Tourist Distracted by Facebook Falls off Pier
A tourist in Australia had to be rescued by police after plunging off a pier while browsing Facebook on her phone, officials said Wednesday. The woman was walking along a bay in Melbourne on Monday night when she became distracted by her Facebook feed and plummeted off the pier into…
BlackBerry Stands by Hardware as Sales Slip to 2007 Level
BlackBerry Ltd. (BB)’s new chiefexecutive officer, rejecting calls to exit the hardwarebusiness, gets a chance this week to convince investors he hasthe time and vision to revive a unit that’s dragging sales backdown to 2007 levels. Handpicked by BlackBerry’s largest investor for the CEOjob, John Chen has begun building his…
Push for free WiFi at area airports
The City Council will call on the Port Authority to offer free WiFi at its metropolitan airports on Wednesday. A hearing will be held on a resolution introduced by Manhattan borough-president elect Gale Brewer calling on the authority to change its contract with Boingo, which offers paid wireless service at…
Facebook plans to roll out video advertising
Facebook is added to the S&P 500.(Photo: Pornchai Kittiwongsakul, AFP/Getty Images) SAN FRANCISCO Facebook on Tuesday said it soon plans to begin video advertising within members’ News Feeds, a move that takes aim at massive spending budgets for television ads. The social-networking giant says in a “short…
Why Twitter’s high valuation doesn’t make sense: Analysts
And one thing is certain, the higher the stock goes, the higher the expectation will be for earnings. At its current levels, the stock is priced for perfection and must dramatically outperform expectations and its expectation is already at 100 percent growth, Squali said. He added that for his firm to…
Apple’s biggest compromise with the iPhone 5c
Apple bills itself as a company that doesn’t want to make compromises when it comes to its products. The iPhone was slow to get 3G because Apple didn’t want to compromise battery life in the first model. Apple was slow to open iOS to developers because it didn’t want to…
New iPad Air review: Apple’s 5th generation iPad is another step forward
The Apple iPad is still the most desirable tablet on the market right now, and from our time spent with the new iPad Air it’s easy to see why. Take a look at our definitive review of the new iPad Air to find out more.iPad Air review: design, build, display…
Googles robot program has legs, but where is it going?
Google’s plan to dominate the robotics field is well underway. Already, Google owns a company that make robot arms, a company that makes robot eyes, and now one that makes robot legs. With last week’s acquisition of Boston Dynamics, an 80-person company that makes robots that can run faster than…
Facebook to test video ads, opening new revenue source
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc took a first step on Tuesday toward selling video ads that play automatically in newsfeeds, moving cautiously to unlock a source of revenue that could annoy users. The world’s largest social network, which had long been expected to try and grab a larger slice…
Why Wearable Tech Will Be as Big as the Smartphone
Data will not help you if you can’t see it when you need it. For Dan Eisenhardta competitive swimmer for more than a decade, beginning as a 9-year-old in his native Denmarkthe data he needed in the water, what he could never know in the water, was his splits. His…
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