Site Matches Consumers with People, Not Businesses
Mashable’s Spark of Genius series highlights a one-of-a-kind feature of startups. If you would like to have your begin considered for inclusion, see details here
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WordPress.com Goes Down, Takes Millions of Blogs With It
WordPress WordPress .com and the millions of blogs hosted by it have gone down for currently unknown reasons. Not only are blogs hosted on WordPress.com down, but WordPress VIP blogs are out of commission as well.
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FBI Launches Investigation into iPad 3G Security Breach
The FBI has opened up an investigation into a security breach that exposed the e-mails of over 114,000 iPad 3G customers.
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Aviary Launches Online Music Creation Tool
Aviary , maker of a number of browser-based tools for creatives, this day adds the Music Creator to its lineup. The online composition tool allows easy drag-and-drop creation of music loops from a sample library of more than 50 free instruments
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Keep Your Business Files Synced Between the Desktop and the Cloud [APPS]
Cloud-based storage and collaboration platform Box.net is launching Box Sync for Business, a new tool that will make it easy for businesses and organizations to keep their files on the desktop always in line with files on the cloud. Think of it as Dropbox for the Enterprise. Using the new Box Sync client (available for Windows Windows now and Mac by the end of the summer), users can selectively sync files and folders to make collaboration easier between colleagues. ..read more
Google to Integrate Google Voice with Gmail [RUMOR]
Google is testing a new feature in Gmail, in which a phone picture opens a special Gmail chat window consisting of a dialpad, contact search, credit equilibrise and a call button. The feature is not yet publicly available. A couple of weeks ago we asked whether Google Google was building a Skype competitor after Google acquired VoIP company Global IP Solutions (GIPS).
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Microsoft Office Challenges Google Docs with New Web Apps
In a move that seems like a challenge to Google’s suite of web-based office tools, Microsoft is
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Are We Too Complacent About Cloud Computing? [VIDEO]
Let’s have a little midweek reality check: Almost all of us have almost no control over our own computing.
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Google Maps Navigation Now Works in Canada and Most of Europe
In October 2009, Google released Google Maps Navigation for Android devices, a free turn-by-turn navigation system based on Google Maps. At first, the service was limited to the U.S
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Send Your Face To Space on the Next Shuttle
It might be too late for most of us to become astronauts, but thanks to NASA our visages can at least make it into space. Simply upload a headshot of yourself to the Face in Space landing page for the opportunity to get your picture on one of the two remaining space shuttle missions left as the program prepares to shut down. You’ll have to be at least 13 years old to participate, but there’s even an option for ..read more