Month: June 2014

Application

LinkedIn Launches Its First Standalone Job Search App

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Ingrid Lunden LinkedIn says that today 40% of its 300 million users access the site on mobile devices, so its bid to tap into the wave of users accessing the site via smartphones and tablets continues apace: today the company is launching LinkedIn Job Search, an iOS app that will let people search and apply for jobs on the social network. This is LinkedIn’s first standalone app dedicated to these features. The app is now live in the…

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Business IT

Puppet Labs Raises $40M More To Take Its IT Automation Business Global

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Ingrid Lunden Puppet Labs, whose IT automation software is used by the likes of Google, Twitter, Salesforce and AT&T among 18,000 others, is today announcing another $40 million in venture backing, money that it will be investing in “engineering, product and international expansion,” CEO and founder Luke Kanies tells TechCrunch. The funding, which comes from Puppet Labs’ existing top-shelf and strategic investors — specifically Cisco, Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Triangle…

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Culture Hardware Dev

Ambient glasses put smartphone notifications right in front of your eyes

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As reported on Engadget. BY MAT SMITH Still not sold on smartwatches, but want to know what’s going on with your phone without taking it out of your pocket? Maybe Matilde’s Fun-iki glasses, spotted at CNET Japan’s Live 2014 event, will do the trick. Connecting to smartphones through WiFi, a trio of LEDs above each lens will glow (or pulse) when there’s a notification, or simply to add a little, er, color to your complexion. The lights…

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Business Mobile

BlackBerry steadies the ship but smartphone sales continue to evaporate

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As reported on Engadget. BY MATT BRIAN  BlackBerry’s plan to cut costs and shift to services is starting to pay dividends. While the company’s latest financial earnings report shows it’s still suffering losses, they aren’t as bad as expected. It certainly wasn’t thanks to its smartphones, which were once BlackBerry’s main source of revenue, as they fell to just 2.6 million units from 3.4 million in the last quarter. This time around, the Canadian smartphone maker didn’t divulge how…

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Apple OS

Apple video gives a close look at OS X Yosemite’s new style

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As reported on The Verge. By Jacob Kastrenakes Apple unveiled a redesigned version of OS X last week, and today it’s releasing a video that gives the closest look you can get at it — at least, without being a developer. The video gives a close up view of the new icons, font, and buttons, and traces across pretty much everything big that’s changing in OS X Yosemite. The video was actually run during Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference to…

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Science

Scientists discover massive ocean of water 400 miles underground

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As reported on The Verge. By Kwame Opam Researchers at Northwestern University have found evidence for a massive reservoir of water deep within the Earth’s mantle. The reservoir, which is said to be three times the volume of the oceans on the surface, is contained within highly-pressurized rock known as ringwoodite. The scientists hope that their findings, recently published in the journal Science, can shed light on where Earth’s oceans came from. THREE TIMES THE VOLUME OF THE…

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Culture Entertainment Trends

Meet AirDog, An Action Sports Drone For Your GoPro Camera

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Steve O’Hear Meet AirDog, an action sports drone for when a GoPro action camera alone isn’t enough. The problem Latvian startup Helico Aerospace Industries has set out to solve is most homemade action sports videos rely on a camera, such as the GoPro, being strapped on your person or action sports equipment, providing mostly a POV shot only. But, with drone technology, it could be possible to democratise the kind of aerial videos previously…

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Culture Entertainment Story Tech

France is the first team to benefit from goal-line tech at the World Cup

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As reported on Engadget. BY MAT SMITH  Well, the above image might look pretty straightforward, but when the shot from France’s Karim Benzema bounced off the far post and deflected off the keeper into goal, in the midst of a World Cup match, there was more than a little confusion. The referee asked for clarification through the newly instituted goal-line technology, which initially (and confusingly) ruled ‘No goal’. However, that was for the initial rebound, not when it bounced…

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Culture Hardware Dev

Crowd-control drones reveal the technology’s dark side

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As reported on Engadget. BY DANIEL COOPER  The treatment of South African miners has been a troublesome issue ever since black laborers were forced into the mines in 1894. It’s led to a series of bloody strikes andprotests, starting in 1946 and continuing through apartheid right up until today. A new type of crowd suppression drone from a local defense contractor isn’t going to help matters, especially given the fact that the country is in the grip of a 21-week…

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Apple Mobile OS

Hidden iOS 8 split-screen multitasking demoed on video

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As reported on The Verge. By Jacob Kastrenakes The iPad has only ever been able to show one app on-screen at a time, but that might change in the future. In a beta version of iOS 8, developer Steve Troughton-Smith has discovered that the operating system supports resizing apps so that a single app might only take up three-quarters, one-half, or one-quarter of the screen. In a video, Troughton-Smith shows exactly how it works right now inside of Apple’s desktop…

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