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Nokia City Lens arrives for trials on Lumia devices, augments your reality (video)
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Nokia's rolling more of its experimental Symbian projects out to its Windows Phone hardware and City Lens is the latest to arrive in its immaculately-kept Beta Labs. It throws together an augmented reality interface to give you a better overview of the best places to eat in town, and...
Facedeals: Check-In On Facebook With Facial Recognition. Creepy or Awesome?
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Now you can check-in to a location on Facebook through facial recognition scanning. The Redpepper ad agency claims to be beta testing a camera on the outside of a “Nashville business” that automatically checks patrons in to a location and offers them deals, after users have given the company access...
Hulu Changes Deal For Advertisers: Now They Only Pay When Viewers Watch The Whole Ad
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This morning, at the Ad Age Digital Conference in NYC, Hulu CEO Jason Kilar announced a significant change in how the media company will charge its advertisers. Going forward, advertisers will only be charged based on a 100% completion rate. In other words, if viewers don’t watch the whole ad, it doesn’t...
9M Users Strong, MapMyFitness Brings Check-Ins, Advanced Google Maps Integration To Fitness Tracking
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MapMyFitness is a veteran of the online health and fitness space, with the first iteration of its website appearing back in the summer of 2005. Since then, the startup has developed a suite of fitness-oriented websites (like MapMyRUN.com, MapMyRIDE.com, MapMyWALK.com, et al) to let users track and store their running,...
9M Users Strong, MapMyFitness Brings Check-Ins, Advanced Google Maps Integration To Fitness Tracking
YouTube Adds A “Play In 3D” Option Across Its Site
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Last September, YouTube began offering new tools that allowed users to convert their uploaded 2D videos into 3D videos with just a click. That feature, which has been in beta testing, was available only to YouTube creators at the time. Today, YouTube is rolling out the beta to all of...
Incantor brings World of Warcraft to real life (hands-on)
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There's plenty of cool stuff to see on the floor of this year's TechCrunch Disrupt, but nothing's likely quite so eye-catching as Incantor, a mobile game that utilizes your smartphone and, naturally, a magic wand, to bring fantasy-style action to the real world -- or as the game's creators...
Republic Wireless to open next beta of hybrid VOIP service this summer
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The $19 all-you-can-eat smartphone service that seemed great, then not-so-great, then great again is about to re-open public beta testing. We're told that the first phase of the beta is "going very well", to the point where Republic Wireless feels it can "skip the baby steps" and offer its...
Dear Eric Schmidt, It’s Been 6 Months — Where Are Those iOS-Slaying Android Exclusive Apps?
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Flashback to December 6, 2012: Google Chairman Eric Schmidt is on stage at LeWeb in Paris and is asked by an audience member why most application developers still choose to develop for iOS first rather than Android? Schmidt’s response: “Six months from now you’ll say the opposite. Because ultimately applications vendors are...
Here Are The Five Startups In i/o Ventures’ Latest Class
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i/o Ventures, the incubator and co-working space located in San Francisco’s Mission District, just held the demo day for its latest batch of startups. All of them have been working out of the i/o offices for the past three months, and have also received a $25,000 investment. It’s pretty hard...
With $1.3M In New Funding, CodeGuard Launches Its Free Website Backup, Monitoring Service
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At TechCrunch Disrupt NYC last May, the unanimous winner of the “Audience Choice” award was a young, Atlanta-based startup called CodeGuard. The startup caught the audience’s attention based on a simple value proposition: To become a “time machine for your website.” In other words, CodeGuard’s free service allows any site...
After 2 Years of Testing, Venmo Opens Payment Service to Public
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After more than two years in beta testing, Venmo, a mobile payments service that lets people send money to their friends, is opening its doors to the public on Tuesday. It is rare for a start-up company working in such a competitive market to stay in test mode for so...
Google analytics goes mobile with alerts and real-time data
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It's been a long time coming, but Google Analytics users now have an official way to track the performance of their websites on mobile devices. Google Analytics for Android provides a mobile-optimized version of the standard Analytics interface, including familiar elements such as the addictive real-time view. It also...
Volkswagen's Intelligent Car: The Next Step in Connected Cars
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Today I visited the Volkswagen Electronics Research Lab (ERL) in Silicon Valley and met the lab's new director, Dr. Peter Oel. Cars are one of the most exciting areas of Internet innovation in 2012, with companies such as Volkswagen, Ford and Mercedes all racing to add network technologies into...
Apple throws MobileMe users a free version of Snow Leopard to update to iCloud
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MacGasm reports that Apple is giving away free copies of Snow Leopard to MobileMe users, to ease their move to iCloud. iCloud only works on Lion, so Apple is offering MobileMe users who haven’t yet purchased Snow Leopard a copy for free, so they’ll pay $30 to upgrade to Lion. Once...
AVG's MultiMi launches publicly to help manage social profiles quickly, easily and safely
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AVG Technologies, provider of Internet and mobile security to 114 million active users, today announced that the free social desktop app MultiMi has emerged from beta testing with a major update as a safe and smart way for people to manage their social media activities. We first looked at MultiMi in...
Apple Pulls Messages For Mac Beta Ahead Of Mountain Lion Launch Next Month
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If you don't have this installed already, you've missed your chance. If you haven’t already installed the Messages application on your Mac, you will now have to wait until OS X Mountain Lion is released next month to get your hands on it. The Messages for Mac beta, which was released...
Amazon’s in-app purchasing is now available to all Android and Kindle Fire developers
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Amazon’s in-app purchasing is now available to Android and Kindle Fire developers, the online retail and publishing giant announced today. In practical terms, this means that anyone will now be able to offer digital content for purchase within apps, including subscriptions, but also one-off transactions for “in-game currency, expansion packs, upgrades,...
Rackspace readies OpenStack for prime time
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Rackspace, the big hosting provider that launched the OpenStack open-source cloud project two years ago, is giving that project an important new stress test. This week, it will start beta testing the software running tens of thousands of computing instances, as opposed to the hundreds under alpha test now, John...
Campalyst Raises Seed Round To Measure Social Media ROI
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Social media analytics startup Campalyst is celebrating its first birthday today, and its big present is a new seed round (of undisclosed size) from Amsterdam-based venture capital firm HENQ. The company was co-founded by former business school classmates Jevgenijs Kazanins and Dalia Lasaite as part of Garage48, a European boot...
iFixit spins off Dozuki CMS to let anyone make killer technical docs
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As someone who used to write technical documentation for a living, I can assure you that nobody likes reading that crap. But iFixit, the company that’s become famous for its repair guides and gadget teardowns, has somehow managed to make technical documentation exciting with its visually rich content platform....
Ex-Googlers Launch MightyText, An iMessage For Android Users
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During their lengthy careers at Google in both senior technical and product management roles, Maneesh Arora and Amit Sangani were able to geek out and hack on infamous (and deadpooled) products like Google Wave and Google Health. Arora tells us that, while his time at Google was defined by smart...
MTV Takes The Beta Label Off Its Music Meter App For Finding New Artists
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MTV is unveiling an update to its Music Meter mobile app today. This is version 2.0, and also the first version to abandon the “beta testing” label, suggesting that MTV has worked out any early kinks — and is ready to make money. The app first launched in March 2011...
Iran denies reports it will shut down the Internet by August, but National Internet plans are still on
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With reports emerging this morning that Iran’s final online crackdown would take place in August, completely shutting down access to the Internet, denials have begun to circulate, according to AFP. A statement from the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology said, ”The report is in no way confirmed by the ministry”...
Iran denies reports it will shut down the Internet by August, but National Internet plans are still on
Pinterest Rival Fancy Gets Fancier With “Match By Color” Visual Search
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High-end design, fashion and travel-focused Pinterest rival The Fancy is rolling out several new features today, including a new slideshow option, the addition of four more languages, and a new visual search engine that allows users to search for items with similar colors. The latter addition, which brings to mind the...
reCAPTCHA Founder's Duolingo Teaches Languages While Crowdsourcing Translation
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Luis von Ahn, the crowdsourcing pioneer who developed reCAPTCHA has come up with the perfect crowdsourcing project. His new company Duolingo aims teaches people how to speak languages by reading, writing, speaking and listening to translations of Web content. The byproduct of that activity, if all goes well, will be...
Leaked Microsoft roadmap reveals Office 15, IE 10 and Windows Phone details
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If accurate, then this leaked Microsoft roadmap that's just surfaced has revealed due-dates for many of Redmond's forthcoming products. In short, Internet Explorer 10 is due part-way through the year, possibly at the same time that we start getting firm details about Windows 8. Office 15 will enter beta...
Firefox for Android gets a major update, may be the best mobile browser yet (hands-on)
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Watch out Google Chrome: For many Android users, Mozilla’s updated Firefox app could quickly become their favorite mobile browser. Mozilla has been beta testing a revamped version of its Android Firefox app for over a month now, and today the company is rolling those updates into the official Firefox...
500 Startups Alum LaunchBit Launches Its Email Ad Network
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Advertising in email newsletters is an old idea, but the founders of LaunchBit, a startup that’s leaving closed beta testing today, say things haven’t changed since the ’90s. The biggest problem? When you advertise in newsletters, you blindly send the same ad to everyone on the list. “There’s no targeting...
Mango Health nabs $1.45M to build gamified mobile health apps
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As interest and activity in mobile health continues to climb, San Francisco-based Mango Health is set to announce that it has raised $1.45 million in seed funding to bring a new collection of consumer-focused mobile health apps to market. The six-person company, which is launching Wednesday, is led by Jason...
Sezion lets anyone collaborate on a song, could be the Instagram for amateur musicians
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Sezion is undoubtedly one of the most interesting startups to have come out of Telefónica’s acceleration program. As we reported, its presentation yesterday during the Wayra Madrid Demo Day made a big impression on the audience – and not only because its team played the electric guitar on stage. Launched...
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