Ellis Hamburger, Business Insider See Also: 33 Big And Beautiful New Screenshots Of Windows 8 In Action PHOTOS: Check Out The Booth Babes Of CES! PHOTOS: Samsung Is Already The Big Winner At CES. Here’s Why LAS VEGAS — Microsoft’s booth was definitely one of the coolest (and biggest) we saw at the Consumer...
Facebook today began the slow rollout of Sponsored Story ads within its home page’s main news feed. Instead of clearly marking them as “Sponsored” ads though, they’re labeled “Featured”. This could initially mislead users into thinking these ads are simply important stories about their friends or Pages they Like. Users might only learn they...
Foxconn Workers Threaten Mass Suicide Over 300 employees at the Foxconn factory in China climbed atop the building and threatened to commit suicide en masse. The Taiwan-based Foxconn, most known for manufacturing the XBox360, the iPhone and iPad, the Playstation 3, the Wii and the Kindle, has long been under fire for difficult working...
Steve Kovach, Business Insider LAS VEGAS — We’re only about halfway through the Consumer Electronics Show, and it’s already pretty clear who the winners are. First, Microsoft has really wowed us with Windows 8 and the Nokia Lumia 900 Windows phone. And Samsung’s massive CES booth is full of so much incredible gear that...
What’s in 1.1 On the presentation side, 1.1 will add support for “true” fixed toolbars and smoother AJAX page transitions. According to Parker, the old method of using fixed toolbars did not work as well as hoped. With the 1.1 release, users will have true fixed toolbars if they’re using Android 2.2 or higher,...
Just two years ago, everyone at CES was asking one question: Where are all the Android phones? If anybody asked that same question this year, they’d be met with blank stares and guffaws. This show has been jammed with Android phone after Android phone since before it even officially started. The latest one off...
After spending the last two years developing first a 21 Mbps and then a 42 Mbps mobile broadband network, T-Mobile continues to add new devices. The latest is the Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G which uses a radio that can take full advantage of the operators HSPA+ 42 Mbps speeds. Given that other carriers...
The broadband stimulus program committed nearly $500 million to narrow the digital divide through broadband adoption campaigns and building computing centers in low-income areas. After distributing much of this money in 2011, these investments should start bearing fruit. But will they? Their success faces two challenges: a lack of sufficient broadband infrastructure in some...
A ridiculous amount of work goes into successful app release. From planning and sketching to design and development, simply getting the talent together in one room can be a difficult task. But what if you’ve built a great app and just don’t have the connections or know-how to make it big. Instead of risking your entire...
Leah Culver, Convore co-founder and Grove founder Convore, the group chat startup that launched out of Y Combinator’s winter 2011 class, did pretty well in a lot of ways. The service, which was free to use and inspired by the 23-year-old Internet relay chat (IRC) protocol, was well-received by the press and amassed a...