Those looking for a high-end made timepiece with looks and practicality should check out Breitling’s 2011 version of their Colt watches. They have fancy high-accuracy Swiss quartz movements accurate to within a few seconds per a year. Mechanical watches by comparison are accurate to within a few seconds per day. Special made as a...
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 case study about how Intel Xeon processors and VMware deliver unprecedented reliability in the face of RAM errors. Is your organization looking to get away from expensive,...
Sharing on the web is something that we all do. Be it sharing a link on Twitter or Recommending something on Facebook, it’s something we do everyday. This is great for our friends and family, as they are seeing content that they probably wouldn’t have stumbled onto themselves. But I’m going to ask the...
Hayley Barna and Katia Beauchamp are co-founders of Birchbox and stopped by our studio to tape Founder Stories with Chris Dixon. Beauchamp tells Dixon that “Birchbox is a new subscription retail model” where customers fill out profiles and receive curated beauty products in the mail. The monthly fee is $10. If a customer is completely satisfied with a...
Paula Skier Paula Skier Director of Strategy Planning at Polk. Recent Posts The Mystery of Steve Jobs’ Plateless Car Does Walmart Influence Network Development Miami DMA – Diverse Automotive Market Summary We were all saddened by the news of Steve Jobs’ passing earlier this week. There is no denying the tremendous positive influence he...
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 case study about how Intel Xeon processors and VMware deliver unprecedented reliability in the face of RAM errors. Focus has pulled together an infographic on the most...
There is, without any doubt, value in reaching out to your audience via social media. But a recent report from PageLever might just surprise you when you find out that your most active users aren’t engaging with your messages to any notable extent. The report, which details the difference between an “active” user and...
Data is driving revolutionary changes in computing and the Internet, including new opportunities for generating revenue and more efficient use of current business processes and infrastructure. Data is now the most important and valuable component of modern applications and websites, and downtime or poor performance has a major cost to a business’ bottom line,...
It’s become a firm fixture of everyday life, loathed by some but essential to nearly all of us, and yet its future is far from certain. Email is forty years old this month, with the first message having been sent in October 1971. The birth of email Like many technological innovations, email has its...
Cross-Platform Apps HeyStaks — (Free: iTunes, Android) HeyStaks is “social search” brought to iOS and Android. It is not dissimilar from the approach that Microsoft is taking with Bing and Facebook integration but the HeyStaks community is the one that powers the social aspects of search. Untappd — (Free: iTunes, Android) Untappd is a...