March 2015 ~ Tech Support

Tuesday, 31 March 2015

Service Marketplace StarOfService Takes On Thumbtack

New York Times Will Deliver One-Sentence News Stories To Apple WatchFrench startup StarOfService plans to provide a solid Thumbtack alternative for the rest of the world. To achieve this goal, StarOfService is opening its marketplace in 80 countries and just raised $1.2 million (€1.1 million) from Point Nine Capital,...

By: Unknown On 17:06

Alcatel OneTouch’s Cross-Platform Smartwatch Opens Pre-Orders For $150

Service Marketplace StarOfService Takes On ThumbtackThe Alcatel OneTouch Watch, which got its debut at CES this year, is officially going on sale today with pre-orders starting at $149.99 directly from the company’s U.S. website. The smartwatch is unique among those from larger OEMs in that it works with both...

By: Unknown On 16:51

Google Expands Advertising Options For Mobile Developers Designed To Increase Installs

Alcatel OneTouch’s Cross-Platform Smartwatch Opens Pre-Orders For $150 Google announced this morning a range of new advertising options for Android app developers designed to increase the number of app installations. The most notable change rolling out today is that developers can now more easily advertise their applications on the...

By: Unknown On 16:36

Frame.io Is Cloud-Based Collaboration For Everything

Google Expands Advertising Options For Mobile Developers Designed To Increase InstallsGiven the world’s shift toward video, both in terms of consumption and creation, it’s almost surprising how tedious and painstaking the process of post-production collaboration can be. Lots of services focus on pieces of the problem, like accelerated file...

By: Unknown On 16:21

Amazon’s New Dash Button Hardware Offers Instant Orders For Staple Products

Frame.io Is Cloud-Based Collaboration For Everything Amazon has new hardware called the Dash Button that allows one-press ordering of products you’re likely to want to replace on a regular basis. The Dash Button comes in a number of different branded versions based on what it’s coded to order, and...

By: Unknown On 16:06

Google Maps Easter Egg Sets Pac-Man Loose On City Streets

Amazon’s New Dash Button Hardware Offers Instant Orders For Staple Products Google has created a new Easter Egg for Google Maps (pretty much just in time for actual Easter) which lets you play Pac-Man in real-world locales on the company’s Maps apps for desktop and mobie devices. It’s easy...

By: Unknown On 15:51

Google Drive For Work, Education Get New Data Security Features

Google Maps Easter Egg Sets Pac-Man Loose On City Streets Google is launching an update to Drive for Work and Drive for Education today that introduces a number of new tools for users who need to have greater control over how their data is shared both internally and with external customers....

By: Unknown On 15:36

Twitter Publicly Launches Curator, Its Real-Time Search And Filtering Tool For Media Outlets

Google Maps Easter Egg Sets Pac-Man Loose On City Streets Twitter this morning is publicly launching Curator, its new product that lets media organizations, publishers, and broadcasters identify, filter and display tweets and Vine videos on any screen in real-time. The free service, which is something of a competitor to...

By: Unknown On 15:21

ESPN Launches A Big Redesign For Its Web Versions

Google Drive For Work, Education Get New Data Security FeaturesTomorrow, ESPN is launching a major redesign to an experience that has basically gone unchanged since its previous redesign in 2009. The company has rebuilt its web experience: instead of having two different completely units — a mobile version and a desktop version — it’s...

By: Unknown On 15:06

Sensai Raises $900K To Help Data Scientists Query Unstructured Data

ESPN Launches A Big Redesign For Its Web VersionsData analysis often involves looking at a large set of pretty uniform, well-structured data. But as companies continue to gather more electronic documents in all kinds of forms (and formats), those traditional techniques don’t work anymore. Companies like Palantir and IBM (with Watson)...

By: Unknown On 14:51

Tile Launches Sharing, Allowing Others To Help You Find Your Lost Items

Sensai Raises $900K To Help Data Scientists Query Unstructured DataTile, the lost item tracker that you can attach to purses, keys, luggage, bikes or anything else that tends to go missing at times, is today rolling out a new feature designed to make it easier for people to get...

By: Unknown On 14:36

Postmates Will Deliver Bastian Lehmann Via Bike To The Disrupt New York Stage

Tile Launches Sharing, Allowing Others To Help You Find Your Lost ItemsOkay, the bike thing probably isn’t true but Postmates co-founder and CEO Bastian Lehmann will join us on stage at TC Disrupt New York in May. Almost four years ago, Lehmann stepped onto the TechCrunch Disrupt stage and...

By: Unknown On 14:21

In The Land Of Opportunity, Why Hinder Our Own Success?

Postmates Will Deliver Bastian Lehmann Via Bike To The Disrupt New York StageEditor’s note: Max Levchin is the CEO of Affirm, co-founder of PayPal, Chairman of Yelp & Glow, and Director at Yahoo and Evernote. We often hear that America is a nation of immigrants, but some members of Congress...

By: Unknown On 14:06

Hisense And Haier Launch $149 Chromebooks

In The Land Of Opportunity, Why Hinder Our Own Success?A few weeks ago Google made headlines with the launch of the new Chromebook Pixel, the highest-end Chromebook on the market (and with a price to show for it). Today, the Chrome OS laptop ecosystem is launching two products that are the...

By: Unknown On 13:51

Microsoft Simplifies Visual Studio Lineup And Pricing For Enterprise Users

Postmates Will Deliver Bastian Lehmann Via Bike To The Disrupt New York StageMicrosoft today announced that it will consolidate its Visual Studio Premium and Ultimate offerings for enterprises into a single product once it launches Visual Studio 2015 later this year. Now called Visual Studio Enterprise With MSDN, this new...

By: Unknown On 13:36

Why Jay-Z’s Music App Tidal Sounds Doomed

Microsoft Simplifies Visual Studio Lineup And Pricing For Enterprise UsersGiving away music is how you get people to pay for it. That might seem crazy, but its true, though Jay-Z doesn’t want to listen. He just launched a music streaming service called Tidal with Beyoncé, Daft Punk, Kanye, Arcade Fire, and...

By: Unknown On 13:21

The Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge Is The New Hotness

Why Jay-Z’s Music App Tidal Sounds DoomedThe smartphone to beat this season is the Galaxy S6 Edge. It’s slim, stylish, and powerful, a mashup between the previous Galaxy S series with the original iPod Touch. It’s well-made and unique, a combination rarely found in cellphones these days and it...

By: Unknown On 13:06

The Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge Is The New Hotne

The Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge Is The New Hotness For the first time, children under 13 are allowed to have an official presence on Facebook. They still can’t have a profile, but their parents can now tag photos of them (or pet) to create a “Scrapbook”. This lets parents...

By: Unknown On 12:51

Google Says 5% Of Web Browsers Have Ad Injectors Installed

Facebook’s New Photo “Scrapbook” Lets Parents Give Kids An Official PresenceAccording to a study Google conducted with researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, 5 percent of people visiting Google’s sites and services now have at least one ad injector installed. When it comes to malware, ad injectors may seem...

By: Unknown On 12:36

As Internal Threats Rise Investors Back New Security Tech

Google Says 5% Of Web Browsers Have Ad Injectors InstalledOn February 3, 2011, a little over two years before Edward Snowden would board his plane to Hong Kong and change history, a 37-year-old man named Jason Cornish fired what may have been the first shot one of the new fronts...

By: Unknown On 12:21

Microsoft Jumps Into The Mobile Device Management Fray

Testlio Raises $1M To Provide On-Demand QA TestersMicrosoft made good on its promise to add mobile device management (MDM) to its Office 365 productivity service, making the feature generally available today to commercial customers. Microsoft has added, in English, the ability for large companies to manage Office on the phones of...

By: Unknown On 07:50

Andreessen-Backed Teleport Launches A Mobile Search Engine For Globally Nomadic Tech Workers

Microsoft Jumps Into The Mobile Device Management FrayIt’s a big hairy vision — knowledge-workers freely migrate around the globe, and city and federal governments compete to lure them. Teleport, a startup founded by early Skype employees around the idea of supporting an increasingly global mobile workforce, is taking another...

By: Unknown On 07:35

Google Now Includes Google+ Photos In Drive

Andreessen-Backed Teleport Launches A Mobile Search Engine For Globally Nomadic Tech WorkersGoogle has begun showing photos uploaded via Google+ in Google Drive, where they can be managed via a new Google Photos tab, or stored in folders alongside other kinds of files easily. The inclusion of Photos and Videos...

By: Unknown On 07:20

Gmail For Android Gets A Unified Inbox

These Activists Are Plotting To End Internet Censorship In ChinaGoogle updated its Gmail app for Android today, and the most important feature is probably the addition of a unified inbox. Most of us probably manage multiple accounts and until now, you had to awkwardly switch between them in the Gmail app. To get...

By: Unknown On 06:50

Phhhoto Tops 1 Million Users

Gmail For Android Gets A Unified InboxPhhhoto, perhaps the only social network to have first launched as a physical party product aimed at the enterprise, has topped 1 million registered users over the course of the past nine months. Users have posted upwards of 10 million Phhhotos to the...

By: Unknown On 06:35

Facebook Helps Musicians With Subscribe Button For Any Page’s Nearby Events

Phhhoto Tops 1 Million Users You don’t want to miss your favorite band’s concert in your town, even if you don’t care to see every one of their News Feed posts. To give you a hand and appeal to musicians by boosting their ticket sales, Facebook last night added...

By: Unknown On 06:20

The End Of Hardware Alley Registrations Is Nigh!

Facebook Helps Musicians With Subscribe Button For Any Page’s Nearby EventsIt’s almost April and Hardware Alley, our annual celebration of all things hardware, is nearly full. You need to sign up ASAP and let me know you’re coming because I want to see you and your bright, shining, robotic...

By: Unknown On 06:05

The Next Billion-Dollar Market Opportunity Is Mobile Enterprise

The End Of Hardware Alley Registrations Is Nigh!Editor’s note: Kevin Spain is a general partner at Emergence Capital. Enterprise mobile applications – like enterprise cloud applications a decade before – are poised to become a $100 billion market opportunity. I’ve worked with enterprise technologies exclusively for more than a decade and...

By: Unknown On 05:50

Microsoft Releases Preview Of Its New Browser ‘Project Spartan’ In Fresh Windows 10 Build

The Next Billion-Dollar Market Opportunity Is Mobile EnterpriseMicrosoft wasn’t kidding when it promised to ship Windows 10 builds more quickly. Today, less than two weeks after its last iteration, the company has kicked out a new build that contains an important new feature: Project Spartan. The new build’s number is...

By: Unknown On 05:35

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