A Muted Beginning to Sales of Apple’s iPhone Through China Mobile
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Review: Can Storehouse for iPad Help Everyone Tell Beautiful Stories?
There’s no doubt about it Storehouse, an iPad app that lets you quickly lay out and publish photos, videos and text as shareable stories, is simply gorgeous. After all, the app was launched just yesterday by Apple’s former user experience evangelist and UI designer Mark Kawano and his design and…
Is Facebook Becoming the USA Today of the 21st Century?
Facebook just launched “Trending,” a Twitter-like feature that highlights topics popular on the site right now. Image courtesy of Facebook When Facebook added hashtags last year and almost no one used them, you might have thought the social network would give up on trying to become more like Twitter. You’d…
Tim Cook Celebrates China Mobile’s iPhone Launch
The iPhone is finally available for sale in China Mobile stores after Apple spent years negotiating for a deal with the carrier, the world’s largest by subscriber number. In a sign of how important the partnership is to Apple, CEO Tim Cook showed up at the China Mobile launch today…
Facebook Revamps Ads to Compete With Google
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Even President Obama Thinks That Facebook Isn’t Cool Anymore
Ask anyone under the age of 30 if they love Facebook. Chances are, the answer will be no. The once dominant social network has most certainly fallen from its hyper-exclusive, hyper-popular beginnings to become the place where moms and uncles post their political opinions and baby pictures. (At least, I think….
Businesses are building shopper profiles based on sniffing phones’ WiFi
In May 2013, retailer Nordstrom said that yes, it was sniffing customers’ WiFi to track their movement through 17 US stores. Nordstrom was collecting anonymised, aggregate information, a spokeswoman said at the time, and wasn’t identifying personal information tied to a phone’s owner. Therefore, Nordstrom said, it wasn’t using the WiFi data…
iOS 7.1 Update: Things Are About To Get Better
iOS 7 is probably the OS that has received the most scrutiny ever. Part of that is due to the fact that everything Apple does is always under a magnifying glass, but another part of it is due to the fact that Apple’s iOS 6 was, for the most part, Apple introduced…
Foursquare’s New Big Data Initiative Is Going To Help It Thrive, Even As The …
Foursquare is still making gains in users and check-ins, with the company reporting in December of last year that it had reached 45 million registered users and surpassed 5 billion check-ins. That’s up from January 2013, when Foursquare had 30 million registered users, a 50% gain in just under one As you can see in…
What BlackBerry’s Z30 does better than any other smartphone
BlackBerry’s Z30 phablet didn’t exactly launch with a lot of fanfare last year but that doesn’t mean the device is devoid of virtues. Four writers at Wired last week used nothing but smartphones to cover CES last week and they found that the BlackBerry Z30 actually performed the best over…
