It is October 14 in Australia already, which means that the iPhone 4S has gone on sale in the land down under. Alex Kidman from Gizmodo Australia got his hands on an iPhone 4S and, as you’d expect, put Siri to the test as soon as the phone was out of the box. Non-American...
Daily Archives: October 13, 2011
Wealth of Nations 2.0
However, it was the emergence of technology and the internet that has truly revolutionized the global economy, a revolution after centuries; never has global trade between countries moved, developed and evolved at such a rapid pace. With easy global accessibility to businesses and consumers, technology has created the Digital Economy. The 20th Century Ends,...
Why Hulu’s Owners Couldn’t Find A Buyer
Hulu, which has been shopping itself around this year, is no longer for sale. Hulu’s owners—Disney, News Corp, Comcast, and Providence Equity Partners—put the online TV site up for bid and got some serious offers from Google, Dish Networks, and Amazon. Even Yahoo supposedly took a look. But in the end, Hulu’s owners didn’t...
Google to launch online music store in “several weeks”
Google is hatching plans for an online music store moving the company into direct competition with Amazon and Apple in the digital music space. The company’s rumoured new store would provide both conventional MP3 music for download and streaming services to play music direct to devices. According to music industry sources, quoted by the New...
How Bit.ly Now Predicts the Future
Andrew Cohen, General Manager at Bit.ly, told me today that the company watches the huge number of links passed through its service and drills down to index their text content. Using the Apache Lucene-based technology developed at LinkedIn called Zoie, Bit.ly determines what the most relevant parts of every page are, excluding footers, spammy...
So What’s Inside The iPhone 4S? (AAPL)
Image: iFixit See Also: Here’s Why The iPhone 4S Has Half The Memory Of Its Android Competitors Now We’re Having Problems With iCloud Backups On The iPad Here’s Everything You Need To Know About Using iCloud On Your iPhone And Mac We love a good teardown, and our pals over at iFixit never fail...
Like Watching Video on the iPad? Check Out the New MeFeedia App
Online video directory MeFeedia today released an iPad app that’s very easy to use and could provide hours of entertainment. The app lines up video after video on any of 6 different topics, from news to comedy to tech and business. It’s a very simple app but could be a good source of content...
SQL Server 2012: Microsoft’s Quentin Clark on Data You Can Touch
On the surface, it would be nicer for businesses to have a more flexible, adaptive system for visualizing large amounts of data and making correlative analyses. At a deeper level, the capability to share and collaborate by way of this visualization system could reduce, if not eliminate altogether, all the unnecessary duplication and versioning...
Spotify’s Paying U.S. Users Have Grown by 42% Since August (But It’s Still Losing Money)
Spotify, the European all-you-can-stream music service American listeners just couldn’t wait to get their hands on, has been growing fast. Since its July U.S. launch, Spotify has picked up more than 250,000 paying American customers, according to Reuters. This number has grown by 42% since early August. At the time, Spotify had 1.4 million...
HULU: We Couldn’t Get Some Sucker To Overpay For The Company So We’re Not Selling
See Also: Hulu Plus Is A Hit Yahoo Drops Out Of Hulu Bidding THE GOOGLE INVESTOR: All Eyes On Google’s Earnings Thursday As Investors Fear Slowdown Hulu has decided to stop trying to sell itself, Peter Kafka reports. The company’s owners didn’t explain why they pulled themselves off the block, but the answer’s obvious:...