The Mobile Tourist: How Smartphones Are Shaking Up The Travel Market
Smartphones and fast mobile Internet access have transformed nearly all facets of life, but travel has seen some of the most dramatic changes.Gone are the days of paper maps and awkward conversations...
View ArticleUS Marines Launch A 'Tosh.0' Style YouTube Show
For those Americans who are deployed or working out of foreign duty stations, the Armed Forces Network television can get pretty ... let's be nice and say, "dry.""I'm coming from AFN in Japan and once...
View ArticleMicrosoft Nabs A Giant, 100,000-User Contract For Its Office 365 Cloud (MSFT)
Microsoft has announced another big win for its cloud version of Office, Office 365.This time it's a 100,000-seat deal with the State of Texas.This follows news in recent months of a 600,000-seat...
View ArticleThe Difference Between Men And Women On Mobile
Mobile Insights is a daily newsletter from BI Intelligence delivered first thing every morning exclusively to BI Intelligence subscribers. Sign up for a free trial of BI Intelligence today.The...
View ArticleHere's Why Facebook Is Getting A Refund On Its Income-Tax Bills (FB)
There's a new report that attempts to paint Facebook as a giant tax-dodger.The Citizens for Tax Justice says Facebook got a $429 million tax refund from the U.S. government, despite the fact that it...
View ArticleEA And Zynga Have Given Up On A Pointless Lawsuit Over An All-But-Dead Game...
Electronic Arts and Zynga just filed documents to dismiss the case EA filed last year against Zynga alleging that Zynga's The Ville social game copied EA's The Sims franchise.Both parties are bearing...
View ArticleThis CEO Quit Yahoo's Board After Spending 'Hundreds Of Hours' In Meetings...
When we sat down recently with Intuit CEO Brad Smith at the financial-software company's Mountain View headquarters, we had one burning question.Why did Smith quit Yahoo's board?His answer was...
View ArticleInfluential Tech Site AllThingsD Is In Discussions With Its Parent Company...
Influential tech blog AllThingsD might leave its parent News Corp., Peter Lauria and Nadia Damouni at Reuters report.AllThingsD is led by Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg. They have developed the site...
View ArticleFACEBOOK: We Were Hacked Last Month (FB)
In a new blog post, Facebook is telling us that it was hacked."Last month, Facebook Security discovered that our systems had been targeted in a sophisticated attack," they wrote. "This attack occurred...
View ArticleYahoo's Mobile Revenue Is Just $125 Million Annually
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View ArticleSomething Is Happening This Fall With Apple TV
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View ArticleCHART OF THE DAY: What Happens To Old Smartphones
What happens to old smartphones when they're no longer being used? They just sit around, for the most part.That's according to a survey by Gazelle, a site that takes trade-ins of old smartphones,...
View ArticleTwitter Is Shutting Down Posterous, A Site For Blogging
Posterous, a blogging service acquired by Twitter last year, is shutting down at the end of April.When Twitter acquired Posterous, the information-sharing network made it clear that it was buying the...
View ArticleREVEALED: Twitter Goes Through 280 Pounds Of Bacon A Week
We had the inestimable pleasure of meeting Twitter chef Lance Holton earlier this week.Holton, better known as @birdfeeder, is just as funny and charming in person as he is in the short videos he posts...
View ArticleZOOM! Xoom Shares Up 59% After Market Debut, Kicking Off A Year Of IPOs (XMCM)
Xoom, a payments company focused on international money transfers, saw its shares jump 59 percent to $25.49 from its offering price of $16 in its debut on the Nasdaq market.The San Jose Mercury News...
View ArticleGoogle Is Going To Open Its Own Stores (GOOG)
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View ArticleIf You Want A Glimpse Of The Future, Just Look At Taxi Apps
THERE IS little doubt that the proliferation of taxi-booking apps is changing how people get around. Hailo, which is already used by more than half of all black-cab drivers in London, is also available...
View ArticleThe Surface Pro Is Back In Stock Online (MSFT)
Microsoft's Surface Pro tablet is back in stock through the company's online store, but shipping times are about two weeks for the 128 GB model. The tablet launched last week, but quickly sold out...
View ArticleApple Wouldn't Give Its Blessing, So Two Guys Built An Apple Museum On Their...
Want to lay eyes on a historic Apple computer worth well over half a million bucks?Get yourself to Roswell, Ga., a suburb of Atlanta, on April 20 & 21 for the very first Apple Pop-Up Museum and...
View ArticleSony's PlayStation 4 Will Let You Stream Games Over The Web (SNE)
Sony's next PlayStation video game console will let you stream games over the Web, according to The Wall Street Journal.That means some games won't need a regular disc. Instead, the games will be...
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