I’m betting that a lot of you picking up Apple’s new iPad this Friday already count yourself console gamers. That is, you have a PlayStation 3 or an Xbox 360 or a Wii and actually use it. Maybe you have a Nintendo DS, or a 3DS, …
‘Homeless Hotspots’ Debut at South by Southwest to Online Uproar
Homeless people as wireless hotspots? Yes, it’s happening at South by Southwest, an annual music, film and interactive festival in Austin, Texas
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New Translation Software Lets You Speak 26 Different Languages
Forget Rosetta Stone — researchers at Microsoft have developed a program that uses speech recognition software to translate what someone is saying into another language using a modified version of the person’s own …
SXSW: Watch TIME‘s Lev Grossman Interview Futurist Ray Kurzweil
TIME‘s own Lev Grossman was at the annual South by Southwest festival in Austin, TX, where he interviewed author and futurist Ray Kurzweil (The Singularity Is Near) during an interactive keynote at 2 p.m. CT titled “Expanding Our …
SXSW: Highlight Aims to Alert You To Like-Minded Folks in Your Immediate Vicinity
AUSTIN, Texas — In many ways, South by Southwest is the ultimate laboratory for a service like Highlight, the location-based social networking startup that is quickly becoming the belle-of-the-ball at this year’s conference. …
Facebook Shutters Gowalla Three Months After Acquiring It
Gowalla, which got its start at South by Southwest three years ago, has gone dark for this year’s festival. Users who try to log in to the location-based app’s homepage now get the message “Thank you for going out with Gowalla. …
Rumor: CNN to Pay $200 Million for Mashable
Is CNN planning to snap up social news blog Mashable and announce the results this week? That’s the word from The New York Times, whose sources say CNN is in “advanced talks” to pick up the site (CNN is owned by Time Warner, …
SXSW: Instagram Teases Android App
Good news for Android users who love faux-vintage photos: Instagram’s Android app is nearing completion.
Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom briefly flashed the app on stage at South by Southwest. The Android app is in private …
Apple Sold Out of New iPads, Preorders Slip Several Weeks
If you ordered one of Apple’s new iPads hoping to beat the store crowds, you may wind up waiting longer than you expected — demand for Apple’s latest whiz-bang tablet has reportedly outstripped supply, pushing back the new …
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Greetings From SXSW (and a Final Plug for My Panel)
I snapped this fuzzy photo with my iPhone at SXSW Interactive, and the intensity of the crowd isn’t some weird aberration — the conference, associated events and parties are often that mobbed. Especially the parties.
I’ve had …
Why the TV Industry Can’t Ignore Apple
Tim Bajarin is the president of Creative Strategies Inc., a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm in Silicon Valley.
SXSW: Why Geo-Fencing Might Change Your Life (and Make You Believe in Location Sharing)
Meet Amber Case: She’s a cyborg anthropologist, questioning the ways we interact with computers, and the founder of Geoloqi.com — a second-generation location based service that uses geo-fences to redefine the concept of “checking in”