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Dr. Seuss apps have been hitting us time and time again for iOS. The developers at Oceanhouse Media have been doing a fantastic job bringing many of these classic children’s books to life on our iOS-powered devices. Adding one more to this growing list of classics, Oceanhouse has just released Fox in Socks. The Fox…
ARM is all about designing awesome processors and then licensing the blueprint to create said processors to companies that actually build chips. One of those hardware makers is IBM, who ARM has worked with in the past to design processors that can be created on nodes as small as 28 nanometers. To give you an…
There’s a dive bar in Cambridge, Massachusetts called “Charlie’s Kitchen” that represents everything that’s wrong with where we’re going as a society. It’s not their food, nor their service that offends, but instead it’s a recent computer system called “TextMyFood” that they’ve installed. Say you walk into this place and you know exactly what you…
Japan-based AKAI Mobiles is launching its first triple SIM phone in India. Called “Trio”, the device can work with 3 GSM networks at the same time, which apparently is a much required feature among mobile users in the country. In addition, the phone also comes with a 2-inch display, 1.3-megapixel camera, stereo Bluetooth support and…
Video-based marketing company Mogreet launched a mobile video program for WGCL-TV, CBS Atlanta, a Meredith Corporation Station, to deliver video news and weather alerts directly to consumers’ mobile devices. CBS Atlanta viewers can subscribe to the service by texting the keyword “NEWS” or “WEATHER” to 21534 and they will receive video updates from CBS Atlanta…
Owning a wrist watch used to be a necessity, then mobile phones came out and people kind of just forgot about them. Lately they’ve had somewhat of a comeback as a fashion accessory, but what’s it going to take for everyone to have a watch on their wrist again? Enter Casio, who at CES showed…
Concur, the company that provides “integrated travel and expense management solutions,” announced it has agreed to acquire TripIt, the trip management service we covered for few times in the past. Concur will pay approximately $82 million in upfront cash, stock and unvested restricted stock units, and additional consideration over time that could bring the total…
People who travel often, whether it’s a part of their job description or they simply prefer to live a nomadic lifestyle, have no doubt heard of Boingo, a company that provides users with WiFi internet access from over 211,000 hotspots in over 100 countries. As of September 2010 Boingo had 191,000 subscribers paying a monthly…
Each and every time we had to write an article about Modu it has always left a bad taste in our mouths. From the beginning we knew that the company was created merely to swindle investors out of their money and that the products they showed off not only made very little sense, but were…
Things are going smoothly for the world’s best-known VoIP service provider. Skype announced that it has completed the acquisition of Qik with transfer of shares and funds between shareholders of the two companies being completed on Friday. In its “official blog post,” Skype says they are “very excited about this move,” and look forward to…