The New 3-D View from Google Maps 5.0 for Android Image via Gizmodo The wrapper just came off Google’s newest version of Maps for Android (launching soon), and it looks pretty slick. Separating the refreshed Maps 5.0 for Android from its predecessor: faster map loading, an iPhone-like function that spins the map according to the [...]
New Remote Proctoring System Lets Students Take Exams at Home (Without Cheating)
Anti-cheating Software A new system allows for students to take exams remotely while giving administrators the ability to monitor them for academic misconduct, making exam halls a thing of the past for some classes. It seems like so many technological advances these days are aimed at figuring out how to do absolutely everything — from [...]
Kinect: Good With Kids, Bad With Couches
Get Up, Stand Up Microsoft Microsoft’s Kinect, the controller-free, gesture-based gaming platform that finally saw an official unveiling at E3 this week continues to surprise us, but not always necessarily in good ways. For instance, we think it’s awesome that the non-peripheral peripheral can tell when a child is playing and adjust gameplay to be [...]
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sean wrote a new blog post: Ailing LightSquare To Cut 45% Of Work Force As Regulatory Battle Rages On 16 hours, 20 minutes ago · View
Things are beginning to look even dimmer for LightSquared. Just one day after satellite network operator Inmarsat announced that LightSquared had defaulted on a $56 million payment, new reports indicate that the company plans to slash its workforce by 45% in an effort to cut costs and keep fighting. “This and other cost savings measures will allow LightSquared to [...] -
sean wrote a new blog post: Why Mobile Game Devs Should Port To Mac OS -Advice From Cut The Rope’s ZeptoLab 16 hours, 21 minutes ago · View
Last week, a Mountain Lion roared “Mac is the next big gaming platform.” Apple is bringing Game Center to Mac , it will support cross-platform iPhone vs. Mac play, and the Mac App Store will likely become more prominent. It’s time for mobile developers to decide if they’ll bring their games to Mac OS, and how they’ll port their [...] -
sean wrote a new blog post: Revel Wants To Bring iPad-Powered Point Of Sale Systems To The Hospitality And Retail Industries 16 hours, 21 minutes ago · View
The addition of the iPad into the point of sale system or cash register isn’t a new trend. Many small businesses are swapping out traditional cash registers for iPads and credit card processors like Square. But large restaurant chains and other establishments still need a complete front-to-back-of-house (i.e. a system that can send receipts to the [...] -
sean wrote a new blog post: Storify Brings Drag-And-Drop Social Curation To The iPad 16 hours, 22 minutes ago · View
Storify has become one of the best ways to create stories from social media — the startup says it has been used by 22 of the top 25 news sites in the United States, and that its users have curated a total of more than 3 million social objects. Now, you can do that curation from [...]
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