Sorry, Rovio. A Chinese theme park located in Changsha, Huna China clearly skipped Trademark Infringement 101 and built a very real, very authentic-looking Angry Birds game. Players pull back a gigantic slingshot loaded with plush Angry Birds and let them fly at balloon pigs sheltered in toy bricks. Chances are you need to make your [...]
Austin, Texas-based startup Spanning launched a new version of its Google Apps backup service today, which now includes business-grade backup for Gmail. Previously, the company provided backup for other Google Apps products, including Google Calendar, Docs, and Contacts, but, says, Spanning Cloud Apps founder and CEO Charlie Wood, “Gmail backup has been, by far, the [...]
Lanyrd, which bills itself as a social conference directory, has raised a seed funding round of $1.4 million from Index Ventures Seed and PROfounders Capital in London, as well as a number of high profile angels including Joi Ito, Esther Dyson, Blaine Cook (ex Twitter CTO), Matt Haughey (MetaFilter) and Matt Biddulph (ex-Dopplr). The startup [...]
Google Takeout, the recently launched “data liberation” service that lets you export files, photos and data from Google services like Picasa and Buzz, now includes support for Google Voice. With the update, users of Google’s Internet-telephony service Google Voice are able to export call history, voicemail messages, greetings, call recordings, phone numbers and text messages. [...]
Female-focused site The Daily Muse officially launches today, wanting to provide smart women with a place to go online for relevant content that doesn’t dumb itself down. Positioning itself between glossy magazines like Cosmo and The NYTimes and targeting the 20-35 year female demographic, the Daily Muse will concentrate on providing daily content across career-oriented [...]
Sprint’s clearly no fan of the pending ATT/T-mobile merger: in recent memory, they’ve pledged to complain to Congress, commissioned a study to illustrate how awful it would be, and cheered on the Department of Justice as they filed an antitrust suit to halt the proceedings. Now, instead of just sniping from the sidelines, Sprint is [...]
While gaming has spread its tentacles throughout the world and major game development houses can be found everywhere from Calgary to Cambridge, there’s one place that will pretty much always be considered the center of the gaming world: Tokyo. What better place, then, to focus your efforts on winning over the hearts and minds of [...]
4chan founder Christopher Poole (a.k.a. moot) made waves this past year when he unveiled his newest project— Canvas. Canvas is a place for people to post media (i.e. images, video) and start a discussion around this content. The platform launched in private beta in January and has been invite-only for the past nine months but [...]
Remember that snazzy Sony Tablet S we wrote about a couple of days ago? You can now pre-order one at Sony and Amazon, with the expected shipping date being Sept. 16. The device is a 9.4-inch tablet with an NVIDIA Tegra 2 CPU, 16/32 GB of storage and Wi-Fi/3G connectivity. It comes with Android 3.2 [...]
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