Check In, Flame Out: How To Save Foursquare
This hasn’t been a great year for Foursquare. “Check-ins are no longer what they used to be,” as Ingrid Lunden observed last month. There seems to be a general consensus that “Foursquare keeps resembling Yelp more and more” but that comparison isn’t necessarily flattering, especially since there’s little doubt that…
It’s Not Just You, Twitter’s Latest Android Update Doesn’t Let You Access Your …
Twitter rolled out sweeping updates to all of its mobile properties this week, mostly to support the new Twitter Cards, but unfortunately, those who are using the service on Android aren’t so happy. The app has always been a bit buggy on the Android platform, but the issues that are…
A Mature Android Smartphone The Sony Xperia Z Review
Sony’s latest Android handset, announced at CES 2013 and reaching a number of markets during February this year, is an impressive continuation of Sony’s Android line of smartphones. While it is not the Android device to rule over all other Android devices, it shows a steady progression from Sony’s first Naturally…
Sceptre Outs Roku Ready 47-inch LED HDTV with MHL Technology
HDTV armed with crystal clear 1920×1080 resolution, 1080P and tempered glass stand for under $700 Sceptre, superior manufacturers of world class LED and LCD HDTVs and PC displays, unveils their Roku Ready 47-inch LED with MHL (Mobile High-Definition Link) technology, an affordable big screen unit designed to deliver convenience, posh styling,…
NAB: Get Ready to Junk Your HDTV
Oscar-winning cinematographer Claudio Miranda used a 4K camera to shoot Iceland exteriors for “Oblivion.” This story first appeared in the April 12 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Broadcasters are getting ready to up the ante again. While the switch to HDTV wasn’t completed until 2008, the 90,000 delegates heading to Already, films…
Windows 8 laptops can’t command Windows 7 prices
Tepid enthusiasm for Windows 8 is bad news for Microsoft, but it’s good news for laptop shoppers. Notebooks with 15-inch displays and running Windows 8 with Intel Ivy Bridge processors have been spotted in the wild selling for as cheap as $299, according to the bargain hunter site DealNews. That price, which includes…
Fake Twitter Followers Becomes Multimillion-Dollar Business
Far from slowing, the market for fake Twitter followers seems to be taking off. The fake Twitter follower phenomenon made headlines last summer after Mitt Romney’s Twitter following jumped by 100,000 in a matter of days. That news inspired a number of social media management companies like StatusPeople and SocialBakers But…
iOS 7 Concept Features Widgets, New Lock Screen, Mission Control and More
Earlier this week, a number of Apple-focused bloggers claimed iOS 7 was running behind schedule and that it would bring a significant user interface refresh. Designer F. Bianco has posted a set of images to Flickr with some interesting thoughts on what useful changes Apple could make to iOS 7 to One…
What would an agency do with Ultra HDTV?
Ultra HDTV is a new display technology that may be ahead of its time. There is little doubt that most LCDs eventually will move to this technology, but for now, its high price and limited applications are going to keep it out of reach of most people, and that includes…
Google’s Blink: In beta for everything but iOS by June but don’t expect to …
Changes that Google is introducing with its new rendering engine Blink for Chrome will begin to trickle out on all platforms except iOS by around June and developers won’t notice anything, according to Google. Chrome web platform project manager Alex Komoroske and Blink engineers Darin Fisher and Eric Seidel answered…
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