Going Global: How Huddle Handled The Challenge
Cloud-based tools can help small businesses make the leap—but you have to change your mindset, too.
Latest: 3 Picks For The Best Business File-Sharing Services
File this advice away for when you and your coworkers need to move big documents around.
Craigslist, 3taps & The Court Battle For The Soul Of Public Data
Who owns the kind of information collected by Craigslist? The classifieds site has staked its claim in a series of lawsuits against apartment listings mapper PadMapper and Craigslist data scraper 3taps. On Monday, 3taps will file a bold counterclaim, aiming for a victory that would bring a new era of pubilc information.
How Mobile is Changing the Way We Work
Once upon a time, things didn’t happen now, they happened later. Editing a document meant volleying back and forth over email or fax, meetings were something everyone had to be in the same place for and group communication on-the-go meant saying “hold on, let me call you right back” over and over. Then came the real-time Web.
If there’s…
EFF Calls On Apple to Defend Developers Against Patent Trolls
Earlier this month, patent-holding company Lodsys started going after small-time iOS developers, sending them “notice” letters which claim the developers are infringing on one of Lodsys’ patents for in-app purchasing technology. In these notices, Lodsys demands that developers license the patent from them for 0.575% of the U.S. revenue…
Google Maps Mobile Matches Pace With the Web
I don’t know about you, but when it comes down to figuring out the “where” of my life on my smartphone, Google Maps is pretty much it. On the Android, the Maps experience is great and complete, but on iOS, the maps app can be a bit lacking. Thankfully, Google offers an equalizer in its mobile website – which comes complete with biking…
Google eBooks Get Search, Translation & Definitions
Pick up a book like James Joyce’s Ulysses and you’ll likely want a library at your side to help define, translate and help give the context needed to understand the plethora of heady content inside. Before the days of the Internet, reading some of the more scholarly literary texts involved just that – having a dictionary or other reference…
Google Wants to Kill the URL: Chrome 13 Lets Users Hide the Address Bar
Since Google’s official unveiling of the Chrome Web Store six months ago, the company has been on a mission to redefine our perception of what constitutes an operating system, a browser and a program, blurring the lines between each. In Google’s world, an OS is a browser and a program – one of those hefty pieces of compiled code we used to download…
No Porn on iOS? “Uncensored” iPlayboy Hits the iPad
Apple has been clear on one thing for a while now – nothing resembling porn of any kind shall grace the screens of its iOS devices if it has anything to do with it. Of course, that’s not a world that Playboy founder Hugh Hefner wants to live in and last January the robe-wearing, pipe-toting extravagant promised an uncensored version of Playboy…
Google Takes Social Search Global, +1 Coming Soon
The latest battle in the land of search engines is social search – the addition of signals from social graphs to bring users increasingly personalized search results. To that end, Google has been working on its offering the longest, first introducing the idea back in 2009 when it launched in the U.S.
Today, the company announced that it is…