IKEA are entering the smart lighting market with a very aggressively priced offering. The new range of smart lighting from IKEA will go on sale this month at IKEA shops around the globe and could give some of the existing companies in the space serious competition. The new range of products uses the zigbee protocol […]
Yesterday Microsoft unveiled Windows 10, featuring greater integration across PC, Xbox and mobile devices, the Cortana speech interface and a new browser. They also demonstrated two new devices designed to take advantage of new interface features of Windows 10: the HoloLens holographic goggles and Surface Hub, an 84-inch screen with features to support working in groups. Windows 10 will be delivered […]
Popular photo sharing service Twitpic was meant to be shutting down definitively today and taking with it all its content. The shutdown came as a result of a dispute between Twitpic and Twitter over trademarks and API access. However earlier this evening Twitpic announced via their blog that they’d reached an agreement with Twitter. While […]
Music streaming service Deezer are launching an API for developers, but with an added twist. Developers will not only be able to integrate their apps with Deezer, but they’ll also get paid for referrals they generate. Deezer CEO Axel Dauchez said: “Music streaming isn’t about giving people access to soulless databases of songs – we […]
App.net, which Conn and I have discussed a couple of times, announced last night that it was reducing its annual membership fees as well as introducing a new monthly subscription fee. According to a post on the company’s blog, the original pricing was based on them having 10 thousand users. They now have over 20 […]
As per the title it seems like there are some pretty big changes coming to how you can use the Twitter API. A post over on the dev blog https://dev.twitter.com/blog/changes-coming-to-twitter-api discusses them in more detail. You can read a breakdown of some of the changes over on Marco Arment’s blog. Interpreting some of Twitter’s API […]
If you browse the web enough (I do!) then you’ll come across a lot of filler text, AKA Lorem Ipsum. It’s usually the same text over and over again: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud […]
One of the issues for business users of Google’s social network, Google+, was the lack of support for 3rd party software tools and services to help business (and users) manage their updates. Within the last couple of days Google has announced that their API for Google+ is being opened up: More third party tools to […]
