P2P file sharing involves downloading files from other users computers (as opposed to a central server) and then giving away a little bit of your bandwidth to other people who may be wanting the file you just downloaded or some other file being shared by you. I am sure you are well versed with the concept. You might have also used Limewire or its cousin Frostwire, both of which are excellent. So now how about the proposition of being able to achieve p2p file sharing from the browser? Developed by the co-creator of Limewire, LittleShoot allows you to do just...
The online dating community has always been a vibrant patchwork of people seeking everything from a life partner down to a one night stand. Innovation in this market is often pursued by tough competition, but a new contender hopes to break away from the pack with location-based dating. Enter meetMoi, a freshly launched site that pairs a mobile app to a powerful social search network. Users create a simple profile and set up criteria for finding a match nearby. Users are then notified of nearby interests through text messages or one can actively browse the surrounding area by simple search...
With the impending release of the first phone to feature Google’s Android platfrom, we’re beginning to see a few of the first apps that will be available through Google’s Android Market. Among these is SugarTrip, an application that takes an innovative approach to measuring street traffic by taking advantage of the GPS units that will be integrated into most Android phones. As users drive their cars, SugarTrip will measure how quickly they’re traveling and report their speeds back to a central server. The company says that while the traffic updates available on sites like Google Maps do an acceptable...
For as long as The City (as I'll call it) has supplied water to its residents, it has had one big headache called "The Annual Water Survey." Like residents of all large metropolises, The City's residents want to make sure the water they drink has only a miniscule amount of the "bad stuff," such as heavy metals and pathogens, and just the right amount of the "good stuff" -- chlorine, fluoride, etc. The water survey -- a 100-plus-page report that details test after test after test -- was their vote of confidence. Compiling the survey had always been a...
It’s a big day for digital scheduling app Tungle. Not only did the company announce that it received a cool $5 million in first round financing, but also that it’s releasing a free on-demand version of its product into beta, now available on its website. The Montreal-based company offers a downloadable plugin for coordinating meetings with groups of people across companies, platforms and calendaring software. Commonwealth Capital Ventures, a new investor, led the round of funding, followed by JLA Ventures and Desjardins Venture Capital, which had kicked in a combined $1.5 million in seed money 18 months ago. Tungle plans...
While we all thought Google’s Android was merely a way for Google to make it easier for is AdWords ads to appear on your cell phone, a new patent filing could reveal a larger goal. A bidding system where wireless providers bid to offer the lowest calling rates for your unlocked cell phone. Here’s how ComputerWorld describes the new Google patent application: …When at home, the device would attach to the user’s Wi-Fi network…But once outside, the device could periodically search for other available service providers, asking the service providers to bid for the chance to offer service to the...
Have you ever wanted to see an independent film but were unable to because it’s only playing in New York and Los Angeles, places you don’t live? Or wished that you could experience a classic like “The Godfather” not in your living room, but on the big screen? Well you’re in luck — that is, if you’re in Brazil, home of MovieMobz. According to founder and CEO Fabio Lima, the idea behind MovieMobz is to eliminate the traditional notion of theatrical windows for movies while opening up independent and art house movies to communities that might not otherwise get them...
Amazon has announced that it will soon be launching a content delivery network service designed to help even small websites vastly improve their file download speeds. Like its other services, S3 storage, EC2 hosting and more, Amazon’s new offering will be pay-as-you-go, which promises to be a boon for web startups. While it’s a mere announcement for now, Amazon’s as-yet-unnamed content delivery network (CDN) has the potential to completely change the way your favorite sites deliver files and could make for a significantly faster web. In addition to offering a content delivery network (CDN) at a much lower cost than...
Let me be frank: I'm too timid to run the software I'm about to tell you about. OK, that's not entirely true, but it requires a Windows XP SP2 machine and I've got SP3 on my netbook. Seriously! I'm talking about MokaFive's iPhone USB Sentinel application. From what I can glean, USB Sentinel allows you to run a virtual PC environment directly from a USB tethered iPhone. This approach reminds me of the MojoPac solution that literally runs a Windows environment directly from an iPod or other USB device. Similar to MojoPac, you create a "LivePC" with MokaFive which...
I've been running around at CEDIA this week, so for today's installment, on top of a rundown of our app news from the week, we had a chance to give Spore Origins for the iPhone a spin before it drops (hopefully) this Sunday. As we saw at E3 and WWDC, the iPhone version of Spore is Spore Origins, which is limited to the "primordial ooze" stage you see here, with a limited version of the Creature Creator thrown in for tweaking your bug cosmetically. On the plus side, it's simple and a quick diversion, and it's fun combo-ing your way...
After I read Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins’ post on Mashable last night about how Google’s Chrome is not a Windows killer something about the post starting to get my thoughts going but I couldn’t really put them into words at that point. Then I read a post today by Jackson West on Valleywag where he said Mainframe terminals, or keyboards and monitors attached to a big piece of iron in a subbasement somewhere, probably built by IBM or DEC. While proponents of what until recently was called server-side computing have now opted for the friendly-sounding “cloud computing” moniker At this point...
Today the organization behind the popular Xen open-source hypervisor announced the latest release of its virtualization software. It’s smaller, has better power management and graphics capabilities, and can run on machines ranging from servers to laptops and mobile phones. Also, Nortel announced today a product it calls an “office-on-a-stick.” I would call it a virtualized desktop. Nortel joins companies large and small pushing products that can replicate your computer and information anywhere on computers, thin clients and even cell phones. Desktop virtualization competitors MokaFive, Citrix, VMware, Microsoft, Desktone and Pano Logic are trying to grow the market as well. Participating...
