Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: iSlate iPad Edition Winners [Photoshop]
Much better! Week two of Kotaku’s ‘Shop Contest went more smoothly than our debut, with several dozen entries conceiving of what games on the iPad would be like before we found out on Wednesday.
Our alternate source image, of Pyramid Head and a vacuum cleaner, produced fewer entries. Here’s a gallery of the 20 best, in [...]
Location-based mobile advertising platform AdLocal enters America with years of Japan Know-how
Mobile advertising is poised to become a huge growth area, with research firm Kelsey Group seeing the market grow from just $160 million in 2008 to $3.1 billion in 2013. eMarketer projects mobile advertising spending in the US will balloon from $648 million in 2008 to over $3.3 billion in 2013.
While some believe search will [...]
RadioShack welcomes T-Mobile with open arms
RadioShack has been partnered with Sprint, Verizon and AT&T for some time now and it looks like the retailer is finally making way for T-Mobile as well. The great thing about third-party retailers is that they can sometimes offer better deals on the same handsets you’d find in corporate retail stores (though third parties sometimes [...]
Next Grand Theft Auto DLC Hits Oct. 29 [Update] [Xbox 360]
Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony hits the Xbox 360 as a download on Oct. 29, Rockstar announced today.
The latest chunk of episodic content will also arrive on a disc along with previous DLC episode The Lost and Damned as Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty City. Episodes is also set for [...]
MindTouch Upgrades Collaborative Platform With Video And Developer-Friendly Tools
Opensource wiki developer Mindtouch today has launched several new features in its opensource, wiki-like collaboration platform for enterprises. This includes the ability to add video to MindTouch wikis, package applications built in MindTouch for distribution, and stage content on wikis.
MindTouch’s platform connects teams, enterprise systems, web services and Web 2.0 applications with IT governance [...]
Someone At Apple Has A Sense Of Humor
No one likes limitations. Though Apple has been opening up more and more of their API with each software update, a good chunk of it is still off limits to anyone outside of their own team of developers. Be it because they’re unstable, unproven, or just outright blacklisted, a number of methods exist that no [...]
Twitter CRM Service, CoTweet, Raises Series A Funding; Launches Public Beta.
CoTweet, the web based Twitter collaboration platform for businesses, has announced a Series A round of funding totaling $1.1 million. The investors are Baseline Ventures, Founders Fund, First Round Capital, SV Angel, Maples Investments and Freestyle Capital.
CoTweet helps companies and brands, like Whole Foods, Microsoft, Starbucks, Coca-Cola, and the City of San Francisco’s 311 manage [...]
Cc:Betty Shows Some Twitter Love, Integrates Twitter Into Email Organization Platform
Cc:Betty, a free service that helps organize group email threads, is the latest startup to catch the Twitter bug. The email collaboration service is integrating with Twitter, so that users of the service can tweet in and out of a of the collaboration platform, as well as see each other’s latest tweets.
Cc:Betty routes, parses, and [...]
Review: Nokia N97 – So close, yet so, so far.
Posted by jolt3500 on July 9, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Oh, Nokia N97. I wanted to touch you from the first time I Iaid eyes on you. You seemed like everything I wanted in a handset. You’d be the phone that surmounted the shortcomings of every smartphone before it. You were to be the mobile masterpiece. At least, I thought you were.
I’ve now had [...]
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