Productivity app Evernote today is announcing that it is teaming up with Honda and the Japanese carrier Docomo to launch the Evernote Accelerator, a month-long mentorship program based at Evernote’s HQ in Redwood City for developers and small startups from around the world that are making apps using Evernote’s APIs. The move is a step ahead for Evernote in its strategy to build out its business beyond its own-branded products and into a wider platform for others developing productivity services: the company today sees 6 billion API calls already but most of those come from Evernote itself. Evernote, Honda Silicon Valley Lab and Docomo Innovation Ventures will be providing participants with workspace, living space, mentorship from Evernote engineers, marketing and a living stipend, but the program will stop short of investing directly. “At the moment we don’t see the need to fund them. The best possible outcome is a successful Evernote product. We don’t need to take a financial stake for them to be a success,” said Rafe Needleman, the ex-tech journalist who moved to Evernote as a platform advocate last year and is helping run the accelerator. “We expect great Evernote products and that will make this a success for our users.” He does add, though, that part of the advantage of startups or independent developers coming into the Evernote ecosystem could also involve making introductions to others who might become backers. But even if there may not be direct VC-style investment on the part of Evernote, there may be investment in another form: Evernote Food, one of the company’s standalone apps, was first developed during one of Evernote’s hackathons; Evernote eventually bought the IP to create the app. Participants will be chosen from among the winners of the 2013 Evernote Devcup, a multi-regional event Evernote holds to encourage more people using its APIs. The curriculum, it says, will begin in October 2013 with mentorship and development. Then there will be a Silicon Valley-style demo day in November. While Needleman said Evernote was open about what possibilities there could be for potential apps to run on the Evernote platform, he also directed attention to the two co-sponsors of the accelerator. The API for Honda’s in-car system will also be in the mix, and the Docomo influence will mean that there will be a strong mobile element too. These will result in specific prizes in both areas of mobile and
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The Mill LA teams with Sonos Studio for “Bugs” interactive multimedia experience
This week the folks behind VFX studio The Mill LA have joined with Sonos Studio for an interactive multimedia installation event that’ll be going by the name of “Bugs!” This installation will be living in Sonos Studio from the 5th of April until the 5th of May. This installation will mash together the greatness that
Dungeons & Dragons Coming To iOS Later This Year As Wizards Of The Coast Teams Up With Playdek
A new partnership between mobile game publisher Playdek and Wizards of the Coast, famed creator of Magic: The Gathering and other tabletop games will bring Dungeons & Dragons to the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch later this year. Playdek will be developing officially sanctioned and licensed titles that bring various Wizards of the Coast tabletop experiences to iOS devices, with the first such efforts slated to go live sometime in 2013.
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North Korea training teams of ‘cyber warriors,’ experts say
Investigators have yet to pinpoint the culprit behind a synchronized cyberattack in South Korea last week. But in Seoul, the focus remains fixed on North Korea, where South Korean security experts say Pyongyang has been training a team of computer-savvy “cyber warriors” as cyberspace becomes a fertile battleground in the standoff between the two Koreas.
Can Proprietary Language Teams Succeed By Going Open Source?
JerkyBoy writes “RunRev maintains the proprietary LiveCode programming environment. Those familiar with HyperCard on the Mac would feel quite at home using the environment to produce simple applications, and possibly more, although the programming language it incorporates has a few significant shortcomings (e.g., true object orientation). But it is a very versatile environment, currently claiming support for Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, and server-side scripting. For us NOOBs who could never find the time to learn C++ and something like the wxWidgets or QT toolkits, it seems like a pretty good deal. Recently RunRev has done something interesting, however, and that is to create a Kickstarter campaign to move the environment to open source (~500K lines of code, ~700 files). The way that they describe it, it sounds like there will be a commercial version and an open-source version of the environment (hopefully not cripple-ware), and they are asking for money to do this. But I want to know: what are their chances of success with this model? How in the world can they make enough money to maintain their programmers and overhead while giving the environment away? In other words, if a company like RunRev announces that they are moving to an open-source model, should you become more interested or less interested in their product?”
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Ahead Of Bowl Season, ESPN Teams Up With Twitter To Provide College Football Video Highlights In Stream
As second, third and fourth screens become increasingly popular among sports fans, Twitter has been among those platforms to see a significant increase in sports-related chatter. Social media and Twitter in particular have become popular destinations for fans looking to share their thoughts and engage in conversation during the action.
For the holidays this year, Twitter and ESPN have teamed up to provide college sports fans with the ability to watch highlights from this year’s Bowl games on the go. Beginning today, in anticipation of College Football Bowl Season, ESPN will be delivering instant video highlights to sports fans via Twitter.
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DreamIt Ventures Teams Up With Blue Cross, Penn Medicine To Launch An Accelerator For Health Startups
While accelerators may be in a bubble, they’re also beginning to have a measurable, positive impact on the ecosystem. The real opportunity, though, is not in creating another Y Combinator, but in building vertical-specific accelerators that bring together industry partnerships to create learning and business opportunities for their startups. In healthtech, there’s Rock Health, Blueprint, Healthbox, New York Digital Health Accelerator and Startup Health to name a few.
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Microsoft joins malware, ad teams to fight click fraud
Microsoft is linking malicious software analysts with online advertising fraud experts in an effort to disrupt click fraud, a scam where advertisers pay for worthless clicks.
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Adidas teams digitally with Snoop Lion for #bahumbizzle campaign
The online film you’re about to witness may very well blow your mind – and not just because it’s web exclusive, and made to attach directly to a Facebook app where you’ll get un-Scrooge-ified. It’s Snoop Lion (aka Snoop Dogg) speaking on behalf of himself, Ebeneezer Snoop, in what the folks at Adidas are calling
Google Lunar X Prize Teams Now In a Race With China As Well As Each Other
MarkWhittington writes “The Google Lunar X Prize rules of competition have a clause that reduces the $ 20 million grand prize to $ 15 million for the first private group to land a rover on the lunar surface should a government funded rover land first. The first scheduled government funded rover to land on the moon is the Chinese Chang’e 3. It is slated for a 2013 landing.”
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Mobile carriers' Sandy recovery teams brace for another storm
Just as mobile operators start to get their networks back up in most areas affected by Hurricane Sandy last week, another storm is heading for the region that was hardest hit.
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BillGuard Teams Up With Lemon’s Mobile Wallet, Will Alert Users To Fraudulent Charges
BillGuard, the TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2011 runner-up offering credit and debit card users protection against fraudulent charges, is today formally announcing its integration with Lemon’s digital wallet application. The integration was actually soft-launched a couple of weeks ago, where it appears to users as a toggle switch beneath any supported credit or debit card stored in Lemon’s wallet.
NASA Teams To Build Gyroscopes 1,000X More Sensitive Than Current Systems
coondoggie writes “NASA today said it would work with a team of researchers on a three-year, $ 1.8 project to build gyroscope systems that are more than 1,000 times as sensitive as those in use today. The Fast Light Optical Gyroscope project will marry researchers from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center; the US Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center and Northwestern University to develop gyroscopes that could find their way into complex spacecraft, aircraft, commercial vehicles or ships in the future.”
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Estonian Accelerator Startup Wise Guys Secures €1M Deal For Alumni Teams
Tallinn-based tech accelerator Startup Wise Guys – yes, really – has struck a useful deal for the alumni companies that pass through its programme. It’s secured a deal with a venture investor SmartCap, an Estonian based VC, where it will commit €1 million into SWG alumni companies that have a local presence. SmartCap invests along with independent co-investors on a 50-50% basis and often takes a role of the lead investor.
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Two Teams Win the BotPrize
An anonymous reader writes “For the past five years, the 2K BotPrize has challenged artificial intelligence researchers and programmers to create a computer-game-playing bot that plays like a person. It’s one thing to make bots that play computer games very well — computers are faster and more accurate than a person can ever be — but it’s a different thing to make bots that are fun to play against. In a breakthrough result, after years of striving and improvement from 14 different international teams from nine countries, two teams have crossed the humanness barrier! The teams share $ 7000 in prize money and a trip to games company 2K’s Canberra studio. The winners are the UT^2 team from the University of Texas at Austin, and Mihai Polceanu, a doctoral student from Romania, currently studying Artificial Intelligence at ENIB CERV — Centre de Réalité Virtuelle, Brest, France. The UT^2 team is Professor Risto Miikulainen, and doctoral students Jacob Schrum and Igor Karpov. The bots created by the two teams both achieved a humanness rating of 52%, easily exceeding the average humanness rating of the human players, at 40%. It is especially fitting that the prize has been won in the 2012 Alan Turing Centenary Year. The famous Turing test — where a computer has to have a conversation with a human, and pretends to be another human — was the inspiration for the BotPrize competition. Where to now for human-like bots? Next year we hope to propose a new and exciting challenge for game playing bot creators to push their technologies to the next level of human-like performance.”
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Stan Lee Teams Up With Moonshark To Create His First Mobile Game: Verticus
Moonshark, a startup backed by Qualcomm and talent agency CAA, teams up with big-name creative talent to create mobile games and apps. For its first game, it partnered with Jennifer Lopez. For its second title, it’s working with a star of a very different type — Stan Lee, the comic book writer who co-created (with artists Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko) most of Marvel’s biggest characters, including Spider-Man, and who’s now chairman and chief creative officer at POW! Entertainment.
Lee is supposed to take the stage at the Comikaze Expo (or, to use its full title, Stan Lee’s Comikaze Expo) this morning, where he’s going to announce his partnership with Moonshark and show a brief trailer of the upcoming game, which will be called Verticus. I got on the phone with Moonshark CEO Matt Kozlov yesterday to get some of the details.
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Qualcomm teams with LG for S4 Pro quad-core processor action
The folks at Qualcomm have announced that they’ll be collaborating with LG to release their Snapdragon S4 Pro quad-core processor to the market quite soon. This “global device” as they’re calling it at the moment will bring a Adreno 320 GPU as well as support for “higher HD resolution displays”. This bit of architecture will
OUYA teams with iHeartRadio in newest developer update
With the break-out kickstarter project known as the OUYA gaming steam with not just future prospective users, but developers of apps for the Android-based system as well, the folks at iHeartRadio decided that it was time to jump on board. This gaming console works with Android and is ready to bring on a collection of
PageRank Algorithm Reveals Soccer Teams’ Strategies
Using network theory to analyse the performance of soccer teams and players produces unique insights into the strategy of the world’s best team
So what makes Spain so good? Fans, pundits and sports journalists all point to Spain’s famous strategy of accurate quick-fire passing, known as the tiki-taka style. It’s easy to spot and fabulous to watch, as the game on Sunday proved. But it’s much harder to describe and define.
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Microsoft teams with Quanta for 'private cloud in a box'
Microsoft has partnered with Taiwan's Quanta Computer to design a Windows-based system that aims to get business customers up and running quickly on a private cloud.
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Intel teams up with DeviceScape for automatic public WiFi, will hook up your Ultrabook in the background
We all know the coffee shop WiFi routine: crack open the laptop, visit a splash page, and dutifully wait until you’re logged in before you get to Twitter. Through a new deal between Intel and DeviceScape, you won’t even have to think about it. Intel’s Smart Connect tool will soon automatically sign in your Ultrabook to a curated list of quality, open WiFi hotspots, even if the PC is fast asleep. This last trick might need Windows 8′s Connected Standby mode to live up to Intel’s expectations, but the dream is to have your email and social feeds updated and waiting before that laptop or tablet screen has even blinked into life. Intel is leaving some gaps in the story, such as whether or not gadget owners will pay a premium for the fast access. We’d guess that Intel is counting on higher computer (and more importantly, processor) sales to make up the difference.
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Kayak Teams Up With Skyhook To Bring Reliable Location Services To Its Kindle Fire App
Amazon’s Kindle Fire is one of the most popular Android-powered tablets, but it doesn’t feature a GPS chip. Given how important location-based services have become, that’s a bit of a drawback for many developers and quite a few apps that want to access location features on Amazon’s tablet actually crash. To avoid these issues, Kayak teamed up with Skyhook to provide location services for its updated Android app. Kayak, of course, relies heavily on location services to show its users information like nearby hotels and airport information.
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DirecTV to offer broadband to the boonies, teams up with ViaSat and Hughes Satellite providers
Sure, living in the boonies may give you plenty of space to test out high-tech farming equipment, but at what cost? Rural homesteads just aren’t suited for ye olde landline broadband and those fancy satellite setups cost a pretty penny. DirecTV understands, and has struck deals with ViaSat and Hughes to bundle their stellar bandwidth with pre-existing triple play packages to help reign in the cost of high-speed internet. Details on availability and price are still scarce, but DirecTV says customers should be able to take advantage of “certain special offers” later this year. Read on for the official press release, or check out our review of ViaSat’s Exede service here.
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BenchPrep Teams Up With The Princeton Review To Gamify Test Prep
For awhile now “gamification” has largely existed as a buzz word. It’s felt just as ridiculous to write the word as it is to read it. However, as Tim Chang pointed out this weekend, although it’s important to avoid thinking of “gamification as the panacea,” it’s real, it’s moving beyond media and fitness, and it needs to be taken seriously. When it comes to educational tools, gamification has real value in its ability to make learning more fun and engaging. But as with all emerging trends, it can’t be applied willy-nilly.
BenchPrep, a young edtech startup backed by $ 2.2 million from Lightbank, launched last year to convert content from big educational publishers, like McGraw Hill, into interactive web and mobile courses. While the startup expanded beyond college admission test prep in January, today it’s announcing that it is teaming up with Princeton Review to contemporize test prep for students, using game mechanics, leaderboards, and social features to make the tedious and teeth-grinding process of test prep more engaging and, hopefully, more effective.
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RIM teams up with TomTom to bring HD Traffic to BlackBerry devices
Looks like executive switches aren’t the only thing happening at Research in Motion this morning. Earlier today, the Canadian company announced a partnership with TomTom that will see the GPS outfit’s HD Traffic service make its way onto BlackBerry devices. Essentially, this means a handful of BlackBerry applications such as Traffic, Maps and Locate Services will now be powered by TomTom’s offering — a feature we’ve previously seen on iOS and even your browser. Notably, RIM says developers are going to have access to “mapping and traffic” for use within their own apps, which is bound to make a few of you some Berry happy campers. Hey, at least RIM’s making an effort.
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Regal Entertainment Group teams up with Sony to bring subtitle glasses to US theaters
We’ve been hearing about glasses that only display subtitles to those who need them for years (most recently with a trial run in the UK), but it looks like they’re now finally about to enter the US market in a fairly big way. Regal Entertainment Group announced today that it’s partnered with Sony Entertainment to bring the company’s Access Glasses to “practically all” of its digital theaters in the US (that includes the vast majority of its 500+ theaters and more than 4,700 screens in all). Those glasses work with both 2D and 3D movies (the latter courtesy of a clip-on filter), and can provide closed-captioned text in up to six different languages for the hearing impaired, as well as descriptive audio for the visually impaired when they’re paired with headphones. According to Regal, the glasses are already rolling out to some theaters this month, and it says they should be everywhere by the first quarter of 2013.
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Nielsen Teams With Disney/ABC To Measure Consumers’ iPad Usage Behavior
A little bit of news from Nielsen that flew under the radar a few days ago hints at big things ahead for the measurement firm and its goals of understanding user behavior across all platforms. The company said it was teaming up with Disney/ABC Television Group to measure video consumption trends on the iPad.
In the study, participants will download a special “metering” app to their devices, which will analyze the reach, duration frequency and pageviews associated with both their apps and web usage in an effort to provide better insight into actual trends associated with user behavior, as opposed to self-reported data.
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Riverbed teams with Akamai to boost SaaS performance
Anyone who has endured the painful wait of a slow-loading application is familiar with the frustration and lost productivity that follows. That's the problem that motivated Riverbed and Akamai to join forces for a new SaaS acceleration offering, with the objective of resolving SaaS application performance issues that were previously untouchable.
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Netflix teams with eyeIO to lower bandwidth use on movie night
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Contour teams up with Cerevo for live broadcasting POV cameras
Contour is planning to bring the thrills of POV camera footing to live-streaming fans everywhere. Undercutting the live setups of professional broadcasters. The setup involves connecting the mini-HDMI port on its Contour+ helmet-mounted camera and Cerevo‘s LiveShell which then directs the footage to USTREAM. Settings can be tinkered with through a web browser, so you can leave your PC behind when you go off-piste. We’ve also been told that you’ll be able to manage settings through your smartphone. Paired together, expect to eke out at least three hours of 1080p footage. While the Contour+ is out now, a new bundle with the LiveShell will be up for grabs from Contour’s online store starting January 21st, priced at $ 300.
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Google, Microsoft teams work to keep pace with privacy laws
Executives from Microsoft and Google on Thursday gave a glimpse into the size of their privacy organizations, which are required for the companies to try to avoid running foul of complicated U.S. privacy regulations and prepare for changes coming to privacy laws around the globe.
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Real Simple Teams Up With Punchbowl To Offer Digital Greeting Cards
Start to finish party planning site and digital greeting card company Punchbowl has announced a technology-licensing agreement with magazine Real Simple to allow the publication’s readers to create and send free digital greeting cards for all occasions. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
As we’ve written in the past, Punchbowl’s platform allows users to create beautiful online invitations and most recently, digital greeting cards. The startup also provides tools that let you find supplies, organize an after party, set a date, track RSVPs, and much more.
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Visa Teams Up With Shopkick To Dole Out Retailer Reward Points At The Point Of Sale
Visa is making a major move in the commerce and technology space, teaming up with Shopkick, an innovative geo-coupon system that has received funding from Kleiner Perkins, Greylock, SV Angel and others. The two companies will begin offering consumers a way to receive rewards points for retailers at the point of sale when they use their Visa credit cards.
With the new partnership, called ‘Buy & Collect’, Shopkick users will get rewards (or ‘kicks’) for swiping their Visa debit or credit card at any one of six retailers, including ToysRus, Old Navy, Wet Seal, American Eagle, Simon Malls, and Arden B.
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CrunchFund, Angels Back Flowdock, A Group Chat Application For Teams
Flowdock, a group chat application for teams and businesses, has raises $ 650,000 in seed funding from Gil Penchina, CrunchFund, Marten Mickos, and IDG Ventures.
Flowdock, which aims to disrupt the group chat space, is a collaboration web app for technical teams. As we wrote in our initial review of Flowdock, the startup brings activity from your project management tools (Pivotal Tracker, JIRA), version control systems (GitHub, BitBucket, Kiln), customer feedback channels (Zendesk, email lists) and many other sources to a single stream. Team can then work on the issues together, chat about problems, and react in seconds.
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Dropbox for Teams offers businesses copious amounts of sharable storage
Dropbox is an indispensable part of many a computer users’ arsenal, including several here at Engadget. But, the company hasn’t had a viable option for businesses who would have an obvious use for a tool that allows you to easily sync files between PCs, share them amongst users and always have backups in the cloud. The boys and girls at the Y Combinator startup know that there’s lots of money to be made in the enterprise space and that’s why they’ve unveiled Dropbox for Teams. The general experience is the same, but rather than individually managed chunks of storage, teams share one large repository, starting at 1TB for five users. The base plan costs $ 795 a year and additional users, which also includes 200GB of storage, can be tacked on for $ 125 annually. The business offering also includes special tools for administrators to add or delete users and dedicated phone support. Check out the full PR after the break.
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