The latest NPD numbers regarding PC sales seem to confirm the cause of the recent downgrade of Microsoft’s stock. For the month of July, PC sales advanced a mere 4% on the year ago quarter. In comparison, Mac sales went up 26% in the same timeframe. Earlier today, Microsoft was stuck with a downgrade of its...
Daily Archives: August 22, 2011
The pursuit of stickiness: Twitter debuts in-app image galleries
Twitter has launched its own “user galleries” to aggregate all the images users have uploaded into their tweets in one place, right on their profile pages. It’s the latest in a series of recent feature launches apparently aimed at increasing Twitter’s “stickiness” factor, the all-important quality that keeps users clicking around within an application...
HP Says more TouchPads will be available soon, offers notifications
If you’ve missed out on the chance to snag a dirt cheap HP TouchPad in the past couple of days since the company started clearing out its stock, there’s good news. According to a statement on the HP site, the TouchPad will be back in stock at some of your favorite locations soon: The...
Why there are no buyers for HP’s PC biz
It was shocking enough that the world’s largest maker of personal computers wants out of the business. But also surprising was that Hewlett-Packard went ahead and told investors it wants out before finding a buyer. Instead, it appears the company plans to spin off the group that currently sells about 15 million PCs per...
Evernote for iOS gets rich text formatting and a new UI for the iPad
I’ve sung the praises of Evernote since I first started using it. It’s how I write stories, how I plan my day and much more than I could ever talk about without boring you. But I’ve always had a nagging problem in that I couldn’t do any rich text formatting when I used Evernote...
Group Messaging Apps Are Hot: Tech Veteran Built Glassboard Launches Today
Private group messaging apps are hot. The Monday after Skype acquired year-old startup GroupMe for a reported $85 million, a team of innovators who lead the ultimately unsuccessful but very important charge to popularize RSS feeds has regrouped to build and launch a new group messaging app called Glassboard. Glassboard launched in the iTunes,...
Car data needs standards, too
Ford and Toyota announced Monday morning that the car companies are working together on standards for the next-generation of networking and Internet-connected services in their vehicles. In a press conference, executives at Ford and Toyota said that the standards they are working on would cover areas like connectivity for WiFi and bluetooth in the...
New Back-end Telematics Standards to Be Shared by Toyota and Ford
Visit the CenturyLink 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. Today both Toyota and Ford announced a new effort to jointly author telematics standards for their...
Facebook Gets Another Premium Video Application — This Time From Miramax
See Also: This Is The Best Time To Post On Facebook Watch YouTube Videos With Your Friends Using Google+ Disliking “Like” In Germany Miramax is coming to Facebook. The movie studio launched an app that will allow users to watch its offerings on the social network as well as devices including iPads and TVs....
Fresh analyst downgrade burdens Microsoft’s stock
Microsoft’s long languishing stock today received a fresh blow in the form of a very public downgrade by Davenport Co. analyst F. Drake Johnstone. Not only did Mr. Johnstone move Microsoft from a ‘buy’ to a ‘hold,’ he removed his share price target, and cut his forecasts for the company’s coming fiscal 2012. The reason for...