We’ve already seen the Japanese government turn to social media to help boost tourist numbers, and now All Nippon Airways (ANA) has followed suit by rolling out its own viral campaign. The airline has announced the launch of its Is Japan Cool? website which is aimed at sharing and exploring the most interesting, fun and...
California may be the 800-pound gorilla in the automotive legislation world, but their neighbor Nevada seems to be taking the initiative when it comes to self-driving cars. They’ve adopted a number of regulations into law, and are pushing the state as a legal testing-ground for companies preparing such vehicles. These changes were telegraphed last...
Earlier today Apple announced its plans to release OS X Mountain Lion late this summer, including a bunch of features we’re familiar with seeing on iOS devices. Among these new features is the addition of iMessage support to OS X, in the form of Messages. Messages functions as a replacement for iChat, taking over...
Twitter is now accepting sign-ups from small businesses that want to participant in its self-serve ad program. The self-serve rollout was reported this afternoon by Ad Age and others, and the sign-up page is now live. In a promotion with American Express, Twitter offering a $100 credit for free advertising to the first 10,000...
Making Sense of the Android 5.0 “Jelly Bean” Timeline Version 5.0 of the Android operating system may be announced in Q2, perhaps at Google I/O, as 4.0, “Ice Cream Sandwich”, was announced last year. The newer version may offer a better experience for those of you using an Android tablet. From the comments: Lucian...
Google exec Sundar Pichai spoke very clearly and intelligently about Google Apps and the company’s enterprise business at the Goldman Sachs Technology conference in San Francisco It was kind of striking. After all, Pichai is the Chrome guy. What does he know about Apps? In Larry Page’s big reorg last spring, Pichai was promoted...
Comments (View) Text Size: A A Email Share Last year’s free-to-view March Madness on Demand was wildly popular for CBS and Turner, which in 2010 teamed on a 14-year, $10.8 billion broadcast license for the premiere post-season event for collegiate basketball. In 2011, usage across platforms for early-round games was as high as 3...
People using Hangouts On Air right now are beta testers, so all these bugs are par for the course. We know and expect that. It’s really pretty cool of Google to provide the ability for multiple people around the world to hang out face to face and broadcast live to all of Earth for...
Even at first glance, one can see that Apple’s new desktop operating system, OSX Mountain Lion is unifying the user experience across its different devices and platforms. Common applications and modes of interaction such a reminders, notes, and the new notifications and Game Center are part of that effort, as my colleague Erica Ogg...
If you’re an iOS or Android app developer and have built something that you’d like people to share photos on, you know how plain and vanilla the default photo sharing functionality is for an app. When using one of these apps, the only choices you get are your photo stream and camera roll, which...