It appears as if Telus, the Canadian based telecom giant, is getting serious about offering its customers a quality music subscription service offering. So serious that, starting today, Rdio became the sole provider of its subscription music services. To promote the new service Telus will be giving away free subscriptions to select new and...
Daily Archives: August 3, 2011
Google accuses Apple, Microsoft and Oracle of waging a ‘hostile’ campaign against Android with patents
In a post on Google’s blog today, the company’s Senior Vice President David Drummond has accused Apple, Microsoft and Oracle of conducting “a hostile, organized campaign against Android…waged through bogus patents.” In the post, entitled ‘When Patents Attack Android’, Drummond starts out by describing the success that Android has had, reiterating the 550,000-devices-a-day stat...
Google accuses Apple, Microsoft and Oracle of waging a ‘hostile’ campaign against Android with patents
In a post on Google’s blog today, the company’s Senior Vice President David Drummond has accused Apple, Microsoft and Oracle of conducting “a hostile, organized campaign against Android…waged through bogus patents.” In the post, entitled ‘When Patents Attack Android’, Drummond starts out by describing the success that Android has had, reiterating the 550,000-devices-a-day stat...
Apple could sell as many as 30 million iPhones in Q4
Apple’s recent quarterly earnings reports have read as an incredible success story documenting the iPhone’s meteoric rise as a profit leading mobile device. In the last quarter alone, Apple sold 20.3 million iPhones including the iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS. Now Apple could be poised to sell as many as 30 million iPhones in...
Demand for Local Deals Up, Sharing Increased Over Last Quarter
Location-based media company JiWire reports seeing increases in the sharing of and the demand for local deals, like those offered by Groupon, LivingSocial and others, since last quarter. According to data from a recent survey, sharing of deals has increased by 21% and demand is up 20% from Q1 2011. In addition, only 8%...
New Yorker iPad App Hits 100,000 Readers, Begins to Define a Genre
Condé Nast’s digital magazine business has seen its fair share of ups and downs, and AdWeek’s analysis of their sales finds that digital editions only amount for 1.3% of total circulation, anyway. But the relative success of the New Yorker app suggests that it might have a winning format. The magazine is already known...
Hackers Are Climbing In Your Windows, So Hide Your Kids, Hide Your Files
Remember when Google was hacked by Chinese spies about 18 months ago? Well, that just scratched the surface of some of the more serious and persistent hacking operations over the past few years. In a detailed blog post that is both eye-opening and a brilliant piece of marketing, McAfee’s VP of Threat Research Dmitri...
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This is a humorous flowchart on how to deal with arguments on the Internet. LOCKDOWN! Read » Somehow, The Massive Stature Of Elon Musk’s Career Snuck Up On Us – But Wow 10 Things You Need To Know This Morning Please follow SAI on Twitter and Facebook. Follow Nicholas Carlson on Twitter. Advertisement: Article...
Google is advertising a ‘free’ Nexus S on its homepage
Google has added a link on its homepage to promote the fact that the Nexus S is free with contract today at Best Buy, reports Search Engine Land. The notice is presented just below the search box and links to Google’s homepage for the Nexus S, with images of the phone with ATT, Sprint...
American Airlines Rolls Out In-Flight Personal Device Video Streaming To 767 Fleet
As we heard earlier this Spring, American Airlines became one of the first North American airlines to begin testing in-flight streaming video to personal devices for passengers. Today, the company is announcing a broader roll out of the new entertainment product to its entire fleet of 767 aircrafts, mainly on routes between New York’s...