Author Archive: Efren Toscano

Blackboard Inc. announced today that it will be acquiring both Elluminate Inc. and Wimba Inc. Elluminate and Wimba offer advanced virtual classroom technology that allows education institutions to hold synchronous live courses over the Web, including audio, video, white board and social learning capabilities.

Tired of constantly switching between applications and checking into every geo-location service out there? Some people use Foursquare others use Gowalla and a few others use different services out there as well. It gets a bit difficult to let your friends know where you are when they do not all use the same service. So Check.in answered our woes with the “One check in to rule them all”.

TechZulu has been following along with BuzzVoice for quite some time now. From release date to the name change, BuzzVoice has been consistently innovating and growing bigger and better with every update. If you have used BuzzVoice in the past you will notice a substantial speed increase in the app.

Software development company ACME AtronOmatic has just released iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch application named Bandana. Bandana is officially dubbed “The Gaydar App”. This app is a social networking application for the Gay and Bisexual community.

Back in January of 2008 we learned that Amazon invested $4MM in the close out site Woot. Today Woot announced that they will be acquired by Amazon and become independent subsidiary of Amazon. According to Woot:

Announced this morning, Los Angeles startup NeighborGoods.net is taking its sharing goodness all across the country. That right folks they are national now and will have neighbors all across America sharing, buying and selling items to each other in no time

Just about every major event has its own iPhone app and now Lollapalooza is entering the App game for their upcoming concert in Chicago August 6-8, 2010. However, they are not just simply releasing an iPhone app for the event they have also integrated Slacker Radio into the app.

Garage sales have always been a spot for either some awesome finds or some other persons unwanted garbage. So why waste your time and getting your fingers covered in ink on local classifieds. iGarageSale allows you to find the gems without digging through the dirt.

Lionhead Studios is best known for its Fable IP, a fantasy ation-RPG that probably needs no introduction here, so I’ll get right down to my experience with Fable III.

Last Saturday, I told you about my first experience with Kinect, Microsoft’s supposedly ber console add-on. Like I said then, Dance Central on the Kinect was a blast, but there is no way this peripheral can live up to the hype it has been building, especially with the problems I have with two of its other games, Joyride and Kinect Adventures.