How’s the weather? That’s what Weddar wants to know

There are hundreds of weather apps on the iPhone that will tell you in immense detail exactly how the weather is in any location around the world. Weddar does the exact opposite by instead asking you, or anyone else using the iPhone app, how the weather feels where you are. Instead of an immense level of granular detail about the barometric pressure, temperature and humidity, Weddar [App Store, free] presents you with a grid of options ranging from hell to freezing....

3 min · 481 words · Chad Williamson

How’s this for a night out? A pedal-powered movie experience where you cycle to watch

Forget drive-in movies, ‘cycle-in’ is where it’s at in 2011. Magnificent Revolution’s Cycle-in Cinemacombines the moviegoing experience with exercise and green credentials. You rock up on your bike, hook it up to the on-site generator and pedal away to power the projector and watch the film. There’s no need to worry about the sound of all that pedalling ruining the movie, audio can be transmitted to mobile phones and FM radios so you can get it straight into your headphones....

1 min · 199 words · Tiffany Simmons

How’s this for a pivot? Anonymous chat service HowRandom enforces real-name policy

HowRandomlaunched last year as a way for US students from different colleges to chat to each other anonymously. Now, in one of the most literal pivots I can remember, it’s announced that it’s flipped to enforce a ‘real names only’ policy. The redesigned service adds user profiles consisting of a profile picture, personal details and interests. An algorithm then matches students to someone with similar interests to chat to. Profile information is displayed for both chatters, in a move to kill off the traditional “A/S/L?...

2 min · 376 words · Stephanie Arnold

HP announces it will discontinue TouchPad, Pre phones, stop webOS device development

HP has todayannouncedthat it will discontinue its operations for webOS devices including the newly released TouchPad and any upcoming webOS phones. The announcement came as a part of the notice that it is purchasing software company Autonomy and spinning off its PC division. HP is effectively killing off the Pre line of phones as well as the TouchPad tablet with this announcement. Dismal sales of the TouchPad, which BestBuy wasreportedly sitting on stockpiles of, most likely contributed to this decision from HP....

3 min · 573 words · Deborah Caldwell

HP being sued for misleading investors before dropping webOS and PC hardware

A lawsuit has been filed against HP by shareholders that are convinced that the company misled them about its direction before it dropped its webOS and consumer PC hardware business,reports Reuters. One of the participants, shareholder Richard Gammel, is accusing HP of hiding the fact that its existing business in webOS hardware and PCs was not working, before dropping a bombshell announcement that effectively did away with both in a couple lines of a press-release....

3 min · 486 words · Randy Hernandez
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