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Nokia launches its augmented reality City Lens app in beta for Lumia Windows Phone devices
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Nokia has today announced the beta launch of its City Lens augmented reality browser app for its Lumia range of Windows Phone devices. The app, already available for the company’s Symbian devices, emphasizes urban discovery, displaying nearby points of interest – like reatuarants, museums or theaters – as an augmented...
The Most Important Lesson Tim Cook Learned From Steve Jobs: “Focus Is Key”
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In the first major public interview since replacing Steve Jobs as CEO, Tim Cook took the stage with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher at the tenth annual All Things D conference to talk about the state of Apple. “Apple has gone through a tremendous change,” Walt Mossberg segued into perhaps...
Google indoor maps comes to the UK, helps commuter meet pasty in record time
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If you're forever getting lost looking for Barratts, or feeling faint hunting down a Greggs to fill your mall-explorer's belly, then Google Maps to the rescue. Mountain View's already made it clear it doesn't want walls to get between you and its mapping of the world, and now those...
StrayBoots CEO Discusses Making $12 Per Game, And It’s Only On SMS!
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Very rarely do we see gaming startups launch on the rather limited platform of SMS. Mobile games are all about the graphics, the functionality, and the ability to leverage the very best of technology through an app. But StrayBoots, a real-world scavenger hunt via text, has managed to generate...
Steve Jobs Was An Awesome Flip-Flopper, Says Tim Cook
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What did Steve Jobs teach Tim Cook? The Apple CEO has a list of lessons, and he shared some onstage at D10 tonight. But he seemed most impressed with the Apple cofounder’s ability to change his mind, very quickly. “He would flip on something so fast, that you would forget...
Tim Cook: What I learned from Steve Jobs
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Apple chief executive Tim Cook turned serious and emotional when he talked about his late mentor and boss, Steve Jobs, at the All Things D conference today. It was clear that Jobs, who died in 2011 after an extended battle, had made a deep impression on Cook as a...
Google Art Project now has over 30,000 works including the White House Gallery
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Google just announced that its Art Project is expanding to cover a more diverse range of mediums. The project aims to bring art to the masses by way of high resolution photography. As apposed to featuring only paintings, the site now contains sculpture, Brazlian street art, and rock art...
Honda Uni-Cub personal mobility device one-ups Segways for indoor use
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There are plenty of reasons why the Segway didn't revolutionize personal transport, but Honda thinks it has solved at least a couple of those problems with its new Uni-Cub "personal mobility device." The first thing you'll notice about the unicycle-like vehicle is that it's significantly smaller than the Segway,...
Apple announces Guided Access for iOS devices: expanded accessibility controls
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We didn't get a ton of details on this one during the keynote, but Apple has announced a new Guided Access feature for iOS that lets folks limit what sort of input their devices are able to respond to. Some examples given by Apple are a parent of an...
Smithsonian using 3D scanning to archive collection
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The Smithsonian has a collection of approximately 137 million items, but only limited space to display it all, so the institute is turning to 3D printing and scanning to make its massive collection more widely available. The plan is to create a digital archive of the many objects housed...
Paul Allen’s Vulcan cuts 20 jobs
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Paul Allen Vulcan, the Seattle-based investment arm of billionaire and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, today laid off 20 staffers, GeekWire has learned. “We communicated the tough decision today to lay off 20 people as we realign some functions with the company’s emerging priorities,” said Vulcan spokesman David Postman. Allen has...
Google's Art Project Extended Worldwide
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Users can now explore paintings, sculptures, street art and gigapixel photographs of artwork from 151 museums in 40 countries....
If You Have a Smart Phone, Anyone Can Now Track Your Every Move
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Navizon I.T.S. makes it easy to pinpoint Wi-Fi devices anywhere its listening nodes are installed. Location services company Navizon has a new system, called Navizon I.T.S., that could allow tracking of visitors in malls, museums, offices, factories, secured areas and just about any other indoor space. It could be used...
Nokia experiments with location-based white space services in Cambridge, UK (video)
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Following news of the first successful white space trials in Cambridge, UK, Nokia is now touting its research in the area with a demonstration of location-based services for the unlicensed spectrum. Traditionally, proponents of white space usage have positioned this unused portion of the airwaves as a viable, low-cost...
Is it open? Business hours are now on foursquare!
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On the prowl for a late night snack? Or a cafe that’s open super early? Or a place that’s still serving brunch on a late Sunday afternoon? Now when you’re looking for great places to try, you’ll see a business’ hours (if the merchant has provided them) so you’ll know when...
Nintendo patent application tech tracks your DS from above, serves as tour guide
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Nintendo is already guiding you through the Louvre with a 3DS, but a newly published US patent application takes that kind of tourism to a very literal new level. Legend of Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto's concept describes a way to direct lost tourists by beaming position information through an...
9 apps to get you outdoors over a holiday weekend in the UK
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It’s Easter and in the UK we have a holiday weekend. Naturally the weather is grey, but that rarely stops British people getting out and about to do something with their time. There’s a surprising amount to do on a day trip, depending on how far you would like to...
Foursquare’s new business hours show its direction is a threat to Yelp
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Foursquare has just announced the business hours for venues are now available, signaling an interesting expansion that eats into Yelp’s own territory. We already saw how Foursquare can be used to discover food nearby, so now that both menus and hours are available, the company’s intentions are becoming clearer. From the blog post: On the...
TagTagCity lets tourists scan Brussels to learn about the city and get in on promotions
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The city of Brussels just got a little more interactive for tourists thanks to a new service called TagTagCity. The tourism initiative includes around 600 sites around the city — ranging from museums and famous monuments to stores and restaurants — that are equipped with codes that can be...
Fun Friday: Fred Wilson (artist)
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The idea for this post came in the comments at some point in the past week. I can't actually recall how we got to talking about the artist named Fred Wilson, but we did. And I said I was going to tell the story of how I met Fred. So...
Museums, Materials and Myths: H.D.’s Anthropoetics
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RT @innova2 "RT @museummedia VIDEO Interview with @NancyProctor abt Going Mobile 4 Museums http://bit.ly/cfuQZk"
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RT @mnmuseums: RT @museweb: Extensis offers Digital Asset Management Scholarships to Museums and the Web 2010 #mw2010 http://bit.ly/9QPLMb
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RT @mnmuseums: RT @museweb: Extensis offers Digital Asset Management Scholarships to Museums and the Web 2010 #mw2010 http://bit.ly/9QPLMb
"Cross‐Pollination between Libraries, Archives, and Museums" by @librarchivist & @NewMSI - http://j.mp/9j27oF
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"Cross‐Pollination between Libraries, Archives, and Museums" by @librarchivist & @NewMSI - http://j.mp/9j27oF
"Eleven Museums and Galleries Long-Listed for £100,000 Art Fund Prize 2010" (UK) - http://www.artfundprize.org.uk/2010/longlist.php
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"Eleven Museums and Galleries Long-Listed for £100,000 Art Fund Prize 2010" (UK) - http://www.artfundprize.org.uk/2010/longlist.php
How Does iTunes Work on the iPad?
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How Does iTunes Work on the iPad? is a post from Chris PirilloImagine being stuck in an airport for hours on end. You’re bored out of your mind, and feeling as though you could flip out at any second. Now imagine having the iPad with you, just waiting for you...
New Giant Prehistoric Fish Species Found Gathering Dust in Museums
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Researchers find two new species of giant, filter-feeding fish that swam the oceans for 100 million years, filling the ecological niche that was later occupied by whales....
"Do Museums Still Need Objects?" http://bit.ly/a3tq59 book review by Haidy L. Geismar via Material World
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"Do Museums Still Need Objects?" http://bit.ly/a3tq59 book review by Haidy L. Geismar via Material World
"Museums, Materials and Myths: H.D.’s Anthropoetics" via @BeineckeLibrary - http://j.mp/9RepgR
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Foursquare and Nonprofits: I want to Be The Mayor of Brooklyn Museum
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I am putting the finishing touches on another social media lab designed for arts organizations. So, have been updating arts 2.0 examples. I've also been trying to wrap my brain around whether or not Foursquare has value for nonprofits. I had too look no further than Shelley Bernstein's blog over...
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