Salesforce Acquires Soc...

Salesforce.com has announced the acquisition of cloud computing services startup Model Metrics. Financial terms of the deal, which is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2011, have not been disclosed. Model Metrics consulting firm that helps enterprise organizations accelerate the...
The Death Of The Spec

The Death Of The Spec...

Earlier today, my colleague Matt Burns wrote a post noting that most tablet makers may be largely failing because they’ve sold their soul to Android and are now just in the middle of a spec war, which no one can win. I’m gonna go one step further in that line of thinking: the...
Music Lovers’ Social Network Flowd Gets All New Mobile Apps

Music Lovers’ Social ...

The music lover’s social network Flowd , which recently arrived stateside after its European debut, just updated its mobile applications with a boatload of new features that make them worth a look. Up until now, Flowd was only mildly interesting, as it was primarily touting its 600...
Prototype Blade Laptops Stolen From Razer Offices

Prototype Blade Laptops...

We’ve been eagerly awaiting more news of Razer’s Blade , a 17-inch beast that they claim is “the world’s first true gaming laptop.” Alas, we didn’t think the news would be of the troubling variety: Razer says that two of their prototypes were stolen...
Amazon Kindle Fire tablet ships out today

Amazon Kindle Fire tabl...

Great news for those of you looking forward to getting your hands on Amazon’s upcoming Kindle Fire tablet – Amazon has announced that it will be shipping the tablet today, one day ahead of schedule (it was supposed to ship out on November 15th). The Kindle Fire is the ultimate...
t’Light S iPhone dock doubles up as a table lamp

t’Light S iPhone dock...

We’ve come across many iPhone docks in the past, and safe to say the good majority of them have been speaker docks, so you can imagine our delight when we came across an iPhone dock that doubled up as a table lamp as opposed to your run of the mill speaker dock, although to be fair the...

Kindle Touch and Kindle...

Mark tomorrow on your calendars if you are up for some Kindle Touch and Kindle Touch 3G love – as Amazon prepares to ship them six days earlier than originally expected. Both the $99 Kindle Touch and $149 Kindle Touch 3G will be part of Amazon’s all-new full-featured e-readers,...
Want The Chance To Work At Instagram? Solve This Photo Shredder Puzzle

Want The Chance To Work...

Coding puzzles have been part of the Silicon Valley hiring process and lore since the days when Fizzbuzz was just a gleam in some HR recruiter’s eye. Blue chip companies like Microsoft , Google and Amazon all use questions like, “Write a function that takes a string...
Hands On: Motorola Droid Razr Is Super-Thin, But Not Quite Super [PICS]

Hands On: Motorola Droi...

The Motorola Droid Razr rolls out to the United States on Friday, bringing an unusually thin smartphone into the hands of Android aficionados. Let’s put it to the test. Its claim to fame is its industrial design — the ultra-thin Motorola Droid Razr (Verizon, $299.99 with...

New Yorker, Wired and M...

It’s not just apps making their way to the Kindle Fire — some 400 magazines and newspapers will also be made available when the device goes on sale Tuesday, some through extensive free trials, Amazon announced on Friday. Magazine publishers appear to be particularly bullish...

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