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Firefox’s New Crash Protection Beefed Up
Jun 27th
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Making Sense of China’s 100+ Groupon Clones
Jun 27th
This is a guest post by Gang Lu, a Shanghai-based blogger and consultant. His blog mobinode. com covers the Chinese and Asian Web industry, and he also co-founded OpenWeb. Asia workgroup and KUUKIE. com.
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Jun 25th
Aviary, the startup that makes a suite of impressive web-based creative applications, including editors for images, vector graphics, and audio recordings, is targeting a new class of customers: school teachers and their students. Today the company is launching Aviary Education, a product that allows educators to encourage creativity on Aviary More >
Boston-Power Recharges With $60 Million Funding For Lithium-Ion Batteries
Jun 25th
Better batteries may be on the way as lithium-ion battery producer Boston-Power ramps up its manufacturing and R&D with a $60M Series E round from Foundation Asset Management and Oak Investment Partners. Boston-Power produces Sonata, better known as Hewlett-Packard’s Long Life Battery, as well as Swing, which is used to power More >
Boston-Power Load With $ 60,000,000 Financing for lithium-ion batteries
Jun 25th
Better batteries may be on the way as lithium-ion battery producer Boston-Power ramps up its manufacturing and R&D with a $60M Series E round from Foundation Asset Management and Oak Investment Partners. Boston-Power produces Sonata, better known as Hewlett-Packard’s Long Life Battery, as well as Swing, which is used to power More >
Automattic Buys Up Thing Labs’ Plinky To Help Bloggers Overcome Writer’s Block
Jun 25th
WordPress developer Automattic has acquired Plinky from Thing Labs, the creators of social media application Brizzly. Plinky essentially aims to inspire content creators. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Plinky’s technology prompts you with an intriguing question or challenge and (like a question, or a challenge) and you have to answer. Depending More >
Gmail Gets One-Click Microsoft Word Previews
Jun 25th
Google just announced a small but handy new feature for Gmail: one-click previews for Microsoft Word documents. This new features works for . doc and the more recent . docx format. Until now, Gmail’s one-click preview feature only supported PDF files, PowerPoint documents and images in the TIFF format. The new More >
Have no friends? Call 1-888-FACETIME FaceTime to test on the iPhone 4
Jun 25th
The biggest problem with testing Facetime is the dearth of real, hard-core nerds out there with iPhone 4s. I’ve been able to talk to Greg and my buddy Tom, but that’s about it.
Now, however, you can call 1-888-FACETIME (188832238463) and talk to an Apple rep live over Facetime. They’re More >