The master mind behind Firefox, Firebug and the grossly popular IPhone Facebook app is going independent. Announced in his blog today (joehewitt.com), Joe Hewitt wrote that he’s leaving Facebook to “build tools for writers, designers, programmers, whatever.” After spending the last four years building communication tools that have reached millions of people on a world
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Twitter, the social networking phenomonm has been in negotiations over past year to acquire TweetDeck.com the innovative bowser that keeps all your all your social media efforts on one page, making it easy to tweet like pro with your finger on the pulse. As of Monday, May 2 Twitter solidified the deal to the chirp
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced yesterday at a conference in Orlando, Florida that come this fall the creative minds behind (RIM) Research in Motion would launch the Blackberry Bold 9900 and 9930. As the newest and smallest phones to date, both 9900 and 9930 come equipped with the browser platform BlackBerry 7, and with Microsoft
Don’t look for anything new this summer from Apple. The new highly anticipated IPhone 5 will not be rolling out with the hot weather, reports MacRumors. The rumor mill is also speculating that indeed the phone might not release until September or even later in the year. A big difference from a company, like Apple,
T-Mobile announced that in 55 markets, their 4G network will be doubling in speed to 42 megabits per second. With the launch of the fastest new product, the Rocket 3.0, its universal serial data stick for your laptop, T-Mobile claims that over 150 million people will be covered on their 4G network. At a cost
A new study from ABI Research estimates that by 2016 smartphone apps industry will achieve 44 billion downloads. Currently there are about 350,000 apps in Apple’s App Store and more than 330,000 apps in Android Market. On top of this Nokia’s Ovi Store has about 54,000 apps, RIM’s App World 16,000 smartphone applications and Windows
According to a study by TRUSTe, 77% of respondents said that they don’t want to share their location on Smartphones. On top of that 85% of respondents feel uncomfortable with advertiser tracking.
Microsoft announced its opening Office 365 to public beta. Office 365 includes updated versions of SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, Lync Online, and Office Web Apps. All will be available as a subscription. In addition, the company has launched Office 365 Marketplace. This will give customers a means of finding third-party apps and services to be
New York City Mayor Bloomberg has proclaimed April 16th Foursquare Day in New York City. Foursquare is a location-based social networking website based on software for mobile devices. Essentially, it enables people to use mobile devices to interact with their environment. Users “check-in” at venues using a mobile website, text messaging or a device-specific application
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