Tag: TechCrunch

  • Wallet tracker tracks your most precious stuff

    Hands-On With The WalletTrackR, The Gadget That Keeps Tabs On Your Most Valuable Stuff For You Colleen Taylor, techcrunch.com When you’ve got a lot of things going on, it’s easy to lose track of where you left your mobile phone, key­chain, wal­let, or hand­bag — and the time you spend try­ing to find them just…

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  • Dropcam adds split screen

    Dropcam Updates Their iPad App So You Can Watch Your World In Split-Screen John Biggs, techcrunch.com I’ve used a few wire­less, always-on web­cams in my day and I’ve found Drop­cam to be the best. Sud­den­ly, how­ev­er, Drop­cam just got bet­ter. Drop­cam cam­eras con­nect wire­less­ly to the Inter­net, allow­ing you to con­nect to them remote­… http://flpbd.it/hgblr…

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  • Degreed disrupts college degrees

    Degreed Wants To Jailbreak The College Degree Rip Empson, techcrunch.com There’s a lot of buzz about how new edu­ca­tion plat­forms are mak­ing it easy to acquire the kind of skills that, tra­di­tion­al­ly, have been reserved for the hal­lowed halls of high­er edu­ca­tion. These ser­vices, whether it be Khan Acad­e­my … http://flpbd.it/78Qy4 Related articles We Want…

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  • NYC is fast becoming a hub of health IT

    New Accelerator Is On A Mission To Turn NYC Into A Hub For Healthtech Startups Rip Empson, techcrunch.com Accel­er­a­tors and incu­ba­tors have been pop­ping up left and right over the last few years, becom­ing, as Peter Relan recent­ly put it, “an indus­try seg­ment in their own right.” And while that indus­try seg­ment has become more…

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  • Node is an iPhone scientific sensor

    Hands On With The Node, A Sensor-Packed Smartphone Dongle John Biggs, techcrunch.com As a sci­en­tist prac­tic­ing actu­al, bona fide sci­ence, I have often found myself in need of imme­di­ate g-force read­ings or baro­met­ric pres­sure analy­ses for my sci­en­tif­ic prob­lems. Where­as before I had to use my sex­tant and tri­dent… http://flpbd.it/q1NVk Related articles Why NodeJs is…

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  • Avado shows healthcare is ready to move past the server huggers

    Healthcare Finally Moving Past Wang-Like Legacy Systems Dave Chase, techcrunch.com Edi­tor’s note: Dave Chase is the CEO of Avado.com, a patient por­tal and rela­tion­ship man­age­ment com­pa­ny that was a TechCrunch Dis­rupt final­ist. Pre­vi­ous­ly he was a man­age­ment con­sul­tant for Accen­ture’s health­car… http://flpbd.it/O4Y4E Related articles Avado lands $1M to transform healthcare in the same way Mint…

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  • Shareist helps you manage your content

    Shareist Is A Content Management System For Your Content Management System (That’s A Good Thing) John Biggs, techcrunch.com As a major media fig­ure on the Inter­net, I often find it dif­fi­cult to man­age all of my con­tent out­lets. I have a Twit­ter feed con­nect­ed to my Face­book con­nect­ed to my Tum­blr. I also have a…

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  • Fake Reviews Shadow Brands Selling Online

    Fake Reviews Shadow Brands Selling Online Related articles Reality Check: 10-15% Of Brands’ Social Media Fans, Likes And Reviews Will Be Fake By 2014, Says Gartner (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch) (techmeme.com) Facebook cracking down on fake ‘Likes’ (cnn.com) Operation Unlike Is A Go: Page Fan Counts Are Dropping Because Facebook Is Deleting Fake Accounts (techcrunch.com) Facebook deleting…

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  • How Obama Stole Romney’s RNC Thunder

      How Obama Stole Romney’s RNC Thunder With Clever Social Media     Gregory Ferenstein, techcrunch.com   Pres­i­dent Barack Obama man­aged to steal an impres­sive amount of Gov. Mitt Rom­ney’s press cov­er­age with a few, cheap social media tricks, includ­ing the most retweet­ed post of the con­ven­tion. In com­par­i­son to the Repub­li­can Nation­al…   http://flpbd.it/x1nqQ…

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  • Hybrid Calling: Say Goodbye to Big Cell

    Over the past month I’ve been using Google voice and other Wifi based VOIP apps as my primary personal phone service due to a disinterest in paying Verizon >$100 a month over a 2 year contract for a piddling number of calls and text messages. Now, it appears that a few companies including Republic Wireless…

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