Day: January 17, 2013

Application Microsoft Story

Microsoft Launches HelpBridge For iOS, Windows Phone And Android, Lets You Alert Friends And Family When Disasters Strike

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As reported on TechCrunch. by FREDERIC LARDINOIS When a disaster happens, chances are you want to get in touch with your loved ones as soon as possible, either to tell them that you’re fine or to make sure they are. To make this easier, Microsoft is launching HelpBridgetoday, a mobile app for iOS, Android andWindows Phone. HelpBridge, which is based on Microsoft’s Windows Azure platform, lets you notify your friends and family by SMS, email or a message to your Facebook wall that…

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Entertainment Story

In The Fight Between Netflix And Cable Operators, High-Quality Streaming Video Is Being Held Hostage

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As reported on TechCrunch. by RYAN LAWLER Last week at CES, Netflix announced that a number of ISPs had adopted its Open Connect technology, which provides a more direct connection between it and a cable operator,lowering the cost of delivery and increasing the quality of its streaming video. And for those who do participate, Netflix has a bonus: Due to those efficiencies, it will be able to offer up Super HD and 3D video to their broadband subscribers.…

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BodeTree, The Financial Tool For People Who Hate Finance, Launches An Education Platform For Small Business Owners

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As reported on TechCrunch. by RIP EMPSON BodeTree launched early last year to help small business owners better understand and make sense of their financial data. The startup has been attempting to make the absurdly tedious world of financial software fun, or at least less crappy, pitching itself as a “financial tool for people who hate finance.” As Sarah wrote at the time, BodeTree syncs with QuickBooks for data importing, but differentiates itself from similar tools by providing…

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Google Story

Google Not Involved In Donkey’s Murder, Says Company (And No, It’s Not April Fool’s. This Happened.)

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As reported on TechCrunch. by SARAH PEREZ The donkey lives! Apparently, Google did not kill a donkey with its Street View car in Botswana, after all. Donkeycide would totally go against Google’s whole “do no evil” credo, the company said. Okay, just kidding. But Google did take the time out of its busy schedule to respond to the accusations of donkey hit-and-run on the official Google Mapsblog this morning, in a post hilariously titled “Never ass-ume.” Ass-ume. Get it?…

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Mobile Story

Asus says it’s interested in making a Windows Phone, maybe even a Windows-based Padfone Mobile

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As reported on Engadget. By Sharif Sakr An Asus exec has revealed to the Wall Street Journal that his company is “in talks” with Microsoft to license Windows Phone 8. Talk is cheap, of course, but at this point WP8 is much in need of friends and it’s interesting to contemplate what Asus might do with the OS, given that manufacturer’s penchant for quirky form factors. Speaking of which, the same executive — VP Benson Lin — brought up the notion of a Padfone-style…

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IK Multimedia’s iRig HD adapter for iOS, Mac lets guitars ride the Lightning port Mobile

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As reported on Engadget. By Jon Fingas IK Multimedia spent a lot of time at CES 2013 courting Android musicians, but we neglected to mention equal attention spent on iOS at the show through the iRig HD. The company’s new adapter pipes audio from a guitar or other instrument with a quarter-inch plug into Lightning-equipped Apple devices, keeping them in IK’s musical world (and inviting terrible Metallica puns). It’s not exclusively built to jam with an iPad mini or iPhone 5, either, as…

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Robot fish glides out of Michigan State University, tells you if the water is clean Alt

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As reported on Engadget. By Sean Buckley Autonomous fish might make great leaders, but it turns out that robot flippers are ahuge drain on battery life. Not a problem for Xiaobo Tan — he and a group ofMichigan State University scientists have built a robotic fish that glides through the water. Tan says the machine, dubbed Grace (Gliding Robot ACE), swims too , but the constant flipper movement can kill the battery in just a few hours. “This is why we…

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