, and finally lets you upload photos to albums. Yes, the ability to upload photos to albums is a minor feature addition but it’s a pretty…
Quickflix to stream movies on BlackBerry 10 devices
Troubled movie-streaming company Quickflix has joined forces with troubled mobile vendor Research In Motion (RIM) to deliver video content on BlackBerry 10 OS devices in early 2013. The subscription and pay-per-view movie-streaming service will be available through connected BlackBerry 10 OS L-Series and N-Series devices, according to Quickflix. “We are delighted to be…
US agency gives RIM another shot, tests new BlackBerry
TORONTO (Reuters) – A U.S. federal agency that has been phasing out the BlackBerry in favor of the iPhone said on Thursday it would test Research In Motion’s new BB10 smartphones, fueling a fresh spurt in RIM’s shares ahead of the new line’s launch. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE),…
Foursquare Puts Location Photos, Info Front and Center
Foursquare has just released an update for their Android apps that they say will make both the experience of deciding where to go and deciding what to do when you arrive better. Location pages are now much more informative (and pretty, too). They’ve moved the photos to the top, and…
Study: Facebook Builds Better Communities Than Twitter Lindsay Abrams The …
The social network’s structure optimizes the sharing of information in a way that Twitter’s hierarchical setup does not. Mike Segar/Reuters PROBLEM: The goal of a social network, we constantly try to convince our sharing-everything-on-the-Internet-averse friends, is to connect to others in a way that enhances — not replaces –…
Google Maps returns to iPhone; iPad app coming soon latimes.com
Google Maps is back on the iPhone after a nearly three-month hiatus. The map app became available in the Apple App Store late Wednesday night. However, the app offers a far different experience than what users had before Google Maps was removed from the iPhone as a pre-installed app when…
Twitter who? Instagram cozies up to places pal Foursquare
Days after giving the finger to Twitter, Instagram has puckered up to give life-long places partner Foursquare a big, wet kiss. Foursquare, the social network centered around places, announced Wednesday that the Instagram iOS application now includes a special Foursquare button that directs people over to its places app for…
