Intelligent Design And The Modern Cellphone

I’ve been mulling this concept over for a long while and it took Josh Helfferich’s single image to...

POSTED 654 days ago BY Amanda Wang

Microsoft To Replace “Live” Branding With “Microsoft Account” In Windows 8

The long-running “Live” name Microsoft has placed on its many connected services (Mail, messenger, photos, etc)...

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Apple to Replace the iPhone’s Dock Connector? [RUMOR]

Apple may be planning to replace the dock connector that’s been synonymous with iPhones, iPods and iPads for almost a decade with...

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InstaMatch Turns Instagram Into A Game

POSTED 656 days ago BY Amanda Wang

Tiny Hearts, the Toronto-based studio behindPocket Zoo, a top 50 iOS app (and one of my kid’s personal favorites), has just released a new title that turns Instagram into a game. The new app is called InstaMatch, and it’s a modernized take on the classic memory matching game. In InstaMatch, instead of using images of duplicate items, the photos users match up come from Instagram.

Using real-world photos of animals, trees, clouds, cities, food and other similar, but not identical, items makes this matching game just a bit more difficult than its traditional counterpart, which is typically aimed at children. While kids will clearly enjoy InstaMatch, too, there’s no need to limit its appeal to that demographic. Read more »

Walkie-Talkie App Voxer Popular With Investors, Raising $15M to $20M At Up To $300M Valuation

POSTED 656 days ago BY Amanda Wang

3_participants_web There have been a few walkie-talkie mobile apps that have come out on iOS and Android over the last year or two, but it wasn’t until last fall that one of them had a breakout moment. Voxer suddenly hit it big with the young black community in Cleveland and a few other big cities last November. Since then, it has spread to the rest of the world, topping the app store and gaining a wide range of users – including venture capitalists on Sand Hill Road here in Silicon Valley.

By which I mean, lots of VCs are both using it, and looking at investing in it. Voxer has spent the last couple months working on closing an angel round that it had left open, according to industry sources, while also working on its first venture funding. It’s raising $15-20 million at a pre-money valuation of $150 million, says one person. Another counters, saying that the valuation is going to be at least double that. Read more »

Did you know Facebook has more than 60,000 Servers !

POSTED 657 days ago BY Amanda Wang

It’s said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Sometimes a PowerPoint slide can tell the story of thousands of servers.

That was the case with a presentation from Facebook’s Tom Cook at last week’s Velocity 2010 conference, which depicted the growth of the company’s server footprint. Designed to illustrate Facebook’s insatiable need for more servers to support its 400 million users, the chart didn’t include any numbers, seeking not to reveal the actual server count. Read more »

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