Canadian Apple blog ehmac.com put together this video covering the Waterloo Apple Store’s grand opening this week. Waterloo happens to be the home town of RIM, and ehMac couldn’t help but take a swipe at the BlackBerry Maker. (Also, check out that line! It’s just a store opening, not a product launch.) Thanks to...
Daily Archives: August 14, 2011
A MacBook air with built-in 3G cellular data?
Building 3G/4G into a tablet or phone makes sense… building it into a laptop… I’m not sold. There are USB offerings, hotspots, or phones that can handle this. Unless there is a device that can be connected to any carrier I’d rather leave the choice of connectivity outside the laptop. I don’t see built-in...
Google’s U.S. Mobile Head Talks Local Intent, M-Commerce, Geo-Targeting And More
Mobile advertising is a booming business, and Google, armed with its $750 million purchase of AdMob, clearly wants a piece of that pie. One angle Google has been pushing late is the combination of local and mobile, whether that be through Places, Offers, Sites, and soon, Google Wallet. Jason Spero, Google’s head of mobile...
Rich Suburban Parents Are Ditching Facebook For Google+ (GOOG)
Image: Flickr/Howie Le See Also: 10 Things You Never Knew Were Possible On Google+ 10 Chrome Extensions That Will Make Google+ Better Than Ever 12 Features Missing From Google+ That Everyone’s Begging For A study by Experian Hitwise of early Google+ adopters shows one of the fastest growing demographics on the network are affluent...
The 5 Worst Pieces Of Advice Apple Ever Got (AAPL)
Jesus Diaz Terrifying Video of the Deadly Indiana State Fair Stage Collapse The New High Resolution Renders of Apple’s Next Campus Are Gorgeous How To Be an Expert Liar and Not Alienate Your Friends Online Steve Jobs didn’t care about any of the advice that pundits gave Apple back in 1997. He’s now commanding...
Cloud-Based Endpoint Management Tools Gain Traction
This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the white paper about how Intel Xeon processors help organizations get unprecedented levels of performance. The release of a new tool from DigitalPersona shows that the evolution of...
Bahrain satellite channel jammed, launches on Livestation instead
Livestation, launched in 2008, gives users an easy way to keep up with major news channels including Al Jazeera, BBC and CNN, from their computers, or on the go using the iPhone app or mobile site. Livestation seems to be earning itself a reputation as the go-to site for opposition groups in the Middle East...
What happens if your web series doesn’t hit it big?
The stories that tend to get the most coverage in the web series world are success stories — shows signing deals, partnering with big companies or finding new outlets for distribution. Independent creators working in this space are classic underdogs, attempting to overcome obscurity and low budgets with sheer talent and determination, and it’s...
Hello World: Israel is Out-Classing You in Civil Disobedience
In the four weeks since the social protests have begun in Israel, hundreds of have been killed, dozens of women have reportedly been raped, a number of children tortured, and countless districts have been looted. The authorities have imposed a complete lock-down on all cellular networks. All access to Facebook and Twitter has been...