Day: September 19, 2013

Android Mobile OS

Fork in the road: Cyanogen raises $7 million to build a better version of Android

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As reported on The Verge. By Casey Newton The rebel ROM builder grows up — and starts making hardware plans Cyanogen, makers of popular software based on Android that extends the abilities of smartphones, is making a bid for the mainstream. The four-year-old company, which began as a one-person side project, said today that it has raised $7 million from Benchmark Capital and Redpoint Ventures. The goal is to vault past Blackberry and Windows Phone to become the third-most popular…

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Politics

FWD.us Gives First Hard Numbers On Its Impact On Immigration So Far

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As reported on TechCrunch. by JOSH CONSTINE  Is FWD.us really making a difference? Today it released its first quantified stats on its contribution to immigration reform, announcing that it drove 33,500 calls to Congress this summer and a total of 110,000 actions including social media shares. That’s not a stellar call count, but it represents solid work by the political action group founded and funded by tech leaders like Mark Zuckerberg. In passing immigration reform, every little bit…

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Apple iPhone OS

A Few Tricks All The New iOS 7 Users Should Know

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As reported on TechCrunch. by GREG KUMPARAK At long last, iOS 7 has just arrived. That is, it just arrived for everyone who didn’t say “Developer? Oh, yeah, I’m totally a developer. Cough.” and wiggle into the Beta months ago. iOS 7 is a strange new land, especially on day one. Out with the gradients, in with the trippy fluorescents. Your favorite app? It probably looks completely different, now. It can be confusing, but we’re here…

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Games

Hands-on with the new PlayStation Vita (update: video!)

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As reported on Engadget. By Ben Gilbert   Just like the PlayStation Portable before it, the PlayStation Vita comes in iterations. There’s the standard, original Vita, and then there’s the new, even nicer version. Sony unveiled that new iteration recently at a Japanese event, and we got our first hands-on with it today at Tokyo Game Show 2013. So, what’s different? Not too much. As it turns out, it’s still a Vita. The good news is that it’s…

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Apple

Apple now lets Windows users sync iCloud bookmarks with Chrome and Firefox

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As reported on Engadget. By Matt Brian While the release of iOS 7 was yesterday’s big news, Apple also dropped a number of other smaller, but no less important, software updates. Not content with allowing only Internet Explorer users import their iCloud bookmarks to Windows PCs, the company is now letting Chrome and Firefox join the party. The additional functionality comes by way of an update to Apple’s iCloud Control Panel for Windows, a small app designed to keep…

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