AvatarThingsHybridGoogle Cloud SQL Hits General Availabilityverified_publisherTNW - Emil ProtalinskiGoogle today announced the general availability of Cloud SQL, which, as its name implies, is a MySQL database that lives in Google’s cloud. Among the new features is the encryption of customer data, a 99.95 percent uptime Service Level Agreement (SLA), and support for databases up to 500GB in …
AvatarThingsHybridThey're multiplying! 3-D printers go big and smallNBC News - By Devin ColdeweyThere are probably more 3-D printers in one place at this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas than anywhere else, at any time. We know you want to keep up to date, so we got the lowdown on every one of them. Makerbot is in the news because Monday brought the announcement of two …
AvatarThingsHybridApple Acquires Rapid-Fire Camera App Developer SnappyLabs [Update: Confirmed]verified_publisherTechCrunch - Josh ConstineApple has acquired the one-man photo technology startup SnappyLabs, maker of SnappyCam, sources tell me. [Update 1/5/2014 9:15am PST: Apple confirms the acquisition.] The startup was founded and run solely by John Papandriopoulos, an electrical engineering PhD from the University Of Melbourne who …
AvatarThingsHybridYahoo Sports Gets iOS 7 Redesign, Awesome Gif Creation Tool For Sharing ‘Big 4’ Sports Momentsverified_publisherTechCrunch - Matthew PanzarinoYahoo Sports gets a fantastic looking redesign today for iOS 7, and gains a slick new feature called ‘Loops’. Loops allows you to skim through a game, pick a short segment and create a gif complete with effects, captions and looping to share with friends or networks. The Loop feature is powered by …
AvatarThingsHybridThe Day Google Had to 'Start Over' on Androidverified_publisherThe Atlantic - By Fred VogelsteinGoogle was building a secret mobile product to fend off chief rival Microsoft. Then Apple announced the iPhone, and everything changed. This is excerpted and adapted from the second chapter of Fred Vogelstein’s Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution.
AvatarThingsHybridCodecademy Releases Its First Educational App, A.K.A. My New Subway Time Killerverified_publisherTechCrunch - Eliza BrookeAlthough I write a lot about apps and Internet stuff, I never really learned to code. I threw the “really” in there to soften the blow, but the fact is, I straight up don’t know how to do it. I started learning at one point in middle school, but my high school didn’t push CS, and by college I spent …