Sirius XM Releases ‘Lite’ iPhone App. WTF?
After spending millions on what is arguably the strongest lineup in audio history, why would the recently merged Sirius XM not beam its shows to iPhones, which seem built exactly for that purpose (and...
View ArticleCNN’s iPhone News App is Informative And Empowering
Although a bit late to the party, CNN has made a decisive entry into the mobile news space with a well-designed iPhone app with that costs $2 to download, nothing to use and makes it easier for citizen...
View ArticleNewsy: The News Is Broken, But We Can Fix It
It’s old news that news consumers shield themselves from pesky dissenting viewpoints by patronizing only those outlets which present a comfortably conforming world view. The right religiously watches...
View ArticleVirtual iPhone Phrasebook Brings Us Closer to the ‘Babel Fish’
In Douglas Adams’ best-selling novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a space traveler can stick the Babel fish right into his ear, making it so he could understand speakers in any language....
View ArticleSoundtrckr Is Spot-On, Like a Location-Aware Pandora
The internet removed a sense of place from our lives by connecting people and content from everywhere, but location-aware smartphones are changing that by affixing tweets, pictures, business listings —...
View ArticleSkype, Kazaa Founders Launch Rdio Streaming App (Private Beta)
Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom think they can succeed where others have failed, in convincing music fans to spend a few dollars each month on an unlimited music subscription service. If these were...
View ArticlePayPal, Apps Prove a Potent Combination
PayPal has spent nearly a decade mainly as the payment-fulfillment arm of its parent company, eBay. But with the explosion of the mobile internet and the endless opportunities to leverage smartphones...
View ArticleHTML5 for iPad Won’t Kill Flash, But Could Change Apps
Publications, media companies and web developers have a new way to provide video on the Flash-free zones that are the iPhone and the impending iPad: using HTML5 to stream video within the Safari...
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