Facebook's S-1 document is the hottest read since Harry Potter put down his wand. We gaze into this word cloud and parse the language to find hidden gems. READ»
Trimit's an app that's garnered a lot of attention for its clever summarizing powers in today's information-cluttered web. But here's a surprise: The entrepreneur behind it is just 15 years old.READ»
GroupMe launched a new version this week and its updated interface has led me to wonder if group messaging will achieve that rare thing, the gold standard for an online service: everyday app status. READ»
Sure, we're grudgingly accustomed to those Captcha code boxes popping up online to verify we're humans, not bots. But they're about to get way more horrible. Thanks to moves by a firm called NuCaptcha, those boxes you see may soon contain unavoidable video ads.READ»
The President is also keen on all things "new." Last night's SOTU speech prompted us to run his words through our text analysis process and dig into the text. What do his words reveal about our "future"? READ»
The iPad is changing how folks read stuff online--no surprise if you think how different a gizmo it is to a PC. But a new study shows it's moving online reading into primetime TV hours, which is big news. Is evening reading coming back, just in a digital style?READ»
Big Brother surveillance technology just got a whole lot more clever, thanks to scientists from UCLA. They've developed a camera system that automatically generates a live text description of what it's seeing for better ...READ»
Angry about your cell phone service? About American politics? A promotional email from The Nation magazine and CREDOMobile advises that you channel your frustrations with both by making the switch to their baldly progressive mobile ...READ»
Random House has announced it's diversifying to offset the failing profits from the traditional book publishing biz, but its target market is fascinating: Video games. So will video games benefit from a publisher, or more the other ...READ»
Today AT&T turns on multimedia picture messaging for American iPhones. The long-awaited feature will bring AT&T customers up to par with European iPhoners, who have had MMS since approximately the dawn of time, and ...READ»
Contentious though it may be, Google Books is an undeniably powerful tool. Now Google's given the service a shot in the arm and boosted its search functions. Best of all it now lets you embed previews of texts in your own Web ...READ»
Obopay is an payment system that works on your cell phone--kind of like a mobile PayPal. The service is cheap, easy to use, and fantastically convenient. Not only that, it's well-backed; today Nokia [NOK] announced it would funnel ...READ»
Leading VoIP provider Skype announced today that it's working with SpinVox to launch a voice-to-SMS messaging service. But if you’ve got chatty friends and family (Hi, Mom and Dad!), be prepared to pay ...READ»
