iFlowReader, an e-reader for iPhone and iPad devices,has announcedit is to close its service at the end of May, stating that Apple’s commission structure for in-app purchases makes it impossible for the company to gain profit from selling contemporary e-books on any iOS device. In a long letter to its customers, the iFlowReader team is pretty clear that the blame lays at Apple’s feet, the statement “we bet everything on Apple and iOS and then Apple killed us by changing the rules in the middle of the game” clears up any illusions that it thinks any other party was involved in their decision to shutter the service....

Have you ever wished that you could call in status updates to Facebook? How about getting an SMS notification when something you have been looking for posts to Craigslist? Want to post a Tweet every time that someone uploads a picture to a specific gallery on Flickr? You can do that as well. You can even daisy-chain tasks together to create a slew of actions from a single trigger. All of these things, and more, can happen via an interesting site called ifttt....

There are plenty of projects out there vying to ‘annotate the Web’ in different ways, fromApturetoGoogle SideWikiandPushnote, butiGlueis different because it combines a simple concept with rich data and a wiki-like approach. The idea behind iGlue is to add rich background information to any web page, automatically, as an additional ‘layer’ on top of the page. Once you’ve installed this browser plugin, a click of the iGlue button will load up yellow highlighted marks over words in the text on the page you’re looking at, like so....

Ignite100has launched a £1m startup accelerator programme that will invest up to £100k for each of ten teams in the North East of England. Building upon the success of its predecessor,The Difference Engine, ignite100 will deliver a 13-week acceleration programme alongside £100k of investment capital. Funding has been provided by the Finance for Business North East Technology Fund managed by IP Group plc, Finance for Business North East Proof of Concept fund managed by Northstar Ventures, and angel investors including Hotspur Capital Partners and Green Lane Capital....

Data nerds, computer geeks, science morons, I’m speaking to you. It’s the ever-prevailing cliché: the antisocial introverts who spend their days hacking away at some nerdy project that nobody understands. The freaks that push the frontiers of tech every day but still can’t keep up with the Kardashians. The cliché goes further. If techies lack basic human skills like communicating effectively or cracking a funny joke, then they won’t make good managers....