I caught up with Peter Vesterbacka, Mighty Eagle at Rovio, the creators of the successful Angry Birds franchise, yesterday at the Planet Of The Apps conference in London. It wasn’t a huge secret, but I certainly didn’t know this: Vesterbacka tells me you will soon be able to buy Angry Birds-themed cookbooks; actual physical...
Tim Morse See Also: His Other Gig: How Steve Jobs Turned Pixar Into A Billion Dollar Empire CHART OF THE DAY: Steve Jobs Lived To See Apple Triumph Over Microsoft The SAIcast Says Goodbye To Steve Jobs Good morning, here’s the news: Stephen Colbert delivered a nice, humorous tribute to Steve Jobs last night....
Back in May, we reported that the first UK trials of ‘superfast 4G mobile broadband’ were to begin this year, with Cornwall the chosen location for the pilot project. And EverythingEverywhere, owners of Orange and T-Mobile, has announced that the trial has now kicked-off. 200 triallists in the St. Newlyn East and surrounding South Newquay...
Last year, Starbucks rolled out free WiFi in its US coffeeshops, and today it’s been extended to the UK. Whereas previously, a Starbucks card and a log-in was required for free WiFi access, from today anyone can jump on the chain’s network freely. Starbucks confirmed the move in a tweet today, saying that hundreds...
Another funny, heartfelt remembrance of Steve Jobs, this time from Stephen Colbert: Article source: SAI http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~3/dFo1XJY2qAU/stephen-colberts-tribute-to-steve-jobs-2011-10
Watch, just watch. Stephen Colbert, America’s favorite persnickety alter ego, breaks face as he nears the end of tonight’s tribute to Steve Jobs, a man who most of us never met, but whose death a lot of us — for many many reasons – are sad about tonight, and probably tomorrow, and quite likely the next...
Apple officially began taking pre-orders for the iPhone 4S via its online store at around 12:45 a.m. PDT (3:45 a.m. EDT) on Friday morning. Users eligible for an upgrade can place their order now, and shipments will begin arriving at customer doorsteps next Friday, Oct. 14. Pre-orders are began earlier at around 12 a.m....
HiGear, a peer-to-peer car sharing startup that focuses on luxury and sports cars, has raised $1.3 million in a seed round from a group of venture and angel investors, HiGear President Murtaza Hussain told me in an interview. Investors include Battery Ventures, BV Capital, and 500 Startups, and angels like Craig Sherman, a Zipcar...
According to the Twitter status blog, Twitter has been down on and off for over an hour now. For a real-time communication service like Twitter, that’s a long time to have serious issues like this. As we know, when the news of Steve Jobs’ passing hit, Twitter was under heavy load for hours with...