Time To Buy Social Networks? Twitter, LinkedIn Down But Not Out
This week, two social network wunderkinds, Twitter and LinkedIn LinkedIn, saw their stock crash after Wall Street didn’t like what it heard of quarterly earnings. Twitter, in its first earnings report as a public company, surprised investors with slowed user growth. Meanwhile, LinkedIn gave an unexpectedly cautious first quarter outlook….
Potential Buyers Wait For BlackBerry’s Patents
Potential buyers are waiting on the sidelines to see if BlackBerry will part with its patents, according to two sector bankers. One banker speculated that if by 2015, Blackberry’s turnaround proves slow, and the company’s in need of capital, it could sell patents to bolster cash reserves. A price of "BlackBerry…
California Leaders Push for Smartphone Kill Switch
Legislation unveiled Friday in California would require smartphones and other mobile devices to have a "kill switch" to render them inoperable if lost or stolen a move that could be the first of its kind in the country. State Sen. Mark Leno, San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon, and other…
This is why your smartphone battery has the life span of a fruit fly
When news leaked out this week that Apple was experimenting with a new way of charging its anticipated iWatch possibly using kinetic movement, magnetic induction or solar power it should have been an "a-ha" moment for innovators everywhere. We’ve been so accustomed to thinking in terms of "battery life" and…
ClamCase Pro Turns Your iPad Mini Into An Unwieldy Netbook
If you thought that turning the iPad into a laptop by putting it in a case with a hinged keyboard on the bottom was ridiculous, then you’re going to love/hate the ClamCase Pro mini, which turns Apple’s littlest iPad into a tiny MacBook Air. Because why not right? First,…
iPad Sale: Walmart Cuts Apple iPad 2 Price by $100
Apple (AAPL) fans looking to save some cash on an older-model iPad should head to Walmart (WMT). Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/patrickpsh94/6782208191/ Walmart’s iPad sale knocks $100 off the price of an iPad 2. The price of the 16GB WiFi-only iPad 2 model drops to $299 under the Combining an iPad trade-in…
BlackBerry 10 obliterates iOS and Android yet again in browser showdown
More than a year ago, tests pitting BlackBerry’s new-at-the-time BlackBerry 10 web browser against mobile offerings from Apple and Microsoft saw BlackBerry’s offering smoke mobile Safari and Internet Explorer by a fairly wide margin. Plenty has changed since then Apple released iOS 7 alongside a major redesign and Microsoft issued Historically, BlackBerry…
TiVo and Twitter Track Super Bowl XLVIII
Bruno Mars performs during the Pepsi Super Bowl XLVIII Halftime Show at MetLife Stadium on February 2, 2014 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The big data is in from the big game. TiVo and Twitter released their annual stats on what was watched, re-watched, and Tweeted about during the Super Bowl. Not…
Foursquare Gets $15M And Licensing Deal From Microsoft To Power Location …
Today, Foursquare is announcing that it has received $15 million in funding as a result of a partnership with Microsoft. The deal will see Foursquare contributing to the Bing platform’s location and context layers on both Windows 8 and Windows Phone. The funding will be rolled into Foursquare’s previous raise of $35 This…
Redskins promise free WiFi at FedEx Field in 2014
The battle between watching football inside your comfortable home with cheap beers, large HD televisions, free parking and complimentary wireless and watching football in an NFL stadium which often has none of those things rages on. The Redskins’ latest counter-punch includes free WiFi, which the team is promising in 2014 "Many…
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