Sony’s new 0.7-inch OLED microdisplay packs 720p resolution, has EVFs in its sights

Say howdy to Sony’s ECX332A! Excited? We’ll, if you’re into shooting DSLR video using electronic viewfinders, you might be. This new OLED microdisplay measures in it a mere 0.7-inches, managing an HD resolution of 1280 x 720. As understood by OLED-Info, it features "the same white OLED and color-filters

PageLines To Launch An ‘App Store’ For WordPress Drag & Drop Sections, Plugins And Themes

A year ago, at BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas, PageLines announced the release of Platform, a drag and drop design framework for WordPress. The product offered some cool CMS design options, a drag-and-drop layout editor, and a fully configurable template builder for creating custom websites. PageLines’

Ron Conway, FCC Chairman Genachowski And Other Tech Stars Team Up To Fight The Spectrum Crunch

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, SV Angel’s Ron Conway, Andreessen-Horowitz’ Jeff Jordan, Twilio’s Jeff Lawson, Foursquare mobile VP Holger Leudorf and Lookout founder John Hering all gathered at Founder’s Den HQ this afternoon for the awesomely titled "Desperately Seeking Spectrum" panel, where discussion

Retail Startup Unites Tumblr, Content and Emerging Design

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your st…

Hands On With The AppXRacer From AniApp

If you’re a fan of the Parrot AR.Drone, you’ll probably get a kick out its earthbound relative, the AirXRacer by AniApp. I got a first hands on with this iPhone- or Android-controlled racecar in Shenzhen and you will be able to pick it up this holiday season.

The car is a standard RC racer that, as

The Groupon IPO: What’s Everyone Worth?

After going from selling slippers with flashlights to being a 10,000 employee-strong business in three years, Groupon had its initial public offering today, to much fanfare and well, the opposite reaction. The offering was priced at $20 and experienced an exuberant opening pop of $28, which after a day

Verizon to offer APIs to give your data rate an on-demand boost, for a price

There’s a ton of data-dependent apps these days, and with services like iCloud and Spotify gaining steam, your precious bytes of data can get bogged down with all the additional traffic. Help is on the way for Verizon customers, however, as the company plans to release an API that will allow users to

Weekly Wrap-up: Google Reader Has No Alternatives and More

Many big stories this week, but the biggest for our readers surrounded the Google Reader changes, and the lack of alternatives therein. There was also much discussion around the Internet of Things and Google’s indexing of Facebook comments.
After the jump you’ll find more of this week’s top news stories

Hands On With A Transparent iPhone

Photos were a little hard to grab but I got to see a real, live "transparent" iPhone last night in Shenzhen. The kit is apparently quite easy to install – a few screws on the bottom and then you just slide off the back. I had seen kits advertised before, but this is the first time I’ve seen on in real

How Algorithms and Editors Can Work Together to Burst the “Filter Bubble”

The algorithms that surface content for us on Facebook and Google are miracles of modern programming. But Eli Pariser, author and chairman of th…