BII MOBILE INSIGHTS: Smartphones Driving Huge Growth In Mobile Video
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View ArticleDeveloper Bashes Apple For Pulling One Of The Most Popular Apps In The App...
Applepulled a very popular app called AppGratis from the App Store this weekend, claiming it violates two clauses in the terms all developers must follow.AppGratis helps users discover new apps and...
View ArticleMarissa Mayer Is Flying 25 Stars From Media, Government, And Academia To The...
Later this month, Yahoo will fly 25 guests to the Turks and Caicos Islands in the Caribbean for a "thought leader" summit, a source familiar with the event's planning tells us.Half the guests will be...
View ArticleMicrosoft's New Plan To Raise Prices Is Scaring Some Enterprise Customers,...
Microsoft rolled out a new pricing scheme on an enterprise product called BizTalk that could cost some of its biggest customers a lot more money, licensing consultant Cynthia Farren told Business...
View ArticleDell To HP: We Are Five Years Ahead Of Your New Moonshot Servers (HPQ)
HP CEO Meg Whitman has called the company's brand new, very small, very low power Moonshot servers an industry game changer and she's not wrong in some respects.She praised Moonshot when HP formally...
View ArticleVolvo's New Cars Automatically Brake For Cyclists
Luxury cars these days come chock full of safety features that help drivers stay awake, keep in their lanes, and avoid collisions. Mostly, that comes in the form of flashing lights and beeping alarms...
View Article6 Things That Are Massively Overpriced If You Buy Them In Bitcoin
In the past 24 hours, the value of Bitcoin has surged more than 26 percent, and now stands at $236.As you can imagine, some merchants are having trouble keeping up Inspired by NYMag's Kevin Roose, here...
View ArticleMOBILE VIDEO: Inside The Boom And Massive Monetization Opportunity
Mobile video has exploded for three reasons: one is the rollout of faster 4G LTE wireless networks, which support on-the-go video habits.A second reason is that younger audiences are adopting mobile...
View ArticleThe British Can Now Pay $15 To Message Snoop Dogg On Facebook
Facebook users in the UK can now pay to message their favorite celebrities' inboxes.Since December, Facebook has charged many users in the US $1 to message strangers' inboxes directly. The charge is...
View ArticleHere's Why Bitcoin Speculators Are Just Laughing At Anyone Who Calls It A Bubble
As Bitcoin prices charge ever higher, the same people who were dismissing Bitcoin as a "bubble" at $35 six weeks ago are now huffing about it being even more of a "bubble" at $235.And maybe they're...
View ArticleMicrosoft Will Officially Pull The Plug On Windows XP In One Year (MSFT)
On April 8, 2014, Microsoft will officially retire Windows XP, the company's most popular version of Windows ever, first launched about 12 years ago.That doesn't mean if you have XP running on some...
View ArticleApple's iMessage Returns After Service Outage (AAPL)
UPDATE: iMessage is back online after being down for a few hours.EARLIER: Not that it should come as a surprise to anyone, but Apple's iMessage is down right now. Several users have reported problems...
View ArticleApple Bloggers Think JCPenney Should Have Given Ron Johnson More Time (AAPL,...
Ron Johnsongot a raw deal at JC Penney, according to a few Apple bloggers.John Gruber at Daring Fireball wrote, " they shouldn’t have hired him if they weren’t going to give him more time to turn it...
View ArticleCHART OF THE DAY: Why People Watch Video On Their Smartphones
This chart comes from Business Insider Intelligence, a new research and and analysis service focused on the mobile and Internet industries. Sign up for a free trial here.Video consumption on mobile...
View ArticleA Mesmerizing GIF Of A Perfect Game Of Snake
A lot of people are passing around this GIF of the classic cell phone game Snake.It's a perfect game, sped up to the point where you can watch the whole thing in about two and a half minutes.Check it...
View ArticleYAHOO SOURCE: Here's The Real Reason Marissa Mayer Bought A 17-Year-Old's...
Back in March, Yahoo bought a startup called Summly for $30 million.Before Yahoo shut it down, Summly was a news aggregation app for smartphones.The deal got a lot of attention because Summly's CEO is...
View ArticleCisco Replaces CTO John McCool (CSCO)
Seventeen-year Cisco veteran John McCool is leaving, the company confirmed to Bloomberg's Peter Burrows. He will be replaced by Tom Wilburn.McCool was the CTO and senior VP of the Global Enterprise...
View ArticleTake A Look Behind The Desks Of 23 Successful Tech People
The world's most successful people don't mess around when it comes to their working space.A desk has to be a place where you can be productive, healthy, and comfortable for many hours, day in day...
View ArticleMossberg's Facebook Phone Review: It's 'Elegantly Designed,' But It Has...
What does Walt Mossberg, the world's most influential personal technology, writer think of Facebook's new phone?After reading his review, it's hard to tell.Mossberg reviewed the HTC First, the first...
View ArticleMeet The Engineer Who Saved LinkedIn (LNKD)
Kevin Scott is LinkedIn's senior vice president of engineering. The University of Virgina graduate is credited with saving LinkedIn's back-end systems from the brink of destruction.BusinessWeek reports...
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