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First it was a social shopping app. Then it became a “fashion discovery engine.” Now Pose wants to be the place you upload your outfits to, every day. Pose is a mobile-based fashion startup from Los Angeles. The company released … Continue reading →

Amidst security concerns, Verizon Wireless is blocking Google Wallet from the Galaxy Nexus smartphone. According to Bloomberg, Verizon will allow Google Wallet to run on the flagship Android 4.0 device once it is able to find a balance between “the … Continue reading →

Walter Isaacson’s bio of late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs topped Amazon’s list of the top-selling books of 2011, though the title is still number three for best-selling Kindle titles. While Amazon had predicted the bio, called Steve Jobs might take … Continue reading →

New research from Google and Ipsos claims that recall improves when TV spots appear again in YouTube pre-rolls, making a stronger case for its pre-roll and in-stream ads. Tests of 15- and 30-second spots for six ad campaigns using YouTube … Continue reading →

Ever wonder whether that link you want to share with friends is still in its prime? Sure you have. And now a “mad fresh” website — Is It Old? — has swooped in to rescue you from embarrassingly distributing old … Continue reading →

The 2011 Los Angeles Design Challenge required participants to not only develop the Hollywood car of the future but also invent a story worthy of Hollywood filmmakers. Designers Sylvain Wehnert, Emiel Burki and Phillipp Haban from Mercedes-Benz Advanced Design Studios … Continue reading →

A panel of mobile phone users found that Amazon’s new Kindle Fire tablet has an error-prone browser, a touchscreen too small for fingers and an overall “poor” user experience. A study from the Nielsen Norman Group – which was conducted … Continue reading →

The European Commission has opened an investigation into whether a group of international publishers — possibly with the help of Apple – has been fixing ebook prices, and breaching EU antitrust rules. The publishers involved are Hachette Livre (Lagardère Publishing, … Continue reading →

Roomba Revenge Roomba 200 Click here to view this gallery. Ever since iRobot launched Roomba, the disc-shaped robotic floor vacuum, it’s been hard to ignore the sometimes comic possibilities. SNL once famously parodied the product, which has sold millions of … Continue reading →

Do you check in on Foursquare or another location-based app on a weekly basis? If so, you’re among just 2% of the adult population, according to a new report. Forrester Research surveyed 37,000 people with mobile phones and found that … Continue reading →