Monday 21 May 2012 at 12:41 am
Hachette, which has not made e-books available to libraries since 2010, is reconsidering the idea. In a pilot program starting this spring, the publisher is working with two e-book distributors to ...
Monday 21 May 2012 at 12:14 am
This week we recorded live from the show floor at Disrupt NYC. We sat through 24 hours straight of hot-rod hacking at the Hackathon and now we're preparing for the main show and, most important, th...
Monday 21 May 2012 at 12:01 am
Disrupt NYC 2012 begins in approximately 12 hours (tickets here).
But it's been two years since Soluto, the software that will make your computer simply run better, took home the Disrupt Cup at t...
Sunday 20 May 2012 at 11:39 pm
Apple’s planned phase-out of the UDID has introduced considerable angst in the app marketing community. The UDID provides a standard, widely supported method for attributing performance of advert...
Sunday 20 May 2012 at 11:00 pm
Congratulations to Facebook for going public. Congratulations to the employees that are now millionaires. Congratulations to the founders who are now billionaires. Congratulations to the bankers, l...
Sunday 20 May 2012 at 10:58 pm
The ongoing patent battle between the dominant smartphone providers, is about to get its prime-time drama moment, when the CEOs of Apple and Samsung will reportedly be brought before a U.S, federal...
Sunday 20 May 2012 at 8:53 pm
Last week, Virgin Atlantic said that you could use your phone to make calls and get/send text messages if you fly using its Upper Class service between New York and London. What I really want is th...
Sunday 20 May 2012 at 8:26 pm
After nearly 24 hours of fighting fatigue and crafting code, our Disrupt NY 2012 Hackathon is finally drawing to a close. Not a moment too soon -- I think some of our hackers are about ready to kee...
Sunday 20 May 2012 at 7:56 pm
A temporary solution to the drama that unfolded this morning when Twitter was blocked in Pakistan -- some believe over representations of the Prophet Mohammed and Twitter's refusal to block these i...
Sunday 20 May 2012 at 7:29 pm
Teaching kids - especially little girls - about electronics is a hard job. First, there's the electricity. Then there's the sense that soldering, wiring, and lining up LEDs is considerably less fun...
Sunday 20 May 2012 at 7:05 pm
A mere 24 hours ago, coders started hacking with hopes and dreams of building the next great app or program. Many participants stayed overnight, fueled on gumption and Red Bull. Others cut out earl...
Sunday 20 May 2012 at 7:00 pm
There have been a lot of complaints voiced over the last couple of years from people who wish entrepreneurs would address the world's "real problems" or do "something bigger" rather than create "me...
Sunday 20 May 2012 at 6:13 pm
SpaceX and Elon Musk will not be held from the history books. Last night the company announced that engineers were currently replacing a faulty valve on engine #5, and if successful pending a data ...
Sunday 20 May 2012 at 6:00 pm
A life-size fire-breathing dragon. A fully robotic calliope band. A full-scale flight simulator built by teenagers. An entire herd of homemade R2-D2s. Electric cars, steampunk fashion, a robot pett...
Sunday 20 May 2012 at 5:50 pm
Pakistan has blocked Twitter because the microblogging site has refused to block potentially offensive images of the Prophet Mohammed. Facebook apparently has agreed to take down the offending imag...
Sunday 20 May 2012 at 5:20 pm
With Disrupt NYC 2012 literally a day away (tickets here), it's hard not to think about the past success of our former Battlefield startups. I've taken a close look at quite a few over the past cou...
Sunday 20 May 2012 at 4:53 pm
It's been a long, caffeine-fueled ride for the hundreds of hackers who have set up at our big Disrupt NY 2012 Hackathon, but the furious process of taking a wild idea and turning it into something ...
Sunday 20 May 2012 at 4:53 pm
Pictures of the Prophet Mohammad have always been a highly contentious issue -- they're not explicitly prohibited in the Qu'ran but many Sunni Muslims forbid the idea, while others do not seem to m...
Sunday 20 May 2012 at 3:00 pm
Even if you haven't heard of LivePerson, chances are you've encountered one of its products while browsing online. It's the company behind those pop-up windows offering real-time chat with a repres...
Sunday 20 May 2012 at 1:00 pm
Berlin's attempt to become one of the world's premier cities for startup culture is taking a serious blow, with a new airport months behind schedule and a 'crazy' compulsory pension contributions s...