Whether it be its iOS, Android or Windows 8 users, Splashtop does a pretty good job at keeping them happy by introducing new things here and there, and the very latest may be no exception to that — well, at least to some. Dubbed Configurable Shortcu…
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Evernote intros Penultimate 4 for iPad, explores synced and searchable handwriting
Evernote acquired the Penultimate app for iPad last year with the conspicuous goal of making handwritten notes as easy to synchronize as to-do lists and snippets from the web. After several months of silence, the newly reworked Penultimate 4 is the r…
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THX releases iOS app for calibrating your home theater’s visuals and audio
Audio titan THX has released its very first mobile app, and it’s aimed at helping folks fine tune their home theater experience. Dubbed “THX tune-up,” the app slings videos, photos and test patterns to televisions and projectors to guide users throug…
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Bang Your Friends with Bang With Friends
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Amazon adds Windows Phone 8 support to Kindle app, keeps the Live Tiles going
Amazon’s been doing a pretty decent job at blanketing those Android and iOS Kindle applications with the latest and greatest, but the same couldn’t exactly be said about its Windows Phone counterpart. Today there’s great news for users of Redmond’s m…
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Pluto Media Nabs $500K From OpenFeint, Webvan Co-founder & Others To Create An Educational Gaming Platform For Kids
Another day, another vote of investor confidence for educational gaming. Today, Pluto Media, the Menlo Park-based maker of educational, tablet-based games for kids, announced that it has raised $500K in seed funding from Learn Capital’s Rob Hutter, along with individual investments from NewSchools Venture Fund’s Jennifer Carolan and Peter Relan, the co-founder of OpenFeint, WebVan, Crowdstar and YouWeb. The follow-on seed financing adds to the $500K the startup raised from former Accel partner Abhay Parekh and Silver Lake’s Dave Roux in December 2011, bringing its total funding to $1 million.
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Foursquare gives business owners their own app to manage specials, track customer visits
Foursquare just recently tweaked its privacy policy to share more user information with local businesses, and it looks like it’s already putting some of that data to use in a new app now that the policy has gone into effect. Launched today for the iP…
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App.net gives users 10GB of cloud storage, its File API to set social data free
We thought App.net had eyes only for Twitter when the project was funded and garnered its first 20,000 customers. Today, a post on the company blog reveals that its sights are set much higher than mere messaging. Rather than provide just an ad-free a…
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Grubwithus launches a social dining app for the impatient: GrubTonight
For its first mobile app launch, social dining startup Grubwithus is doing away with coordinated dinner themes and focusing on immediate gratification.
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ConnecTV adds SocialTV Timeline for mobile, puts chats with stars on a second screen
ConnecTV represents traditional TV producers’ attempt at second screen content, and having that official blessing carries certain perks. Witness the platform’s newly added SocialTV Timeline for mobile devices: the real-time, synced content feed provi…
