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| Jun 30, 2023 | The history of Apple in photos, from the early Steve Jobs era and iPhone launch to crossing the $3 trillion milestone under Tim Cook | Kuni/AP
Apple's market cap passed $3 trillion on Friday morning.
But the iPhone-maker almost didn't make it this far — it struggled in the '90s until Steve Jobs returned as the company's CEO.
Apple has weathered hits and flops over the year... |
| May 31, 2023 | A brief history of VR and AR | By the time Howard Rheingold’s “Virtual Reality” was published in 1991, the Sensorama was already a “slowly deteriorating” relic stashed away in a cabana next the pool at its inventor’s West Los Angeles home. Rheingold describes awe — even ... |
| Apr 28, 2023 | Конец эпохи компьютерных журналов в Америке | Апрельские выпуски Maximum PC и MacLife уже доступны в ближайших газетных киосках (если, конечно, поблизости от вас есть газетные киоски). У обоих почтенных изданий, появившихся еще в 1986 году (тогда они были известны как Boot и MacAddict)... |
| Oct 31, 2022 | Why the App Store’s tone-deaf gambling ads make me worry about Apple | Enlarge
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| Oct 1, 2022 | Google Glass — which aimed to revolutionize wearable tech — was a 'carnival of failure' according to the author of a dishy new book on the early 2010s non-phenom | Cracked and broken glasses in front of the google company logo. Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images
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| Jun 30, 2022 | Что такое Shareware и почему такой софт был популярен в 1990-е | Звучит как абсолютно безумная идея: Раздавать свое программное обеспечение бесплатно и рассчитывать, что оно настолько понравится людям, что они захотят заплатить вам деньги. Такова была идея shareware, популярной модели коммерческого прогр... |
| Sep 26, 2021 | Facebook’s wearable glasses can succeed where Google Glass flopped | Ashish Bhatia Contributor
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| Feb 17, 2021 | Content Moderation Case Study: Google 'Removes' German Residences From Street View By Request (2010) | Summary: Google’s Street View is a powerful mapping tool that allows users to visit places they’ll possibly never be able to visit and allows local users to see homes and businesses they’re trying to locate. |
| Feb 17, 2021 | Content Moderation Case Study: Google 'Removes' German Residences From Street View By Request (2010) | Summary: Google's Street View is a powerful mapping tool that allows users to visit places they'll possibly never be able to visit and allows local users to see homes and businesses they're trying to locate. |
| May 2, 2020 | We need more video games that are social platforms first, games second | During these long, mundane physically-distant days, stretching on into an uncertain future like an ever-lengthening beigeish corridor, it’s impossible not to miss hanging out with friends. Especially the kind of hanging out where you’re not... |
| Dec 22, 2019 | От чекинов к беспокойству за приватность: какими были технологические тренды в 2010 году и чего ждать от 2020 года Статьи редакции | Основные итоги прошлого и прогнозы будущего.
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| Oct 27, 2019 | 12 products and features hyped up by Apple that totally bombed | Animoji were supposed to transform messaging, but really just transformed people's faces.
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| Sep 19, 2018 | Хронология: как развивалась виртуальная, дополненная и смешанная реальности | От стереоскопа для просмотра «объёмных» фотографий до AR-очков Magic Leap.
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Последние несколько лет VR и AR применяют не только для игр и развлечений, компании используют её для продвижения своих продуктов.... |
| Jul 5, 2018 | iOS App Store turning 10, APAC makes up 60% of consumer spend | APAC accounts for nearly 60% of App Store consumer spends
Apps in iOS App Store ‘Top 10 lists’ mostly from China or the US
Half of the apps with most consumer spend in 2018 (thus far) are from China
The US is still the single largest market... |
| Jun 3, 2018 | Why hasn’t big tech cleaned up its mess? | The extraordinary backlash against big tech is rooted in three basic issues that have upset consumers:
1. Unwittingly giving foreign hackers (and private individuals as well as companies) the tools to attack the bedrock of our democracy
2. ... |
| Jun 3, 2018 | Why hasn’t big tech cleaned up its mess? | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Sep 2, 2017 | Apple Reinvents Force Touch to Address Devices with bases that have Varying Degrees of Stability
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| Jul 6, 2017 | Flux: Robot Queen Helen Greiner on robots, drones and the self-aware Roomba | Alice Lloyd George Contributor
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| Jun 26, 2017 | От локального производителя компьютеров на Тайване до одного из мировых лидеров рынка | История Acer.
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| Jun 25, 2017 | Apple Ships The Revolution | People line up to be the first to buy an iPhone at Apple's flagship store on Fifth Avenue on June... [+] 29, 2007 in New York City. (Photo by Michael Nagle/Getty Images) |
| Apr 27, 2017 | Bitcoin's DC Debut: All Eyes Watch the US Government's Response | Jerry Brito is a pioneer in matters relating to cryptocurrency regulation. A former senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center, he now serves as executive director at non-profit advocacy group Coin Center.
In this entry in CoinDesk's &qu... |
| Feb 5, 2017 | Direct-to-patient email and text communication is best for engaging patients in their care | Research proves it works
Many studies show the impact of both email and text on improving patient outcomes.
One systematic review found that 8 out of 9 studies support text messaging as an effective tool for behavior change in areas such as... |
| Jan 12, 2017 | App.net shutting down Twitter-like social platform on March 14, open-sources code | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
In Twitter’s early years, there were numerous com... |
| Oct 21, 2016 | Three Big Mistakes Leaders Make When Managing Millennials | Millennials have become the largest demographic in the workplace. But managers of all ages have struggled to find the best way to connect with a wave of twenty- and thirtysomethings who do most of their typing with their thumbs, work wearin... |
| Jun 26, 2016 | The Birth of Atari, Modern Computer Design, And The Software Industry: This Week In Tech History | June 27, 1846 |
| Jun 18, 2016 | Our cellphones are killing us | We are, it seems, long past the moment when there’s nothing worth doing unless we’re on the phone — photographing it, uploading it, texting it, tweeting it.
And it’s killing us.
On June 7, a New Jersey man fell 40 feet to his death while tr... |
| Feb 23, 2016 | MasterClass Raises $15 Million For Online Classes Taught By Celebrities | MasterClass, a San Francisco-based online education platform that’s luring some of the most talented professionals in their respective fields to teach, has raised $15 million in Series B funding led by New Enterprise Associates.
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| Oct 27, 2015 | Ads are key to Unlockd business plan | A Melbourne startup has launched a new product that will serve smartphone users advertisements when they unlock their devices as a way of for paying for services.
In exchange for agreeing to be advertised to in this manner, users receive di... |
| Oct 1, 2015 | From Kodak To Google, How Privacy Panics Distort Policy | Alan McQuinn Contributor
Alan McQuinn is a research assistant at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a think tank focused on the intersection of technological innovation and public policy.
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| Jun 19, 2015 | WeMesh For iOS Lets You Watch Videos With Friends In Real Time | A mobile application called WeMesh wants to make watching videos more of a real-time social experience by allowing you and your friends to watch videos together in perfect sync, while also texting and voice chatting. Today, the app aggregat... |
| Mar 14, 2015 | The New MacBook makes you Dream of What Could Be
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| Jan 13, 2015 | Apple Supports Charlie Hebdo And Free Speech, Just Not In Its App Store | In what is likely the fastest App Store approval in iOS history, Apple took only one hour to greenlight an app that promotes a free speech campaign for Charlie Hebdo. Of course, Apple would never have approved an actual Charlie Hebdo app ha... |
| Nov 28, 2014 | Phablet vs. Smartphone and a Tablet: Find Out Which Option is Best for Your Needs | Christian de Looper, Tech Times 28 November 2014, 04:11 pm
The line between smartphones and tablets is fading, with many vendors and handset makers opting to release larger "phablets" rather than making a clearer distinction betwe... |
| Oct 28, 2014 | FTC Sues AT&T Over “Deceptive” Data-Speed Limits | There’s a singular truth about the state of mobile today: All the cellular carriers limit bandwidth for heavy data users. But the devil is in the details. And that’s where AT&T is now locking horns with the Federal Trade Commission, whi... |
| Oct 15, 2014 | When the ATM runs Windows, how safe is your money? | How safe is Microsoft Windows? After all, the list of malware that has caused major headaches worldwide over the last 15 years is long – viruses, worms and Trojans have forced computers to shut down, knocked South Korea offline and even ove... |
| Sep 7, 2014 | Silicon Valley’s 49ers show off the ‘best high-tech stadium in the world’ (photo gallery) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Sep 7, 2014 | Silicon Valley’s 49ers show off the ‘best high-tech stadium in the world’ (photo gallery) | In the midst of Silicon Valley, the San Francisco 49ers NFL football team now have what could be the best high-tech stadium in the world.
Levi’s Stadium, located next to the Great America theme park in Santa Clara, Calif., was built in the ... |
| Jul 11, 2014 | If The Future’s Battery-Powered, We’re Screwed | I live in the future. My body, pockets and home are festooned with smart gadgets that can command nearly everything in my life with a phrase, gesture or tap. It’s a cool and exciting experience—or at least it would be, if it didn’t constant... |
| Jun 5, 2014 | Küdzoo: mobile app turns good grades into real-life perks | The average person checks their phone about 110 times a day, according to a 2013 report. 110 times.
Here in Philadelphia, it’s also no secret that city schools are facing an uphill battle in improving graduation rates.
Take both those trend... |
| May 13, 2014 | U.K. Wanelo Competitor Nuji Launches A Weird App With An “Interactive” Woman As Part Of Its Interface | What are today’s mobile shopping applications missing? You know, the social and collaborative e-commerce services, like Wanelo or Polyvore, for example? Better search? Streamlined checkout? No? How about a giant, animated video of a woman s... |
| Apr 16, 2014 | Google Glass sale meets cool reception | Google (GOOG) made its high-tech Google Glass specs available to everyone Tuesday -- for the not-so-low price of $1,500 -- and for at least a little while, sales appeared brisk. The company said it sold out of its off-white models.
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| Apr 7, 2014 | Биография Gmail: подлинная история запуска гуглопочты, которой недавно исполнилось 10 лет
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| Mar 29, 2014 | The Internet Is Held Together With Bubble Gum And Baling Wire | Jon Evans Contributor
Jon Evans is the CTO of the engineering consultancy HappyFunCorp; the award-winning author of six novels, one graphic novel, and a book of travel writing; and TechCrunch's weekend columnist since 2010.
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| Mar 19, 2014 | 5 Things To Know About pCell, A Bold Scheme For Super-Fast Wireless Data | Overloaded wireless-data networks are so common in crowded urban areas that many of us take them for granted. Which helps explain why a startup like Artemis Technologies, which promises near-perfect cellular reception to smartphone users no... |
| Mar 18, 2014 | With The Moto 360 And LG G, The Android Smartwatch Army Is On The March | The Moto 360 sounds like a race car. And maybe the spirit of this wearable isn’t all that different, as Motorola and its for-now parent company Google imagine people shooting through life and controlling everything from their wrists. And it... |
| Mar 17, 2014 | The Value of Facebook and WhatsApp: Connecting the Unconnected | Over the past month, I have received a number of questions from the industry audiences we present our data to about Facebook’s acquisition of WhatsApp. Most audiences I present industry trends to have a hard time recognizing the value of th... |
| Mar 12, 2014 | With 5M Users Already On Board, Tynker Goes Mobile To Help Kids Learn To Code On The iPad | Historically, the U.S. educational system has struggled to get young people excited by and involved with STEM-related fields, especially computer science, which has actually seen a steady decline in participation over the last two decades, ... |
| Mar 12, 2014 | 5 Reasons to Grab iOS 7.1 Now and 2 Reasons to Wait | Apple’s iOS 7.1 update is easily the most significant overhaul of iOS 7 yet, where iOS 7 was Apple’s biggest rethink of its mobile operating system since it debuted with the very first iPhone back in summer 2007.
It’s a little surreal to th... |
| Mar 5, 2014 | Why it’s not just the hackers that killed the Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange: Best of the Web | According to its advocates, online cryptocurrency bitcoin is set to revolutionise the way we do business. At the centre of this emerging market, a company called Mt. Gox, based in Japan, quickly grew to be the world’s largest exchange for t... |
| Mar 4, 2014 | With 11K Pre-Orders, Play-i Lands $8M To Teach Kids To Code With Interactive Toy Robots | If we’re going to prepare future generations for the increasingly technical workforce, and world, then computer science and engineering will need to be given greater credence in early education — both in and outside of the classroom. While ... |
| Mar 3, 2014 | Google’s modular smartphone, Project Ara, could go on sale next year for $50 | Google’s modular smartphone, Project Ara, could arrive in early 2015 and cost just $50. For $50 you’d only get a bare-bones Project Ara endoskeleton, of course — you don’t even get a display, I think– but it’s still a very exciting prospect... |
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| Feb 28, 2014 | Could Project Ara's Smartphone by Google be a Game Changer?
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Make no mistake about it, Project Ara could very well reinvent the smartphone by breaking it down into modules that could be assembled and customized in a limitless number of configurations. It has the potentia... |
| Feb 27, 2014 | Google aims for a basic $50 modular phone next year, dishes more on Project Ara | Surprisingly, Google doesn’t see its ambitious Project Ara modular smartphone as something just for geeks.
In a lengthy profile by Time’s Harry McCracken, Google shined a light on its plans for Ara. And while the company still doesn’t seem ... |
| Feb 27, 2014 | Google aims for a basic $50 modular phone next year, dishes more on Project Ara | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Surprisingly, Google doesn’t see its ambitious Project Ara modular smartphone as something just for geeks.
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| Feb 27, 2014 | Google’s Project Ara $50 Modular Smartphone Could Change The Way We Buy Phones Starting Next Year | Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects Division just announced its first developer event for Project Ara, a modular smarpthone, yesterday, and a new follow-up profile by TIME indicates we could see the device come to market by next year,... |
| Feb 27, 2014 | 6 Things You Should Know About 'Anti-Google' Search Engine DuckDuckGo | February 27, 2014 5 min read
You’ve probably never heard of DuckDuckGo. And, no, it’s not a game kids play. We’d say it’s just a small alternative search engine with a silly name, but it’s more than that. Once you know what it is, you might... |
| Feb 19, 2014 | PayPal’s challenge in the mobile digital wallet wars: Best of the Web | Increasingly, consumers are opting to pay for purchases with near-field communications (NFC) based touch-and-go payment systems. It’s a precursor to one of the next great technological battles: NFC-based smartphone payments.
One of the chal... |
| Feb 14, 2014 | 10 Crazy Things 3D Printers Can Make Today | It’s been over 30 years since Chuck Hull invented the first 3D printer in 1983. Ever since then, the idea of machine-printing objects from scratch has gone from fiction to reality, opening up new opportunities for every field from science t... |
| Feb 12, 2014 | What Google is working on; The nightmare of working for Apple: Best of the Web | Google is perhaps best known for its ubiquitous search engine, its web services (such as Gmail and YouTube) and its Android smartphone operating system.
However, the tech giant’s ambitions go well beyond these traditional markets.
Over at A... |
| Feb 11, 2014 | Square wins their Second Major Client for iPad Cash Registers
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| Feb 5, 2014 | What if Facebook had never been invented? | This past week, Facebook celebrated its 10th birthday. Over at Time, Harry McCracken asks what would have happened if Mark Zuckerberg had never created his famous social network?
But what if it weren’t history? What if Zuckerberg hadn’t cre... |
| Feb 5, 2014 | Microsoft Gives New CEO Satya Nadella 80 Percent Raise | Satya Nadella has gone from cloud and enterprise to cloud nine.
Nadella’s promotion to CEO of Microsoft from VP of Microsoft’s cloud and enterprise division comes with a big raise: he’s receiving nearly an 80 percent increase in salary to $... |
| Feb 4, 2014 | For Facebook’s 10th anniversary, imagine your memories without it | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Feb 4, 2014 | For Facebook’s 10th anniversary, imagine your memories without it | Happy 10th birthday, Facebook. But instead of getting something for the world’s largest online community on the 10th anniversary of its launch, the social media giant is today offering its 1.2 billion users a present — a personalized memory... |
| Feb 4, 2014 | Target To Speed Up Smart Cards After Security Breach | Target is accelerating a $100-million plan to develop chip-enabled smart cards with better security, after the company suffered a major cyber breach late last year.
In an opinion article published in The Hill newspaper, Target’s chief finan... |
| Jan 29, 2014 | How infected are you? TIME tool shows how much time you have wasted on Facebook | Regardless of whether you feel Facebook exhibits disease-like characteristics or not, one thing is for sure -- it can certainly turn into a time-sucker. There's a reason Mark Zuckerberg's social network is blocked in many workplaces you kno... |
| Jan 26, 2014 | Check out Steve Jobs demoing the Mac for the first time in 1984 (video) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
It’s been about three decades since Apple first rolled out its Macintosh personal computers to retail shelves. And to celebrate, member... |
| Jan 26, 2014 | Check out Steve Jobs demoing the Mac for the first time in 1984 (video) | It’s been about three decades since Apple first rolled out its Macintosh personal computers to retail shelves. And to celebrate, members of the Boston Computer Society managed to dig up video footage of Apple founder Steve Jobs giving a liv... |
| Jan 23, 2014 | TiVo lays off 5 hardware engineers but says it won’t abandon its boxes | The TiVo box itself got a slight aesthetic makeover... reader comments 93 with 63 posters participating
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| Jan 13, 2014 | Sprint bids sudden goodbye to its One Up upgrade plan | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Carriers know you want to upgrade your phone more than once every two years. Sprint, after offering an easy way to make this happen for... |
| Jan 13, 2014 | Sprint bids sudden goodbye to its One Up upgrade plan | Carriers know you want to upgrade your phone more than once every two years. Sprint, after offering an easy way to make this happen for a few months, has apparently changed its mind.
In September, Sprint offered its early upgrade plan, call... |
| Jan 12, 2014 | Get a Glimpse into the Future: Introducing Magisto’s CamCrew Technology | The Magisto Team has arrived in Las Vegas for CES and, in addition to spreading the word about our iOS, Android and Web apps, we’re also here unveiling a new technology that we’ve been working on! It’s called CamCrew and it’s designed to ma... |
| Jan 3, 2014 | AH Tech Talk: Microsoft is Not Happy With PC Makers' Rebellion at 2014 CES | Samsung ATIV Q
There are several facts I want to go over before we move on to the rest of this article – First it’s that companies, such as Intel and other PC manufacturers, are in business to make money. Secondly, most PCs and laptops run ... |
| Jan 2, 2014 | NY Times rolling out updated website on January 8 | New site will be faster, less cluttered, and feature more photos and video
The New York Times has been teasing its redesign for a pretty long time now. The company released a preview of it almost a year ago, all the way back in March in 201... |
| Dec 30, 2013 | How we’ll remember 2013’s medtech innovations in 2023 | The Carmat artificial heart is still beating along inside the chest of the first patient to receive such a device. The French startup has created the “world’s first fully artificial, self-regulating” heart, and from the glimpse given in thi... |
| Dec 13, 2013 | Booting Up: Twitter Is Sorry For Messing With The Block Function | See you soon, Frank! (Photo: YouTube)
Twitter changed how its block function worked. People hated it. Twitter changed it back. [Time]
Some enterprising Yahoo employees are going to Facebook and Google bus stops to recruit fresh meat. [Forbe... |
| Dec 10, 2013 | Android game categories to triple; move hints at future gaming ambitions | reader comments 60 with 36 posters participating
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| Dec 7, 2013 | This anti-aging brain trust is the most interesting startup in Silicon Valley | In September, Google chief executive Larry Page announced his latest “moonshot,” a mysterious new venture to extend the human life span.
We don’t know much yet about the initiative, dubbed Calico, but Page revealed in a blog post that it wi... |
| Dec 6, 2013 | Booting Up: Spotify Is Bringing Free Streaming Service to Phones so It’s Time to Up Your Monthly Data | Thanks? (Screengrab: maxistentialist.tumblr.com)
The company responsible for Cards Against Humanity charged customers $5 more for the game on Black Friday and sales actually spiked. [Business Insider]
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| Dec 5, 2013 | Worldwide wrap | In this week's wrap, a young man in the UK attempts to broadcast his suicide to the world; and men with beards commonly select the easiest passwords to crack. Get the details on these stories and more below.
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| Nov 25, 2013 | Brits Keep Losing Their Work Phones While Out Drinking | Photo via Flickr/Lars Lundqvist
If you’ve ever woken up feeling a bit hazy about the details of the night before, and then gone to reach for your smartphone only to find it missing, you’re far from the only one. If the device in question wa... |
| Nov 13, 2013 | Your Phone's Camera and Microphone Can Reveal Your PIN | Photo via Flickr/Till Westermayer
Cambridge security researchers have been hacking smartphone passwords using the devices’ own cameras and microphones.
Laurent Simon and Ross Anderson at the University of Cambridge used an app they called “... |
| Nov 9, 2013 | Disney Quietly Advances Toy Box Console Project
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| Nov 4, 2013 | 91% of us have cell phones, just half are smartphones: what’s your text message strategy? | Neil Papworth sent Richard Jarvis’s mobile phone the world’s first SMS on Dec. 3, 1992. The very first mobile to mobile text message read “Merry Christmas,” heralding an approaching shift in the standards for human interaction.
By 2012, an ... |
| Oct 30, 2013 | GADGET WATCH: iPad Air | Last week, Apple announced a major refresh of its iPad and MacBook Pro product lines ahead of Christmas 2012.
While the original iPad helped to revitalise the tablet market, in recent years the company has faced increased competition in the... |
| Oct 9, 2013 | If You Aren't Technical, Get Technical | A few years ago, I was doing some sort of public speaking thing and in the Q&A, a young man asked me for advice for founders who aren't technical. I said, "If you aren't technical, I suggest you get technical" And I meant it. ... |
| Oct 7, 2013 | MICA grad needs $8K to photograph Baltimore’s historic main streets [VIDEO] | Crowdfunding of the Week is a regular series highlighting the technology, creative and innovation crowdfunding campaigns in Baltimore that might be worth your support. This week’s project comes from Kickstarter. See other Crowdfundings of t... |
| Oct 4, 2013 | The Voice behind Apple's Siri should have Remained Anonymous
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Search | Bennet told CNN that when "I first discovered that was my voice," she said, "to be honest it was a little creepy." Well Ms. Bennet I'm now creeped-out knowing that you're the voice of Siri too.
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| Oct 4, 2013 | Sweep! Apple Wins the Times Top 3 Notebooks for 2013
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| Oct 3, 2013 | 5 Things We Didn’t Know About Twitter That It Just Revealed In Its IPO | Twitter’s initial public offering filing went public today, detailing its plans to raise $1 billion and trade its shares under the symbol TWTR. But it also laid out a bunch of details we hadn’t come across previously—at least not in such, w... |
| Sep 30, 2013 | Chipotle Scarecrow is the future of advergaming on mobile | Chipotle Scarecrow will, without a doubt, go down as one of the most successful marketing campaigns in history.
Chipotle recently partnered with Moonbot Studios to produce an animated film and mobile game that cleverly promote its Food with... |
| Sep 30, 2013 | Chipotle Scarecrow is the future of advergaming on mobile | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Chipotle Scarecrow will, without a doubt, go down as one of the most successful marketing campaigns in history.
Chipotle recently partn... |
| Sep 25, 2013 | Amazon doubles down on new Kindles, skips fanfare | (MoneyWatch) As the market for tablet computers continues to grow, Amazon (AMZN) is bucking conventions around how it markets and sells its devices.
First, the company doubled down on its Kindle Fire, adding two new models with a low-end pr... |
| Sep 20, 2013 | Calico: How Google’s stab at the fountain of youth could transform health care | Google is back in the health business with a mysterious new initiative to combat death itself.
Google’s top executives didn’t say much about the biotech venture, called Calico, when they announced it on Sept. 18, except to say that it would... |
| Sep 19, 2013 | WTF Is Calico, And Why Does Google Think Its Mysterious New Company Can Defy Aging? | The sad truth is that, if everyone on the Forbes 400 list simultaneously (and tragically) got cancer, or Parkinsons (or any given disease for that matter), the world would probably be well on its way to finding a cure for these illnesses, t... |
| Sep 10, 2013 | Canadian Cofounders Behind Umano Are Achieving Big Success in Silicon Valley | Silicon Valley-based startup SoThree launched the Umano app for commuters or news junkies last year, and since then its been celebrated by nearly every prominent tech blog.
Forbes even called SoThree one of 2013’s explosively growing compan... |
| Sep 1, 2013 | This is Samsung’s Galaxy Gear smartwatch: A blocky health tracker with a camera | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Editor’s Note Sept. 4: Samsung announced the Galaxy Gear Smartwatch as expected. We’ve got all the details on the Galaxy Gear smartwatc... |
| Sep 1, 2013 | This is Samsung’s Galaxy Gear smartwatch: A blocky health tracker with a camera | Editor’s Note Sept. 4: Samsung announced the Galaxy Gear Smartwatch as expected. We’ve got all the details on the Galaxy Gear smartwatch right here on VentureBeat.
Samsung is set to reveal its Galaxy Gear smartwatch next Wednesday, Sept. 4,... |