This Is The Free Calendar App That Everyone's Going Nuts For (AAPL)
There's no shortage of alternative calendar apps for your iPhone.They run the gamut from free to pricey and clunky to elegant.But a new calendar app, Sunrise, combines the best of these – it's free,...
View ArticleSergey Brin’s Brilliant Strategy To Make Google Glass Seem Normal
Since Google launched its reality-augmenting Project Glass in June, it’s been pretty much impossible find a picture of Google co-founder Sergei Brin in which he’s not wearing the futuristic eye-piece....
View ArticleThis $20 Phone Has 35 Days Of Battery Life
The Nokia 105 may not feature a multimega pixel camera or a touchscreen but its new Nokia 105 phone will cost a mere 15 euros (£13) before taxes.Speaking at the launch of the new Nokia phones at the...
View ArticleUnderstanding The Many Different Meanings Of 'Social'
Social Media Insights is a daily newsletter from Business Insider that collects and delivers the top social media news first thing every morning. You can sign up to receive Social Media Insightshere or...
View ArticleSee The 5 Most Viral Cell Phone Ads Of All Time
This week, the Mobile World Congress is taking place in Barcelona. The annual four-day event brings together more than 70,000 people from the cell phone industry to showcase new products and talk about...
View ArticleRadio Jamming — Not A Thing Of The Past
AMID all the fevered talk and high-tech details surrounding the “cyber cold war” that China seems to be waging—and perhaps winning—against America and many other nations, there is something...
View ArticleThis Is 'Apple's Biggest Challenge' Making An iWatch (AAPL)
It's looking more and more likely these days that Apple will indeed make its own smartwatch, unofficially dubbed the "iWatch."Just last week, an Apple patent filing surfaced describing a device that...
View ArticleShazam Is Driving $300 Million In iTunes And Amazon Sales
It's a long time since Shazam was just that useful app to identify (or "tag") music playing in the real world. In 2013, the company has a burgeoning business based around people tagging TV shows and...
View ArticleThe Future Of Desktop Computing Will Only Cost You $80
The Leap Motion controller, a computer accessory that lets you control your Mac or Windows 7 PC with hand gestures, will launch May 13 for a very reasonable $79.99, the company announced...
View Article'Apple Is Potentially Facing A Very Rough Two-Year Period,' Says Jefferies...
Apple should not sign up for hedge fund manager David Einhorn's preferred stock plan, says Jefferies analyst Peter Misek.He thinks Apple is going to need its cash to ride out a "potentially very rough...
View ArticleFacebook Invited Almost Everyone To Its Ad Exchange BUT Google [THE BRIEF]
Good morning, AdLand. Here's what you need to know today:Facebook just welcomed AOL's Advertising.com — now AOL Networks — to FBX. While that's great for AOL and its advertisers, this recent invite...
View ArticleAfter Doug Kass Tweeted Apple Might Do A Stock Split, He Started Selling His...
Here's something that will make you feel a little bit queasy.Yesterday, investment manager, and media personality, Doug Kass tweeted a rumor that Apple was going to announce a stock split today.Right...
View ArticleDon't Update Your Kindle App Or Else Your Entire Library Could Be Deleted (AMZN)
If you use a Kindle app (as opposed to a Kindle device) to read your books, updating to the most current version may wipe out your library.Amazon even acknowledges this in the App Store listing for the...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Jack Dorsey And Other Techies Want More Kids To...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Square founder Jack Dorsey, Tony Hsieh of Zappos, and singer will.i.am all realize the value in coding.That's why they're supporting Code.org's efforts to...
View ArticleHow Apple Can Fix The Pain-In-The-Rear Multitasking On The iPad (AAPL)
As popular as Apple's iOS operating system for iPhones and iPads is, it functions largely the same as it did when it was first introduced more than six years ago.That normally wouldn't be a big deal,...
View ArticleThis Timeline Suggests A Twitter IPO Might Happen In August
The launch of Twitter's Ads API— an "application programming interface" that allows advertisers to plug their own ads into Twitter's ecosystem — will probably turn out to be one of the more significant...
View ArticleCHART OF THE DAY: What People Want In A Mobile Device
Nielsen did a survey of consumers around the world to find out the top critera for people buying mobile devices. You can see the full results here. It varies from country to country, but "good value"...
View ArticleSTELLAService And Its Army Of Online Secret Shoppers Raise $15 Million Series...
STELLAService, a customer service rating company for e-commerce sites, has raised a $15 million Series B round led by NorwestVenture Partners.Existing investors Battery Ventures, DFJ Gotham Ventures,...
View ArticleMobile Search: How Smartphones Are Disrupting The Internet's Biggest Business
Search — the very cornerstone of the Web — has begun to show signs of decline on desktops and laptops. Meanwhile, search is surging on smartphones and tablets. Mobile searches are quickly becoming the...
View ArticleLarry Ellison Just Bought An Airline — Here Are All The Other Extravagant...
Larry Ellison just added another prize possession to his personal portfolio: his own Hawaiian airline.As we previously reported, Ellison was considering buying Island Air to help people get to Lanai,...
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