Archive for January, 2011

Loren Bendele from Savings.com Talks About The Online Deal Industry

Deals sites such as Groupon or LivingSocial have been all the rage the past few months. Obviously, Groupon has made waves with all the buzz about a purported $6 billion acquisition by Google, but LivingSocial isn’t exactly chump change with its recent valuation at about $1 billion.

However, as big as these two sites are, they represent only a part of the greater online deals industry. Many more coupon and deal sites have sprung up in the past few years, no doubt there to capitalize on the declining economy and peoples’ greater desire to save money. One site that has risen a bit above the others is Los Angeles-based Savings.com.

Hackers Undress The Playstation 3′s Security Measures

This is a fascinating article on why and how the Playstation 3′s software internals have become completely undressed.

How to Get a Job: Conversation with Celeb Blogger Sarah Austin and Social Media Strategist Miriam Salpeter

Miriam Salpeter is a social media strategist for job seekers and entrepreneurs, a job search coach, resume writer, author and…

HEADLINES: Blackberry Storm 3 Details, Apple iPad 2 Features, and Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7

Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 disappoints LG executive

Have An Entertainment Startup? CalTech Event Tomorrow Might Be For You

If you’re an entrepreneur or work in the digital content space, we urge you again to consider attending the “New Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Digital Entertainment: The UltraViolet Approach” forum at CalTech Tomorrow morning.

The 10 Most Significant Gadgets of the Last Year

It’s really no surprise the iPad is at number 1. I’d be shocked if it wasn’t there. It’s really been…

Facebook Adds Amber Alert to Help Find Missing Kids

Facebook has agreed to display Amber Alerts – notifications of missing children – following a deal with the National Center…

HEADLINES: Record Xbox Sales, Release of The Daily is Delayed

iOS 4.3 includes iLife, FaceTime updateKinect makes 2010 best year ever for Xbox 360News Corp, Apple delay iPad newspaper

Apple iOS 4.3 Beta Brings New Multitouch Gestures and Hardware Rotation Lock Back

Yesterday, Apple released a beta of iOS 4.3 to software developers. The new version of the iPad/iPhone software incorporates a bunch of new features, the biggest of which is a slew of new multitouch gestures.

HEADLINES: MobileMe’s New “Find My Friends” Feature, The New Translate App for Android, and Audrina’s New iPhone App

MobileMe’s New Find My Friends Feature Rumor are circulating that Apple will soon be adding a new “Find My Friends”…

What is the Difference Between HDMI Cables?

I always knew this was part of conventional wisdom, but I’m glad Digital Foundry did an empirical analysis on whether “higher…

Facebook generation suffer information withdrawal syndrome

Have you ever gone cold turkey from information? How did it make you feel?

Is Android More Vulnerable to Viruses Than the iPhone?

According to security-software maker Trend Micro Inc., Google’s Android operating system for mobile devices is more vulnerable to hackers and…

HEADLINES: The Verizon iPad, New Layoffs at MySpace

Verizon to sell iPad that Connects directly to its network Verizon Wireless will sell a version of Apple Inc.’s iPad…

What You Need To Know About The Verizon iPhone 4 Launch

This morning, Verizon held a press event in New York City announcing the imminent availability of the iPhone 4 on its network on February 10th. As some predicted, Steve Jobs was not on hand to help make the announcement, although Big Red did land a pretty big fish in getting Tim Cook, COO of Apple, to make an appearance.

Here’s what you need to know about the Verizon iPhone: