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Lock Screen - Slide to Unlock Your Screen

There are several ways to lock your Mac’s screen and then easily unlock it using your system account’s password. Lock Screen is a simple application that allows you to activate your screen using an action specific to the iPhone or iPad: slide.When it comes to securing your Mac’s screen in a matter o...

28 October 2011
06:51 GMT

Google to Shut Down Slide Apps, Disco, Photovine, Pool Party and Co.

In a somewhat surprising move, Google's Slide skunkworks team, will be dissolved and employees will be sent to different parts of Google. The team's leader, Max Levchin is leaving Google, and most of Slide's products, many of which have only been around for a few months, or less, will be killed off. ...

26 August 2011
04:10 GMT

Google's Snazzy Photovine Photo-Sharing App and Service Now Available to All

Most eyes are set on Google+, but Google is working on the sidelines on several other social projects, all coming from the Slide team which has a free hand in what it can build. One of the first and most fleshed out projects coming from Slide is Photovine, a theme-based, photo-sharing app, which has now been made ava...

18 August 2011
06:51 GMT

VideoInbox, Another App from Google's Stealthy Social Project

Google's Slide acquisition is beginning to look more productive by the day. The team, which remained intact even after the company was acquired by Google, has been putting out products like crazy in the past few months. The latest to be found, not necessarily the latest to be launched, is VideoInbox, an email ne...

23 July 2011
08:41 GMT

You Can Now Request a Photovine Invite, Google's Stealthy Photo Sharing Service

Google's Slide team is wasting no time, Google+ may be moving fast, but the 'other' social web group at Google is moving just as fast. The Photovine website went live very recently, but had only a landing page and a few explanations about the service. Now, while Photovine is still not up and running...

13 July 2011
09:16 GMT

Google's Slide Skunworks Team Is Behind Photovine, a New Photo Sharing Service

The mystery behind Photovine.com, the website registered to Google, has been solved. The site is now live and, as was expected, it's a photo sharing app, one focused on sharing your pics with the world based around common subjects, or 'vines.' Also unsurprisingly, it's yet another project, the ...

12 July 2011
03:01 GMT

Disco 3.0, Google's Undercover Messaging App, Is Here

All of the Google+ hype may actually be a good thing for the Slide team working inside Google on a set of completely unrelated social apps and services, since it enables it to move forward largely unnoticed. The first and most advanced such app is Disco, a group messaging app that recently got a large update. Disc...

11 July 2011
08:35 GMT

Google's Stealthy Social Web 'Plan B' Has Another Member Prizes.org

Google+ the company's latest, biggest and probably most compelling venture into social networking, is grabbing all of the headlines, but Google has a plan B, of sorts, as well in the social web world. Slide, a company it bought last year, has been building social apps and services within Google for a while now, ...

4 July 2011
11:07 GMT

Google Owned 'Startup' Slide Launches Group Messaging App Disco

For several months now, Google has said that it is working on making its teams more independent and work more like startups inside the company. One of the foremost examples is Slide, a company that Google acquired last year but which continued to operate on its own. And now we have the first palpable, so to speak, re...

26 March 2011
06:30 GMT

Google Confirms Social Gaming Company Slide Acquisition

Google has confirmed the Slide acquisition, reported earlier this week. The social gaming and app maker has been acquired as Google is building up its ‘social’ game to take Facebook head-on. Google makes the reason rather obvious in the announcement, even though it doesn’t go as far as saying that i...

7 August 2010
05:24 GMT

Nokia 6500 slide Review

Fully aware that its own developed Symbian operating system is not a perfect one, Nokia offers users devices with its newly launched S40 5th Edition. The latter is a much more user friendly and it seems that also 'lacks' the bugs and glitches that have been so much present in Nokia's Symbian OS. Normal...

18 January 2008
10:14 GMT

Nokia 6500 Slide Gets FCC Approval

FCC has just approved Nokia 6500 Slide, soon after doing the same with the Classic version of the mobile phone. Both devices will soon hit the US market, now that they have passed the FCC test.It looks like Nokia is really looking to make the best of the 3G market in the US, although it is a rather flimsy one at this...

24 August 2007
08:29 GMT

Nokia 6500 Has Two Looks: Classic and Slide

Nokia brings for the European market a new phone model. Nokia 6500 looks fresh and stylish and this might catch the interest of many people and bring high anticipations on its release date.This 3G handset actually comes in two forms. We have the slider phone and the classic-looking one. They both have a stylish and m...

1 June 2007
07:56 GMT


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