Hoverboards are real, right now, not just in Back To The Future. Today Arx Pax showed off version 2 of its magnetic levitation Hendo Hoverboard that glides above copper flooring. The big advancement is that the mag-lev motors are tilted in toward...
Daily Archives: October 21, 2015
The Nook is now available in a waterproof version and is the first Nook to sport user profiles, because, you know, couples that read together stay together. Called the Nook GlowLight Plus (because it has a screen that glows), the new version cost...
Barnes & Noble Announces A Waterproof Nook
Well, that was fast! Only days after the first public jailbreak for iOS 9 devices hit the web, it appears that Apple has closed two of the exploits used by the Chinese hacking team Pangu, whose untethered jailbreak allowed users to jailbreak nearly all iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices running iOS versions 9.0 through 9.0.2. In a security document posted on Apple’s website, the… Read MoreApple’s iOS 9.1 Shuts Down The Pangu Hacking Team’s Jailbreak
I was hoping to share some of the final bits of the Twitter Flight conference with you from my front row seat live and in beautiful mobile color, but was unable to. Seems like Periscope is having a bit of an issue right now that’s not letting anyone stream. Sucky timing, for sure. Sorry. We’re having service interruption issues. We’re working on it!! — Periscope… Read MoreTwitter’s Periscope Goes Down During Flight Keynote
Online publishers are about to get a lot more options for embedding tweets in their stories, with Twitter announcing a new “ecosystem” of products around embedded tweets today at its Flight developer conference.
The curation side of that ecosystem includes existing Twitter products like TweetDeck and Curator, which helps publishers find the best tweets to feature in their content. Read MoreTwitter Announces New Tools, Partnerships For Finding And Publishing Embedded ...
Yesterday we wrote about Twitter’s interest in building up its platform as a place for businesses and brands to manage customer care, and today Twitter unveiled some of the early features of that effort. At its Flight developer conference, the company showed how it was working with Fabric and Gnip to help businesses run customer services over Twitter. Early users include hotel chain Hilton. Read MoreTwitter To Let Brands Link Up Users’ Twitter Handles With ...
Gnip is the company that has been keeping archives of every tweet going back to the first one in 2006. Twitter knew how important this data was to marketers and companies so it acquired the company and now has a fleet of APIs that it’s making bank on.
Most recently it opened up instant access to all of those historical tweets. Today, during its developer conference Twitter Flight, the… Read MoreTwitter Introduces Gnip Insights APIs To Help Brands Better Understand ...
YouTube made its video creators an offer they literally couldn’t refuse, or they’d have their content disappear. Today YouTube confirmed that any creator that doesn’t agree to sign its revenue share deal for its new YouTube Red $9.99 ad-free subscription will have their videos hidden from public view on both the ad-supported and ad-free tiers. That’s a tough pill to… Read MoreYouTube Will Completely Remove Videos Of Creators Who Don’t Sign ...
Fabric, Twitter’s toolkit for developers to build apps on its platform, launched last October. At Twitter’s Flight developer conference, its been announced that the toolkit is getting some nice goodies added. 225,000+ developers are using Fabric on a billion mobile devices. The idea is that Twitter wants to, in a very very structured way, help developers launch, grow and make… Read MoreTwitter Adds 8 New Services To Its Fabric Platform, Which ...
Another day, another fitness device that can track your distance, pace, heart rate, and nag you when you don’t exercise. This time we have the Garmin 230, 235, and 630, three great smartwatches with exercise freaks in mind. The 230 and 235 have colorful screens and the 235 includes built-in heart rate tracking technology. They can connect to a phone to bring up notifications and it… Read More