TechBits: Facebook energy app, Dell’s cloud acquisition, UAE Internet …
Facebook, the Natural Resources Defense Council, energy information software maker Opower and 16 U.S. utilities launched the free app on Tuesday. The app connects your energy utility to your Facebook account, with your permission, and posts your energy usage each month. This being Facebook, the app urges competition among friends…
Google begins testing ‘Terminator’-style smartphone glasses
Google on Wednesday unveiled Project Glass, a secret program designed to bring augmented-reality to the masses. The team leading the initiative, including Babak Parviz, Steve Lee and Sebastian Thrun, are part of Google’s clandestine Google X labs, a branch of the company that focuses on futuristic tech and big picture…
Girls Around Me App: Not Today’s Creepiest Stalker
10 Top iOS 5 Apps (click image for larger view and for slideshow)Over the weekend, Russian app developer i-Free withdrew its Girls Around Me app, which last week faced a chorus of criticism on various websites for being a stalking tool. It allowed a user to map the location of The…
Twitter comes alive for Kentucky’s eighth Final Four title
While some fans were burning couches after Kentucky’s victory over Kansas, most were on Twitter. At the conclusion of yesterday’s match up in New Orleans, tweets about the NCAA championship spiked to over 30,000 per minute. Kentucky edged Kansas on the court and also in the conversation, approximately 25,000 tweets per Monday…
One Of The ‘Girls Around Me’ Denies Being Ignorant, Apathetic or Lazy
John Brownlee redacted these ladies’ names, but friends of Marie Connelly, top right, recognized her when they read the story Marie Connelly lives in Boston. She uses Foursquare. She happened to be hanging out near Cult of Mac’s John Brownlee when he fired up “Girls Around Me” in preparation for…
Amazon’s Dominates Google in App Revenue: Thank Apple?
Android fans love to criticize Apple’s locked-down strategy when it comes to hardware, iTunes content, and the iOS platform. But a study from the mobile advertising firm Flurry suggests Apple is on to something. Users of Amazon Appstore, on average, spend three times the amount they’re spending on Google Play….
Social Travel Apps Use Foursquare, Facebook Data to Tell You Where to Go
For many professionals myself included business conferences have become a routine part of the working schedule. With these conferences often comes travel to random cities, and perhaps even a day or two off to explore if you’re lucky. When you’re on unfamiliar territory, however, trying to plan a day trip…
TiVo: Pac Crest Starts at Hold, $10 Target
Pacific Crest’s Andy Hargreaves today initiates coverage of TiVo (TIVO) with a Sector Perform rating and a “fair value” of $10, writing that the company is “well on its way to establishing a stable and profitable business in licensing and software sales” to the cable companies around the world, although Cable…
What Will Windows 8 Touchscreen Laptops Look Like?
The Windows 8 Metro touch-friendly interfaceWindows 8’s touch-centric interface will help to usher in a new wave of laptops with tabletlike touchscreens. To make it easier for users to tap and swipe on even superthin Ultrabooks, laptop makers will break out of the traditional clamshell shape and introduce laptops with What…
Favourite gadgets ready to gather dust
The relentless march of technology makes today’s shiny new gizmo tomorrow’s wardrobe clutter. Check out these gadgets destined to become digital dinosaurs. REMOTES Mounting in-home search expeditions to find lost remote controls will be a thing of the past thanks to advances in technology that could do away with the…
