Image: Dylan Love Good morning! Here’s what you need to know: Google bought Zagat! It’s a surprising move, but it makes sense. Here’s why it’s a good idea → Twitter unveiled some very impressive stats. Here’s what they mean → Apple is building lots and lots of iPhone 5s. Yahoo soap opera! Jerry Yang is trying...
In the age of digital, there’s no shortage of ways to communicate en masse. You can send group emails/text messages, post messages on social networks, publish an impromptu blog post, hold VoIP conference calls, and even host a group Twitter chat. The latter of these may not be the most conventional ways of grouping...
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It’s fair to say we’ve now entered the decade of mobile. And what better way for mobile designers, developers and entrepreneurs to be inspired to excel than to network and mix with those already, well, excelling? And that’s where The Future of Mobile Conference (FOM) may just help. Running on Friday, 16th September 2011, FOM...
Image: Business Insider Data scientist is the hot new gig in tech, says Fortune, which points out that: Stanford University’s course on data mining is packed: More than 120 students registered last year; when it was first offered five years ago, just 20 signed up. “That shows you the growth and interest in large-scale...
First KDDI’s iida INFOBAR, then Sharp’s clamshell Android phone HYBRID oo7SH, and now the so-called Smart Bar : Japan is getting more and more specially designed Android handsets. As you can see on the pictures, the Smart Bar adopts the “traditional” candy bar form factor but is actually powered by Android Gingerbread. The device...
Japanese chemicals company Teijin has developed a plastic that emits a blue light when exposed to radioactivity (pictured). Named SCINTIREX, the company expects the polyester-based resin to be used as a scintillator, a core part in radiation meters (radiation quantity can be calculated based on the level of luminescence). Teijin developed the plastic in...
Microsoft published a post on its Building Windows 8 blog on Thursday, revealing the significantly improved boot times in its upcoming operating system. The company posted a video (embedded below) demonstrating the incredibly fast boot-up sequence as well. In surveying Windows users, Microsoft found that 57% of desktop users and 45% of notebook users...
There’s no shortage of services that take content from the Twitter firehose and present it in a different way. But one caught my eye recently, because it’s doing something I’d always hoped a really good RSS aggregator would do: track topics. Nobody ever built the RSS topic tracker that I’d dreamed about. It’s not...
Sprint is moving the launch of the BlackBerry Curve 9350 smartphone back by a month, according to Phone Arena’s sources. The company has reportedly sent out an internal memo to employees informing them of the change of plans. RIM unveiled the BlackBerry Curve 9350 in August this year and the phone was set to...