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For an app that caused such an uproar, Google’s Photovine was not long for this world. After rampant speculation about the mobile photo-sharing platform began early this summer, we all started wondering if Google was making a go at Instagram-like success. And now, we clearly know better. About a week after Photovine officially launched, Google killed Slide, the team behind the infant app. We admit Photovine was really good at getting us overly… Read More

While we were all paying attention to Steve Jobs stepping down from Apple, Google pulled the plug on Slide, the social networking apps company that it purchased last year for $200 million. The shutdown will result in the termination of nearly all Slide projects Slide operated primarily as an independent company, with Google there to back it up. Leading the way at Slide was Max Levchin, who famously founded PayPal. AllThingsD reports that… Read More

Step right up, everyone's a winner. Over the July 4 weekend, Google launched its new Prizes.org website; released in Beta format. The crowd-sourcing competition site promises cash prizes for the best answers to user-created questions. The new site is the latest in Google's barrage of product launches. Though Prizes.org doesn't carry quite as loud a Google branding as some of the other products, the site has the standard Google… Read More

Google jumped on the group texting bandwagon late this week with the launch of the Disco Messenger app for the iPhone. Some have called the app a “secret,” since it didn't arrive bearing the Google name. Instead, the app was released by Slide, a company Google purchased last August for $182 million. Like most group messaging apps now available, Disco allows users to create groups and send texts to everyone in the group at… Read More

Social networking developer Slide—perhaps best known for hts FunSpace and Top Friends social networking applications—has inked a deal with major media companies to distribute video content on the popular social networking site Facebook via a new application called FunSpace Channels. Partners include Warner Brothers, CBS Interactive, and Comcast's E! Entertainment channel—plus Hulu, the online video joint venture… Read More

Making math cool is a tough sell, but you can’t blame Texas Instruments for trying. As part of this year’s annual back-to-school frenzy, TI has released new colorful editions of its TI-84 Plus Silver Edition graphing calculator, a staple for high school students across the country. The calculators, which were once available only in sparkly silver cases, now come in pink, orange, purple and blue, with separate slide… Read More

Back in the pre-crash days of the dot-com revolution, it was possible to tell which technologies and sectors were hottest by keeping track of where venture capitalists and financial institutions invested their money. These days, all the buzz seems to be around social networking, and investors seem to be willing to put their money where their buzzers are: Facebook application developer Slide has managed to raise $50 million in a round of… Read More

Members of the text-messaging generation will be thrilled to learn T-Mobile and Danger have put an end to month of speculation by announcing two new Sidekick mobile devices, each aiming at different segments of the messaging-savvy market. First, the top-of-the-line Sidekick LX will offer a 3-inch QVGA display—more than twice the resolution of the previous high-end model—along with a 1.3 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, and the… Read More

“The Kodak slide projector has been a hallmark for quality and ubiquity, used for decades to produce the best in audio visual shows throughout the world,” the company said. “However, in recent years, slide projectors have declined in usage, replaced by alternative projection technologies.” Kodak has produced millions of slide projectors over the decades and, although many are still in use today, the number of… Read More