Tech Week in Review 12-2-2011
The Carrier IQ Privacy Debacle Carrier IQ is at the center of the latest privacy debacle in tech. There is a lot of outrage, misinformation, and pageview chasing surrounding the event. It started when a security researcher published a YouTube video of the Carrier IQ software accessing all types of personal information. This seems to [...]
Read MoreFountain Art Fair Partners with Kollective Mobile to Launch Official Fair App
Kollective Mobile, an Oakland, Calif. based mobile development company and the Fountain Art Fair, an art fair catered towards independent artists released the official Fountain Art Fair app. The app offers users the opportunity explore and experience the fair, even if they are unable to attend the physical fair in Miami this weekend. The Fountain Art Fair app features multiple galleries representing all three locations of the fair in New York, Los Angeles, and Miami. Within the galleries are photos of performances, artwork, and installations for each location. Users are able to browse galleries of photos and choose their favorites for a slideshow that they can initiate at anytime. The app offers schedule and ticket information, a layout of the fair venue, and exhibitors’ details. A separate tab allows user to explore the event’s Twitter stream for more up?to?date information. The collaboration on this app marks the beginning of [...]
Read MoreKandi Burruss Teams Up With Konsole Kingz to Launch Spades App for iPhone and iPad
Spades is a very popular card game, especially in the African-American community, so when Real Housewives of Atlanta star, Kandi Burruss was presented with the opportunity to create a spades app she jumped at the chance. She recently launched a spades app for the iPhone and iPad called Kandi Koated Spades. The app is the first [...]
Read MoreMobile App thankyouaga.in Sharing the Good in 140 Characters
Twitter being a social media platform that so many people have grown to love is used in various ways like news, promotion, to express feelings, among other things all in 140 characters. But Will Lucas created a Twitter like platform called thankyouaga.in solely to share the good and only the good. thankyouaga.in is a mobile [...]
Read MoreGarageBand Music Recording App Comes to iPhone and iPod
Apple’s popular music app GarageBand is making the leap to the iPhone and iPod Touch today with an update, version 1.1. Pre-loaded on all Apple computers as part of iLife, GarageBand features a wide variety of professional-quality instruments, which users can play on a timeline to make songs of their own. GarageBand also lets you record [...]
Read MoreJustin.TV Brings Live-Streamed Video Gaming Portal TwitchTV to the iPhone
In June Justin.tv launched one of its first verticals, TwitchTV, a live-streamed video game portal and community for gamers. The platform has since taken off in terms of usage, and today, TwitchTV is expanding to the iPhone. For background, TwitchTV features competitions of a variety of games and platforms with top gamers, tournaments and commentary. The platform aims to [...]
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