Free gift! Or, put another way, how to get a small downpayment on what is probably a bad investment of your time. Research in Motion is looking at you — developers, developers, developers — and, if you port your Android app to QNX in 10 days or less, they are graciously willing to part with an entry-level 16GB PlayBook.
In 2005, Facebook commissioned an artist to paint murals at its headquarters and cheekily offered to pay him in company stock rather than cash. They somehow persuaded him to take the stock: that decision means he’ll soon be worth around $200 million.
When the iPhone 4S shipped last October, smartphone pundits declared it dead on arrival because it “lacked” 4G LTE, a four-inch display, Near Field Communication (NFC) payment functionality and a range of other checklist features that infest offerings from other vendors, especially Android devices. That string of crowd-sourced wisdom turned out to be stupendously wrong, but the real meat of the story isn’t playing out in public.
When you ask the public for at least five billion dollars, you have to start answering a few questions. And in the case of Facebook’s long-awaited filing for an Initial Public Offering, some of those answers were truly revealing.
Even the fanboys are starting to see how wrong Apple’s laissez-faire attitude to its supply chain workers is. Wonders will never cease.
Here’s a powerful realization for you to act upon — if you don’t take your expensive, absolutely life critical smartphone into the bathroom, it can’t fall into the toilet. Seriously, keep your business out of your business. That said, though iPhone owners are somewhat less likely to diddle in the loo, smartphone users overwhelmingly aren’t giving it a break when they go to the restroom.
Microsoft is launching a major advertising campaign attacking Google’s recent privacy policy changes. It’s a direct appeal for users upset by the overhaul to switch to services such as Hotmail and Bing.
No good business model goes unpunished or so it must appear to Redbox. There is no question that bits encoded on plastic disks (a.k.a. DVDs, Blu-ray) will die sooner rather than later — it only remains to be seen how the remaining dollars get squeezed out.
Spotify continues to go from strength to strength. Proving its freemium model is the correct one for the business.
If you’ve got files stored on Megaupload and you haven’t got a back-up, you need to cross your fingers. The companies that physically host the files have agreed to keep them online for two more weeks, but after that they could start hitting delete.
I know we have to be careful in light of 9/11 and the increased security threats, but isn’t this taking things to the extreme a little?
A long time coming. Consumers first heard about shared data plans from both AT&T and Verizon back in June 2011, but many of us have been hoping the carriers would come to their senses at least since the iPhone hit the scene and revolutionized the smartphone segment back in 2007. Of course, the devil will be found in the details.
15 major Internet firms have launched a joint project to make it harder to get “phishing” e-mails through to recipients. The plan involves the firms labeling their messages in a way that is much harder for scammers to emulate.
How many times have pulled up to a light and felt your car vibrate because of the heavy bass beat coming from the car next to you? Probably quite a lot. Now that low barely audible but definitely felt beat can power a medical sensor created by scientists at Perdue.
AIDS is a horrible disease and the tiniest victims, babies born with the disease are in desperate need of help. Enter social media leaders who plan to partner with bankers and consultants to reach a goal of 0 births of babies with AIDS by 2015.
Many of Apple competitors are having trouble making products people want and, quite naturally, money therefrom. Results from Motorola, LG, Nokia and HTC have all disappointed investors and analysts in recent weeks. Fundamentally, it’s well nigh impossible to compete with Apple on the basis of “kitchen + sink” feature sets and race to bottom pricing.
Less is more, or so they say. They being Apple fanboys, usually. But perhaps it’s a good strategy for Android handset manufacturers to adopt at this point in time.
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