Category: Tech news

 The future, as they say, is already here, but it’s just not very evenly distributed. To wit: the Zeus, a 3D printer that can scan and copy objects and, using the Internet, “fax” objects to other printers. That’s right – it’s the first 3D all-in-one. Read More

 As a developer, articles declaring the death of the web are easy to dismiss out of hand. It’s not unusual or unexpected for people to predict (or herald the arrival of) the next big thing and declare the status quo dead. Yet despite the mobile explosion over the past few years, the web is going to remain the dominant software platform for the foreseeable future. First, let me say that by web I… Read More

 Following the Federal Communications Commission’s vote to move ahead with new open Internet rules that could allow for some companies to pay for faster delivery of their content online, calls of protest have sprouted from Internet companies and activists alike. What’s next? FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler will head to congress on May 20 for a sitdown that should prove contentious. When it… Read More

 The number one game in the iTunes App Store is a game about selling weed. Yes, really. The app, “Weed Firm,” however, looks brilliant when compared to what comes next: it sits just above yet another fairly dumb, time-waster of a game called “100 Balls,” reminiscent of beer pong. And that’s followed “Toilet Time,” which offers you quick games to play… Read More

 Following a nearly 50% pop on its first day of trading on Thursday, Zendesk is up double digits again today, rising more than 11% in midday trading. For tech companies and their investors, it’s a sign that the IPO window, recently worried to be either closed or rapidly closing, isn’t, for the right kind of company. And investors are not as closed minded to the intricacies of… Read More

 Gillmor Gang – Kevin Marks, Dan Farber, Keith Teare, John Borthwick, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session Is over for today Join in our chat community here on Friendfeed And find us on Facebook here. Read More

 Venture capitalist Fred Wilson from Union Square Ventures made waves recently when he told TechCrunch’s Ingrid Lunden that by 2020, (that’s less than 6 years, folks), Apple won’t be a top-3 tech company–and Google and Facebook would be. Wilson argued that Apple’s lack of understanding of the cloud would eventually do it in, while Google and Facebook, which are… Read More

 If I’ve noticed any sort of trend in the wearables space it’s that watches now look like watches. Runners will remember early Garmin GPS watches that looked like bulbous alien egg sacs on your wrists while even the Omate wrist computer still looks like an unlanced polyp. But almost everyone else – Pebble, Basis, and the like – have created devices that are one step above the thinness and usability… Read More

 Google Maps now features elevation profiles for bike routes. Google added biking directions to Google Maps and specialized maps that highlight bike routes a few years ago. If you are weak like me, though, and learned to bike in Holland, where the biggest obstacle is a dike, you don’t just want to know what streets to take, but also what hills you will have to huff your way up on the way to… Read More

 We had trouble narrowing down podcast topics this week, which means that we’re kind of all over the place. But the upside is that there’s plenty to learn during this week’s discussion. We start out with a lively conversation around Amazon’s speedy shipping, and then move on to chat about WunWun, an on-demand delivery service based in New York. Meanwhile, Samsung is sending out invitations for… Read More

BMW’s latest hybrid supercar proves that sometimes multibillion-dollar gambles pay off and pave the way for a future that’s both sexy and sensible.

 If you’re a Comcast customer living in one of the many states where they’ve imposed no real limits on bandwidth usage for the last few years… enjoy it while it lasts. Read More

 PulsePoint, a startup offering tools for automated ad-buying and selling, announced today that it has hired Darline Jean as its chief operating officer. Jean spent the past decade at About.com, which she joined as vice president of finance in 2003. She also served as the company’s chief finance officer and chief operating officer before becoming president and CEO in September 2011. During her… Read More

 Airbnb won a legal victory against New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman yesterday, but the AG’s office hasn’t given up. Airbnb was subpoenaed last fall, with Schneiderman seeking records on all hosts in New York. A judge in the state Supreme Court struck down the subpoena, siding with Airbnb’s argument that it was “overbroad.” However, the AG’s office responded that would reissue the… Read More

 If you’re tired of seeing “related content” widgets that are full of links that are, at best, kinda, sorta related, a startup called Contextly is trying to make things better. The company was founded in 2012 and aimed, in the words of co-founder Ryan Singel, to create online publishing tools that were “actually designed by journalists, rather than marketers or advertisers or techie guys that… Read More