Earlier this year, eBay and PayPal decided to merge their API and developer platform into a combined open platform business, X.commerce. At the time, eBay, which owns PayPal, wanted to developers one ecommerce solution that would offer a “complete approach” to online and offline business. Of course, since then eBay has acquired open source...
There’s an app for that is somewhat of a cliche these days, denoting that, well, there’s an app for just about everything you could possibly imagine. And this latest app by the guys at MobileNationHQ certainly lends credence to that notion. The Death App is a mobile Web app for iOS and Android devices,...
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Another hurdle was removed today for “Wi-Fi on steroids,” as the IEEE published a wireless standard that could bring high-speed broadband to rural areas. The 802.22TM-2011 standard will be used on frequencies that were used by analog television channels, but were freed up when the U.S. transitioned to digital television broadcasting over the air....
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Back episodes of Showtime hit series Dexter and Californication will be returning to Netflix’s streaming library, thanks to a new deal with CBS. But U.S. fans won’t be able to view them, as the rights are for Canada and Netflix’s new Latin America market. Earlier this year, Showtime pulled prior seasons of some of...
The launch of Google+ has us all asking: can it beat Twitter and Facebook as a tool for journalists? Social media is invaluable when it comes to news gathering, but what I want to know is with all this news curation on the web what’s the future for traditional journalism? Breaking the News Over the...
Visit the Qwest resource center for relevant briefs and reports to help you better manage your enterprise. Learn how smart businesses harness the power of customer data to improve satisfaction and sales: Unleashing the Power of Customer Data. SAP announced today that several of its enterprise products will soon gain new features for visualizing...
Google is testing out a simplified design for its search results, and Amit Agarwal at Digital Inspiration spotted the new look. The new search results page kills all the stuff running down the right side of the page and gives users a few menu options. We don’t know when or if Google would use...