Wired Opinion: The Geek Shall Lin-herit the Earth (Or at Least The NBA)
Wired - Top stories - United States - 2012-02-23
Geoloqi's location tracking now available to Appcelerator devs
GigaOMTech - IT news - United States - 2012-05-22
Geoloqi, a platform for location services, launched in February, offering developers an simple and battery-efficient way to implement background location tracking and geo-fencing. Now, the company is teaming up with Appcelerator, who will make a Geoloqi module available for its Titanium platform.
Doubling in size leaves Delivery Hero hungry for more
GigaOMTech - IT news - United States - 2012-05-22
Online food ordering service Delivery Hero claims to be number one in five countries, with 84 percent growth in the first quarter of this year alone. Its next target? Overhauling its main rival, European market leader Just-Eat.
Box cloud storage hits a glitch
GigaOMTech - IT news - United States - 2012-05-22
Cloud storage provider Box experienced a snafu early today, as some users reported via Twitter that they could not access their stored documents. The company acknowledged that some customers experienced difficulty getting to their Box-stored files for about two hours early Tuesday.
FCC Chairman is still cool with data caps
GigaOMTech - IT news - United States - 2012-05-22
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski reiterated his acceptance of broadband data caps and tiered pricing at The Cable Show. That's fine, but it would be awesome if he started asking questions about how those caps are set and what impact they have on consumer behavior.
Microsoft puts Azure accelerator in Bangalore to woo startups
GigaOMTech - IT news - United States - 2012-05-22
In its push to get traction for Windows Azure as a platform for cloud services, Microsoft is opening an Azure accelerator in Bangalore. The goal is to find and help startups across India and Southeast Asia -- and get them aboard the Microsoft PaaS.
Developers could be happy with a taller iPhone screen
GigaOMTech - IT news - United States - 2012-05-22
9to5Mac's report on Tuesday seems to support some developers' hopes that the next iPhone would have a taller screen without an altered resolution. Though the report concerns a test device, the scenario laid out should be amenable to developers and iPhone buyers.
Sprint bumps per GB price on hotspot plans for phones
GigaOMTech - IT news - United States - 2012-05-22
In a bid to encourage more customers to use their mobile phone as a wireless hotspot, Sprint has revamped its mobile hotspot tethering services on smartphones. There's a new lower-priced plan but it will cost more per gigabyte. So will the new $50 plan.
The first Tesla Model S electric cars will arrive in exactly a month
GigaOMTech - IT news - United States - 2012-05-22
Electric car company Tesla Motors says they will officially start delivering Model S cars to its first customers on June 22 -- a month from today (see how they conveniently made it a nice headline).
Chicago's new incubator Catapult stocks up on startups
GigaOMTech - IT news - United States - 2012-05-22
The Windy City is famous for one big giant startup Groupon, but the folks at Chicago's newest incubator Catapult believe there will be many more, and -- for a short while at least -- it hopes to play host to the next big Web sensations from the Midwest.
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