Move over Foursquare, SXSW’s next big location app is Highlight
The latest in mobile trends is “ambient social networking.” And leading the pack is an app that recommends users with similar interests and mutual friends: Highlight There’s a new trend set to emerge at this year’s SXSW know as “ambient social networking.” At the helm of this burgeoning trend is…
BlackBerry Sponsoring Be Bold Challenge for Canadian College Students
RIM has teamed up with Campus Perks to run a competition for all Canadian college and university students. The challenge has students being bold with up to $4,000 in Scholarship money up for grabs for first place. There are also scholarships setup for students in the top 10 that are Check out…
Foursquare co-founder steps down after three years at start-up
Navveen Selvadurai, one of the co-founders of check-in service Foursquare, has announced he stepping down from his role at the company to focus on other projects. Selvadurai, who founded the service with Dennis Crowley, explained in a blog post that it was the right time to leave the company having…
Windows 8 Is Trying To Kill The Netbook
Whatever Windows 8s virtues on a touchscreen device or a 17-inch notebook, there’s one clear lesson from the newly-released consumer preview version: there is no point in trying to run it on most of the netbooks on the market. And unless Microsoft outlines some plans to fix that pretty quickly,…
Naveen Selvadurai, Foursquare co-founder maybe leaving
Last week when I heard the news that Foursquare investors were buying up stock from current employees, it piqued my interest who is Spark Capital buying stock from? For nearly three years, it has been one of my favorite apps and I keep close tabs on the company. Digging around,…
iPad 3 ‘Frankenslate’ Assembled Ahead of Apple Media Event
Apple’s media event, during which the company is expected to unveil the iPad 3, is only a few days away but some people just can’t wait to add to the feverish speculation of what the device will look like. The website M.I.C. Gadget has gotten its hands on what it says…
Apple’s iPhone Opportunity in China Keeps Getting Bigger
We’ve been talking an awful lot about Apple’s opportunities in China around these parts. As if we needed more evidence of Cupertino’s explosive potential within the country, China’s government has given us just that. According to government estimates, China’s overall mobile subscriber base has just topped 1 billion. That’s a China…
Lifestyle rural but not rough at Pine Creek Sporting Club.
Daily News Photo by Chris SalataPine Creek Sporting Club is a members-only luxury hunting and sporting club north of Okeechobee. Membership is available through the purchase of a ranch or cabin on the property or to invitational members. By John Nelander Special to the Daily News City folks who come…
Padfone’s Phone-Tablet-Netbook Combo Saves on Data Fees, Asus Says
Why buy a smartphone, tablet and netbook when you can combine all three in one device? That’s a question AsusTeK is hoping you’ll ask, as the Taiwan-based company rolled out its innovative Padfone at the Mobile World Conference in Barcelona, Spain. With a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED touchscreen for mobile use,…
Berthoud robotics teams claim VEX championship
They already were going to the world championship competition, but these three Berthoud High School robotics teams landed another win Saturday to add a fourth team to the mix. In the final round Saturday of the 2012 Colorado VEX Robotics Championship, the alliance disqualified in the first match, toppled their…
