Photos, Photos, Photos. Now that photography is all digital, we’ve got hundreds of them, sometimes thousands of them. With the iPhone, we’re taking pictures of meals, our cats and dogs, our feet, a funny sign, and pretty much anything else you can think of. Taking photos has never been easier. Furthermore, photo sharing has...
The past 24 hours have been, in a word, crazy. The world of mobile in the United States has just been shaken up considerably by adding Sprint as an official carrier of the iPhone 4S, a fact that Sprint says has led to its single highest sales day of all times. And now the...
Henry Blodget The Economic Policy Institute has put together an amazing interactive chart that shows the growth of incomes in the US over the past 90 years–broken down by who the gains went to. (Thanks to Barry Ritholtz, for alerting us to this and for running some numbers himself.) By adjusting the sliders on...
If the iPhone 4S has one standout feature, it is the Siri personal assistant. You ask Siri to do things by speaking to it, and it can call anyone in your contact list, send them a text message or email, set up a meeting, play a song, set up a reminder for yourself, get...
Looking back, I can’t remember all that many “wise” things said to me by family over the years, but that doesn’t mean that we don’t have memories of words. In my family, it has always been more about the goofy things than the great ones, but they’re still the words that I love to...
Image: AP See Also: How The Kardashians Built A $65 Million Brand 8 Tips On How To “Fake It Till You Make It” What Will It Take To Become The Internet’s Next Big Thing? This article originally appeared at American Express OpenForum Simply put, social media needs to be built into marketing and consumer...
Seth Sternberg is the CEO and Co-founder of Meebo. He writes this guest column, In The Ring, from a CEO’s perspective. When you decide you’re going to start, or run, a startup, you’re signing up for problems. Lots of problems. They’re everywhere. New competitors. A key employee leaving. You didn’t hit your numbers. A market shift...
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. Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre had a problem. It faced...
The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Gabe Rivera, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — marked a watershed moment in the history of realtime. When @gaberivera posted a summary Tweet rolling up the WSJ-induced VC semi-panic, he bookmarked a discussion that started and largely finished not in the blogosphere but on Twitter. By...
An enterprising hacker in Ireland named Steve Troughton-Smith has successfully ported Siri to his iPhone 4, reports TheGagdets. Siri is supposed to be exclusive to iPhone 4S owners. Troughton-Smith is a well-known iPhone hacker who’s been liveblogging the Siri hack on his Twitter feed. He announces his success by tweeting ”HELLO SIRI ON IPHONE 4!” Hardly definitive...