Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) today i.e. “January 18” finally results into a black out day for many technology companies. The list includes the companies – BoingBoing, Wikipedia, Reddit, I Can Has CheezeBurger, WordPress, Mozilla, TwitPic, Minecraft and many others. Wikipedia isn’t the only company shutting down its digital...
A time before the Italian cruise liner Costa Concordia’s tragic disaster, the waiter’s sister Patrizia Tievoli had posted on Facebook Friday, “In a short period of time the Concordia ship will pass very close. A big greeting to my brother who finally get to have holiday on landing in Savona.” Corriere della Sera, Italian newspaper reports on this, saying that,...
Startup incubator DreamIt Ventures announced its first hybrid accelerator program offering Israeli Entrepreneurs (who currently reside in Israel) a special program including accelerator time in both Israel and New York. The program aims to give five Israeli startups an early market exposure, so that they can develop their product/market fit based on feedback and...
Wikipedia, an online collaborative, multilingual Internet encyclopaedia, as we stated earlier, goes offline today for its English users to protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). The announcement was made yesterday by foundation’s co-founder Jimmy Wales through the series of tweets. Wikipedia join the protest with other major websites, including the popular...
In September last year f8, Facebook announced in partnership with different domains companies who would develop Open Graph Timeline Apps. Similar reports are coming today that Facebook on Wednesday will launch its Open Graph applications that it first debuted last year. The companies who developed these apps include Airbnb, Ticketmaster, Payvment, Causes and 30 others. Facebook last year in December informed developers that it would start approving new Open Graph variants to appear in the news feed, Ticker and Timeline from this month....
Apple, the company behind the popular iPhone and iPad, has filed another suit against Samsung in Germany, aiming to ban sales of Samsung’s smartphone models. The suit targets 10 smartphones including the Galaxy S Plus and the S II that are based on Apple design. The suit is based on design rights issues held by Apple in Europe, according to a company’s spokesman...
Xaxxon, Vancouver based company, has developed a motorized frame and software kit Oculus, that instantly converts any netbook into a telerobotic, remotely operated vehicle. The innovation is the brainchild of Vancouver, British Columbia based company, consists of an adjustable frame that holds a variety of small laptops all around, along with powered wheels and a...
Apple has revealed that iTunes Match is now available in 19 additional countries throughout Latin America and Europe. iTunes Match, since from its launch in November last year, rolling out the service to other countries. With the addition of 19 countries in the list, a total of 37 countries can now access the Apple’s service. With iTunes Match, all your music,...
We see a day before that Japan’s KDDI announced its Android platform phone – INFOBAR C01, but that is not an end. Today, we see Japan’s another mobile carrier Fujitsu released its NEXT series phone name as “ARROWS μ F-07 D”. The phone is equipped with Android 2.3 platform. NTT Docomo, mobile carrier will start selling the phone from January 18, 2012 i.e....
Businesses across the globe always interested in seeking the different ways to turn their start-ups into successful ventures – but what is require making a business a successful one. We often intended to use different tools and apps, which we feel will help us to grow the business to next level. Tweeting as we know is one such tool has become a daily activity for...
