Today, Silicon Alley Insider confirmed that the social, micro-blogging service Twitter will be offering a fee based “Pro” version marketed towards businesses and power users. The company recently started introducing unobtrusive ads in order to generate some revenue from the highly popular service. High service demands, often resulting in the famed “Fail Whale”, and increased […]
Telecommunications giant Sprint has announced plans to deploy WiMAX services in 10 major cities throughout 2009, with at least five additional major markets due to get services in 2010. According to Macworld, the company plans to deploy services to Atlanta, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Fort Worth, Honolulu, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, Portland, and Seattle. The comapny also […]
Apple this week activated its iTunes Genius recommendation engine for both movies and television shows, a feature it had originally planned to bring out alongside the iTunes 8.1 release. According to AppleInsider, the Genius engine, Apple’s proprietary recommendation engine used for collaborative filtering and iTunes’ built-in rating system, allows users to generate recommendations based on […]
TomTom Home, the desktop/driver software for the TomTom GPS devices, reached version 2.6.1.238 late Tuesday. The new version, a 42.4 megabyte download (courtesy of VersionTracker), offers the following bug fixes and new features: Link to our new online Route Planner. Fresh new menu icons. HOME now shows in the bottom right corner which TomTom device […]