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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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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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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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System restore: how archivists salvaged 1,500 volumes of digital art from Sandy’s floodwaters

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As reported on The Verge. By Joshua Kopstein Eyebeam’s media archive weathers the storm, but backing up is hard to do Hard drive crashes and corrupted files repeatedly instruct us on the importance of keeping media backups. But when data loss looms as the result of massive physical damage from a major natural disaster, finding better ways to digitally archive our history suddenly becomes a moral imperative. As countless tri-state area residents were left without power,…

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11 Apps That Will Make You Wish You Had An Android Phone

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by Kevin Smith Kevin Smith/Business Insider  Apple’s iPhone app selection.   While Apple’s store is usually the first choice for developers to launch their apps, others know that Android is the platform to push hardware and software to the limit. Browsing through Android’s massive app library can be difficult as there are many apps that simply aren’t very useful. But if you look a little harder you can find apps like BetterBatteryStats, which…

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Can Facebook bring the magic back?

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As reported on The Verge. By Ellis Hamburger It’s time for Mark Zuckerberg to turn his focus back on users, not just investors We’ll be live blogging Facebook’s event tomorrow starting at 10AM PT / 1PM ET. Check it out here! There’s no numerical evidence that Facebook has “lost its cool,” but you can feel it. You hear people talking about it. Instead of seeing Facebook blue illuminating the phones of fellow subway and bus riders, you…

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Microsoft Launches “Next App Star” Competition For Windows Phone Developers

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As reported on TechCrunch. by FREDERIC LARDINOIS You know a mobile app store is still young and needs more content when the company behind it still writes its own blog posts when interesting new apps appear in it. With 150,000 apps, the Windows Phone store isn’t actually quite as empty as the Windows 8 store, but Microsoft could sure use some marquee apps for its mobile platform. To get developers and consumers a bit more excited about it, the company…

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In the Coming Age of the Connected Home, Your Phone Will Be a Magic Wand

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As reported on Wired. BY CHRISTINA BONNINGTON Photo: Jim Merithew/Wired   LAS VEGAS — Your smartphone is going domestic. In the age of the connected home, your mobile devices are becoming the central command, the brains, if you will, of the entire smarthome experience. It makes sense. Rather than remote controls with menus to memorize and knobs, dials and switches to manipulate, your smartphone or tablet becomes one remote to rule them all. You’ve always got…

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CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS DECLASSIFIED REVIEW: DISHONORABLE DISCHARGE

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As reported on Polygon. By Russ Frushtick Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified is the lowest point in the series’ history. A lot of elements work in Declassified‘s favor. More powerful hardware, solid online support and the inclusion of dual analog sticks should provide the opportunity for an easier transition to the portable space. But something has gone wrong in the process. Developed by the former Nihilistic Software (now rechristened nStigate), Black Ops Declassified attempts to fill in the blanks…

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America’s first bookless public library will look ‘like an Apple Store’

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As reported on The Verge. By Laura June Bexar County, Texas says that it will open the first 100 percent digital public library system in the country, unveiling plans for its first location this past week. The plan has been in the works for a while, headed up by Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff, who says he was inspired to create a digitally native library while reading Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs. “If you want to get…

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