Tech Year in Review 2010
Facebook and MySpace Research by danah boyd touched on how many teens viewed Facebook and MySpace. To put it simply, many of those involved in the study viewed MySpace as “the hood” or the ghetto while seeing Facebook as “cleaner.” With Facebook now more than 500 million strong and MySpace struggling to stay relevant, the [...]
Read MoreiPhone Alarm Clock Bug Still Making People Late for Work
It began on the first of the year, or didn’t, depending on how you look at it. Many iPhone owners found their alarms never went off and they ended up late to work or some other event. The problem continued into the second day of the year, with people around the world accidentally sleeping in. [...]
Read MoreBlack Web 2.0′s New Year’s Resolution Tech 2011
As we begin our preparations to ring in the new year, some of us will attempt to take advantage of the clean slate status of the new year by making resolutions to change ourselves for the better. Many people discover that making a resolution and actually keeping it are two totally different things and end [...]
Read MoreiPhone Dev-Team to Update RedSn0w Beta Today
According to @redsn0w_testers, RedSn0w 0.9.7b4 will be released today. Today’s beta4 will eliminate separate usbmuxd process (so many more Mac users can use it). After that, expand to Windows. This is the 4th beta of the new “backup method,” which redsn0w calls “Jailbreak Monte.” Currently, this jailbreak technique disables bluetooth and there are reports of [...]
Read MoreSkype Does Video on iPhone
It has been expected that Skype would soon bring its video calling feature to the iPhone and most expected them to announce it at CES. It looks like Skype had something to prove after their recent outages and has made video calls available in the latest version of the iPhone app. This gives you options [...]
Read MoreKickstart Your Software Development Game With Fundry
Recently, Black Web 2.0 highlighted a popular service called Kickstarter, which helps individuals and groups in multiple categories raise money for their entrepreneurship ventures. Kickstarter tends to trend towards more creative ideas in media, arts, music and other categories. Today we will discuss Fundry which trends towards the software development space. Fundry defines itself as a crowdfunding platform that helps developers get paid for developing new features, and enables a community of funders to contribute to get the features they want. Find out more info inside.
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