Verizon announced Monday that it is unbundling data plans from its video subscriptions, providing a more flexible offering to its customers. By doing so, the telco enables its FiOS customers for the first time to pick and choose the data plans they want to purchase without them being tied to a certain number of...
Media industry research shows that more and more newspapers are implementing paywalls, possibly inspired by the launch of a “metered” wall at the New York Times earlier this year. Frederic Filloux argues in a blog post at The Monday Note that the metered approach can have benefits for papers that implement it, by boosting...
BookTour.com CTO James Somers wrote recently for The Atlantic about his multi-year struggle to learn programming. When he was a teenager, he started trying to learn with a book on C++. “I imagined myself working montage-like through the book, smoothly accruing expertise one chapter at a time,” Somers wrote. “What happened instead is that...
Edit note: iCloud’s services do not involve streaming in the same manner as services like Netflix and Pandora do. However, the bandwidth should still be more than predicted by broadband providers. Apple’s iCloud assumes that users will “store” the music predominantly in the cloud and move it back and forth between the cloud and...
Apple execs goof around with iMessage, a way to send text messages for free on iOS devices Image: Dan Frommer, Business Insider See Also: “The Future Of Mobile Is The Future Of Everything” Huge Photos From Apple’s Big Event Apple Snubs The iAd Apple announced a bunch of new iPhone features today during its...
At WWDC this morning, Apple announced that its iOS mobile operating system, which powers iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch devices, is now at #1 in terms of market share. iOS has 44% of the total mobile OS market, compared to Android at 28%. According to Scott Forstall, SVP of iOS software at Apple, 200...
Image: Apple See Also: 6 Ways Apple’s iOS 5 Just Copied Android 10 Apps Apple Just Killed With iOS 5 Everything You Need To Know About Apple’s iCloud, Including What The Hell It Actually Is Even though Apple’s iCloud won’t launch until this fall, iPhone and iPad users who are running the latest version...
UPDATED: Jonathan George, CEO of Boxcar was on pins and needles as he tuned into the coverage of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, waiting to find out if Apple was about to squeeze his business or allow it to flourish. George, who founded the push-notification service, breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the...
Zynga’s game development studios are on a roll of late, recently revealing GagaVille, and launching Settlers Of Catan-like social combat game Empires Allies. And today, Zynga Mobile is adding one more title to the mix with the official launch of ‘Hanging With Friends,’ Zynga’s take on classic popular game Hangman within an iOS app....
Just as Google aims to make the web faster and easier to use, so that you’ll use it more often and it will make more money, so Apple is making mobile devices much easier to use, so you’ll use them more and it will make more money. A hardware and software maker had to...