Great upgraded news app for iPad: News360
http://www.news360app.com/ If you just want the news, there is no better than News360. I still like Flipboard, too, because it mixes in social which is very important to me, but I gotta admit that News360 is getting more of my time, particularly when I just want to see the hot news. Here the founder explains it to me and talks about why his iPad app has been redesigned from ground up and why it's better than other apps to see the news.
PCMag's Editor's Choice: a hard drive that backs itself up
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2406513,00.asp announced that Seagate had gotten blessed by PC Magazine for its Backup Plus hard drive. This is a drive that comes with cloud computing built in: it backs itself up. Hear how here.
Cloud9 brings the future of programming to your browser today
http://c9.io/ is a new kind of programming IDE: one that runs in the Web browser. Watch here to see the incredible performance. It also lets programmers see their code in new ways by zooming in and out.
A look at DotNetNuke, .NET-based open source content management system
It's the leading Open Source Web Content Management Platform running on Microsoft .NET. Here we meet execs behind http://www.dotnetnuke.com/ and talk about the system, which lets companies build communities and websites, not to mention ecommerce sites. http://www.dotnetnuke.com/ has more.
Waze gets you gassed up (the best crowd-sourced traffic app just got better)
Waze is a traffic app. You know, a map system. But why do we need it when we have Google Maps, the new Apple maps, Nokia maps, Bing maps, and other systems to get around? Well, Waze uses all of us to make the system better. You can report accidents to others. Let everyone know about hazards, or cops, but now they added a cool feature that can actually save you money. What is it? They show you gas prices on the map and even made a deal with a ton of US gas stations to save Waze'rs money. Get it at http://www.waze.com/
Kibits brings easier to figure out privacy and groups to mobile
Figuring out how to distribute photos to, say, just your bowling league buddies, is often tough on Google+ or Facebook. Here Kibits tries to give us much better groups on mobile devices and ways to distribute stuff from photos to Dropbox items. Get it at http://kibits.com/ for Android and iOS.