One of the most interesting trends in comScore’s 2011 social networking report is the new growth of social sites that cater to users’ interests, rather than their real-life social graphs. In particular, according to comScore data, microblogging platforms Twitter and Tumblr have had break-out years, and they’ve been joined by new online pinboard site...
We only just learned the structure and format of the forthcoming introduction of LTE Windows Phone handsets to the US market, but confirmation is already surfacing. According to an image found by PocketNow, the newly hot Nokia Ace is now all but a done deal. However the image is raising eyebrows around the larger Windows Phone...
Computers keep getting closer and closer to making people obsolete. The latest step towards human obsolescence? Dropbox Automator, a Web-based tool for setting up actions that happen as soon as you put a file in a Dropbox folder. It’s not flawless just yet, but it might provide a useful service for many Dropbox users....
The weather is just the weather, right? There aren’t many ways to make a weather report more interesting, or so we thought. Weather Zombie is an app that puts a rather entertaining spin on pretty ho-hum data from AccuWeather. I don’t know which is funnier, the site itself, or the thought of someone sitting...
Everything created on a computer has this innate tendency to feel slick — and sometimes, even artificial. Picture a blank, white screen. There’s no variation. No flaws. What you see is duplicable, perfected. Now, stare at a sheet of paper. If you look hard enough, you’ll notice the material, the imperfections and even the presence...
Image: Laughing Squid via flickr See Also: The End Of The Euro And The End Of The Investor CHART OF THE DAY: The Worst Performing Big Bank Of The Year Here Are The 2 Pieces Of New Information In The Wall Street Journal’s Latest On Facebook’s IPO The year is ending with yet another...
This is the last roundup for the year, but it’s not our first of the week. No, sir. If you want to dig your hands into not just what Microsoft did this week, but all darn year, check out our ‘year in review‘ piece. It’s lovely, we promise. I want to say it: Thus...
While 2011 was a very busy year for the technology industry, the constant rate of innovation and activity in the market shows that things probably won’t slow down in 2012. Below, we’ve rounded up some of GigaOM’s biggest stories of the year — roughly in the order that they occurred — with a bit...
That didn’t take long. A day after Verizon confirmed it was going to charge $2 for single credit and debit card payments online and over the phone, it backed down following a chorus of complaints online. This Internet thing works, apparently. Verizon originally framed the convenience fee as a way to cover costs for single...
As the year is quickly coming to an end, it’s interesting to look back on the things you’ve shared on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and more. Like we said when the Facebook Timeline launched, it can sometimes be a little worrying to realise just how much you’re sharing on these social networks, but it also...