MTN Uganda partners with Google, Grameen Foundation to launch mobile information services

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Edovia today is proud to announce Rocket Taxi 2.0 iPhone and iPod touch. Rocket Taxi uses the device’s Location Services to find nearby taxi companies. Search has been extended to taxi companies and the biggest new feature is the new map system that is powered by Apple’s MapKit. This new version represents a much more mature product and includes a lot of improvements that users will enjoy.

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IPNetMonitorX is featured for the next three weeks at TheMacBundles. IPNetMonitorX is a troubleshooting toolkit for debugging internet service problems and optimizing performance. Through TheMacBundles, IPNetMonitorX is available with 10 other great programs. TheMacBundles is different from other software promotions. It’s run by and for independent Mac developers.

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(Reuters) – Dell Inc, the worlds No.2 PC maker, is developing a pocket-sized device for tapping into the Internet, the Wall Street Journal said citing people familiar with the company’s plans.

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Millard Grubb and Backyard Gazette Publishing have released a free audio CD for Mac owners that will help make their lives a little brighter. 7 Secrets Of Making Cash With Your Mac looks at using a Macintosh specifically to grow an information business right from your home. This CD explains how to use a Macintosh computer to start an information publishing business.

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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – A little-known Swedish software firm has snapped up file-sharing website The Pirate Bay with the hope of turning the source of legal controversy into a money-spinner that appeals to both users and content providers.

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QuickerTek today announced Quicky Junior II, a new wireless internet and networking USB device that triples the wireless range. This new Quicky Junior II is compatible with the Apple Extreme Base Station as well as almost every other 2.4GHz wireless equipment users are likely to run into while traveling. Whether using a coffee shop network or tapping into the network in the office, Quicky Jr. II provides increased range while maintaining speed.

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We spent some enjoyable time earlier this week playing with TweetPsych, a site that puts linguistic analysis algorithms to work figuring out just what’s with the most compulsive Twitter users out there. Currently in beta, the for-entertainment-only analysis still provided us with some amusing insight into Twitter talk — and into the brains of three Continue reading →

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This morning, China’s Xinhua news agency announced that the country’s IT ministry has decided to indefinitely delay the rollout of its “Green Dam for Escorting Children” Internet filter software, which was supposed to have been mandatory for PCs sold in that country beginning tomorrow. This after reports that the software — whose code US-based software Continue reading →

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On schedule, the Mozilla organization has now officially released its Firefox 3.5 Web browser to the general public, containing the first stable version of its TraceMonkey JavaScript engine. Since Firefox is essentially a JavaScript app in and of itself, the overall performance of the browser on all platforms we’ve seen should be visibly, and in Continue reading →

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A couple weeks ago, we wrote a post detailing why there needs to be some sort of iPhone app recommendation system. Just like iTunes has its “Genius” feature for music and movies, with over 50,000 apps now in the App Store, there needs to be a way to filter out what you don’t want and Continue reading →

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Intel Capital has led a Series B funding round in Sense Networks, a NY-based developer of nifty machine-learning technology that allows for digital indexing and ranking of real world locations based on movement data. According to Venturebeat, which broke the news before the weekend, the amount invested was about $6 million in a ‘hotly contested Continue reading →

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With a webcam built into or sold together with nearly every computer that goes over the counter nowadays you’d expect direct video-based communication to have massively taken off by now, but the reality is that it’s far from being as ubiquitous as some proclaimed it would become in the past. But maybe it’s just that Continue reading →

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If you’re like me, you always try to avoid storing or backing up files, even those that are important to you. It’s too boring, time-consuming and cumbersome to remember doing it regularly. This is where a new service called quanp (short for “quantum paper” and pronounced “kwan-puh”), launched today in beta, comes in. Developed by Continue reading →

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Yoono, an extension built to enhance both the Firefox and IE browser experience that comes in pretty handy when you go on the Internet mainly to interact socially with your peers and friends, has just released version 6.1 of its add-on, and revamped the interface along with adding a couple of useful features. I’ve been Continue reading →

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