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TIBCO Updates Social Enterprise App Tibbr With Geo-Location Features Top
tibbrEnterprise software company TIBCO is debuting a new version of its Yammer-clone Tibbr today. The newest version of the company's social communications app includes geo-location capabilities called Tibbr GEO, which integrates the 'check-in' model in the enterprise. By incorporating location into Tibbr, the service wants to physical places into data hubs that can immediately stream important insights relevant to that specific place. Tibbr GEO gives companies the ability to tag important places, whether in the enterprise or as part of the extended enterprise. As Tibbr users approach these places, they're automatically presented relevant in-stream information.
 
YC-Funded Embark Is Now Plotting Two Million Transit Trips A Month Top
embarkshot1As a former resident of Los Angeles, New York's public transportation system feels magical at times. Trains — underground trains — that go places you actually want to go. It's a wonderful system. And I thank my stars that I live in an age when my smartphone can tell me how to use it. Because for all its convenience, NYC's subway system can feel a bit labyrinthine at times — particularly when there's a planned service disruption (there's always a planned service disruption). Thankfully I'm equipped with a well-crafted Android app called Embark NYC, which makes it easy to plot my subway route and get notified about any potential delays. Embark NYC (which was formerly called Ride NYC) was built by a company called Pandav, which is also responsible for the popular, and similarly polished app iBART. And today, the company has some big news: it's changing its name to Embark, and it's releasing some data that gives an idea as to just how popular it's gotten. Namely, that it's now plotted a total of 20 million trips since its first app launched ten months ago, and that users are plotting an additional two million trips per month.
 
Amazon Web Services Debuts Storage Gateway To Securely Upload Enterprise Data To The Cloud Top
awsAfter launching distributed database DynamoDB last week, Amazon Web Services is debuting another product—AWS Storage Gateway, which is a service that provides enterprises with a new option to securely upload and backup data to the AWS cloud from on-premises software appliances. Basically, the Gateway connect san on-premises software appliance with Amazon's cloud-based storage for a more secure integration between on-premises IT environments and AWS storage infrastructure. Via the Gateway, data is uploaded to AWS, where it is encrypted and stored in the Amazon's Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). The Gateway provides a solution fir enterprises looking for effective backup and rapid disaster recovery between on-premise applications and the cloud.
 
Big VCs Invest In Big Data Startup Continuuity Top
contVenture capital firm Battery Ventures this morning announced that it has made an investment in Continuuity, a stealth 'big data' startup founded by Battery entrepreneur-in-residence Todd Papaioannou (formerly VP and Chief Cloud Architect for Yahoo).
 
Android May Have Consumer Market Share, But iOS Is Tops In Enterprise Top
Top 10 Device Q4 v3According to a new report from managed enterprise mobility provider Good Technology, iOS devices (iPhones and iPads) hold the top three spots in the list of the top 10 enterprise activations by device type. The report includes data gathered by Good for Q4 2011 and includes half of the Fortune 100, providing insight into enterprise activation trends among some of the world's biggest businesses. The company found that despite Android's overall market share growth and steady absolute growth among Good's customers, only 35% of all smartphone activations were on Android, compared with iPhone's 65%.
 
Video: Dunder Mifflin's Office Remade As A Counter Strike Source Map Top
officeLong before the advent of such games as Minecraft, virtual worlds were coded primarily as first person shooter maps. You could play Half-Life deathmatch in a super-sized kitchen, Counter Strike on a World War II battlefield and so on. Map making was an artform. But it's clearly not dead.
 
Jammit Lets Budding Rock Stars Play Along With, Isolate, And Record Over The "Masters" Top
mzl.foqmkair.320x480-75While magical mobile devices are able to simulate instruments in wild and mind-blowing ways, thankfully most people stick to the actual instruments themselves when learning to play. Arguably, a better -- or at least more popular -- use for mobile devices is to act not as the instrument itself, but as an educational aid -- a tool that helps us to learn how to play our favorite instruments.
 
33Across Acquires Tynt To Become Social Data Powerhouse Top
33across tyntSocial ad targeting company 33Across just announced that it has acquired Tynt. What's Tynt? Well, if you've ever tried to copy-and-paste a quote from an article and discovered that there was suddenly some extra text and a link attached ("Read more: http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/16/borthwick-twitter-thanks-bit-ly/#ixzz0lIiy3q6f"), you have Tynt to thank for that. Not only does it add attribution to copied text, it also uses copy-and-paste data to make larger recommendations about a publisher's search engine optimization and social networking lift.
 
Japan's NICT Creates Quantum Dots To Boost Optic Fiber Bandwidth By 7-10 Times, Shoot High-Res Pictures Of Molecules (Video) Top
nict quantum dotsA team of researchers at the Photonic Network Research Institute of Japan's National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) has developed a new light source technology that might pave the way to some pretty spectacular applications in the future. The core piece of the technology are "high-quality" quantum dots, tiny nano particles, that boast higher stability and optical frequency than those created the conventional way.
 
GuideHop and iStopOver Team Up To Fuse Local Activity And Rental Discovery (P2P Style) Top
Screen shot 2012-01-24 at 11.51.22 PMSXSW 2012 is sneaking up on us; believe it or not, it's just around the corner. As you may know, Austin's music/film/tech conference attracts big names, tons of press, and notable companies each year -- geeks flock to the event just as they do for CES. On the tech or "Interactive" side, there's a lot of hoopla and way too much media coverage, but some interesting startups do still manage to emerge (or at least solidify their reputations) at the festi-conference each year. Foursquare and Twitter, to name two, both owe tips of the cap to SXSW.
 
Daily Crunch: Apples & Eggs Top
1530Here are some recent posts on TechCrunch Gadgets: Tim Cook: Apple TV IS Still A Hobby, But I Couldn't Live Without It App-maker Moonbot Gets An Oscar Nomination Full Circle: Boxee Brings OTA HDTV And Basic Cable To The Boxee Box
 
Announcing A New TechCrunch TV Show: "In the Studio" Top
NASAI've been contributing to TechCrunch for a while now, and, it's been a blast and a privilege. As 2011 ended, I reached out Erick and Jon Orlin (who runs TechCrunch TV) and shared some ideas I had for a TV show around technology and entrepreneurship. After many email debates, we settled on something we're excited about and is dead-simple, which we'll simply call "In the Studio." Once a month, we'll spend half a day videotaping 1:1 interviews with guests in the studio at TechCrunch Headquarters in San Francisco. Each conversation will be anywhere from 8-13 minutes. I plan to sit down with all sorts of dynamic people in the startup world, everything from founders, developers, designers, marketers, recruiters, bloggers, investors, and more. Our goals are to (1) invite truly compelling guests to the studio and (2) offer them a platform to share perspectives on their work with all of us in an informal, conversational manner.
 
Evernote Bought Four Companies Last Year And (Almost) Nobody Knew About It Top
Screen Shot 2012-01-24 at 9.24.16 PMIt may seem strange to think of productivity app Evernote as a platform, but with 20 million users and 9,000 apps built on the client, the three and a half-year old startup is a veritable apps ecosystem. Beyond this developer ecosystem, the company released five of its own simple and unique Evernote-based apps in the past year: Hello, an app that helps you remember people, Food, and app that helps you remember important meals, Skitch, an app that lets you communicate visually, Peek, an app that utilizes the iPad cover for a novel take on tutoring, and Clearly, an app that makes content easier to read within Evernote.
 
Tiny Tower Developers Call Out Zynga For Copying Their Game (After They Refused To Be Acquired) Top
Tiny TowersThe guys from NimbleBit (developers of Tiny Tower, the game handpicked by Apple as iOS Game Of The Year) are on a bit of a tweeting spree tonight, blasting out two big ol' gems of knowledge in as many hours. First: Zynga just launched a new iOS game, and it looks a lot like Tiny Tower. Second (and this one makes that first bit all the more interesting): Zynga allegedly tried to buy NimbleBit at some point in the past, but NimbleBit turned them down.
 
Obama: America Should Support The Next Steve Jobs Top
obamaIn his State of the Union address tonight, President Obama laid out a blueprint for economic recovery, with numerous references to the technology sector. "An economy built to last is one where we encourage the talent and ingenuity of every person in this country," the President said, with Steve Jobs' wife (and Instagram's Mike Krieger) in attendance, That means women should earn equal pay for equal work. It means we should support everyone who's willing to work; and every risk-taker and entrepreneur who aspires to become the next Steve Jobs."
 
Kim Dotcom Denied Bail In New Zealand Court Top
kim-dotcomThe Megaupload saga continues. Kim Dotcom, Megaupload's mega founder, was just denied bail by a New Zealand court citing he's a flight risk. He will remain in New Zealand's custody until February 22, when the courts will hear the US Justice Department's application for Schmitz. Dotcom insists he's innocent of the various charges involving racketeering and piracy. His lawyers insist that Dotcom's company was simply offering an online storage locker and diligent responded to complaints about pirated material.-- a dubious statement for anyone familiar with the company. It's all in the hands in the court now.
 
Google Stockpiles Data Ammo Through Privacy Merge, Guns To Win Relevancy War Top
golden-bullets-ammo-shortageData is ammunition in the war for information relevancy. And Larry Page, the prototypical war-time CEO, has just told everyone to empty their ammo packs so Google can build one big bomb with the words "Facebook" and "Twitter" and "Apple" chalked on the side. The privacy policy change announced today rolls more than 70 separate policies into a single one,  and will let the company combine any piece of data it has about you into a single profile. The point is, in the company's own words, to help it tailor any of its service to who you are, what you do -- and to any friends you have.
 
Watch And Share The State Of The Union, Thanks to SnappyTV Top
sotuIf you're watching President Obama's State of the Union tonight, SnappyTV has a cool way for you to share your favorite clips with your friends — and we're including it in this post. We've already written about the clip-sharing service, which launched last year. To coincide with the State of the Union, SnappyTV is opening up its Pro Editor, which allows content owners and online news organizations to an easy way to create a timeline of clips using live footage, which they either own or is in the public domain. (The latter is true for tonight's speech.)
 
App-maker Moonbot Gets An Oscar Nomination Top
flying booksThere's been a lot of talk about the divide between Silicon Valley and Hollywood, but at least one upstart animation studio seems to have one foot comfortably in both worlds — Moonbot Studios, which was just nominated for an Oscar for Best Animated Short. The film in question, "The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore," was also released as an iPad app, and will be published a traditional book, too. Co-founder William Joyce is an established children's author, and he first conceived the project as a book, but when he teamed up with Brandon Oldenburg to start Moonbot in 2009, they decided to work on a short film as well. And in the middle of all that, Apple announced the first iPad, so Joyce decided that the story would make a great app, too.
 
You Call That Evil? Top
maj15There's a nice little insider quarrel going on over Google's just-announced privacy policy changes. A number of sites and commentators have let their fingers jump up mechanically in accusatory fashion. Google, caught red-handed being evil! Here, I think, is a time when the word "bias" is actually warranted. Everyone wants so badly for Google to do something truly evil (instead of just questionable or inconvenient) that their perceptions of Google actions are actually being affected. Casting events systematically in a non-objective light is the exhibition of bias, and the continual presentation of policies one disagrees with as evidence of "evil" seems to fall under that category. Google going evil has become the Godwin's Law of tech commentary.
 

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