Filed under: Gaming , Freeware , Internet , Apple , iPhone , sxsw Happy March! The super hip and trendy South-by-Southwest music and tech festival is coming up this month, and like many tech conventions these days, AT&T is working on a plan to keep their network up and running as thousands of iPhones descend on Austin, Texas to send around voice, texts, and data. GigaOM has a little insight into how they’re planning to do it this year, and if you’re interested in the nuts-and-bolts of keeping a cell phone network up and running (or at least trying to — this is AT&T, after all), it’s worth a read. They’re beefing up the cell towers in the city’s vicinity, setting up a whole new system around the convention center itself, and putting money into the backend as well, to try and increase bandwidth coming into the region.
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AT&T plans for SXSW 2010
Even if you’re a compulsive tweeter, you probably didn’t know what Twitter was a year ago. The 140-character broadcast machine has gone far beyond updating your friends about dinner plans, and, for those who use it, Twitter is slowly melding with the fabric of life and work
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feature: Collaboration 2.0? Twitter team-ups for fun and profit
Twitter has been on a hiring spree as of late, grabbing employees left and right for its engineering and business development teams.
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Twitter’s hiring binge brings it to 140 employees
At the big-think, big-demo TED conference in Long Beach last week, MIT Media Lab alumnus John Underkoffler demonstrated a real working version of the memorable grab-it-and-throw-it computer interface he designed for Tom Cruise in the hit science fiction movie Minority Report. One reason Cruise’s gesture-based interface was so striking was that it was based on Underkoffler’s serious deep-end work in user interfaces.
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Minority Report computer interface designer demos the real thing (video)
Filed under: Macworld , Internet , Apple , iPhone , App Store , iPad Frog Design is here on the show floor at Macworld 2010, and we stopped by their booth earlier in the week to check out what they’ve been up to on the iPhone. They’re a storied design firm (they worked on the Apple II series back in the day) that is diving headfirst into the App Store, with two apps out already and one more on the way
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Macworld 2010: Frog Design shows off their iPhone apps
Filed under: Macworld , Hardware , iTunes , Music DJ software tends to be hit or miss — the ability to make a music player match beats on songs, even with different tempos, has been around for a while. For most software designed to allow you to mix and play music, the interface is the important part
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Macworld 2010: Hands-on with Algoriddim’s djay 3
Filed under: Apple Corporate , Rumors , Steve Jobs Apple doesn’t have a huge social media presence. There’s an iTunes Facebook page and what can arguably be called a MobileMe blog , but that’s about it
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The tweet that made Steve Jobs furious
Robin Sloan , a former strategist and executive at Current TV, is joining Twitter to handle media partnerships. He says he’ll help “producers, reporters, developers and strategists at media organizations that want to do cool, transformative things with tweets.” He was recruited by a former colleague Chloe Sladden , who experimented with one of the earliest of uses of Twitter against a live broadcast
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Former Current TV strategist Sloan jumps to Twitter
