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. Atlassian announced today a new version 4 of its Confluence team collaboration software tool. We covered...
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HTC is adhering to its plan of releasing up to eight smartphones in the third quarter of 2011, with the company today issuing invites for a launch event on October which will include a “press conference and party”. On October 6, HTC is poised to launch a device that you may already know as...
M.G. Siegler reports that Google might be launching its somewhat delayed Google Wallet service sometime today. From the looks of it, it might actually be out in the wild. Our own Ian Kennedy snapped this photo at a Peet’s Coffee shop near our offices in downtown San Francisco. Related research and analysis from GigaOM...
Ever heard of protein folding? Neither had we. But the online game Foldit lets you do just that, so you can have fun while you contribute to the progress of science. Yes, the science that actual, professional scientists spend time working with! The Sydney Morning Herald points us to an interesting article published in...
When Netflix decided to rename its DVD business “Qwikster,” it failed to obtain the Twitter handle. That account is currently owned by someone using Elmo smoking a joint as his avatar, notes Alexia Tsotis at TechCrunch. The account is also tweeting out some rather vulgar stuff, like: “Don’t bother telling me who my ex...
Apparently Netflix is changing its name and some of its game. Literally. Lost in the hullabaloo of Netflix spinning off its DVD business is the news that the DVD-by-mail company is going to start renting video games as well, in the process competing with the likes of Gamestop, Amazon and others. This was part of the email...
Good Morning! The news today: Netflix has split itself into two businesses: “Netflix” will be streaming only, and a new DVD-only business called “Qwikster”. The Netflix split makes sense, but it really sucks for the customer because it makes things much more complicated. One thing Netflix screwed up with the “Qwikster” split — the...
Blippar is the augmented reality app that brings brands to life, and it launched to the public on iOS and Android a month ago. Now, it is arriving in the Irish market and it’s partnering with Dublin newspaper Metro Herald and local TV show FYI to launch what it’s calling “the world’s first fully...
NICE Systems this morning announced that it is to acquire UK company Fizzback for approximately $80 million in cash. Fizzback is backed by Advent Venture Partners, Nauta Capital and TAG. Fizzback sends consumers requests for feedback relating to a specific interaction or transaction via mobile, web or social media. The feedback is then analyzed...