One of the great aspects about social media is that it allows consumers to bitch and moan publicly, and depending on the number of your Twitter followers, promptly get a response. We’ve written about airlines with social media savvy at 35,000 feet, taking a close look at Southwest Airlines, JetBlue, Virgin America, KLM, and Delta. But if you...
Daily Archives: August 29, 2011
As Suitors Line Up For Hulu, Don’t Underestimate The Kilar-Bezos Bromance
Image: Dylan Love See Also: Hey Amazon: Now You Know How To Beat Apple In The Tablet Space What To (Realistically) Expect To Come Out Of Amazon’s Hush-Hush Tablet Project Amazon’s Tablet Will Sell For Hundreds Less Than iPad — REPORT Google remains the odds-on favorite to buy Hulu, if only because it has...
Google To TV Industry: Adapt Or Die (GOOG)
Image: MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival See Also: Google TV Will Hit Europe Next Year Google+ Isn’t Just A Social Network, It’s An “Identity Service” Google Users Are Losing Interest In Google+ Google Chairman Eric Schmidt gave a lecture to the U.K. TV industry in Scotland last week, and his basic message was adapt...
Microsoft May Have Accidentally Shown Us What Windows 8 Will Look Like (MSFT)
Image: WinRumors See Also: Verizon Kills Its Easy Free Option For File Hosting For Your Personal Website The Asus “Ultrabooks” Will Start At $200 Less Than The MacBook Air Hackers Successfully Got Android Running On A TouchPad A new Microsoft promotional video might be showing us just what the Windows 8 user interface looks...
VMware Announces vFabric Data Director, Global Connect Expansion
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. Today VMware unleashed a slew of announcements to kick off VMworld. First out...
Adobe Launches PDF Creation Tool for iPad and iPhone
Adobe has launched an application for iOS that lets you create PDF files from an iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch. CreatePDF is not the first app to offer this functionality, but it is Adobe’s first official crack at enabling PDF creation on iOS devices. The app lets you turn common document files like Microsoft...
Windows 8 build 7927 leaks
A Milestone 2 build of Windows 8 has leaked, and is available in the normal places where one might search for such a thing. The build was compiled in February, meaning that it is in fact quite dated. Even more, a Milestone 3 build numbered 7989 leaked in July, showing off where Microsoft was in...
LifeLens: A smartphone app that can detect malaria
According to the World Health Organisation’s 2010 World Malaria Report, there are more than 225 million cases of malaria each year killing 781,000 people each year, the majority affecting young children. In fact in Southeast Asia, South America and particularly Sub-Saharan Africa, an estimated 90% of pediatric deaths are caused by the mosquito-borne disease. Lifelens...
Thanks To Covers You Love To Hate, Tina Brown Is Turning Around Newsweek
See Also: I Spent $100 Million And All I Got Was This Failed Publication This Is What A $1.5 Million Magazine Cover Looks Like Here’s Bloomberg Businessweek’s Astonishingly Intense, Street Art-Inspired Qaddafi Cover Newsweek may have a bit of a turnover issue, but there are signs Tina Brown is righting the ship. Her cover...
CyanogenMod Team Gets Android Working On HP TouchPad
There have been a flurry of efforts in recent days aimed at getting a workable version of Android up-and-running on the webOS-based HP TouchPad. The mission has been funded in part by modding community called HackNMod, which is hoping to give the tablet’s early adopters an operating system with a more certain future: Android. It...