Apple The Apple-Samsung case picked up yesterday. Of particular interest was an email exchange among Apple executives from January 24, 2011. “This made up just a very small part of a cross-examination of Scott Forstall, Apple’s head of iOS software at Apple, but it was enough to get the attention of just about everyone...
Apple The Apple-Samsung case picked up yesterday. Of particular interest was an email exchange among Apple executives from January 24, 2011. “This made up just a very small part of a cross-examination of Scott Forstall, Apple’s head of iOS software at Apple, but it was enough to get the attention of just about everyone...
The Google Wallet mobile payment service hasn’t yet taken off, partly because of limitations. Wallet originally launched on a single smartphone — Sprint’s Nexus S — hasn’t been embraced by other carriers and was limited to a single credit card option. Wallet works well for payments in places that accept it and with some...
I’m an optimist, I really am, especially when it comes to technology and its ability to transform the world. But today I can’t shake the feeling that we as a species are really screwing up. Guess what? “There is no hope of saving the global coral reef ecosystem.” How’s that for depressing? Meanwhile, even...
A stream of Apple executives and employees called as witnesses in the Samsung trial this week has forced them to give up some interesting bits of information that the famously secretive company would no doubt like to be kept private. Much of what we’ve heard has to do with Apple’s vaunted product design and...
Shutterstock Last week, a mobile app Stamped relaunched. It had a slew of big-name investors behind it, including Justin Bieber, Ryan Seacrest and Ellen DeGeneres. Stamped is an app that lets users bookmark their 100 favorite things across categories like books, music and movies and share them with others. Yesterday, Stamped jumped into the...
Chinese gaming company The9 put its name on the map by localizing a number of massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs), including Blizzard’s World of Warcraft blockbuster, for the Chinese PC gaming market. Now it’s taking a two-pronged approach to growth by targeting emerging mobile platforms in China and PC online games overseas. The...
What do you get if you photograph a selection of the world’s top technology leaders and entrepreneurs in a series of stark, plain portraits? “Honesty,” according to visual artist Kevin Abosch. Dublin-based Abosch has photographed some of the world’s most well-known faces, from Johnny Depp and Claudia Schiffer to Yoko Ono and Lou Reed....
An unofficial Olympic ticket alerts twitter feed which was accessing the official Olympics ticket site to spot when tickets for events were released has been blocked. But others are now appearing. Adam Naisbitt created @2012ticketalert on Twitter and deep-linked into the Olympics ticket site to allow people to find out about tickets as they...
We first covered NewsWhip last September, a new online tool that mines Twitter and Facebook to find the hottest news right now. As we noted at the time, NewsWhip takes a dash of Flipboard’s approach and adds a pinch of Tweetmeme, to surface key news stories based on current sharing trends across the social...