When it comes to Androids and iPhones, we've had just about enough emotionally weighted hyperbole over which device is better. For one thing, most of those arguments are subjective projections of personal opinion. For another, hey, they're just phones; we shouldn't get so uptight about them.However, when ad network Chitika approached us with a handful of stats on just how ...
In an interview with blog Pocket-lint, senior product manager for Microsoft, Greg Sullivan, confirmed who the Windows Phone 7 OEM launch partners would be. And… well, it’s exactly who you’d think it would be. Dell, Asus, LG, HTC, and Samsung will all have WP7 hardware being release around the launch of Microsoft’s next smartphone OS. So when is Windows Phone ...
Disney and social gaming startup Playdom are in “very” late stage acquisition discussions, we’ve heard from, oh, about seven independent sources, including sources close to Playdom, over the last several days. Internally the two parties have referred to the deal as “Project Platinum” based on due diligence documents we’ve reviewed.
Some sources have said the deal is signed and in ...
Microsoft Corp. said Thursday that its net income surged in the most recent quarter, the latest sign that businesses are again spending on technology.
StackOverflow started as software developer Q&A site. The traffic on the site spiked like mad and stayed that way. Then, its founders, Joel and Jeff, had to buy a warehouse to keep their VC money in. Now, they've begun rolling out verticals.
Today, the latest version opened for private beta. GIS StackExchange is for people involved or interested in Geographic ...
Okay, there's isn't actually any sex in this story, but it's still pretty tart and juicy. Two leading manufacturers of cranberry products are duking out in court and online, with claims and counter-claims of deceptive advertising and related social media subterfuge. It's pretty ridiculous, kind of funny, and fairly pathetic, but also a great illustration of how companies -- even ...
Want to turn your website into a storm of real-time user activity? Another way to do so has just arrived. The real-time web framework called Tornado, which Facebook open sourced last Fall, has just released version 1.0.
Tornado is a real-time web server built in Python that supports tens of thousands of continuous connections and thus the long-polling ...
Vanilla has been described as the Wordpress of forums. Vanilla created an easy-to-use, sleek forum-builder and has seen 350,000 users employ it.
Today, according to Vanilla Blog, the company has launched Vanilla 2.
Sponsor
Several years ago it began work on a second version. After closing a $500,000 round of funding in January, appearing at TechStars and making some hires, it was ...
Droid Life uncovered a photo of the Droid 2 running Google's Android 2.2 operating system, or the Froyo build. Verizon Wireless won't confirm it but sources say the Droid 2 will launch in August for around $199. - Avid Android smartphone fans are busying themselves with
finding out what operating system version will run on new devices and ...
AOL July 22 launched two Google Android applications and opened a new smartphone portal and mobile Website to better compete with Google, Facebook and Twitter in the emerging mobile content market. - AOL July 22 moved to shore up its mobile offerings, launching
two Google Android applications and opening a new smartphone portal and mobile
Website.
The company, which is ...
Reading over the press release for the new “Antenna Meter” application for RIM’s BlackBerry devices, I’ll admit that I was bored. Okay, so it’s exactly what it says it is: an antenna meter. But aha! The two companies behind the app, Xtreme Labs and Fixmo, know how to pitch it. It’s not an antenna meter, it’s a “death grip” meter. ...
PC World - Spies are everywhere these days, from the 10 Russian agents nabbed recently here in the United States to the more glamorous Hollywood variety, such as is Angelina Jolie. In the movie Salt, Jolie plays Evelyn Salt, a CIA officer accused of being a Russian spy.
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America's global commitments, from Japan to Germany, from NATO to Afghanistan, from EUCOM to AFRICOM, from the Gulf of Mexico to the Persian Gulf, from USPACOM in Honolulu to CENTCOM in Tampa, Fla., all are being reassessed - at home and abroad.
Can a superpower whose infrastructure is rapidly decaying to Third-World standards ...
The wide-ranging climate legislation that would have put a price on carbon and establish an emissions cap-and-trade system came to an inglorious end today as Senate Democrats conceded that they simply don’t have enough votes to pass such a bill. This is a big loss for President Barack Obama, who campaigned on the issue.
The bill’s supporters were ...
Outmoded technology, budget shortfalls, an aging workforce. There are many obstacles that stand in the way of the public sector adopting new technologies to transform the way in which the government "does business."
But these challenges also create a great opportunity. "What if the professional talent in the tech industry went to work innovating the public sector," ...
AFP - A US judge ruled that Baidu has a "plausible" legal case against a domain registry firm that let hackers commandeer the Chinese Internet search giant's website.
Multi-screen adoption of digital technology and devices has created a challenge for advertising to deliver relevant, targeted messages. The more connected the consumer, the greater expectation for bigger ideas. A study released Thursday by Microsoft Advertising gives advertisers insight into how a multi-screen strategy can build awareness, generate consideration and encourage purchases.
PRIMEDIA wanted a path for its subsidiary Consumer Source to reach people nationwide looking to rent an apartment or home. The company supports about 20,000 advertisers. So it tapped a click-to-call Skype service that turns the Web company into a telecom carrier to support Web to landline phone calls. The service, offered through Marchex, relies on location and search queries ...
Microsoft’s Xbox business has been smooth sailing of late, and the lowered cost of production has enabled the company to introduce its new slim model recently. That said, in the most recent quarter ended June 30, the Entertainment and Devices Division (EDD), which houses Xbox, PC consumer and Zune, saw its operating loss increase 22 percent year-over-year to $172 million. ...
A $400 Xbox 360 package contains a Halo-themed console design, two controllers and the hotly anticipated first-person shooter.