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PaperKarma’s Mobile App Tries to Eliminate Junk From Your Mailbox

in Commerce on February 8 at 10:58 pm PT

PaperKarma is a new app that helps you reduce the amount of unwanted coupons, catalogs and postcards that clog your mailbox.
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An iPhoto Slide Show on CD

in Mossberg’s Mailbox on February 8 at 6:01 pm PT

Walt answers a reader’s question on how to burn an iPhoto slide show onto a CD.

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TasteMakerX Raises $1.8M for Mobile Social App Platform

in Social on February 8 at 3:00 am PT

TastemakerX, a San Francisco start-up that is developing a social mobile platform focused on “targeted taste graphs,” said it had raised $1.8 million in funding from a variety of venture firms, including Guggenheim Partners, Baseline Ventures, True Ventures and Tekton Ventures, as well as angel investors. The company said it will release its TastemakerX Music mobile app as a private beta in early March 2012.

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Apple Tweaks iBook Language: Your Content Is Your Content

in Media on February 3 at 12:08 pm PT

A couple weeks after introducing its new iBooks Author app, Apple has clarified legal language about what happens to the books users create with the software. Apple continues to insist that users can only sell electronic books in the iBook format via its iTunes store. But it makes it clear that the content of those books can be sold in any other format, without Apple’s approval.

Avid Brings Its “Pro-sumer” Video Editing App to iPad

in News on February 1 at 9:00 pm PT

Avid is best known for its high-end video production tools, as well as its desktop video editing app. Now it’s targeting tablet users.
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Making Sure the Next Zuckerberg or Gates Stays Put at Harvard

in News on January 27 at 3:40 pm PT

Earlier today, Harvard University and New Enterprise Associates announced the Experiment Fund, aimed at making sure that future entrepreneurs can stay on campus and innovate without having to head West.
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My Fake Breakup on WotWentWrong.com

in Social on January 25 at 12:59 pm PT

Who needs another dating Web site that pairs people up? Instead, use this app to tell them what you think after things have gone sour.
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App Makes Readers’ Thoughts an Open Book

in The Digital Solution on January 24 at 3:26 pm PT

Katie looks at Subtext, a free iPad app designed to enable and encourage conversations among readers within digital books themselves.
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Twitter Acquires Social Summary Tool Summify

in Social on January 19 at 9:33 am PT

Twitter has acquired Summify, a small start-up that smartly aggregates links shared by users’ friends on social networks.
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Kennel-Cam Apps Let You Spy on Spot (Video)

in Mobile on January 12 at 7:05 am PT

So you think Fido wouldn’t dare jump on your bed? There’s only one way to find out …
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Working in Word, Excel, PowerPoint on an iPad

in Personal Technology, January 11, 2012 at 6:04 pm PT

Digging Deeper Into Roots With Spruced-Up Ancestry.com

in The Digital Solution, January 10, 2012 at 3:59 pm PT

Kindle Store for iPad Dodges Apple’s 30 Percent Rule

And You Thought Jawbone UP Was Going to Miss the CES Party!

in Commerce, January 10, 2012 at 10:32 am PT

Q&A: Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi Takes on Tech

in Mobile, January 9, 2012 at 12:00 am PT

Diabetic Tester That Talks to iPhones and Doctors

in Personal Technology, January 4, 2012 at 6:10 pm PT

Chomp: With App Searches, It’s All “Free” and “Games”

in Commerce, January 4, 2012 at 12:36 pm PT

Was New Year’s Eve a Netflix Moment for Uber?

in Commerce, January 3, 2012 at 10:10 am PT

Americans Played Anything but Social Games During the Holidays

in Commerce, January 3, 2012 at 7:30 am PT

Uber CEO Responds to New Year’s Eve Complaints, Plans More Surge Pricing

in Commerce, January 1, 2012 at 8:31 pm PT

App-y New Year!

in Mobile, December 28, 2011 at 1:54 pm PT

Jildy, Whose Patents Google Owns and Facebook Licenses, Launches Its First App

in Social, December 27, 2011 at 12:28 pm PT

A Gift to Developers: A Quarter of a Billion Apps Downloaded on Christmas

in Mobile, December 27, 2011 at 10:07 am PT

Just When You Thought Christmas Was Over: Apple’s Freebie App

Yahoo Adds Twitter, Local Deals to Livestand App