Were you one of those kids who never got to play Zelda: Majora’s Mask for the Nintendo 64 because it required that damned expansion pack?
Good news! Because everything old is new again, Majora’s Mask is coming back to the shelves 14 years later, but this time, it’s being remade for the Nintendo 3DS. Read More
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This year, SunShot’s Catalyst incubator crowdsourced 130 problem statements involving these soft costs in solar energy by letting the public vote for the issues they deem most important, which drew attention to issues like the difficulty consumers have finding information about buying into solar or the price of inspecting large commercial installations. Read More
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Google is expanding its Inbox invite program, having issued another collection of invites to existing members already today, with a new ‘Happy Hour’ taking place between 3 p.m. PT and 4 p.m. PT today. If users email them at inbox@google.com asking for an invite during that window, they’ll get access guaranteed by 5 p.m. PT today.
Want an invite TODAY? #InboxHappyHour 3-4pm PT. Read More
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Google has updated Maps to keep with the visual theme introduced with Android 5.0 Lollipop, which it calls material design. The new mobile apps now feature bold headers of solid flat colors and animations that evoke pieces of paper sliding over one another. The apps also offer new features, including reservations you can make at restaurants through the app via OpenTable, and both time and… Read More
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Two creators of Zynga’s social gaming hit FarmVille are launching a new app-marketing product today called Toro. Amitt Mahajan and Joel Poloney were co-founders at MyMiniLife, the Zynga-acquired startup that was instrumental in creating FarmVille. Last year, Mahajan and Poloney raised $1.5 million from an impressive of list of investors (including Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners,… Read More
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It may have taken massive hacks of popular platforms like Apple’s iCloud and messaging app Snapchat to generate mainstream awareness around the fact that any content stored online is vulnerable to attack and exposure. Meanwhile, thanks to revelations from Edward Snowden about the nature of the surveillance state we now live in, more mobile users are aware that steps need to be taken… Read More
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While PayPal continues to work out its frenemy relationship with Apple, and figure out how it will chart its life as a company separate from its owner eBay, its mobile and developer-friendly payments subsidiary Braintree, acquired in 2013 for $800 million, is launching a new service that will let merchants sign up to the platform with only an email address, URL and short company description. Read More
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It’s all getting harder in the B2B world. That’s the bottom line. A board member of mine recently told me a story about the “good old days” of enterprise software. He said he remembers a software company in the 1990s where they were looking at doing a deal with a big customer. The vendor quoted more than $100 mm for the product. The customer wanted to spend $90 mm.… Read More
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Fresh from announcing record shipments in the last quarter of business, LG has revealed that it has struck a 10-year global patent agreement with Google. The company says that the arrangement covers all existing patents between the duo, as well as new ones filed over the next decade. Read More
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Is it a bird? It is a plane? No it’s a bird-shaped drone called Bionic Bird. This new mechanical bird, due to land this December, will be app controlled, using a Bluetooth 4.0 link to support 100 meters of remote controlled flight from your smartphone or tablet.