Wolfram Research, the company behind powerful, data-heavy products like the Wolfram Alpha ‘computational knowledge engine’, has today launched a new file format it hopes will revolutionise the way people think of documents. The Computable Document Format (CDF) is designed to make it easy to turn complicated data into interactive experiences, embedded into a document....
Japan’s mobile carriers are currently releasing a number of interesting handsets, which are all part of their summer 2011 line-up. While smartphones, the iPhone and Android in particular, are taking over the Japanese market, there are still some cool feature phones coming out, too. Case in point: the Casio CA-01C , which NTT Docomo...
Image: Illustration: Ellis Hamburger After Electronic Arts bought web and mobile games-maker PopCap, it came out that Zynga offered $1 billion in cash for the company. This seems crazy: it would have exhausted almost all its cash pile, and it had secured lines of credit from investment banks to pay for it. For sure...
I posed the following question on my Google Plus profile: Are people who are using Google Plus a lot finding that it’s replacing their Twitter usage, or Facebook, or both? Or are they using it in addition? What Google Plus Users Say My Google Plus post attracted 60 comments, which incidentally is considerably more...
Network antivirus and internet content security software provider Trend Micro has released its quarterly threat roundup (PDF) of the most dangerous threats to mobile and computer security, highlighting that in the second quarter, Microsoft was the top vendor target with 96 attacks. The new report saw Apple – which was the top vendor target in...
Japan-based SoftEther has developed a cool 3D motion-capture figure to create computer graphics and animations in 3D. Dubbed Quma, the human-like doll has a set of joints throughout its body, all of which are equipped with sensors and can be moved freely by the user: hold up the right arm for example, and...
Image: Asa Mathat | All Things Digital Four key product managers at Twitter are getting the ax, TechCrunch’s MG Siegler reports. They are Kevin Cheng, Josh Elman, Anamitra Banerji and Jean-Paul Cozzatti. This sounds like a pretty big shake-up, and it probably is, and it’s also completely normal. Jack Dorsey just returned to Twitter as...
A new report from research firm Strategy Analytics indicates that from over 15 million tablet shipments in the second quarter of 2011, Apple still dominates the market with a 61% share but has seen Android tablets eat into its market share over the past year. According to Strategy Analytics’ latest figures, Apple’s market share...
PayPal is planning to introduce a point of sale product, eBay CEO John Donahoe said in an earnings call, Forbes writes. PayPal is betting heavily on mobile payments. And there’s another mobile payments company that introduced a point of sale system recently: Jack Dorsey’s Square. Apple-like in its elegance, Square’s system is based on...