Nomad Editions is a new media company that fights for the eyeballs of the iPad users. Their goal is to launch a series of weekly magazines, each of which will take 20 to 40 minutes to consume. Former Newsweek President Mark Edmiston is the man behind the project, which celebrated its official launch at a…
Brand new Samsung Developers launches
Samsung launched a brand new developer’s hub simply called “Samsung Developers.” The website is made for individuals and companies developing apps for all platforms the Korean company is supporting — including Android, Java, Bada and Windows Mobile (Windows Phone 7). Moreover, the site also provides tools for making themes and widgets. In the official press…
Play.fm’s mobile app puts 30,000 DJ mixes in your pocket
Music service Play.fm is launching its mobile app, bringing its vast collection of live recordings and DJ sets to the palm of your hand. The application is launched for three platforms — iPhone, Android and Windows Phone 7 — and is available for free from Apple’s AppStore, Google’s Android Market and Microsoft’s Zune Marketplace, respectively.…
People love Dr. Seuss as Oceanhouse Media reaches 1 million paid app downloads on the AppStore
Oceanhouse Media announced that it has crossed the 1 million mark in paid app downloads on Apple’s AppStore. Seven of the company’s omBooks have reached the number one spot on the AppStore in the Top Paid Book category, including many of the Dr. Seuss ebooks. Additionally, Oceanhouse apps held the number one spot in Kids…
Samsung’s leaked MWC schedule confirms Galaxy S 2 and Galaxy Tab 2
This shouldn’t come as a shock to many people who’ve been staying up with the news cycle, but Samsung will bet announcing the Galaxy S 2 and the Galaxy Tab 2 at Mobile World Congress next month. Apparently Samsung lost track of a copy of their schedule for the event, and it found itself in…
Google buys SayNow to enhance Google Voice, but what exactly does that mean?
Google just bought a company that many of you, myself included, have never heard of called SayNow. Founded in 2005, SayNow has racked up $7.5 million in venture capital funding from various organizations, but what exactly do they do? According to All Things Digital, SayNow was used by celebrities to leave messages for their fans.…
Sony PSP2 to feature OLED screen and built in 3G internet access?
Sony is due to announce a successor to their portable gaming console, the PSP, by the end of this month according to rumors coming out of Japan. The device will most likely be called PSP2, because marketing departments are ever so creative these days, and according to Nikkei it’s supposed to pack an OLED screen…
Google launches Cloud Print wireless printing service for Android, iOS (iPhone), HTML5-compatible devices
While Google announced their cloud-based printing service in April of 2010, they today passed a huge milestone by offering the Cloud Print wireless printing service for mobile devices (as long as your desktop computer is powered on). Starting today, Android 2.1+ and iOS users can print Google Documents and Gmail right from their phone. Devices…
NVIDIA to make a 3D enabled Tegra 2 processor, despite everyone hating 3D technology
Companies need to sell stuff in order to make money. In order for a company to grow, they need to either sell more stuff than the year before or make more money some other way. It’s this simple law of capitalism that drives innovation. Hardware advances, up to a certain point, have generally benefited man.…
Qualcomm invests $3 million in ChaCha [We don’t know why. Really.]
There’s a search engine out there you may or may not be aware of called ChaCha. Instead of typing in search terms, you type in a question. People actually respond to that question, versus the Google or Microsoft method of having an algorithm spit out a list of results that you have to sift through…