Tim Tebow TiVo Commercials Released with Unintentional Hilarity
For some reason, TiVo is still a thing and Tim Tebow is its spokesman. Well, when he manages to get a word in. The device that was popular a decade ago has finally pushed out a few commercials with some guy who played a year ago. Tim Tebow has been…
NHL’s podium quickly becomes a Twitter star
Video production crews wire the NHL podium at the Westin Times Square(Photo: Bruce Bennett, Getty Images)Tags 9:34PM EST December 6. 2012 – A sign of the power of social media and fans’ desire to have the NHL back in action: An inanimate object is now a Twitter star. On a…
BlueStacks mulls a utility to run Android apps on Windows RT
A high-flying startup that makes software enabling Android apps to run on PCs and Macs appears to be considering creating a version for Windows RT. Such a move by BlueStacks would mean that more than 700,000 Android apps could run on devices such as Microsoft’s Surface RT tablet that use BlueStacks’…
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings faces SEC threat over Facebook post
The SEC action highlights the potential for legal trouble when company executives like Hastings, who has more than 200,000 Facebook fans, communicate with the public via social media. Regulation Fair Disclosure, aimed at preventing selective reporting, was passed by the SEC in 2000, before the use of social-media outlets like “This may…
Innovative, Entertaining and Useful Mashups that Use the Foursquare API
Foursquare is an application that lets users save and share information about the places they visit. The app also provides personalized recommendations and deals based on user preferences and tastes. The Foursquare API provides developers access to all Foursquare mobile applications data which can be integrated into websites, mobile and…
Windows 8 tablets will lag far behind iOS and Android for years, says IDC
There’s good news and bad news for Microsoft in a recent IDC report about tablets. The good news is that Windows tablet sales will surge in the next four years. The bad news is that even then, they’ll be only 10% of the market. In the report, IDC increases the number…
Aerohive Networks, iPass Partner on Managed WiFi
Provider of WiFi solutions Aerohive Networks has announced a partnership with iPass Inc., (NASDAQ:IPAS), a provider of managed network services (MNS). The plan calls for iPass Managed Network Services to bundle the Aerohive WiFi technology into a turnkey, managed solution for enterprise customers and venue owners. Here are the details….
Google Now app updated to take on iOS Passbook
Google has updated its Search app for Android with functionality that rivals Apple’s Passbook app, the iOS 6 program that pulls your boarding passes and store cards into one convenient place. Google’s update is part of the Google Now service that automatically brings up “cards” with relevant information from around you,…
Apple needs to buy Foursquare to beef up its Maps App
The biggest controversy brought along with the release of iOS 6 was the new Maps.app. Apple decided to replace Google Maps with an in house solution, which brought along free, voice prompted, turn-by turn navigation. However, the data remains to be in question. Shortly after release, Apple CEO Tim Cook…
Windows 8 tablets not expected to be major player until 2016
The worldwide tablet market is exploding with demand as people jettison laptops for smaller, touch-based devices. But even as tablet become must-have personal computing devices, Windows, and particularly Windows 8 tablets, won’t be a major factor until at least 2016, according to an online report. Slates running Microsoft’s operating system IDC recently…
