In Defense Of The Stylus

In Defense Of The Stylu...

A little while back, I got an email from Atmel, one of the leading touchscreen makers, asking if I wanted to check out their latest creation: a new active stylus that works with an improved touchscreen, for stylus actions alongside normal finger-touches and technologies like palm...
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Why Mobile Flash Died: ...

Adobe’s mobile Flash efforts have recently gone the way of the western black rhino, and Principal Product Manager Mike Chambers isn’t too pleased with how the Adobe chose to broke the news. In fact, he feels so strongly about it that he’s offered up his own...
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1% Of Nothing Launches To Get Startups Donating Equity

1% Of Nothing Launches ...

Shervin Pishevar and Matt Galligan have just formally announced the beta launch of their new organization 1% of Nothing . It’s aimed at inspiring early-stage companies to donate 1% of their equity to a cause of their choice. The idea is that startups pledge 1% when that equity...
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Like Social Profile Photo Hacks? Create One for Mashable’s Google+ Page

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When Google+ launched brand pages earlier this week, Mashable was quick to join the social network. We’ve been jumping into our page by talking about social media and technology as well as hanging out with our community to hear more about what you want from us on the network. As...
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Google Acquires Katango...

Back in September we broke the news that Google was in talks to acquire Katango , a small Kleiner Perkins-backed startup that launched this past summer. Today, they’ve made it official: Katango just announced that it’s been acquired by Google, and that it’ll be joining...
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Tagg For iPhone Uses Fa...

Tagg is a newly launched iPhone application that uses offline facial recognition to detect the faces of your friends in your photos, so you can tag them and upload them to Facebook or post them to Twitter. The app takes advantage of new frameworks in iOS5, like CoreImage , for example,...
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NEA, Steve Case, Ted Le...

newBrandAnalytics , a company that provides business intelligence from social media customer feedback, has raised $26 million in Series B financing led by New Enterprise Associates with Steve Case’s Revolution Ventures, Jeff Webber’s The Entrepreneur’s Fund, Barry Sternlicht...
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Miss “Most Recent”?...

Over the next few days, Facebook will roll out a “Sort” option at the top of the news feed that lets users select to see Recent Stories First instead of the default Highlighted Stories. The new feature should appease users miffed by  Facebook’s move to combine the old...
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Google+ Users Are Still...

If you were to throw a dart at Google+, it would be more than twice as likely to land on a man’s profile as a woman’s profile. Although the social network, according to recent estimates, has improved its gender ratio since it first launched, men still drastically outnumber...
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Cable Companies Battle ...

Cable companies Cox, Charter and Time Warner Cable have teamed up with Microsoft and Best Buy in an initiative that will offer broadband Internet to low-income families for $9.95 a month and PCs for $250. The program, called Connect To Compete , is part of an outreach by the Federal...
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