Category: Technology

By Sarah Perez Wikipedia has today made a significant update to its iOS application, which most noticeably features a cleaner, “distraction-free” design, as well as the ability to edit Wikipedia articles from your smartphone or tablet device. Under the hood, the app received a number of other improvements as well, including speed increases, offline access,…

By Sarah Buhr San Francisco is a great town for foodies and Forage, the brain child of Foodzie founders Rob and Emily LaFave, has emerged as an option for those who want to cook their favorite restaurant dishes at home. The service, which launches today, gathers all the ingredients used in selected restaurant recipes and…

By Greg Kumparak Up until today, Hulu’s mobile app was mostly useless for anyone who didn’t want to cough up 8 bucks a month for Hulu Plus. You were free to watch ad-supported shows on your computer’s browser — but once you went mobile, you were out of luck. Seems Hulu is reconsidering that approach.…

By Alex Wilhelm Microsoft lost an appeal today, as a federal judge ordered that it must comply with a U.S. warrant seeking email data on servers located in Ireland. During this process, it has been Microsoft’s contention that a warrant issued by the U.S. doesn’t have legal standing because the data being sought is stored…

By Kim-Mai Cutler There’s Bitcoin, the asset and hedge against fiat currencies and the politics of their central banks. And then there’s Bitcoin, a fundamental innovation around a distributed public ledger of transactions. Many crypto-currencies try to split or play with the distinction between the two. An early attempt was the Ripple, from OpenCoin. But…