Vizlingo is creating a new form of artsy, video text messaging

“What does happiness look like to you?” Vizlingo CEO Azeo Fables asked me when we first met. I imagined a small child holding a big red balloon. You might picture a sunset on a beach, or a bowl of ice cream; the point is happiness looks different to everyone. So how can we use these images to communicate?Vizlingois a New York City startup that’s making an app to do just that....

5 min · 995 words · Lauren Lee

VMware slams PCs following Microsoft’s dismissive remarks

Yesterday, early in the morning before the opening of VMware’s VMworld conference in Las Vegas, Microsoft made waves by releasing avideo and websitethat spoofed its competitor’s cloud computing products. The clip was a bit more sophomoric than what Microsoft usually publishes, but the message it contained was clear. Microsoft condemned VMware as a firm too focused on virtualization to do anything else. The company also claimed that VMware was more expensive than its own offerings....

3 min · 574 words · Annette Reyes

VocalPress Hopes To Bring Voice To WordPress

VocalPress, a new service still in development, plans to tweak the standard WordPress into a voice-enabled platform that anyone can host, with the hope that it will enable people across the world that lack Internet access to participate in the Web. The informational website went up earlier this month and the team behind the project have apitch going right nowon the Dell Social Innovation Competition, where you can go and vote up the idea....

3 min · 607 words · Dr. Daniel Vance

Vodafone brings its Webbox device to India, helping connect TVs to the Internet

Vodafone is all set to roll out its innovative plug and play keyboard “Webbox” to Indian regions. The keyboard which was developed by Vodafone to help its consumers in emerging markets get a decent Internet experience, was firstunveiledin South Africa in February this year. Although Webbox appears to be a regular QWERTY keyboard at first glance, it is essentially a data device running on Android 2.1, with built-in hardware and an antenna that supports up to 2....

2 min · 311 words · Elizabeth Strickland

Vodafone Confirms Sony Ericsson Xperia Play Availability [Updated: O2 Also]

Updates at the foot of the post. Just a few minutes agowe showed you the new marketing material from Sony Ericsson, showcasing its new Xperia Play Android gaming handset via a new Facebook banner and full-length YouTube trailer. Although release dates and pricing of the handset are still unknown, we are now able to reveal that the Xperia Play will be available on Vodafone when it hits the UK. Confirmation comes by way of a Vodafone spokesperson, who declined to comment on how much the device would cost or when it would launch....

2 min · 265 words · Andrew Perez
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