The hugely popular World of Warcraft (WoW) series is set to continue on in China after Blizzard Entertainment, the maker of the title, agreed a new deal with local development house NetEase. The announcement sees the duo extend their ongoing partnership, which began in 2009, for a further three years. The companies have joined...
Daily Archives: March 20, 2012
Adobe Expands Its Social Analytics Lineup With Adobe Social
Must be something in the air. Less than a day after Google announced that it’s adding social media reports to Google Analytics, Adobe is unveiling its own social analytics tools. Even though the company is best known for design software like Photoshop and development technologies like Flash, Adobe also pitches itself as a digital...
Google Wallet users get $5 apology as prepaid service resumes in full after security issues
Following recent trouble with Google Wallet, Google is giving all prepaid users of its mobile payments system a small piece of compensation by adding $5 to their accounts, as members of the Rootz Wiki discovered. The move is part of a wider apology from Google after issues arose last month questioning the security of...
Consumer Reports Recommends New iPad As Your Next Home Grill
Attention George Foreman: report to an Apple Store near you immediately. There’s a hot (literally) product, you simply must buy the entire inventory of to keep your grilling empire alive: the new iPad. Or at least, that’s what the latest nonsense from Consumer Reports would have you believe. We’ve seen this ridiculousness from Consumer...
A Bunch Of People At AOL Got Fired Today (AOL)
AP Bye! A bunch of people working in various groups at AOL got fired today, sources tell Business Insider. A source with knowledge of the firings says some of the them were due to cost cutting and others were performance-related. AOL is still hiring at the moment, this source says. One source told us...
HP Pounds Another Nail In The PC’s Coffin
Remember when computers were cool and printers were boring peripherals? Well, these days there seems to be fewer and fewer differences between the two devices. At least HP seems to think so. Reports are circulating today that the hardware giant plans to combine its not-all-that-profitable PC division (you know, the one the company’s last...
How To Bring Apple’s Overseas Cash Hoard Home
Justin Fox Justin Fox is editorial director of the Harvard Business Review Group. Recent Posts Enterprise 2.0 and Social Business Your Competitive Position Is Always Eroding Firing Someone the Right Way I listened in yesterday morning as Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Peter Oppenheimer explained what they’re planning to do with Apple’s $98 billion in...
jPlayer: A HTML5 Audio and Video Player for jQuery
Don’t know whether your visitors are going to be able to use Flash or HTML5 for video and audio playback? Don’t guess, take a look at the jPlayer project. jPlayer is an HTML5 audio/video library for jQuery that supports real cross platform audio and video. Me? I’m a fan of HTML5 solutions, not so...
How To Be a Happy Gmail User on iPhone or iPad
Google does offer step-by-step instructions for setting up complete sync, but in true Google fashion, it’s still in beta, and there are known issues. After years of experimenting, I’ve found a slightly more complicated set-up that, once finished, works better than Google’s method. It’s also much more reliable than iCloud sync, which I tried....
How To Spot Fraudulent Ratings On Seamless
See Also San Francisco Puts Hackers To Work Fixing The Horribly Broken Taxi System Hey, People Buying YELP At $25 A Share, What On Earth Are You Thinking? Take A Look At How Gentrification Has Changed Cobble Hill The highest rated restaurant in my neighborhood on Seamless is Shinju III. This new, moderately pricy...