Almost one year ago, we’ve gotten a glimpse of the next major iteration of Firefox, at least when it comes to its gorgeous new visuals. Now, however, Mozilla’s Mike Beltzner has shared a presentation that reveals quite detailed plans for Firefox 4. HTML5 and CSS support are mentioned, as well as faster operation, a greater [...]

Information security and identity management software and services firm WISeKey has closed a $20 million financing round at a $200 million valuation. The investment comes from a group of undisclosed institutional and private backers in both Europe and the United States. With the extra capital, WISeKey plans an accelerated expansion in BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, [...]

Cramster, a top provider of online homework aid, has raised $6 million in Series B funding from Primera Capital. The web service currently boasts 200,000 active members but hopes to triple that figure over the next 12 months with new product offerings. Cramster specializes in homework help for quantitative subjects, like geometry and chemistry, but [...]

When you think of developer-focused web computing services, the first thing that probably comes to mind is Amazon’s hugely popular AWS, which includes S3 (storage) and EC2 (processing). Google has its own web computing service — namely, Google App Engine — and the search giant is looking to significantly expand its offerings. During a roundtable [...]

When you think of developer-focused web computing services, the first thing that probably comes to mind is Amazon’s hugely popular AWS, which includes S3 (storage) and EC2 (processing). Google has its own web computing service — namely, Google App Engine — and the search giant is looking to significantly expand its offerings. During a roundtable [...]

Nokia is the latest in a growing line of consumer electronics manufacturers eager to produce a tablet following the buzz Apple created with the iPad. According to TheStreet, the mobile giant is already working with partners to develop a new touchscreen tablet. The company aims to get it to market by fall in time to [...]

Go to Apple.com. See that search box, top right? Type “iThing” or “iStuff” and you’ll find that there are no shortcuts to product or related pages – evidently because there are no Apple products called iThing or iStuff to find on the website. Now, run a search for the term “iSlate”. Interesting, isn’t it? At [...]

Have Chatroulette dating, pranks and random musical interpretations all lost their luster for you? Have no fear, now you can turn the random video chat site into a super fun game — like Bingo! Or Bingo Black (i.e. Bingo that involves liquor). Check out three Chatoulette Bingo boards after the jump (Warning: Some images NSFW). [...]

I couldn’t squeeze maybe the most impressive stat in the headline: SimpleGeo is closing in on one terabyte of geodata stored. Needless to say, they’re growing fast. To help with that growth, the location infrastructure company (which helps other companies easily implement location) has added five new employees to their workforce. They are: View full [...]

A few days ago, we noted that Facebook was testing putting links to QR codes on their main profile pages. Now we know why. Apparently, Facebook is doing some testing ahead of their location feature roll-out, which will use these codes. A source with knowledge of Facebook’s plans tells us that the QR codes will [...]