Startups Mogreet Releases APIs To Let Developers Quickly Add SMS, Video, Rich Media Messaging To Apps Mogreet, the Los Angeles-based startup that provides brands and marketers with a distribution platform for mobile video messaging, today announced the release of its API developer portal, which allows third party-developers to easily integrate MMS, SMS, video and in-app messaging into their applic

Hardware Discovery Networks Is Brightcove’s First Partner For Its Dual-Screen Apple TV Service, Live First In Italy Back in June, Brightcove unveiled a new strategy to take its App Cloud development platform open source, and at the same time it introduced a new dual-screen Apple TV feature aimed at growing its business on connected TVs. Today, Brightcove is announcing the very first implementation

The “Lost” Steve Jobs Speech from 1983; Foreshadowing Wireless Networking, the iPad, and the App Store In 1983, Steve Jobs gave a speech to a relatively small audience at a somewhat obscure event called the International Design Conference in Aspen (IDCA). The theme of that year’s conference was “The Future Isn’t What It Used To Be”, which looking back seems all too fitting. Circumstances being wha

Charging Your Phone Becomes a Game With This Toyota App [VIDEO] Charging your phone is nothing more than a mundane necessity -- not likely anyone's idea of fun. But a new app aims to transform the process into an entertaining game. Called "Plug-in Championship," it displays a power meter that moves up and down. The goal is for users to plug in their charger when the meter is at its highest; the mo

Hardware iPad Mini Production Has Kicked Off, Says WSJ: 7.85-Inch LCD Screen, No Retina Display The iPad mini speculation could be about to be put to bed if a report in the WSJ is on the money. The paper is reporting that Asian suppliers to Apple have kicked off mass production of components required to make a smaller version of the iPad. The paper cites “people with knowledge of the situation”. S

Media & Entertainment Apple’s Siri, Google’s Voice Recognition Technology Targeted By Patent Troll A company that has acquired 100% ownership of a patent for an off-site transcription system — United States Patent 6,298,326 — in order to, in its words, “effectively administer certain patents for technology”, says it will be seeking residual royalties from Apple, for its Siri voice assistant, and G

iFixit has torn down another new gadget -- this time, it's the new, super-slim PlayStation 3 that Sony debuted last month. The teardown reveals a machine that's quite similar to the previous version of PlayStation 3, but easier to repair. iFixit scores it 7 out of 10 on the repairability scale; this especially goes for the hard drive, which can easily be accessed and upgraded -- if you're the tink

Name: Bonfaire Quick Pitch: Pre-order accessories "straight off the runway." Genius Idea: Gives shoppers another incentive to pre-order by stocking brands difficult to obtain in the U.S.. Keiron McCammon and Shari Rudolph thinks there's room for more than one Moda Operandi on the web. McCammon and Rudolph, both former executives of Hearst-owned style discovery platform Kaboodle, took the wraps off

The iPhone 5 has some nice features, but to paraphrase Jay-Z, a choice of colors ain't one. Considering the positive reviews and brisk sales for the device, most consumers don't seem to mind that the phone only comes in white and black. But Nokia apparently thinks the lack of chromatics is a deal-breaker for some or at least a reason to take a flyer on its Lumia 920, which comes in black, white, g

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in an interview on NBC's Today set to air on Thursday that he lives a "simple" life and proudly wears the same thing every day. Zuckerberg -- who has appeared on GQ and Esquire's worst-dressed list in 2011 -- confessed in an interview taped last week with Today host Matt Lauer that he owns "maybe about 20" identical grey t-shirts. "I mean, I wear the same thing ev

If you’ve followed the news, a collective of hackers recently rented a 3D printer to build a real, working gun. The group, Defense Distributed, began the project but once the renter, Stratasys, discovered what they were building, they took the printer back. Writes the Danger Room: Cody Wilson planned in the coming weeks to make and test a 3-D printed pistol. Now those plans have been put on hold a

Samsung loves to bash the iPhone and its legions of dedicated fans. And now Nokia has thrown down, too. Nokia announced the stunning Lumia 920 last month. In several ways, it’s an anti-iPhone with a large screen, forward-thinking hardware features, and, yes like this ad brags, multiple color options. For better or worse, phone manufacturers have turned to attacking the Apple and the iPhone rather

[brightcove video="1873651141001 " /] They told us, but we did not believe them: The Oct. 5 print edition of Entertainment Weekly, which features a one-of-a-kind digital ad running video and live tweets, actually has a smartphone inside of it. A real, full-sized 3G cellphone inside a print magazine. The digital ad is designed to promote the CW network's fresh lineup of action shows (The Arrow and

Hardware Finally, A Dock That Doesn’t Blink When Apple Changes iPhone Connectors Or Device Design The update cycle of consumer electronics can make a mess of your Kickstarter plans, but one new project that just launched is designed to provide a useful products that remains useful no matter what changes come down the road, in terms of modes of connectivity or hardware design. It’s the CompleteDock

Media & Entertainment Marc Andreessen On Facebook’s Monetization Plans: Successful Companies Defer Gratification There’s lots of criticism going around about Facebook’s monetization strategy, and in a similar vein, it’s pretty common to criticize startups that grow without worrying about revenue. But venture capitalist and Facebook board member Marc Andreessen said today that’s looking at things t

Sheryl Sandberg: We’re More Afraid Of Losing By Standing Still In an interview at New York’s IAB conference, Charlie Rose asked Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg if Facebook had ever made assumptions that weren’t right. Sheryl Sandberg confirmed yes, and referenced Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s comments about the failure of Facebook’s HTML 5 efforts at TechCrunch Disrupt. Sandberg implied that these s

Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here. In less than two weeks, a majority of iPhone owners have updated to the latest version of Apple’s mobile operating system, warts and all, according to data compiled by web and mobile ad network operator Chitika Insights. An estimated 60 percent of

[brightcove video="1873383678001" /] Toyota Tuesday demo'd its own version of a "smart car." The single-user vehicle, called the Smart INSECT (short for "Information Network Social Electric City Transporter"), uses the company’s COMS ("super-compact electric vehicle") system to create a variety of hands-free features. The five-minute demo introduced some of those features, including facial recogni

Forget Saying Happy Birthday To Your Friends On Facebook, It’s All About Gifts Now We know that Facebook is in full gear when it comes to monetization. It was obvious the second that the company announced its “Gifts” offering, which lets you send a physical or virtual item to your buddies. It’s kind of cool, and the first gift I’ve ordered is in the mail. One of the things that I enjoy doing the m

U.S. Patent Office Opens First Branch on University Campus Cornell's New York City Tech campus will be the first university to have a direct partnership with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, giving future students access to resources and expert advice as they look to bring ideas and innovations to market. The university made the announcement on Tuesday morning at its temporary campus in New Y

Former Apple, Nasa Engineers Design $11,000 Coffee Machine [brightcove video="1871625777001" /] Get ready to rethink the way you brew coffee -- and the cost of it. The Blossom One Limited machine makes a fresh, hot cup of coffee, but it's not your average coffeemaker. A team of engineers who worked previously at Apple and at NASA designed the $11,000 coffeemaker that brews coffee at just the right