Back in April, a company called Next Issue Media launched its digital-magazine app. A joint venture of five big publishers–Condé Nast, Hearst, Meredith, News Corp and TIME’s owner, Time Inc.–it bundled a bunch of famous …
Apps & Software
Musical DNA: WhoSampled iPhone App Scours Tracks for Borrowed Riffs
If you’ve heard all of the new Bruce Springsteen album, Wrecking Ball, you’ve probably wondered, listening to its final rousing track, “We Are Alive,” why that song sounds so familiar. Or maybe you got the riff right away on your …
Jelly Bean Impressions: Android’s Most Important Update Yet
Android 4.1, or “Jelly Bean” as it’s nicknamed, is not an update full of showstopping features. You can gather that much from the version number, in which only the decimal has changed.
But don’t be fooled; Jelly Bean is arguably …
How to Track Colorado’s Waldo Canyon ‘Super Fire’ (and Others)
As an uncontrolled “super fire” near Colorado Springs rages, feeding off parched terrain and forcing tens of thousands from their homes and businesses, high-tech mapping tools are dishing up highly detailed, bird’s eye views of …
Liveblog: Google I/O 2012 Day One Keynote
Google’s I/O conference is so jam-packed with news that it features not one but two keynotes. We’ll be at both of them, and will relay the news to you as fast as it happens. Join us here for keynote #1 today at 12:30pm ET …
Google I/O Conference: Five Questions I’d Like to See Answered
Google kicks off its annual Google I/O developers conference in San Francisco today.
While the event is ostensibly a place for app developers to get educated about Android, Chrome and related Google products, it’s also a venue …
How ReDigi Lets You Resell Digital Music (and Why It’s a Big Deal)
Yesterday I wrote about ReDigi, the digital music storefront where you can sell digital songs you’ve purchased through iTunes (or ReDigi) in trade for credits that let you buy new (or someone else’s used) digital tunes.
The …
Nara Wants to Be the Web’s Recommendation Engine
Ambitious Boston-based startup Nara is developing artificial-intelligence technologies such as neural networks designed to provide consumers with information on topics of all sorts tailored specifically to their interests. But …
Firefox for Android: All-New and Much, Much Better
In the latest version of Firefox for Android, Mozilla basically threw out everything but the rendering engine, and started over.
It was a necessary change, given how unenjoyable the previous versions of mobile Firefox were. …
ReDigi Lets You Resell Used Digital Music, but Is It Legal?
Your music collection: a hodgepodge trove of CDs and cassette tapes or digital songs you downloaded from iTunes and maybe even digital versions of some of those CDs you ripped yourself.
Also: an altar to bygone eras, like that …
Pogoplug Review: The Ups and Downs of DIY Cloud Storage
Between Dropbox, Google Drive, SkyDrive and SugarSync, there are plenty of options for backing up your files online. But to store an entire hard drive’s worth of data with any of these services, you’ll have to pay hefty, …
10 Mac Apps that Need MacBook Pro Retina Support (and Pronto)
Yesterday the unthinkable happened: my local Apple Store got their mitts on a mid-grade MacBook Pro with Retina display they could actually sell. That’s right: Instead of putting it out on one of their tables with a security …
