rocketron.com - 9/6/2008
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designincubationcentre.com - 9/8/2008
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designincubationcentre.com —
Have you repeatedly come across the same word
in the book, but never know its exact meaning?
Or chance upon a familiar French expression but do not know how to pronounce it correctly? If we stop to jot it down or to check the diction-ary, it would ...
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Projects - Touch Hear
gizmowatch.com - 9/8/2008
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gizmowatch.com —
The Design Incubation Centre has hatched a concept
that would probably make pocket dictionaries a thing of
the past. That means, next time you come across an unfamiliar word, you wouldn’t flip pages of a thesaurus or goggle it out. Scrolling your ...
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Touch-Hear will deliver knowledge at your fingertips
dvice.com - 9/9/2008
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dvice.com —
A concept like the Touch-Hear is something we're
probably a while off from realizing, but it represents
a very attractive technology: putting a world of knowledge at your fingertips. The advent of the Internet, especially in its current form, ...
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Touch-Hear: All the knowledge in the world, at your ...
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Let’s cry for the poor fragmented, underreported startups
Scobleizer —
... Shipley really cared about the startups she would have made each of the URLs in this list linkable. Here, let me do that. Then, let’s take the weekend and see what we can learn about each of these companies. What do you think of this group? Anything here catch your eye?
Accordia Group, LLC; New Rochelle, NY;
Adapx, Inc.; Seattle, WA;
Alerts.com, Inc.; Bellvue, WA;
Arsenal Interactive, Inc.; Mountain View, CA;
Asyncast Corp; Campbell, CA;
Awind Inc.; Junghe, Taiwan;
beeTV; ...
72 Nice Things about Demo’s Startups’ Websites
Scobleizer —
... The difference is very telling.
Accordia Group, LLC; New Rochelle, NY;
NICE? The contact us page has a real phone number.
Adapx, Inc.; Seattle, WA;
NICE? Cool pull-down menus.
Alerts.com, Inc.; Bellvue, WA;
NICE? The site talks about you and what the service does for you. Nice color scheme.
Arsenal Interactive, Inc.; Mountain View, CA;
NICE? Clean uncluttered design. Makes me want to learn more.
Asyncast Corp; Campbell, CA;
NICE? Clear call to action “Sign me up!”
Awind ...
Rocketron Mobile News Service: Listen to your news
Mobilewhack.com —
... allows you to further fine-tune the categories by supplying additional keywords on their website or simply speaking into the phone. It is a free service, but will be ad-supported. More at Rocketron . Tags: ...
Mobile Technology at DEMO Fall 08
SolSie.com —
... the tangible and digital worlds," DEMO organizers say. The idea is that people can wave NFC (near field communication)-enabled mobile phones or RFID readers at certain objects and receive information about the objects over the Web. Objects must be outfitted with a so-called "tikitag" in order to be scanned. But if the idea catches on, potential uses would range from "travelers requesting information about a monument that’s tagged, to children interacting with a PC via tagged toys." Asyncast Technology: Rocketron, a mobile news delivery service that relies entirely on voice. ...
Rocketron lets you listen to the news on your phone
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis —
... Developed by Asyncast Corporation, the service has several built-in news categories — such as business, technology, sports and politics — which can be further customized by user-supplied keywords from Rocketron’s website or simply by talking to it on the phone. ...
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newscientist.com 11/14/2008 — We had just finished putting the finishing touches to this week's Science Fiction Special when we got the press release for Alexander Besher's new sci-fi book, which is typical because it would have fitted in perfectly.The book is called Manga...