The Daily See Also The Truth About That Microsoft Office On The iPad Story Look At How Windows Has Changed Since It Was First Invented In 1985 It Would Cost $5 Billion To Build The Great Pyramid Today Yesterday’s flap over Microsoft bringing Office to the iPad is not over yet. But we missed...
What Facebook Says About Your Potential Job Performance David Strom gives 4 reasons why The RIM Playbook Still Sucks, even after the recent upgrade. From messaging inadequacies to a power button that is almost inoperable, David explains why he’s not happy with the Playbook. The commenters on this story vehemently disagreed: Patrick Zimmerman II...
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We’ve written considerable amounts about Google’s approach to China, which the company says it is still focused on despite the fact that it relocated its search engine to Hong Kong in 2010. Of all of the challenges that Google faces there, the fierce competition provided by Chinese rival Baidu is one of the biggest....
You’re probably familiar with OnLive, the company that made its mark by streaming brand new console and PC games to whatever devices could support a high-bandwidth video stream. Many doubted its technology to begin with (including yours truly – Is OnLive OnCrack?) but they’ve more or less delivered on their promises, and have also...
Daniel Goodman / Business Insider See Also Makeup At Your Doorstep Startup Birchbox Closes a $10.5 Million Round Two $100 Million Funds Just Launched The Future Of Twitter Is In Data, Not Advertising, Says New DataSift CEO Ping Li, general partner at VC firm Accel Partners, says that big data is so hot, he’s...
Hewlett-Packard continues to be rocked (disproportionately, according to one analyst) by a flood-induced hard drive shortage; its go-to printing business is sputtering; and the company as a whole continues to spend too much on too many products. On the plus side, HP’s high-stakes bets on 3Par “cloud” storage and enterprise software player Autonomy, are starting to be felt,...
Despite a robust market for tech IPOs, it’s never going be as strong as it used to be. We’ll have a few dozen IPOs every year, but it’s not going be more than 50 per year. Not even in a good year like 2011.The reason? BI Intelligence analyst Alex Cocotas says there are too...
Ever wondered why your phone is lot faster downloading data than uploading it? It has to do with transmit power. The cell tower is hooked into the electrical power grid, allowing it to pump out signals at hundreds of watts. The wee lithium-ion battery in your device can’t keep up, and it’s probably a...
Ellis Hamburger, Business Insider See Also Here’s Why Microsoft Should Put Office On Every Platform Now, The Moment You’ve All Been Waiting For: THE NEW WINDOWS LOGO The Truth About That Microsoft Office On The iPad Story Next week, Microsoft will release the first public beta of Windows 8. It will be the biggest...
The browser wars are in a tense state of suspension right now. The once-obvious advantages of one and disadvantages of another can’t be counted on as much as they could a year ago, and fast-changing standards and interaction methods have produced a sort of uneasy détente while everyone awaits the browser equivalent of the...