Day: January 18, 2013

Application Story

Study: Learning Spanish With Duolingo Can Be More Effective Than College Classes Or Rosetta Stone

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As reported on TechCrunch. by FREDERIC LARDINOIS Education is quickly moving online, but we haven’t seen all that many studies that actually look into the effectiveness of these new forms of online learning. To see how its program performed, the language learning serviceDuolingo, founded by CAPTCHA inventor Luis von Ahn, commissioned a study (PDF)into the effectiveness of its program. The result, which even surprised von Ahn: it only takes a Duolingo user 34 hours to learn the equivalent…

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Application Entertainment Story

Mobile Video App Montaj Makes Editing As Easy As Shaking Your Phone

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As reported on TechCrunch. by RYAN LAWLER The latest entrant into the mobile video segment is Montaj, a new app launching next week which seeks to be a kind of “Instagram for Video.” Montaj was founded by Demir Gjokaj and Dan Long, a couple of New York-based entrepreneurs who had originally been focused on making a more engaging travel site. Key to that experience would be video, but they had to tackle the video problem first. The…

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Application Social Networking

With Customers Like LinkedIn On Board, Bugsnag Launches To Bring Realtime Bug Tracking To Your Web & Mobile Apps

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As reported on TechCrunch. by RIP EMPSON Last year, James Smith and Simon Maynard left mobile gaming startup Heyzap, where Smith was the CTO, to build and launch a new venture that aimed to tackle one of the biggest problems they encountered in working with mobile developers: The need for better crash detection. In an attempt to bring some continuity to the fragmented set of point solutions developers use to monitor and capture errors in their…

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Story Tech

Sony selling NY headquarters for $1.1 billion, will rent space from new owners

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As reported on Engadget. By Sean Buckley Despite losing a little less each quarter since Kazuo Hirai took over as CEO, Sony still appears to be looking for ways to cut the fat. Its latest move? Sell the house. Taking a page from Nokia’s book, Sony has announced that it has agreed to sell its New York headquarters building to a consortium led by The Chetrit Group. After settling its debts on the building, the $1.1 billion sale will net Sony about $685…

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Government Story

DOJ declines to reveal policy memos on GPS tracking

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As reported on Engadget. By Jon Fingas The US Supreme Court might have ruled last year that GPS tracking is equivalent to a search, but that doesn’t mean the government’s practices are transparent. If anything, they may be more opaque than ever. The Department of Justice has responded to an ACLU Freedom of Information Act request for a pair of GPS tracking policy memos by providing almost completely redacted versions that, effectively, say nothing. Not surprisingly, the ACLU isn’t…

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Google Social Networking

Google+ iOS app now available in 48 more countries and territories Mobile

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As reported on Engadget. By Nicole Lee If Google+ wants any chance of beating the social media juggernaut that is Facebook— especially after the latter’s latest efforts in the search arena — it needs to reach a far wider audience than it does now. The Mountain View company has just made a small but significant step in that direction with the availability of its G+ iOS app to 48 more countries and territories, according to a G+ post by engineer Frank Petterson. The countries…

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