NEW YORK TIMES MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Microsoft Corp.’s engineers and executives spent two years creating a new line of smart phones with playful names that sounded like creatures straight out of The Cat in the Hat - Kin One and Kin Two. Stylish designs, on flashy social-networking features, and an all-out marketing blitz were meant to prove that Microsoft could build the right products for the …
Smart phones, e-mail, dozens of browser tabs, and social networking feeds are considered to be essentials by many multitaskers, but scientists say technology sometimes undermines our productivity.
Smart phones, email, dozens of browser tabs, and social networking feeds are considered to be essentials by many multitaskers, but scientists say technology sometimes undermines our productivity.
Earlier today, Google announced a new Gmail API that allows developers to create contextual gadgets for Gmail . Google itself uses this API so that when somebody sends you a link to a YouTube video in an email, the video gets embedded right inside the email. Now outside developers can do the same thing to create Gmail gadgets that show the social networking activity or profiles of the person …
High-tech e-book gadgets are one thing that is revolutionizing publishing. If companies like Silicon Valley startup FastPencil get their way, social-networking-based self-publishing services are another. FastPencil is what CEO Steve Wilson calls a “next-gen” publisher, which uses social networking and an arsenal of widgets to take authors through their book projects from the drawing board to the …