Super Bowl 2012 Commercials: Watch Them All Here

There are two kinds of Super Bowl fans: those who watch for the football and those who watch for the advertisements.
For those who prefer the sport,…

Pedestrian Map App, Lumatic, Raises $800K From Joi Ito And 500 Startups

All the major map apps like Google Maps, Bing Maps, and Mapquest have walking directions as a standard feature, but the folks at Lumatic don’t think they are good enough. It is creating mobile maps designed for pedestrians, cyclists, and people who use public transit. Originally a TechStars company called

iBooks Author gets new EULA, aims to clear writer’s block

We’ve waxed lyrical about iBooks Author at the technological level, but a good self-publishing platform counts for nothing if authors are put off by its terms and conditions. A particular source of antagonism so far has been the notion that, if an author decides to charge a fee for their iBook, then

In The Future, The Business Founder Will Not Be Ignored

The entrepreneurial world loves nothing like a good meme. One of the more recent ones making the rounds from Palo Alto to Paris is that a startup simply can’t get off the ground without a technical founder. Investors, entrepreneurs and tech journalists alike will tell you that if you’re not a whiz kid

Andreessen Horowitz-Backed Nicira Pulls The Curtains Back On Disruptive Network Virtualization Platform

The enterprise is moving towards simplicity, and this extends to the data center. Nicira, a stealthy virtualization startup with backing from big-name investors, is pulling the curtains back on its disruptive platform that hopes to change the way server and storage virtualization is done. And Nicira

10 Best iPhone Armbands

If you use your phone as an MP3 player during workouts, or don’t want to go running without it, an armband case is the ideal solution to give yo…

Twitter: In The Final 3 Minutes Of The Super Bowl, There Were 10,000 Tweets Per Second

Big TV events are becoming an increasingly popular catalyst of activity on social media, with sporting events being at the top of the list. Many of us can no longer enjoy a Super Bowl without checking Twitter every three seconds. Last year, there were several moments during the Super Bowl that set records

How to Follow New York Fashion Week Online

Snapshot from Nanette Lepore’s Spring/Summer 2012 collection.

Fashion Week returns to New York Feb. 9, and once again designers and the…

First Legal Streaming Super Bowl A Success, But Audience Still Denied The Real Show

Lately, we’ve been seeing more and more big television events come with an online streaming counterpart. Big sporting and televised events are showing up online, with the 2010 Olympics seeming to be one of the first big global events where both viewers and media publicly recognized the power and potential

Server outage turns Harmony Link into a paperweight

The Cloud is great place right? It’s all puppy dogs and ice cream, until it isn’t. We’d suspect that’s what Harmony Link users who ditched their old school remotes for an iOS device are thinking right about now. You see while typical Harmony remote are only programmed via MyHarmony.com, the Harmony Link