iMovie for iOS projects no longer work on the Mac (for now)

By and large, I quite like iMovie’s new look and feelbut in Apple’s revamp, the editing program has lost one of its more-favored features: importing projects between iOS and the Mac. In addition, some users are complaining about being unable to upgrade to the newest version of iMovie on their…

Posted on: October 27, 2013 12:00 pm

New iPad mini: I pass

I’m a tablet guy. I own four of them and use them all heavily. One of them is the iPad mini, and I use it a lot for both work and play. The new model that Apple unveiled recently has some significant hardware upgrades, and while the new iPad mini…

Posted on: October 27, 2013 7:00 am

Exclusive: Aiming to avoid Facebook chaos, NYSE runs Twitter IPO test

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The New York Stock Exchange on Saturday did a test run of Twitter’s highly anticipated market debut, as it seeks to avoid the types of problems that plagued Facebook’s initial public offering on rival Nasdaq. The Big Board, run by NYSE Euronext, regularly does systems testing…

Posted on: October 27, 2013 7:00 am

Dear Apple, Thank You for Fixing the Worst Part of iOS 7

Apple’s latest version of iOS 7 lets you turn of the distracting “parallax” effect as well as other animations. Photo by Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images I’ve been using iOS 7, the redesigned operating system for iPhones and iPads, since it first became available to developers in June. My biggest beef with…

Posted on: October 26, 2013 5:00 pm

Facebook Delays Auto Play Video Ads Again

Facebook Facebook has been telling its advertising customers not to expect the imminent roll out of the auto play video ads it has been planning. My assumption is that this is to do with their concentration upon mobile. All Things Discovered has the news itself: Sources tell AllThingsD that Facebook…

Posted on: October 26, 2013 12:00 pm

Wealth managers say they hear ‘nary a tweet’ for Twitter’s IPO

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Twitter Inc has set a relatively modest price range for its closely watched initial public offering, but some financial advisers say their clients are not clamoring to invest in the social media phenomenon. “Nary a tweet,” says William Baldwin, president of Pillar Financial Advisors in Waltham,…

Posted on: October 26, 2013 12:00 pm

Digital Marketing Exec Says Foursquare Should Start Over: Street Fight Summit

Duncan McCall, CEO of PlaceIQ, thinks Foursquare should tear everything up and start from scratch.This was part of his message in the panel “Building an Offline Metric for Mobile Marketing” Oct. 24 at Street Fight Summit, a conference in New York City focused on hyperlocal marketing and publishing. “Foursquare, while…

Posted on: October 25, 2013 5:00 pm

TiVo iOS apps now let you stream and download shows from Roamio DVRs …

The TiVo Roamio Pro and Plus received glowing reviews when they launched, but they were missing their namesake feature: the ability to stream shows to phones and tablets outside your house. That’s all changed now: a new version of the TiVo iOS app lets you stream shows from your DVR…

Posted on: October 25, 2013 12:00 pm

Dear Apple, Thank You For Fixing The Worst Part Of iOS 7

Lintao Zhang/Getty Images I’ve been using iOS 7, the redesigned operating system for iPhones and iPads, since it first became available to developers in June. My biggest beef with iOS 7 in those early days was the animated effects I saw whenever I opened a folder or new app. Those But…

Posted on: October 25, 2013 12:00 pm

WiFi upgrade set for Soldier Field

Soldier Field, home of the Chicago Bears. Staff Chicago Business Journal Tweeting at Chicago Bears games is about to get a lot more convenient. According to a report by the NBC Chicago, Boingo Wireless (NASDAQ: WIFI) and AT&T (NYSE: T) are on the verge of completing an upgrade to the…

Posted on: October 25, 2013 12:00 pm