Cabs can finally take advantage of smartphone features like electronic payments, GPS, and estimated travel costs. Catching a ride with the Taxi Magic app was the most pleasant experience I’ve had with a cab so far, and it demonstrates that they can compete with lower-cost personal sedan-services like UberX and Lyft. The updated app includes a slick new user interface, scheduling rides for later, a

Google Talk Is Down: Worldwide Outage Since 6:50 AM EDT (It’s Back Up For Some) It’s not just you. GTalk is down worldwide. Google first recognized the issue and started investigating at 6:40 AM EDT. While Google Talk appears to be up at first glance, calls and messages fail to complete, likely leaving internet users feeling alone, adrift in a sea of information without anyone around to share a la

Bump’s New App Flock Creates Shared Photo Albums With Friends Without Interrupting Your Life Photos save our memories, yet fumbling to upload them can cut those moments short. But Flock lets you snap and forget, and then later collects photos from you and friends you were with into privately shared albums. Flock for iOS combines brilliant social design with the underutilized photo location API to

VMware just spent $1.26 billion to secure its place in the future of computer networking. But in acquiring the swashbuckling Silicon Valley startup Nicira, the virtualization giant is also shifting even further into the world of open source software, a world it was once very much at odds with -- and in some ways still is. VMware chief technology officer Steve Herrod has embraced the virtual networ

Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and 9 Tips To Get Started "The best part of blogging is the people you will meet"- Hugh MacLeod repeating wisdom from Loic Lemeur to me at the Big Pink at 2 am in South Beach after the Future of Web Apps 2008. If you asked me to tell you a list of three of the best decisions in my life, I can certainly tell you that regularly writing is one of them. It's the rea

Simple Is Now Available To The Public, Cofounder Alex Payne Moves On There is nothing more broken than the payments/banking system, which makes me and everybody else root for payments (and more!) startup Simple (formerly BankSimple). We all hate our banks and, especially if you are in SF, we constantly hope that the future will be better. And, again if you’re like me, Simple is your great white ho

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FundersClub Wants To Bypass VC And Let YOU Invest In Startups FundersClub is going to change how companies get funded.The website is designed to let anyone with as little as $1000 make equity investments in startups and earn money if they succeed. For now you have to be an accredited investor with a net worth over $1 million or yearly earnings over $200,000 to use FundersClub. But an industry sour

Students Show Off Their Solutions To World Problems At Google Science Fair What were you doing when you were 14? I’m willing to bet it was little different than what the students at the Google Science Fair are working on. Yesterday, Google brought 15 of the smartest 13 – 18 year old students from all over the world together at the fair, each working on a unique solution to some very big problems.

Court Grants Injunction Against Caterina Fake’s Use Of The Name ‘Pinwheel’ It looks like Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake may have to find a new name for her new product Pinwheel. A New York court has granted a preliminary injunction against Fake’s startup 2bkco, as requested by a similarly named startup Pinweel. The injunction was posted on Scribd by lawyer and blogger Venkat Balasubramani, and I’

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